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Didi Chuxing’s Road to Autonomous Driving

Overview:

China’s largest ride hailing service, Didi Chuxing, has led through its leadership in AI and customer experience. The company looks to expand its dominance to become a ‘one-stop mobility platform’, which will require advancements in autonomous driving technology and investments in a self-driving fleet.

This report gives an overview of the technologies powering the company’s current and future products, which will include key services such as robotaxis, shuttle buses, and freight.

Table of Contents:

  • Corporate Snapshot
  • Milestones (Organization, Funding/Valuation, Product/Technology)
  • Corporate Strategy
  • Market Segments and Products
  • Future Business Direction
  • Key Technologies
  • Autonomous Driving Market Trials
  • International Presence
  • Current Clients & Partnerships
  • Key AD Players in China
  • Competitive Strengths
  • Challenges
  • Key Takeaways 

Number of Pages: 24
Author: Wei Sun
Published Date: September 2020

Artificial Intelligence in China Part 2 – Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Overview:

AI technologies in speech and natural language processing (NLP) have grown tremendously in China over the past five years, driven in large part by the massive success of smart speakers and the rise of chatbots. Continuing technology improvements coupled with widespread market education is seeing interactive AI vertical application scenarios moving towards maturity; voice/NLP technologies are being applied across education, healthcare, legal and social media. 

This report is an in-depth analysis on speech and natural language processing (NLP) AI technologies in China, focusing on market trends, the ecosystem, player landscape and challenges. 

Table of Contents:

  • General Overview of Voice/NLP in China
    • Technology
    • Industry/Business
  • Market Segment Definitions/Applications/Level of Technical Maturity Ranking
    • Voice Recognition
    • Voiceprint Recognition
    • Semantic Understanding
    • Voice Synthesis
  • Key Trends and Drivers
  • The Voice/NLP Ecosystem
  • Major Players
    • Overview
    • Technology
    • Key Products & Services
    • Market Presence
    • International Activities
    • Key Competitors
    • SWOT
  • Other players
  • Key Issues & Challenges
  • Takeaways & Conclusions

Number of Pages: 34
Author: Wei Sun
Published Date: September 2020

Artificial Intelligence in China Part 1 – Computer Vision

Overview:

Computer vision is the largest component of the Chinese AI market, with key sectors like security, finance, internet, logistics, new retail, healthcare and manufacturing all applying CV algorithms to various parts of their business.  In this report we cover the major computer vision applications driving the market including facial recognition, image and video analysis – looking at key market trends, ecosystem, player landscape and industry challenges. 

Table of Contents:

  • General Overview
  • CV Market Segment Applications
  • Key Trends and Underlying Drivers
  • Ecosystem Overview
  • Major Players
    • Overview
    • Technology
    • Key Products & Services
    • Market Presence
    • International Activities
    • Competitors
    • SWOT
  • Other Players
  • Key Issues & Challenges
  • Takeaways & Conclusions

Number of Pages: 35
Author: Wei Sun
Published Date: August 2020

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Combat Covid-19 in China

Overview:

An in-depth PPT analysis of how AI is being used to detect, diagnose, track, predict and prevent Covid-19 in China with a focus on the activities of key AI giants such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and JD.com as well as key AI tech start-ups such as Cloudwalk, Huiying, Sensetime, TMiRob, UB Tech and Yitu. 

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • AI and Covid-19 – Key Applications
  • Detection and Diagnosis
    • Rapid Lung CT Scan & Analysis
  • Virus Research
    • Rapid RNA Sequencing
  • Simulation and Trend Prediction
    • Virus Trend Prediction for Public Health Intervention
  • Tracking and Monitoring
    • Social Distancing Detection
    • Remote Facial Recognition & Body Temperature Monitoring
    • App Controlled Temperature Screening
  • Drug Screening
    • Drug Discovery Acceleration
  • Leveraging AI-based Robots
    • Disinfection Robots
    • Delivery Robots
    • Robotaxis
  • Impact of Covid-19 in China
    • Boom in Online Education
    • Immature Technology, other issues
    • Hacking Health Data
  • Wrap-Up & Conclusions

Number of Slides: 48
Authors: Wei Sun, Gareth Owen
Publishing Date: July 2020

Natural Language Processing (NLP) – The Secret Sauce Driving ByteDance

Overview:

ByteDance's Tik Tok app has taken the world by storm. With more than 800 million active users per month, it is enjoying enormous success globally as well as domestically and challenging Tencent's WeChat as the most popular social medium platform in China. This vendor profile providing an overview of the company's key products, target markets and competitive strengths plus an in-depth analysis of the company's core AI expertise with a particular focus on how it has managed to successfully integrate AI into its products 

Table of Contents:

