AI development plan draws map for innovation

Emphasis lies on fostering new services that will bolster socioeconomic growth

China will rely on enterprises, market mechanisms and other resources to build more open and innovative artificial intelligence platforms capable of producing new and effective services to bolster socioeconomic growth, under a plan released by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Building open and sharing platforms is crucial for AI development, and a key component of China's overall AI innovation, the ministry said in an online statement on Friday. In principle, every subfield of AI research should have a State-level AI innovation platform.