The artificial intelligence boom has arrived. Which companies will seize the initiative?

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China has become the most innovative market in the world today. Especially with the launch of the Science and Technology Innovation Board, innovative enterprises with IoT, AI and biotechnology as the core have released their potential and are expected to expand rapidly. All sectors are actively preparing for the capital dividend released by the new economy. In the capital market, innovative representative enterprises with 5G, AI, IoT and biotechnology will become favored and sought after by the market.

 

 

In the global market, transformation enterprises with AI+IoT as the core have developed rapidly. Especially with the integration of new technologies such as AI+IoT, Yang Jianyong, a senior consultant of the Internet of Things, pointed out that innovative enterprises around machine vision, autonomous driving, high-end manufacturing, AI chips and biotechnology have ushered in unprecedented opportunities, and innovative and new business enterprises including UBTECH, Turing Robotics, Megvii Technology, Oreebo, Horizon Robotics, AISpeech, iCarbonX and Haier Biomedical have emerged, using AI+IoT to promote robots and smart homes into thousands of households, and at the same time promote the arrival of the era of smart medical care.

 

UBTECH

UBTECH is committed to promoting robots into tens of millions of households. Prior to this, after becoming famous through the Spring Festival Gala, UBTECH's humanoid robots landed on various stages to show AI and robotics technology, which also promoted its rapid development and attracted the attention of capital. After receiving $820 million led by Tencent, this round of valuation rose to $5 billion. Now there is news that UBTECH has started a new round of financing again, and the valuation has doubled to $10 billion compared to the previous round. This will be the world's largest robot company and a star robot company. In addition, UBTECH CEO Zhou Jian also revealed the IPO plan this year, and the location was chosen in China. Combined with the current vigorously promoted Science and Technology Innovation Board, he is expected to catch this capital express.

 

Turing Robot

Turing Robotics is an artificial intelligence company with semantics and conversational technology at its core, and has hundreds of core patents in the field of artificial intelligence robots. Turing Robotics has more than 800,000 registered developers, making it the largest chatbot platform for developers, with an open domain chat accuracy rate of 81.64% and a vertical domain skill accuracy rate of 96.34%. In addition, it has its own robot operating system, Turing OS. TuringOS kid has cooperated with nearly 100 companies such as Samsung, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Aofei, UBTECH and Foxconn to launch various smart devices, with cumulative shipments exceeding 10 million.

 

As a leading semantic dialogue AI technology company in China, Turing's semantic dialogue user map and recommendation system both won first place in the NLPCC2018 competition. Turing Shield's voice environment is close to 100%, and the purity of Turing's children's corpus environment is as high as 99.99%. In the past two years, it has been committed to deeply integrating AI with children's products. Intelligent robots have made education and companionship a reality, making robots a reliable partner for children. At the same time, it has also attracted attention from the capital market. Last year, it also received a B+ round of financing of 350 million yuan, making it a veritable unicorn company in the current robotics field.

 

Megvii Technology

There are four major machine vision unicorns in China, and Megvii Technology is a leader in artificial intelligence, shortlisted for the top ten most innovative companies in China announced by Fast Company. In addition, Megvii Technology upgraded its AI strategy at the beginning of this year, using AI Engine to drive the development of the Internet of Things industry and launched the AIoT operating system - Hetu, to help the industrial Internet of Things in various vertical fields such as logistics, manufacturing and retail. In this regard, Megvii Technology CEO Yin Qi claimed that it will become the backbone of the Internet of Things in two to three years.

 

Public data shows that Megvii Technology is valued at more than $2 billion. Recently, there was news that Megvii Technology plans to list in Hong Kong in different forms of rights, with a fundraising scale tentatively set at $500 million to $1 billion. The author contacted Megvii Technology staff for this, but they declined to comment. As a hot AI unicorn in the world, Megvii has submitted nearly 1,000 AI-related patent applications in countries and regions such as China, the United States, and Europe. It is one of the companies with the most independent intellectual property rights in the AI ​​industry, making it a star company in machine vision. Benefiting from the development of deep learning technology, Megvii Technology, which started out as a technical service provider, is expected to share more industry dividends.

 

Orvibo

As the largest market in the IoT segment, smart home contains a trillion-dollar market potential. Various manufacturers are working hard to seize the home entrance, driving the vigorous development of the smart home industry chain. Benefiting from the rapid market growth, many unicorn companies have also emerged. And Orvibo has become a quasi-unicorn company in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. As a model company in the field of IoT+AI, it has the strongest landing ability to seize the beachhead and promote home furnishing into the Home AI era. It has served more than 30 well-known real estate developers such as Vanke, Country Garden, and Fantasia, and more than 300 real estate projects. Last year, its revenue soared at a rate of 150%, and the amount of smart real estate orders exceeded 300 million yuan. It is expected that in the next three years, orders from the real estate industry alone are expected to achieve a 500% increase.

