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On June 29, MIT's Technical Review released its list of "50 Smart Companies" (TR50) in 2019. 39 Chinese companies and Sino-foreign joint ventures such as Huawei, CTU Xunfei and Aliyun were listed.

According to the official statement, the editorial department of Technical Review adopted the concept of "Chinese fulcrum" in the nomination and selection, under which it sought out a group of smart companies that could change the future. However, the list is still global, including Chinese companies, international companies and Sino-foreign joint ventures.

Reporters noted that artificial intelligence (AI) occupies the majority of seats in this list, and computer vision "Four Little Dragons" cloud, which attracts much attention, was selected from science and technology, Shangtang science and technology, neglect, and Ito science and technology.

Yuncong Science and Technology was selected because it can provide comparative services to the National Bank 216 million times a day. According to MIT Technical Review, the technology integration solutions for bank user identification and anti-fraud have been adopted by five of the top six banks in China, including Agricultural Bank, Bank of China, Construction Bank, Bank of Communications and Recruitment Bank. The total number of bankers has reached 400.

The "Sense Foundry" developed by Shangtang Science and Technology covers 31 provinces, cities and nearly 100 cities in China, with a total of 100,000 cameras accessed, consuming more than 2,000 GPUs. "100,000 routes" has also become the key words of Shang Tang. MIT Technology Review evaluates Shang Tang's "smart city through large-scale landing".

ItoTech was selected for its "ItoTech Atomic Server with Search Chip, which provides about the same computing power as the server with 8 Invida P4 Operating Cards". Ito released its own AI chip "Seek" this year and used it on its own cloud and edge servers. By combining with intelligent visual analysis software, it can be applied to face recognition, vehicle detection, video structured analysis and other application scenarios to accelerate the operation in the field of vision.

By accessing the Hetu Operating System, we successfully achieved the cooperative operation of 500 robots of three different types. On the day of Shuang11, we completed the disassembly of more than 80,000 boxes and refreshed the working records of the single warehouse robot cluster. This achievement is the reason for neglecting TR50. MIT's Technical Review says that neglect has been "upgraded from a single visual algorithm to a full-scale scenario AIoT job provider".

Computer vision (CV) is an important scenario in current AI applications. According to "China Artificial Intelligence Software and Applications (the second half of 2018)" released by IDC, the market of computer vision applications in China reached 750 million US dollars in 2018, and the overall market share of CV "Four Little Dragons" reached 61.8%.

China's technology companies listed in TR50 also have emerging forces in materials, manufacturing and biomedical fields such as Beijing Oriental, Nine-day Microstar, Yaoming Kant, etc. MIT Technology Review said that the list covers different areas, but they all have a common feature, that is, taking emerging technology as their core competitiveness, and successfully carrying out vertical deepening, cross-regional integration of innovation.

"China is becoming one of the focuses of scientific research and innovation worldwide." Gideon Lichfield, editor-in-chief of MIT Technological Review, said in videos recorded for this year's list that the two criteria identified as "smart companies" are "whether a company has high-end technological innovation" and "whether it has a successful business model". These two criteria enable people to base themselves on the present and predict the future. "That's why we can see not only some business giants on this list, but also smaller companies with huge potential." (Tian Xiaoyu, Zhao Guangli)