Tencent teams up with ‘Sars hero’ Zhong Nanshan on AI, big data lab to combat coronavirus and predict outbreaks

The joint lab aims to combat the novel coronavirus and help prevent future epidemics. Tencent is the latest company to team up with top expert Zhong, who is also collaborating with Alibaba Cloud and Foxconn. — SCMP

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings and a team led by top respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan have jointly set up a big data and artificial intelligence lab to combat the novel coronavirus and help prevent future epidemics.

“The priority of the joint lab is to combat the coronavirus,” Tencent said on its official WeChat account on Thursday. “The longer-term goal is to tackle screening and provide early warning of epidemics, respiratory diseases and chest diseases through the use of big data and artificial intelligence.”