Introduction

MEGVII is a world-class AI company with core competency in deep learning. MEGVII provides fullstack solutions, which encompass algorithms, software and AI-empowered IoT devices, to our customers and have achieved leading positions across multiple industries. MEGVII was on the two most recent 50 Smartest Companies lists published by MIT Technology Review in 2017 and 2019,respectively.


MEGVII is one of the very few companies in the world that have developed proprietary deep learning frameworks. Brain++,MEGVII's proprietary deep learning framework, functions as a unified underlying architecture and provides critical support for algorithm training and model improvement processes. Brain++ enables MEGVII to build a semi-automatic algorithm production line that is constantly self-improving and becoming more automatic over time. Furthermore, MEGVII is able to develop each new algorithm with fewer human efforts and shorter time.


MEGVII pioneers in commercializing AI technology to empower customers in different verticals with a broad-spectrum of effective solutions. MEGVII's Personal IoT solutions offer instant face unlock and advanced computational photography functions on smartphone, and integrate identity authentication functions into mobile applications, thereby enhancing the safety of products and services. MEGVII's City IoT solutions enable the intelligent deployment and management of IoT devices at various urban settings,and through efficient and accurate analysis of visual data to enhance public safety, optimize traffic management and improve urban resource planning. MEGVII's Supply Chain IoT solutions help businesses digitize and upgrade factories,warehouses and retail stores, thereby improving the efficiency throughout the supply chain.


Headquartered in Beijing with over 2,000 employees, MEGVII maintains four research and development centers in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Chengdu). MEGVII's diversified customer base includes, among others, financial technology companies, banks, smartphone companies, third-party system integrators, property managers, schools, logistics companies and manufacturers.

Leadership Team

  • Yin Qi

    Co-founderChief Executive Officer

    Yin Qi graduated from Yao Class, Tsinghua University and earned a Master's degree in Computer Science (computational sensor) from Columbia University. He was named as one of the "Young Global Leaders" by the World Economic Forum in 2019 and one of the "Innovators under 35" by MIT Technology Review in 2018.

  • Tang Wenbin

    Co-founderChief Technology Officer

    Tang Wenbin earned his bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University. He was the first recipient of the Yao Award and won a gold medal at the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) in 2015. He was the coach of China's NOI team for seven years from 2007 to 2013.

  • Yang Mu

    Co-founderSenior Vice President

    Yang Mu obtained his bachelor's and master's degree in engineering from Tsinghua University. He won a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in 2007. He used to participate in multiple open-source projects, in which he directed the creation of large scale parallel systems.

  • Mission

    Power Human with AI

  • Vision

    Build the AI infrastructure to connect and empower tens of billions of IoT devices

  • Culture

    Belief in Technology and Pragmatism

Milestones

2011
Oct.MEGVII is established in Beijing
2012
Oct.Launches Face⁺⁺,a cloud-based computer vision open platform
2013
Dec.MEGVII Research wins first-place in 300 Faces in-the-Wild Challenge at International Conference on Computer Vision 2013
2014
Sep.MEGVII Face⁺⁺ average daily API calls reaches 10 million
2015
May.Launches FaceID, a cloud-based face recognition-enabled identity authentication
Oct.Launches the world's first intelligent video camera
Nov.Introduces city IoT solutions
2016
Mar.MEGVII FaceID completes online authentication for 100 million people worldwide.
Dec.MEGVII technology enables Ant Financial to offer the "Smile to Pay" function in its Alipay app and at KFC restaurants
2017
Jul.Starts to offer device authentication solutions
2018
Feb.Launches smart logistics solutions
Oct.MEGVII Research wins four first-places in the COCO + Places Joint Challenge Workshop at International Conference on Computer Vision 2018
2019
Jan.Launches HETU, a smart logistics operating platform
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