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虽然不知道评选依据, 不过, why里的理由实在太牵强. 来源就先不贴了. Amazon WhyCall out a request and AI-powered Alexa will play your favorite song or order you a pizza. And Amazon Web Services just keeps growing.$89.99What the Echo Dot, the most affordable device to feature Alexa Voice Service, sells for. Baidu WhyChina’s leading search engine is developing autonomous cars, backed by a big research and engineering team in Silicon Valley.100Baidu plans to employ more than 100 autonomous-car researchers and engineers in California by year’s end. Illumina WhyThe world’s largest DNA-sequencing company is moving beyond simply selling equipment to expand its uses: a company it’s launching, Grail, intends to develop a blood test that would screen for cancer before symptoms appear.$2.2 billionRevenue reached last year, up 19 percent from the previous year. Tesla Motors WhyWhile advancing autopilot technology in its Model S and X cars, the company is taking electric vehicles mainstream with its $35,000 Model 3 car, which already has 400,000 pre-orders.50 percentAccording to CEO Elon Musk, drivers have a 50 percent lower chance of having an accident when driving with Tesla Autopilot. Aquion Energy WhyIts innovative batteries for the power grid make this startup unusually successful in a tough industry.BackersInclude Bill Gates, Shell. Mobileye WhyA leader in making driver assistance technology such as collision warning systems for clients including Tesla, General Motors, and Volkswagen, among others, it is working on advances that will enable fully autonomous cars.600Number of employees who are annotating the images used to train its autonomous driving system. 23andMe WhyAfter a two-year moratorium, 23andMe has resumed selling direct-to-consumer DNA tests that assess risk for genetic diseases.One millionThe company has sequenced the DNA of more than one million customers.8 Alphabet WhyIts DeepMind business inside Google developed an AI program that beat one of the world’s best players at the board game Go.1.6 millionNumber of miles Alphabet’s autonomous cars have driven so far.Company Details9 Spark Therapeutics WhyVery strong trial data on its gene therapy for a form of blindness implies that the treatment is headed for approval.CollaboratorsCorporate collaborators have included Pfizer, Genable Technologies, and Clearside Biomedical.Company Details10 Huawei WhyThis Chinese telecommunications giant is now the world’s third-largest smartphone vendor thanks to strong sales in both premium and entry-level devices.27.5 millionNumber of smartphones Huawei shipped in the first quarter of 2016, according to market researcher IDC.Company Details11 First Solar WhyWhile rivals face bankruptcy, it has continued to invest in research, increasing the efficiency of solar panels.$546 millionProfits earned in 2015.Company Details12 Nvidia WhyWith deep learning driving demand for its graphics-processing chips, it started selling chips designed for AI.$1.3 billionRevenue increased 13 percent in the most recent quarter, to $1.3 billion, compared with $1.15 billion a year ago.Company Details13 Cellectis WhyLast summer a hospital in London used Cellectis’s gene-editing technology to heal a child with otherwise untreatable leukemia.$300 millionThough not profitable, the company has over $300 million in cash, enough to last through 2018.Company Details14 Enlitic WhyA number of Australian radiologists are now using the company’s deep-learning software to analyze x-rays.50 percentClaims its algorithm read chest CT images 50 percent more accurately than experts in its own test.Company Details15 Facebook WhyIts Oculus Rift technology is the first truly high-quality virtual-reality headset for consumers.$599Rift sells for $599.Company Details16 SpaceX WhyThe company is making spaceflight cheaper with rockets that can land and be reused.FourNumber of times SpaceX attempted to land a rocket on a barge before succeeding.Company Details17 Toyota WhyDramatically rethinking its future, the carmaker has committed $1 billion to an automation institute.LeaderRoboticist Gill Pratt is CEO of the Toyota Research Institute.Company Details18 Airware WhyBuilding an operating system for commercial drones, as well as a traffic control system that could increase their usefulness.LeaderAirware’s founder and CEO also leads an investment fund that supports businesses creating technologies for commercial drones.Company Details19 IDE Technologies WhyIts large-scale desalination process is winning big contracts in China and Australia.30 percentBy October IDE will be producing 30 percent of Santa Barbara’s water.Company Details20 Tencent WhyAsia’s largest Internet company, which owns the popular WeChat messaging app, is expanding into the enterprise market and investing in other technology companies.78 percentTencent’s largest business segment, mostly games, accounts for 78 percent of its revenue.Company Details21 Didi Chuxing WhyApple’s $1 billion investment, part of $7 billion raised this year, will help the Chinese ride-hailing app continue to fend off Uber.14 millionNumber of rides its drivers complete a day.Company Details22 Oxford Nanopore WhyIt’s begun selling a DNA sequencer the size of a smartphone that may move genomics out of the lab and into the field.Intellectual propertyIllumina, once an investor, is now suing the company for patent infringement.Company Details23 24M WhyCreated a more efficient lithium-ion battery that could reduce the cost of energy storage for the electric grid and electric vehicles.50 percentThe company claims it can reduce the cost of lithium-ion batteries by 50 percent.Company Details24 Alibaba WhyE-commerce site is now the world’s largest retailer and will benefit from the growth in mobile video ads.