Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Ecommerce group Amazon is shutting down its Shanghai artificial intelligence lab, becoming the latest US company to retreat from Chinese research efforts amid rising geopolitical tensions. Amazon’s pullback in China follows similar moves by US tech groups, including IBM and Microsoft, which have scaled back their China-based research and development efforts as US officials intensify scrutiny of all China-related AI work. … The headcount at the AWS Shanghai research lab is unclear. In 2022, Amazon reported having more than 10,000 employees in China. AWS at its peak had more than 1,000 staff in China, according to people familiar with the matter.” (07/23/25)