NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 19: A man walks through Google's New York City pop-up shop on October 19, 2017 in New York City. The temporary store in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan sells and demonstrates such Google products as the new Pixel 2 phone, home speakers, pixel Buds, and the Daydream View VR headset. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==
More than seven years after exiting China, Google is taking the boldest steps yet to come back. And it’s not with a search engine.
Instead, Google’s ingress is centred around artificial intelligence. The Internet giant is actively promoting TensorFlow, software that makes it easier to build AI systems, as a way to forge business ties in the world’s largest online market, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. It’s a wide pitch targeting China’s academics and tech titans. At the same time, Google parent Alphabet Inc is adding more personnel to scour Chinese companies for potential AI investments, these people said.
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