Sogou to ramp up artificial intelligence funding

Sogou Inc, which operates China's second-largest search engine, plans to increase investment in artificial intelligence and develop healthcare - and law-related Q&A services, in a bid to accelerate the commercialization of AI in its businesses.

"Our AI strategy concentrates on human-computer interaction and language processing. We focused on the search business before going public, but we will input more resources to upgrade the input method," said Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Sogou.

"We are going to make our input method more intelligent and help you express better, just as a human secretary would."