“World’s Biggest AI Startup Raises $1.2 Billion in Mere Months”: Bloomberg on Sense Time Group

China “is ramping up spending on surveillance as it cracks down hard on restive parts of the country, including Xinjiang.” Sense Time Group is a front runner in that. As Bloomberg puts it: “SenseTime specializes in systems that analyze faces and images on an enormous scale and works with policing bodies across China.”

Investors include: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Singapore’s state investment firm, Fidelity International and Silver Lake Partners, Tiger Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and Hopu Capital.

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Image: South China Morning Post

 

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