Gridsum Joins Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance

BEIJING, June 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Gridsum Holding Inc. ("Gridsum" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GSUM), a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions in China, today announced that it has joined the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance ("AIIA") alongside IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Thundersoft as council members.

Under the guidance of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Network Information Office, the AIIA was formed by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and a number of other respected institutions. The AIIA's focus is to promote the development of the AI industry by creating a platform that serves enterprises and local government in the implementation of China's "Internet + artificial intelligence action plan" and the development of "Internet +".

Mr. Guosheng Qi, Chief Executive Officer of Gridsum, commented, "I am proud we have been accepted as an AIIA council member alongside our globally respected peers. I believe this demonstrates the quality and recognition our products and technologies are well received across the AI industry and the value-add they can bring to our clients. Joining the AIIA will allow us to work alongside and learn from our peers in the development of AI technologies and participate in the formulation of policy. We will continue to develop new and innovative AI and big data solutions to help our clients make better business decisions and drive their business KPIs."

About Gridsum 

Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: GSUM) is a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and AI solutions for multinational and domestic enterprises and government agencies in China. Gridsum's core technology, the Gridsum Big Data Platform, is built on a distributed computing framework and performs real-time multi-dimensional correlation analysis of both structured and unstructured data. This enables Gridsum's customers to identify complex relationships within their data and gain new insights that help them make better business decisions. The Company is named "Gridsum" to symbolize the combination of distributed computing (Grid) and analytics (sum). As a digital intelligence pioneer, the Company's mission is to help enterprises and government organizations in China use data in new and powerful ways to make better informed decisions and be more productive.

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