How a Stanford couple created Taiwan’s best-known AI start-up

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How a Stanford couple created Taiwan’s best-known AI start-up

When computer science major Chih-Han Yu met bio-immunology major Winnie Lee at Stanford University in 2003, they had little inkling they would go on to build Taiwan’s best-known artificial intelligence (AI) company.Fast forward nearly two decades and Appier, which develops AI-based solutions for precision marketing, has listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after becoming Taiwan’s first digital unicorn in 2020.These days, Yu and Lee are often laude…