 

As one of the most representative companies in smart home, Oreebo has been favored by capital and has received more than 200 million yuan in investment from institutions such as Softbank SAIF, Lenovo Star, and Tiger Child Fund. With its excellent product strength and technical capabilities, it has always led the trend of the smart home industry. In 2018, it launched the revolutionary super smart panel MixPad, and created a new generation of full-house smart home system with MixPad as the core. Through its independently developed AISense smart scene mechanism, it can support different scene requirements in business intelligence, service intelligence, and device intelligence, and achieve more convenient interaction and home intelligence. Whether from hardware to software to IOT platform, or from AI to big data to hybrid computing, Oreebo has a complete ability to integrate the ecosystem from 2C2B applications to IOT cross-platforms, promoting the transformation of smart homes to smart life.

 

horizon

A round of autonomous driving competition has been launched around the world. At the same time, driverless driving has also been pursued by various investors. Horizon Robotics, which manufactures AI chips for autonomous driving cars, recently received $600 million in funding, with a valuation of $3 billion to $4 billion. It has launched artificial intelligence vision chips, which are widely used in scenarios such as intelligent driving, smart cities, and smart business with the help of artificial intelligence. At the same time, Horizon Robotics' autonomous driving software and hardware integrated computing Matrix platform also won the highest honor SAIL Award in the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Innovation Competition.

 

The intelligent wave centered on artificial intelligence is sweeping the world, and its development speed is beyond imagination. Yang Jianyong, senior consultant of the Internet of Things, pointed out that high-performance chips have become the commanding heights of this era. In this chip competition, Chinese innovative companies, with the support of capital and policies, AI chip unicorn Horizon are sought after by top institutions. They have world-leading deep learning and decision-making reasoning algorithm development capabilities, and integrate algorithms into high-performance, low-power, low-cost embedded artificial intelligence processors and software and hardware platforms.

 

Speech

Among the domestic smart voice players, many giants such as BAT and Xiaomi have entered the voice market one after another. At the same time, many smart voice innovation unicorns such as Sibichen have also been born . In order to promote the better implementation of voice technology, Sibichen has released its first-generation AI chip TH1520, which is suitable for AI dedicated chips in voice application scenarios and is aimed at various terminal devices such as smart homes, smart terminals, cars, mobile phones, wearable devices, etc.

 

As a leading company in the field of intelligent voice in China, AISpeech has a very high coverage rate in the field of IOT, and ranks first in the industry in terms of coverage rate in the smart speaker and vehicle aftermarket markets. For AISpeech, the commercialization of AI voice has won the favor of capital, and it received several hundred million yuan in round D financing last year. This is inseparable from AISpeech's future strategic layout, from IOT smart terminals to open platforms, smart enterprise services to AI-specific chips, vertically connecting the upstream and downstream industrial chains of AI voice applications. Gao Shixing, CEO of AISpeech, said: "In the past year or so, AISpeech has continued to increase its efforts in basic innovation and industrialization. In the past six years, it has 60 original technologies, and has jointly obtained major innovation projects in artificial intelligence from the National Development and Reform Commission with Huawei, Alibaba and others.

 

iCarbonX

The combination of life science and big data is seen as a development trend in medical technology. It also indicates that precision medicine is possible and contains huge opportunities. Based on the trend of life science and data innovation, Dr. Wang Jun resigned from BGI in 2015 to establish iCarbonX, hoping to build life big data and explore life using life big data, the Internet and artificial intelligence. It has attracted much attention since its establishment, and the world's top capital has flocked to it. In less than half a year, it completed a $100 million financing led by Tencent, and its valuation soared to $1 billion, making it the fastest growing unicorn company in the world.

 

iCarbonX is one of China's most globally promising disruptors in the healthcare industry. As an emerging company with a unique business model and strong brand leadership, it is working hard to collect big data on the lives of carbon-based individuals, and then help individuals better manage their health through artificial intelligence drive and analysis, leading AI innovation.

 

Haier Biomedical

With the increasing maturity of intelligent technology and the application of Internet of Things technology in various industries, Haier Biomedical has actively transformed itself into Internet of Things technological innovation in the past few years and has made breakthrough progress in the construction of demonstration applications. In the industry's view, with the continuous advancement of the "Healthy China" strategy, Haier Biomedical's strategic direction of creating an Internet of Things biotechnology solution service provider will bring new changes in the field of biotechnology, and its development potential will provide marginal extension for the development of the industry.

 

In the wave of Internet of Things, Haier Biomedical aims to be a health guardian, adopt a platform-based ecological development mindset, empower the biotechnology industry, and make touchpoints, users, and co-creation resources more closely integrated to merge the energy of the ecology, provide safe, effective and convenient health services for everyone throughout their life cycle, and become a leader in Internet of Things + Biotechnology innovation.

 

at last

In the practical application of artificial intelligence technology, the deployment of the Internet of Things will be further activated because China has a huge user base, data and application advantages. In particular, the integration of technological innovation and the capital market will launch the Science and Technology Innovation Board, which will inject vitality into technological innovation. Domestic innovative companies focusing on artificial intelligence, AI chips, biotechnology, etc. will usher in major capital dividends.

 

Artificial intelligence has gone through more than 60 years of ups and downs, and has also experienced several ups and downs. Now it is ushering in the best era. With the large-scale deployment of the Internet of Things, all walks of life have the ability to obtain unlimited data, and after being processed by AI technology, its potential value will be gradually tapped, which will drive the continuous emergence of new services and new models.


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