MIT Technology Review lists Baidu as the second smartest company after Amazon in the world.
50 Smartest Companies 2016 picks the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business model.
It’s a bit surprising to see a Chinese technology company ranked as the second smartest in the world; according to MIT Technology Review:
Outside its core business of Internet search and ad sales, Baidu is doing notable work on speech recognition and conversational interfaces. In 2015, it announced the development of a speech recognition engine called Deep Speech 2 that uses deep learning to recognize spoken words, sometimes more accurately than a person can. Baidu conducts AI research in part to improve its products and services and better compete with rivals such as Alibaba and Tencent. The company is also aggressively pursuing the autonomous-car market and recently established a team in Silicon Valley to lead research and engineering in computer vision, robotics, and sensors, among other areas.
Other Chinese companies on the top 50 list include Huawei, Tencent, Didi Chuxing, and Alibaba.
50 Smartest Companies 2016
- Amazon
- Baidu
- IIIumina
- Tesla Motors
- Aquion Energy
- Mobileye
- 23andMe
- Alphabet
- Spark Therapeutics
- Huawei
- First Solar
- Nvidia
- Cellectis
- Enlitic
- SpaceX
- Toyata
- Airware
- IDE Technologies
- Tencent
- Didi Chuxing
- Oxford Nanopore
- 24M
- Alibaba
- Bristol-Myers-Squibb
- Microsoft
- Fanuc
- Sonnen
- Improbable
- Movidius
- Intrexon
- Carbon
- Bosch
- T2 Blosystems
- Editas Medicine
- Nestlé
- RetroSense Therapeutics
- Line, subsidiary of Naver
- TransferWise
- Veritas Genetics
- FireEye
- Seven Bridges
- Slack
- Coupang
- IBM
- Snapchat
- Africal Internet Group
- LittleBits
- Intel
- Monsanto
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