سنس‌تايم

سنس‌تايم
SenseTime
النوعخاصة
الصناعةالذكاء الاصطناعي
تأسست2014-10 Edit this on Marefadata
المؤسستانگ شياوآو، شو لي
المقر الرئيسيمنتزه العلوم، هونگ كونگ[1]
المساحة المخدومة
الرؤية الحاسوبية، التعلم العميق، التعرف على الوجه، الكشف عن الأشياء، القيادة الذاتية، المدن الذكية، تطبيقات المحمول، التكنولوجيا المالية، التعليم
Websitewww.sensetime.com Edit this on Marefadata

سنس‌تايم (الصينية: 商汤科技)، هي شركة ب.ك ذكاء اصطناعي.[2] تأسست في هونگ كونگ ولها مكاتب في الصين، سنغافورة، اليابان، والولايات المتحدة. وهي أول شركة ذكاء اصطناعي أحادية القرن في العالم تزيد قيمتها عن 6.75 بليون دولار [3][4]

عام 2019، وضعها مكتب الصناعة والأمن الأمريكي على قائمته السوداء (تُعرف بقائمة الكيانات) لمزاعم حول استخدام تقنيتها في انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان للأويغور وأقليات عرقية ودينية أخرى.[5][6]

التاريخ

2014

SenseTime was co-founded in October 2014 by Tang Xiao'ou, a professor of the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and computer scientist Xu Li, among others.[7]

2015

During 2015, nine of SenseTime's papers were accepted into the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).[8]

2016

In 2016, 16 of SenseTime's papers were accepted in the CVPR Conference, and during the year's ImageNet competition, the company won first place in the object detection, video object detection, and scene analysis.[9][10]

2017

In October 2017, Qualcomm entered into a collaboration agreement with SenseTime.[11] The following month, the Shanghai Municipal Government signed a strategic alliance agreement with SenseTime.[12] In December 2017, Honda and SenseTime signed a collaboration agreement.[13]

In November 2017, SenseTime set up a 'smart policing' company with Leon, a major supplier of data analysis and surveillance technology in Xinjiang.[14]

2018

In February 2018, SenseTime and MIT announced the creation of a programme to further advance AI research.[15] In April 2018, SenseTime, Alibaba, and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) partnered together to form a nonprofit artificial intelligence lab in Hong Kong.[16] The following month, SenseTime signed a collaborative memorandum of understanding with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the National Supercomputing Centre of Singapore and Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel).[17] In August of that same summer, SenseTime launched its first North American smart health lab in New Jersey.[18]

In September 2018, SenseTime became one of the founding members of the Global Artificial Intelligence Academic Alliance (GAIAA), along with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Sydney, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Nanyang Technological University, and seven other universities.[19]

On 20 September 2018, SenseTime was named as China's National Open Innovation Platform for Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence on Intelligent Vision.[20] The Wall Street Journal reported that SenseTiime was valued at $7.7 billion at the end of 2018.[21] As a result of its valuation, SenseTime is a unicorn.[22](p. 55)

China's government designated SenseTime as one of its "AI champions" in 2018.[23](p. 281)

2019

SenseTime joined MIT's Quest for Intelligence campaign.[24] SenseTime has a large high-performance computing network which supports its development and fielding of AI applications. According to a report by Gregory C. Allen of the Center for a New American Security, SenseTime's computing network includes "54,000,000 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) cores across 15,000 GPUs within 12 GPU clusters."[25]

In April 2019, The New York Times reported that SenseTime's software was used in the development of facial recognition systems used by the Chinese government directed largely at Uyghurs.[26][27] In November 2019, SenseTime led a committee tasked with developing a standard for facial recognition in China.[28] In October 2019, SenseTime was placed on the United States Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List for using its technology for human rights abuses in Xinjiang.[29][30] Following the Entity List designation, MIT put its relationship with SenseTime under review.[15][31]

2020

In August 2020, Bloomberg News reported that SenseTime was considering an IPO in Hong Kong.[32]

2021

On 9 July, SenseTime appointed Liu Cixin as advisor to its sci-fi research project.[33] On 19 July, SenseTime launched its international AI innovation hub in Singapore.[34] In August, SenseTime filed for IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange and, in November, received regulatory approval to list.[35] In September 2021, Axios reported that SenseTime uses a subsidiary, Shanghai SenseTime, to sidestep U.S. sanctions targeting subsidiary Beijing SenseTime.[36]

