Institute for Al Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, focuses on research geared towards the internationalization, intelligentization, and industrialization of the fourth technological revolution. Our mission is to fuel the industrial upgrade and propel social advance with Al technologies. With university-enterprise as double engines for innovation, we aim to make breakthroughs in core Al technologies, develop future industry-leaders, and achieve leapfrog progress with the industry.

AIR was founded in 2020 by professor Zhang Ya-Qin, a world-renowned scientist and entrepreneur in the fields of multimedia and artificial intelligence.