At present, the main artificial intelligence solution in the security industry is face recognition. It can be said that face recognition is almost the first large-scale application in the field of artificial intelligence. Let's talk about face recognition here.
1. What are the great companies in AI algorithm?
1) Shangtang Technology
Shangtang Technology focuses on computer vision and deep learning original technology. By developing visual technology, computer vision is endowed with the ability of perception and cognition. Sensetime has layout in the fields of face recognition, object recognition, image search, intelligent monitoring and so on.
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2017165438+1October 28th news, artificial intelligence unicorn shangtang technology has obtained a new round of financing of Alibaba1500 million yuan, with a valuation exceeding $3 billion.
Prior to this, Shang Tang had already obtained a series B financing of US$ 465,438+0 million in July, and this series B financing has set a new record for artificial intelligence financing at that time.
Therefore, judging from this financing, Shangtang Technology can be called a unicorn in the artificial intelligence industry. Of course, the reason why Shangtang Technology can be valued by the capital market is entirely because its core team, founder Tang Xiaoou, is a leader in the AI field. He has been focusing on computer vision research for many years and obtained a Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known as the global face recognition technology? Pioneer? And then what? Pathfinder? The team founded under the leadership of such people is naturally optimistic about the capital market.
2) face++ Company of Yi Tu Congyun.
At present, Shangtang Technology, face++, Congyun Technology and Yi Tu Technology are called the four unicorns in China. Kai-fu Lee once marveled at the emergence of four unicorns in the field of artificial intelligence, and gave a warning that there was a certain bubble.
But I personally think that at present, AI, especially face recognition, is in a blowout state, and it is not surprising that four unicorns can appear.
Among the four unicorns, except Shang Tang, face++ is well-known, because Alibaba's Ant Financial is also an investor in Face++, and the face recognition scheme used by Alipay under Alibaba is based on Face++.
3) Foreign AI algorithm companies
There are also some AI face algorithm companies abroad, such as Herta Security in Spain and Visionlabs in Russia, which will not be introduced one by one. Please Baidu yourself.
Second, from the perspective of solutions, what are the great companies?
1) Hikvision
In the security industry, if you don't know that Hikvision treats you as OUT, Hikvision can basically say that AI is its current core strategy. At the just-concluded Intersec exhibition in Dubai, Hikvision's face recognition solution can be said to be very eye-catching. The core of Hikang is not the algorithm, but the integration ability of his overall solution. It is almost impossible to have an opponent at present. Even Huawei does not have such a powerful face recognition solution. The picture below shows the face recognition solution displayed at Hikon 20 18 Dubai Exhibition, which can be said to be full of science and technology.
2) Other securities companies
Too many, I won't introduce them in detail here, but almost all of them are in line with Haikang.
Third, the layout of Internet giants in AI.
At present, the distribution of the three giants of BAT has been exerted in AI. For example, Ali's face recognition and robots have layouts, and Tencent's face recognition scheme is even more exciting. It is said that you can remove makeup in one second and restore your beauty. Can be said to be hated by the majority of girls.
Baidu has always been committed to driverless driving.
Of course, the Big Three are more or less involved in other areas of AI.
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As a very hot field at present, artificial intelligence involves a wide range, but in any case, the development of artificial intelligence cannot be separated from three cores: algorithm, big data and hardware resources. See my headline article: Talking about Deep Learning: Troika of Artificial Intelligence for details.
However, take face recognition as an example. Algorithm companies with excellent algorithms like Shangtang Technology still can't dominate one company, because they still lack one thing, which is generally difficult to obtain. Is it? Big data? As Shang Tang is an enterprise in China, it happens that China has the largest face database, and an AI algorithm enterprise with this localization advantage like Shang Tang can say that the application of face recognition in China is very mature, and because of this, China will become more and more secure.
But if Shang Tang and other companies want to go overseas, I'm afraid he will be banned by overseas local AI algorithm companies, because the face data of any country will not be easily given to other countries.
I told you, I'm afraid the ultimate war of AI will be in? Big data? In the competition, whoever has mastered big data will have the right to speak.