SenseTime
SenseTime (商汤科技) is a partly state-owned publicly traded artificial intelligence company headquartered in Hong Kong. The company develops technologies including facial recognition, image recognition, object detection, optical character recognition, medical image analysis, video analysis, autonomous driving, and remote sensing. Since 2019, SenseTime has been repeatedly sanctioned by the U.S. government due to allegations that its facial recognition technology has been deployed in the surveillance and internment of the Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities. SenseTime denies the allegations.
SenseTime's Hong Kong HQ at Hong Kong Science Park | |
| Company type | Public; partly state-owned |
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| SEHK: 20 | |
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | October 2014 |
| Founder | Tang Xiao'ou Xu Li |
| Headquarters | Science Park, Hong Kong |
Area served | Computer vision, deep learning, face recognition, object detection, autonomous driving, smart cities, mobile apps, fintech, education |
Number of employees | 3,000 (2019) |
| Parent | China Internet Investment Fund |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 商汤科技 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 商湯科技 | ||||||
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The China Internet Investment Fund, a state-owned enterprise under the Cyberspace Administration of China, holds a golden share ownership stake in SenseTime.