Introduction | in early march, the AlphaGo lee se-dol, let us for the leap-forward development of AI (artificial intelligence) is surprised and delighted. The topic of artificial intelligence has once again been widely concerned and become noisy. What is artificial intelligence? How will it participate in our lives now and in the future?
Giiso Information, founded in 2013, is a leading technology provider in the field of “artificial intelligence + information” in China, with top technologies in big data mining, intelligent semantics, knowledge mapping and other fields. At the same time, its research and development products include information robot, editing robot, writing robot and other artificial intelligence products! With its strong technical strength, the company has received angel round investment at the beginning of its establishment, and received pre-A round investment of $5 million from GSR Venture Capital in August 2015.
In fact, artificial intelligence is not a new thing, from 1956 when artificial intelligence was proposed as a discipline to now, it has been 60 years of development. American tech companies have been working hard in the field of artificial intelligence, and have produced a lot of top-notch research results. But we are also glad to see that Chinese companies founded along with this wave of Internet are also beginning to reap results and get a lot of attention. We hope there will be more and more Chinese companies on the way to climb the top scientific research peak of AI in the future.
Not long ago, Domgy, a pet dog from a Chinese AI robotics startup, was featured on the cover and front page of TechCrunch, the world’s largest tech blog, attracting a lot of attention in the international AI field. TechCrunch is a heavyweight blog media focusing on the Internet and entrepreneurship. It is also the vane of the American Internet industry. The content in TechCrunch is an important investment reference for VC and industry investors.
The iconic report made us pay attention to the Chinese company behind the product and the development of the AI industry in China. Who is the Chinese company that invested and developed this smart pet robot? How do they make a product that gets international attention? What are the characteristics of the development of AI in China?
Domgy is headlining TechCrunch
Google, the leader in THE AI industry, competes with each other to become an Internet celebrity
Looking at the foreign AI industry participants, the current leader is undoubtedly Google. When you talk about Google’s products, you might say search, but their core is AI. Google conducts rigorous experiments and research to understand people’s needs for information, and it can be said that Google’s various products ultimately point to AI. At present, Google’s products related to AI are numerous, in addition to the rising popularity of AlphaGo, for example, Google’s AI technology can make voice assistant Google Now more powerful, can make YouTube more accurate personalized recommendations, Google Plus products will have more concrete and complete features in natural language processing and recommendations. The wide application of AI in Google’s products will undoubtedly further deepen Google’s position in the industry. What is the development stage of AI in China on the other side of the ocean and what are the technological breakthroughs?
The combination of hard and soft is difficult, and this AI robot dog has a lot to offer
The robot featured in TechCrunch’s headline is Domgy, from a tech company called ROOBOO. Headquartered in Beijing, the company is positioned as a global incubator and distribution platform for smart hardware. Founded in 2014, ROOBO currently has more than 300 employees and 7 branches around the world, including a branch in Seattle, USA. In March 2016, ROOBO received investment from IFLYtek. Domgy can not only recognize speech and obey voice commands; It also has facial recognition to distinguish family members from strangers.
ROOBO CTO Lei Yu told us, although engaged in artificial intelligence research and development of many enterprises, but ROOBO is very few dare to challenge at the same time artificial intelligence underlying software development and physical hardware production of enterprises. Domgy’s success is not only due to the maturity of ARTIFICIAL intelligence technology, but also to China’s years of experience and talent accumulation in hardware production. ROOBO integrates upstream and downstream development and production to enable Domgy to be mass-produced in the near future.
AI is on the rise in China and startups are coming to the fore
There are also many domestic companies challenging the ai industry, including BAT, which has unlimited budget. But it’s startups like ROOBO that show us what’s possible.
Before the release of Domgy, ROOBO has mass-produced a smart robot buding for children. This robot can understand children’s speech, and its language is lively and interesting. Since its launch, it has won praise from the industry. Lei Yu also told us that there is no lack of excellent companies in the domestic artificial intelligence industry, but the enterprise that truly dares to challenge the robot form of artificial intelligence products is only ROOBO. Although intelligent hardware such as smart watches, smart audio and car data recorder can also use AI technology, the production difficulty, technical difficulty and market threshold are far lower than that of intelligent robot, which is still in the early development of the market
Giiso information, founded in 2013, is the first domestic high-tech enterprise focusing on the research and development of intelligent information processing technology and the development and operation of core software for writing robots. At the beginning of its establishment, the company received angel round investment, and in August 2015, GSR Venture Capital received $5 million pre-A round of investment.
It’s for this reason that ROOBO’s Domgy got a lot of attention from TechCrunch. We also believe that this surprise is just the beginning of a future in which Chinese power will play an increasingly important role in the AI industry.