Established in November 2018 in Beijing, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) is a non-profit new-type research institute, with missions to promote data sharing, open source algorithms, and support top talents focusing on long term fundamental research in AI. As a collaborative hub, the funding members of BAAI include leading industry AI application companies (Baidu, ByteDance, Megvii, Meituan, Xiaomi), universities (Tsinghua University, Peking University) and research institutes (Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences) across China.