China’s AI champions are already powering a mind-boggling array of processes and this will rise in 2020
- Eight Chinese artificial intelligence companies, including Megvii and iFlyTek, were put on the US trade blacklist in October
- Megvii said it had received a “coming of age gift” in 2019 that had taught it how to face a challenging external environment
Two of China’s national artificial intelligence champions said they will remain focused on innovation in 2020 in their new year messages, pressing ahead in the field despite being added to a US trade blacklist last October.
In the first post on the company’s official WeChat account in 2020, Megvii said on Wednesday that it had received a “coming of age gift” in 2019 that had taught the company how to face a complex and changing international environment.
Meanwhile, China's voice recognition champion iFlyTek said it will push original research and development as tech tensions continue to simmer between the US and China in the year ahead.
Eight Chinese artificial intelligence companies, including Megvii and iFlyTek, were put on the US Entity List last year over Beijing’s treatment of Uygur Muslims and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in October, with the US alleging that China had used their technologies.
Formerly known as Face++ before rebranding in January 2019, Megvii has transformed itself from a facial recognition algorithm provider into a fully-fledged artificial intelligence of things (AloT) service provider, providing solutions for smart cities, corporate supply chains and consumer IoT devices among other things.