$485 billionGross value of merchandise sold through Alibaba in its last fiscal year.Company Details25 Bristol-Myers Squibb WhyUses of its life-saving immunotherapy, Opdivo, has expanded to lung cancer, advanced renal-cell carcinoma, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma.Five yearsOne-third of patients with advanced melanoma survived for five years in a study of Opdivo.Company Details26 Microsoft WhyIts neural-network research is leading to applications such as simultaneous language translation in Skype and social augmented-reality experiences in its new HoloLens headset.152A Microsoft network that won a global image recognition contest in 2015 used 152 layers of virtual neurons.Company Details27 Fanuc WhyWorld’s largest maker of industrial robots is incorporating machine learning.EightNumber of hours a Fanuc robot needs to learn a task with 90 percent accuracy.Company Details28 Sonnen WhyIts smart batteries, which include software to manage energy use and can store energy for later, are transforming the electricity market in Germany.25 percentElectricity on its system is 25 percent cheaper than the electricity on the grid, according to the company.Company Details29 Improbable WhyIts virtual-world simulation platform is used to create VR software and test driverless cars.FundingAndreessen Horowitz is a major backer.Company Details30 Movidius WhyIts computer-vision chips are making mobile devices and drones smarter.On the radarDrones using Movidius technology can sense obstacles to avoid collisions.Company Details31 Intrexon WhyThe Oxitec division of this biotech holding company genetically engineers mosquitoes that could reduce the spread of Zika.$174 millionAcquisitions increased sales from $8 million to $174 million in five years.Company Details32 Carbon WhyIts new kind of 3-D printing is dozens of times faster than rivals’.$40,000Use of its 3-D printers costs $40,000 a year.Company Details33 Bosch WhyAdvanced manufacturing facilities it is developing rely on connected sensors and sophisticated software to improve factory efficiency.$80 billionRecord revenue generated in 2015.Company Details34 T2 Biosystems WhyIts flexible tool for diagnosing abnormalities more quickly has FDA approval for certain uses, including detecting a fungus that causes sepsis.35Number of customers who now use the company’s bench-top diagnostic system.Company Details35 Editas Medicine WhyPlans to begin testing a powerful new form of gene repair in humans within two years.$94 millionMoney raised in its February IPO, and the stock is up 85 percent since then.Company Details36 Nestlé WhyFood giant has jumped into microbiome research, working to develop “healthy gut” products.$2 billionAt a slow time for its core food business, its nutritional therapies division has reached $2 billion in annual revenue in its first five years, and more strong growth is predicted.Company Details37 RetroSense Therapeutics WhyHas begun first human trials of optogenetics, using light-triggered genetic changes to restore some vision to people with retinitis pigmentosa.$12 millionRevenue raised from foundations and private investors as well as the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.Company Details38 Line, subsidiary of Naver WhyThe Japanese messaging app is quick to add innovative features, such as group calls for up to 200 people, and plans an IPO this year.218 millionNumber of monthly active users.Company Details39 TransferWise WhyThis money-transfer service, with a peer-to-peer model for sending money abroad, aims to charge lower fees than traditional players.$750 millionMoney TransferWise helps users exchange every month.Company Details40 Veritas Genetics WhyAttempting to sell low-cost genome tests directly to consumers.$1,000Whole-genome sequencing, including interpretation and counseling, costs under $1,000. The supply is limited to 5,000 customers in 2016.Company Details41 FireEye WhyWith clients like JPMorgan Chase, Sony Pictures, and Target, it’s creating a new model for computer security on a large scale.In the worksNew products focus on securing public and private clouds and detecting targeted e-mail attacks.Company Details42 Seven Bridges WhyIts software makes it possible to analyze one of the world’s largest genomic data sets.11,000Number of patients that have contributed 33 cancer types and subtypes to its Cancer Genomics Cloud.Company Details43 Slack WhyThe workplace communications app burrows more deeply into workplaces. Now you can use your Slack login for all the software your company uses.Three millionNumber of daily active Slack users.Company Details44 Coupang WhySouth Korea’s largest and fastest-growing online-only retailer is innovating in mobile commerce and same-day delivery.$5 billionCoupang’s most recent valuation.Company Details45 IBM WhyPreparing for an AI era by acquiring huge data sets to train its software.100Number of clients that have built Watson into a product.Company Details46 Snapchat WhyBuilding out its advertising business by partnering with Viacom to sell ads and with Nielsen for marketing campaign data.10 billionNumber of videos that are seen on the app every day.Company Details47 Africa Internet Group WhyThis e-commerce company is the continent’s first tech company to be valued at more than $1 billion.26Africa Internet Group operates in 26 African countries.Company Details48 LittleBits WhyMaker of electronic building blocks has accelerated its growth with new funding, new investors, and new distribution.$299Basic kits sell for $99 to $299.Company Details49 Intel WhyIn a time of transition, the chip maker is experimenting with reprogrammable processors for deep neural networks and marketing a fundamentally new kind of computer memory.$16.7 billionMoney Intel spent to buy Altera, a maker of programmable logic devices.Company Details50 Monsanto

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