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spokesperson for Alibaba's DAMO Academy, Alibaba's in-house
research initiative which included the lab, said the academy
would continue to focus on technology research with the aim of
being a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) research.
Earlier, a person with knowledge of the matter had told Reuters
that the lab, and its 30 employees, represents a small part of
Alibaba's overall R&D team.
The source said Zhejiang University would try and recruit the
affected employees to work on its own quantum research.
DAMO Academy was launched in 2017 by Alibaba Group to research
advanced technologies such as AI and machine learning.
The closure of the lab is the latest internal change at Alibaba,
which said in March it would split its business into six units
and spin-off its cloud division.
That spin-off was scrapped this month, and new CEO Eddie Wu said
each of Alibaba's businesses would face the market more
independently and that they would conduct a strategic reviews to
distinguish between "core" and "non-core" businesses.
(Reporting by Casey Hall; editing by Miral Fahmy)
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