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AI major focus as Hong Kong funds record 12 university research projects
Hong Kong’s main public research funding body for universities has approved 12 projects totaling HK$478 million, with artificial intelligence featured in over a third of the proposals. A notable project aims to reduce AI data centre power use by 20%, and City University and the University of Hong Kong received the largest portions of funding.
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