This story was delivered to BI Intelligence Apps and Platforms Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. #Huawei ’s R&D arm, Noah’s Ark Laboratory, announced on Tuesday a partnership with the University of California, Berkeley’s artificial intelligence ( #AI ) lab focused on researching AI in all its forms. Initially, the Chinese smartphone company will fund UC Berkeley $1 million as it covers areas like deep learning, reinforcement learning, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and computer vision. Huawei is likely investigating AI in order to ensure its not left behind by rival smartphone companies like #Samsung, #Apple , and #Google , all of which have begun implementing AI into their devices. As hardware shipments begin to decelerate, hardware companies are looking at AI as the next growth platform. Consumers will increasingly find the value in AI as the technology becomes more sophisticated. Therefore, it will become imperative for hardware companies to have an offering of some sort, Cyanogen executive chairman Kirt McMaster told Bloomberg. In line with this, the number of investments in AI is growing rapidly, according to data from CB Insights.
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