Microsoft to deepen AI push

Tech giant to team up with healthcare players to support emerging system, resolve challenges

Microsoft Corp plans to deepen its artificial intelligence push in China by teaming up with healthcare players and empowering them with algorithms needed to prevent and detect certain diseases, according to the company's top executive in China.

Through partnerships with United States pharmaceutical major Eli Lilly and Co and Chinese image cognition startup Airdoc, the tech giant plans to create an AI-powered ecosystem in China that can reduce the burden on the country's growing healthcare system, said Alain Crozier, CEO of Microsoft in China.