Global Artificial Intelligence Development Report (2018): A Survey of Global Competition in AI

Source: Wuzhen think tank

The Global Artificial Intelligence Development Report of Wuzhen think tank surveys the development of global artificial intelligence from a macro perspective. It covers many dimensions such as intellectual property rights, investment and financing, talents and application scenarios. It clearly shows the latest trend of global development of artificial intelligence for readers, the competitive situation of countries in the field of artificial intelligence and China. Overview of development in various areas.

Many people say that the three pillars of AI (actually machine learning) are algorithm, computing power and data. But we believe that application scenarios are also one of the key factors for AI success. With any new technology coming out, finance and health care are the first experimenters and beneficiaries. With the annual release of the report, it will be more meaningful to trace the indicators along the time axis.

1. As of 2018, there are 15916 AI enterprises in the world, including 4567 in the United States, 3341 in China and 868 in the United Kingdom.

2. As of 2018, global AI enterprises have raised 78.48 billion US dollars, of which US $37.36 billion, China $27.63 billion and UK $3.56 billion are among the top three.

3. Between 2009 and 2018, China added 3362 new AI enterprises, accounting for 75.20% of the total new AI enterprises in Asia and 23.78% of the total global new AI enterprises. The United States has 3701 AI enterprises, accounting for 26.18% of the world, 339 more than the second largest in China.

4. In 2018, the financing scale of AI enterprises in China reached 15.754 billion US dollars, accounting for 93.09% of the financing of AI enterprises in Asia and 46.94% of the financing amount of AI enterprises in the world. China's AI enterprises have raised 262 times, averaging 60.1308 million dollars each. AI financing in the United States amounted to $13.593 billion, accounting for 38% of global AI enterprise financing. 740 times of financing, with an average of $18.3689 million per financing.

5. From 2009 to 2018, the total number of AI enterprises in Britain was 792, accounting for 4.9% of the global total. In 2018, the financing scale of AI enterprises in the UK reached 1.251 billion US dollars, accounting for 4% of the total amount of AI enterprises in the world. Both exceed the sum of Germany and France.

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The Global Artificial Intelligence Development Report (2018) reports as follows:

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