Microsoft is to recruit 200 employees over the next five years for its artificial intelligence ( AI ) research centre to be based in Taiwan . The $ 34 m Taipei - funded centre will focus on AI - based vertical applications , Chinese handwriting with SwiftKey and user - intention recognition . Sun dong - kang , the president of Microsoft Taiwan , said both schemes would help improve innovation and the growth of local businesses . Taiwan was chosen because of the local software talent , proximity to the market and government support for AI . Microsoft opened an internet of things research and development centre in Taiwan in 2016 .
Microsoft is to recruit 200 employees over the next five years for its artificial intelligence (AI) research centre to be based in Taiwan. The $34m Taipei-based centre will focus on AI-based vertical applications, Chinese handwriting with SwiftKey and user-intention recognition. Sun Chi-kang, the president of Microsoft Taiwan, said both schemes would help improve innovation and the transformation of local businesses. Taiwan was chosen because of the local software talent, proximity to the market and government support for AI. Microsoft opened an internet of things research and development centre in Taipei in 2016.