SenseTime

SenseTime
legal form	Private company
founding	2014
Seat	Hong Kong
management	Tang Xiao'ou, Xu Li, Shang Hailong
Number of employees	<3200 (2019)
Branch	Artificial intelligence
Website	www.sensetime.com

SenseTime ( Chinese 商汤 , Pinyin Shāng tāng ) is a Hong Kong-based company that deals with artificial intelligence.

The company supplies the People's Republic of China with facial recognition software that is used to monitor the population.

history

In 2014, the scientific colleagues Tang Xiao'ou, Xu Li and Shang Hailong from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) decided to found the SenseTime Group in the Hong Kong Science Park.

Entrepreneurial activities

SenseTime produces software with the help of which face recognition can be carried out in a single system through live transmissions from traffic monitoring cameras, ATMs or even smartphones. This should, for example, make it easier to catch criminals. SenseTime is also working on autonomous driving and augmented reality . SenseTime offers its own algorithm via Software as a Service , making it the fifth largest AI platform.

SenseTime has more than 400 customers and strategic partners, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Qualcomm , Honda , Alibaba , Weibo , China Mobile , HNA Group , Wanda Group , Meitu, Nvidia , China UnionPay , JD Finance, Sina Weibo , China Merchants Bank and the smartphone giants Huawei , Oppo , Vivo and Xiaomi .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Bien Perez: Meet SenseTime, Hong Kong's first hi-tech unicorn that no one's heard of. South China Morning Post, October 23, 2017, accessed April 4, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Hendrik Ankenbrand: China has the most valuable AI startup in the world. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 9, 2018, accessed April 4, 2020 .
↑ Sensetime: The 5 Most Important Facts About The Most Valuable AI Startup In The World. April 10, 2018, accessed April 4, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b Bernard Marr: Meet The World's Most Valuable AI Startup: China's SenseTime. Forbes, June 17, 2019, accessed April 4, 2020 .

[Perez-1] Bien Perez: Meet SenseTime, Hong Kong's first hi-tech unicorn that no one's heard of. South China Morning Post, October 23, 2017, accessed April 4, 2020 .

[Ankenbrand-2] Hendrik Ankenbrand: China has the most valuable AI startup in the world. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 9, 2018, accessed April 4, 2020 .

[3] Sensetime: The 5 Most Important Facts About The Most Valuable AI Startup In The World. April 10, 2018, accessed April 4, 2020 .

[Forbes-4] Bernard Marr: Meet The World's Most Valuable AI Startup: China's SenseTime. Forbes, June 17, 2019, accessed April 4, 2020 .