
UP, Wits get R35m from Google to drive AI innovation
James Manyika, senior vice-president for research, labs, technology and society at Google. South African institutions of higher learning – the University of Pretoria (UP) and the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) – have received R35 million funding from US-based internet search giant Google to drive artificial intelligence (AI) research. This, after Google announced a wave of…