AI Unicorn SenseTime Forms Alliance With MIT
Liao Shumin
DATE:  Mar 01 2018
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
AI Unicorn SenseTime Forms Alliance With MIT AI Unicorn SenseTime Forms Alliance With MIT

(Yicai Global) March 1 -- SenseTime Co., a Chinese artificial intelligence start-up backed by Alibaba Holdings Ltd., has formed an alliance with one of the US' top university to jointly explore human and machine intelligence.

The Beijing-based firm will jointly work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology undertake research into original AI technologies such as computer-vision, human-intelligence-inspired algorithms, medical imaging, and robotics, online news outlet QQ Tech reported.

SenseTime recently became the first company to join MIT's Intelligence Quest, which aims to leverage the Institute's strengths in brain and cognitive science and computer science to advance research into human and machine intelligence.

Considered the world's leading AI unicorn valued at more than USD3 billion, SenseTime has developed a sophisticated proprietary deep learning platform and built applications for multiple industries. The company has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu, Kyoto, Tokyo and Singapore.

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