  • Corporate Snapshot
  • World's Top-10 Unicorns
  • Key Historical Milestones
  • Corporate Strategy
  • Key Target Markets
  • Core AI Expertise:
    • Content Recommendation – Toutiao
    • AI Text Generator – Xiaomingbot
    • Multi-Lingual Translation – Byte Translator
    • Inappropriate Content Detection – Ling Quan
    • NLP-based Image-Text Matching
    • Video Highlights Creation using Human Pose Recognition
  • Key Products
  • Global Competitive Landscape
  • Domestic Competitive Landscape 
  • Competitive Strengths
  • Business Model
  • Key Challenges
  • Key Takeaways & Conclusions

Number of Pages: 30​
Authors: Wei Sun, Gareth Owen
Published Date: June 2020 

UBTech's Humanoid Robots – Leveraging Consumer Robot Success to Target Enterprise Market

Overview:

UBTech is one of the leading robotics companies targeting the B2C and B2B robot markets and offers a range of robots customised to meet the specific requirements of the education, entertainment, hospitality, retail and surveillance markets.

Table of Contents:

  • Corporate Snapshot
  • Company Strategy
  • Target Markets
  • Financial Performance
  • Key Technology Advantages
  • Products and Applications:
  • -Alpha Series Robots
  • -Jimu Series Robots
  • -IP Robots
  • -Cruzr Robots
  • -ATRIS and AIMBOT
  • -Walker
  • Future Markets for UBTech Robots
  • Key Competitors
  • Major Clients & Partnerships
  • Competitive Strengths
  • Key Challenges
  • Key Takeaways & Conclusions

Number of Pages: 29
Authors: Wei Sun, Gareth Owen

Vendor Profile: iCarbonX

Overview: 

iCarbonX is a key start-up in the emerging AI Healthcare market in China. The company is building a Digital Life Ecosystem targeted mainly at consumers. However, with the recent forced divestitures of its interests in several US AI Healthcare companies, the company is being forced to re-evaluate its market strategy.

Table of Contents:

  • Corporate Snapshot
  • Company Strategy
  • Digital Life Alliance
  • Key AI + Healthcare Market Segments
  • The AI Healthcare Ecosystem
  • Key Players:
    • Tencent
    • Alibaba
    • Leading Start-Ups
  • The AI + Healthcare Market in China
  • iCarbon X Products and Services
  • Meum Details and Pricing
  • iCarbonX – Competitive Advantages
  • Target Markets
  • Key Challenges
  • Strengths & Weaknesses
  • Key Takeaways & Conclusions

Number of Pages: 21
Authors: Wei Sun, Gareth Owen
Published Date: May 2020

Alibaba Gears Up for Mass Production of its First Chip, the Hanguang 800

Overview:

An overview of Alibaba's AI chip ambitions via wholly-owned subsidiary T-Head, together with an in-depth analysis of its first chip, the Hanguang 800, an AI Cloud Inference chip, which is expected to be launched commercially before the end of 2020.

Table of Contents:

  • T-Head Corporate Snapshot 
  • China's National Plan to Reduce Chip Imports
  • Overview of Alibaba's Semiconductor Activities
  • Origins of T-Head
  • T-Head Corporate Strategy
  • T-Head Product Development Roadmap
  • The Hanguang 800:
    • Product Positioning
    • Chip Architecture Design
    • Software Stack Design
    • MLPerf Benchmarking
    • Other Benchmarked Parameters & Manufacturing Details
    • Comparison of Deployment Modes
    • Major Target Markets
  • Alibaba Hanguang 800 Use Cases:
    • Use Case 1 – Pailitao
    • Use Case 2 – Alibaba City Brain
    • Future Use Cases
  • T-Head Competitive Strengths
  • Key Challenges (Hanguang 8000)
  • Baidu and Huawei also developing AI chips
  • Comparison of US and China AI Chips
  • Key Takeaways

Number of Pages: 29
Authors: Wei Sun, Gareth Owen

Squirrel AI, the Rising Star of AI-Based Adaptive Learning

Overview:

In the past few years, investment in AI-enabled teaching and learning has skyrocketed in China and today more than 10m students in the country use some form of AI in their education. Tech giants and start-ups with expertise in speech and image recognition, natural language processing, big data analysis, knowledge mapping and AI adaptive learning as well as education incumbents are all piling in and a new market segment known as AIED (AI in Education), which fuses education with advanced AI technologies, has emerged.

This Viewpoint provides an overview of the AIED market in China with a particular focus on start-up Squirrel AI, a pioneer of AI-based adaptive learning targeting the K-12 student market.

Table of Contents:

  • Key Planning Assumptions 
  • Introduction 
  • Market Trends and Key Drivers 
  • Squirrel AI
  • Tech Focus 
  • Competitive Advantages 
  • Business Model and Strategy 
  • AIED Ecosystem  
  • Disruptive Implications of AIED
  • Key challenges 
  • Viewpoint

Number of Pages: 19
Author: Wei Sun and Gareth Owen 

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