China's Alibaba to complete human genome sequencing in 24 hours by 2020
10-Apr-17, Computerworld Hong Kong
Alibaba Cloud has announced the launch of its upgraded machine learning platform and its latest technology advancement in the field of life science.
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Alibaba Cloud's President Simon Hu announced the company has upgraded its machine learning platform from PAI to PAI 2.0. Powered by Apsara, Alibaba Cloud's large scale computing engine, PAI 2.0 provides distributed computing capabilities that allow organizations to handle petabyte-level computing tasks like data mining and modeling.
"As China's first machine learning platform, PAI is born to make our AI program an effective tool for helping people and businesses to resolve practical issues," said Jingren Zhou, chief scientist of Alibaba Cloud. "We are also seeing our data intelligence capability being leveraged to assist customers in creating better healthcare services and endorsing smart manufacturing in China."