Alibaba’s Damo Academy, the e-commerce giant’s science and technology innovation brain trust, offers a glimpse of the new year’s top technology trends, including the AI sector’s progress in so-called cognitive intelligence.

2019 was the year in which China realised it must develop more of its own strategic technology if it’s to end its supply chain dependence

Laborious calculations which once took an hour can be completed in a fraction of a second with machine learning, according to scientists.

After the US tech giant announced it had developed a chip that dramatically outperformed supercomputers, Chinese researchers remain confident they can find the ‘holy grail’ of technology.

While Google and Chinese scientists celebrated the breakthrough, American rivals including IBM and Intel cast doubt over the claims.

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