Special Report
20 Companies Leading the AI Revolution
February 1, 2019 6:41 pm
Last Updated: January 11, 2020 11:43 am
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5. NEC
> Worldwide total patent family filings: 4,400
> Top AI functional application filing category: Computer vision, 2,778
> Top AI techniques application filing category: Machine learning, 1,314
NEC is providing a facial-recognition system for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games built around the company’s NeoFace AI engine. The system is being designed to identify some 300,000 athletes, media, and other staff by linking photo data within integrated circuit cards carried by accredited people.
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4. Samsung
> Worldwide total patent family filings: 5,100
> Top AI functional application filing category: Computer vision, 3,365
> Top AI techniques application filing category: Machine learning, 1,257
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung showed off eight new projects that leveraged AI technologies in video content creation and perfume-making. It also showed an app that picks keywords out of news articles and uses them to generate a timeline of events. Last May, the company opened AI research centers in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Russia to complement existing research locations in the United States and Korea.
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3. Toshiba
> Worldwide total patent family filings: 5,200
> Top AI functional application filing category: Computer vision, 3,417
> Top AI techniques application filing category: Machine learning, 1,229
Toshiba announced in November a five-year plan that it expects would resurrect the company from a years-long slump. In addition to selling its memory chip business, Toshiba expects to spend more than $150 billion on equipment, research, and development of technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) and AI. According to industry research company Research and Markets Inc., IoT will comprise 83% of the AI chipset market by 2023, and the global market for AI embedded in IoT devices will reach $26.2 billion.
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2. Microsoft
> Worldwide total patent family filings: 5,930
> Top AI functional application filing category: Computer vision, 2,428
> Top AI techniques application filing category: Machine learning, 3,079
The maker of the Windows operating system is so serious about AI that when it reorganized the company last March, one of the new divisions was focused on cloud computing and AI. The AI portion of the new division is focused on AI computing infrastructure, frameworks, and high-level services related to perception, knowledge, and cognition.
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1. International Business Machines
> Worldwide total patent family filings: 8,920
> Top AI functional application filing category: Natural language processing, 2,962
> Top AI techniques application filing category: Machine learning, 3,566
Big Blue received 9,100 total U.S. patents in 2018, a record for the company. Of that total, some 1,600 patents were related to AI, with many related to the IBM’s natural language processing and machine learning techniques. On Feb. 11, when the company’s AI system for debating humans on complex topics, Project Debater, will take on its first challenger.
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