On 10 December 2021, on Human Rights Day, the United States Department of the Treasury placed the company on an investment blacklist on its IPO pricing day because of its alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, banning U.S. investment in the company.[37][38] The company denied the allegations, said it had "been caught in the middle of geopolitical disputes," and postponed its Hong Kong IPO plan.[39][40][41][42] The company hired law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed, which argued that the investment ban did not apply to the company's parent domiciled in the Cayman Islands.[43]

The IPO, which had already been downsized from an expected US$2 billion to $767 million due to a PRC crackdown on tech companies, was delayed further.[44][45] On 13 December, SenseTime announced that it will postpone its IPO.[41] Its $767 million Hong Kong dollars offering was relaunched in Hong Kong on 20 December.[46][47] On 30 December, SenseTime completed its IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.[48]

2022

On 18 February, index compiler Hang Seng Indexes Co. added SenseTime to the Hang Seng TECH Index.[49] On 9 August, SenseTime launched its first consumer-facing product – SenseRobot – a Chinese chess-playing robot.[50] On 19 August, Hang Seng Indexes included SenseTime in the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index and increased its weighting in Hang Seng TECH Index from 0.15 to 1.76.[51] On 31 October, flagship Chinese publication of SPH Media Trust, Lianhe Zaobao, inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SenseTime to digitalise the newspaper's work processes for visual content.[52]

2023

In February 2023, SenseTime was invited to join the government of Hong Kong's delegation's visit to Saudi Arabia. During the trip, SenseTime exchanged an MOU with King Abdullah Financial District and Sela, a cultural tourism event management company in Saudi Arabia, to deepen collaborations in areas including smart city and digital tourism.[53] In December 2023, SenseTime's stock price fell 18% following the unexpected death of its founder Tang Xiao'ou.[54]

In December 2023, SenseTime introduced SenseRobotGo, an interactive machine that plays the Chinese board game Go, to markets in Japan and South Korea.[55]

2024

In April 2024, shares of the company surged by more than 30 percent after they announced their AI generative model, SenseNova 5.0.[56][57]

In October 2024, the company stated to Nikkei Asia that they were shifting to use more Chinese domestic chips. Alvin Zou, vice president of SenseTime's Asia Pacific Operations said that their Artificial Intelligence Data Center (AIDC) in Shanghai was equipped by Huawei and Biren Technology's chips.[58]

In December 2024, the United States Department of Defense labeled the company a "Chinese military company" operating in the U.S.[59][60]

المنتجات والخدمات

In terms of security, SenseTime's technology has been used in several Chinese police departments in order to capture criminals through video footage. This is done through SenseTotem and SenseFace systems. Meitu, a popular Chinese selfie application, also uses SenseTime's technologies to modify a users' appearance.[61] Due to concerns of its facial recognition programs being used as surveillance to ethnic Uyghurs, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) identified the company as a Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Company (NS-CMIC) in 2021.[43][38]

التورط في عمليات القمع في شين‌جيانگ

تم نشر تقنية سنس‌تايم للتعرف على الوجه[62] في برنامج الاعتقالات والمراقبة الموسعة للأويغور وأقليات عرقية ودينية أخرى.[63] يعتقد أن هناك أكثر من مليون أويغوري تم اعتقالهم في معسكرات "إعادة التعليم" في شين‌جيانگ، ويخضع بقية السكان الأويغور لمراقبة مشددة.[26]

تم دمج برنامج سنس‌تايم مع "الفحوصات الصحية" الإلزامية التي يُجبر الأويغور والأقليات العرقية والدينية الأخرى على الخضوع لها.[26][5] They can then be tracked using SenseTime's software and sent to "re-education" camps.[64][65] يُجبر المعتقلون على التعهد بالولاء للحزب الشيوعي الصيني ونبذ الإسلام، وكذلك الغناء تمجيداً للشيوعية.[66] إذا ما أُطلق سراحهم، سيستمر برنامج سنس‌تايم في التعرف على هويتهم، مما يسمح للسلطات الصينية بالتعرف على هويتهم لإخضاعهم للمزيد من الاستجوابات والاعتقالات.[67]

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