The 2019 Artificial Intelligence World Innovation Competition, part of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference that assembles top AI scientists, enterprises and government officials, officially kicked off in Shanghai on Thursday.

During the opening ceremony, Hangzhou Yitu Healthcare Technology Co Ltd was officially declared the competition's major technical cooperation partner. It will provide expertise support for candidate review as well as help in organizing the competition.

At the same time, candidate selection for the competition's Super AI Leader award also started. The award will be granted to innovative, advanced and influential AI applications, service and products, and frontier research projects. One project of Yitu Tech, the parent company, won last year's Super AI Leader award.