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Alibaba and Baidu offer AI gene sequencing tools to help fight the China coronavirus outbreak
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China has seen an outpouring of donations from tech companies in an effort to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan. Now two of the county’s largest tech companies are mobilising their genome research capabilities.
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud division of China’s biggest ecommerce company, announced on Wednesday that it’s offering AI computing capabilities to scientific research institutions for free. The next day, search…