Since 2016, artificial intelligence has become a very popular concept. Alpha robots on the Spring Festival Evening, Alpha dog war Li Shishi and other events, brought the robot into the public's field of vision, and even led to some negative ideas such as robots replacing people, harming people. Despite this, coincides with the arrival of Fintech's financial technology wave, artificial intelligence has become a "standard" in various segments. Technology companies don't touch the word "artificial intelligence" and are embarrassed to come out. For a time, the market is full of mud and sand, and the authenticity of artificial intelligence is silly and unclear.
BAT artificial intelligence layout: Baidu is directly controlled by Li Yanhong, Tencent is careless
Judging from the state of the US Internet company, the enterprise of artificial intelligence is a giant such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. In 2013, Google completed the acquisition of eight robot-related companies, and also searched for companies and talents in machine learning. In 2015, publicly available data showed that Apple acquired three companies related to artificial intelligence technology, namely EmoTIent, PercepTIo and VocallQ. Facebook established the Artificial Intelligence Research Center in Paris in 2015 and launched a chat bot at the Developers Conference in April this year.
Looking at the domestic perspective, apart from vertical enterprises such as Xunfei, the giants that have really grown in artificial intelligence are still Baidu, Ali, and Tencent, but the three BATs have different ideas in the field of artificial intelligence.
Baidu regards artificial intelligence as the top priority of the company. It is put into practical use in the O2O field, and it is also fully blooming in the future world of unmanned vehicles and smart cities. In April of this year, Baidu’s innovative businesses such as unmanned vehicles and artificial intelligence were singled out and directly managed by Li Yanhong. As Baidu launched the "Verne plan", Baidu put artificial intelligence in the company's primacy in strategy and ideas. Li Yanhong is also very confident in Baidu's artificial intelligence. When he was interviewed by Caijing magazine Said, "I don't think it will be recognized by the market after three, five, or even ten or eight years."
Ali's artificial intelligence is placed in Ali's DT business system, with cloud computing and big data to fully empower Ali's e-commerce logistics and even the Internet of Things system. Ali's idea is that if he is not good at it, he will not do it for himself and give it to his partners. Ali is more behind the infrastructure.
Tencent is relatively indifferent in the field of artificial intelligence. Although there is corresponding research, it is more to be given to Sogou. This is consistent with Tencent’s idea of ​​divesting e-commerce, search-independent business and focusing on social games in recent years.
The development of domestic artificial intelligence
The current field of artificial intelligence is based on deep learning algorithms. Alpha dog Go is the result of typical robot deep learning. The deep learning algorithm is mainly applied to image recognition and speech recognition.
In the two years since the rise of deep learning in 2012, many startup companies have emerged in China. 2014 is considered to be the first year of computer vision. The hardware and algorithms are relatively mature. In 2015, it became the breakthrough year of artificial intelligence. It is not only a breakthrough in technology, but also a computer vision in commercial applications.
Founded in 2012, Face++ has won the Lenovo Star Angel Wheel financing, innovative factory million dollar A round of financing, completed 52 million rounds of round financing in May 2015. Face++ focuses on face recognition technology and related product application research. They have mastered 5 million face image databases through “desensitization†technology. Alibaba has begun to adopt its face recognition technology and used it in Alipay’s “smile payment†service. in.
At present, there are about 200 startup companies in the direction of artificial intelligence in China, and half of them have received investment. Global artificial intelligence companies specialize in deep learning, while more than 70% of companies in China focus on image or speech recognition. The level of face recognition can be even higher than that of the United States.
Turing robots are at the forefront of startups in robotic scene applications and third-party development platforms. Doraemon robots, Ledi robots and dozens of robotic applications have been launched. It also has an advantage over other startups in the capital sector. In July 2014, we received tens of millions of RMB investment in VIA. In July 2015, it obtained a 50-yuan B-round investment from Jiangnan Chemical Co., with a valuation of RMB 1 billion. VIA Technologies and Jiangnan Chemical have a strong voice in the electronics industry.
Ten early startup companies
Ten early artificial startups in the A-round and A-round of the artificial intelligence field have their own characteristics? Which company is expected to become a dark horse in the industry?
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