Haidian District
Beijing, China
Megvii
Megvii Technology Limited operates a face detection, recognition, and analysis platform for Websites, mobile applications, and smart televisions. It offers an online API; offline SDKs to enterprise partners with license charge; and customized cloud services for enterprise partners with service charges. The company offers face detection/tracking, facial point detection, smile analysis, gender/age/race analysis, face verification, face recognition, and large-scale face search solutions. Megvii Research USA is the first North America branch of Megvii / Face++.
Megvii Biometrics News
US mulls ban on tech investing in China; past efforts already bruised it
President Biden and the U.S. Congress want another economic paddle to punish China for its internal and external policies, and…
| Jul 25, 2022 | China’s facial recognition ‘dragons’ dealing with potential habitat loss, competitionThe growth of smart electric vehicles and influx of money from its Hong Kong stock launch will see SenseTime through… |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Megvii Chief Scientist Sun Jian dies. Leaves behind notable AI innovations on 2 continentsA bright mind in AI and biometrics, Megvii innovator Sun Jian has died aged 45 after a sudden illness. No… |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Megvii, CloudWalk, Yitu to join SenseTime on US investment blacklistU.S. investors are to be barred from investing in eight more Chinese firms alleged to be involved in abuses in… |
| Nov 9, 2021 | China’s biometrics sector faces interesting hurdles but it’s not slowing soonAn investigative article out of China indicates that four biometrics unicorns in that country face substantial problems meeting earlier market… |
| Sep 15, 2021 | UK panel sketches the reach of ethnicity recognition systems across ChinaThe scale of systems behind China’s alleged persecution of minorities — chiefly Uyghurs — continue to beggar the imagination. The… |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Will Washington-Beijing competition entice biometrics unicorns home?Maybe China’s authoritarian government is giving ground on foreign investment in domestic companies. Or maybe market economics is again pushing… |
| Jun 21, 2021 | Not smarting from US sanctions, SenseTime says its IPO is on againFace biometrics giant SenseTime is again pushing forward with a planned IPO. Expected to raise as much as $2 billion… |
| Jun 14, 2021 | Ipsidy rebrands to reflect biometric authentication focus, prepares for uplistIpsidy is now known as authID.ai in a rebrand amid a flurry of organizational moves by the biometric authentication provider…. |
| Mar 12, 2021 | Face biometrics giant Megvii approved for $925M IPO on Shanghai Star exchangeMegvii is the latest biometrics unicorn from China to move towards an IPO, with the Shanghai Stock Exchange accepting the… |
| Jan 14, 2021 | Huawei, Megvii, SenseTime patents describing biometric ethnicity detection, tracking revealedHuawei and other China-based firms have attempted to protect technologies related to their ethnicity-tracking biometrics with patents, IPVM has discovered. The tech… |
| Jan 13, 2021 | Megvii tries again for major biometrics IPO on Shanghai’s Star exchangeMegvii has filed paperwork for an initial public offering on the Shanghai Star Market, South China Morning Post reports, in what could… |
| Dec 15, 2020 | Huawei allegedly partnered on more biometric ethnicity-tracking systemsReports have surfaced about Huawei’s partnerships with companies that further implicate the company in collaboration on discriminatory surveillance product development… |
| Dec 9, 2020 | Huawei accused of using ethnicity-based biometrics to develop alert for Chinese authoritiesIn a development that might finally get U.S. biometrics firms to walk the corporate-responsibility talk when it comes to how… |
| Dec 7, 2020 | China’s biometrics unicorns on the move as CloudWalk applies for $573M IPOChinese face biometrics and artificial intelligence solutions provider CloudWalk is working towards initial public offering on the Shanghai stock exchange… |
| Nov 16, 2020 | Megvii extends face biometric access control to five international marketsMegvii has launched its biometric access control solution Koala to Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates to help… |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Alibaba and China Mobile rumored to be investing $443M in Dahua’s biometric surveillance businessDahua may be in line for a major investment in its biometric surveillance business from Alibaba and China Mobile, with Reuters reporting… |
| Aug 26, 2020 | Megvii partners with Storefriendly for automated warehouse solution with biometric authenticationMegvii has launched a warehouse automation solution with facial biometrics and smart logistics capabilities that it claims can improve space utilization… |
| Jul 29, 2020 | Biometrics unicorns Megvii and SenseTime’s revenues reportedly bounced back from Entity List impactTop Chinese biometrics unicorns Megvii and SenseTime are not experiencing prolonged difficulty raising funds or winning foreign contracts despite the blocks put… |
| Jun 23, 2020 | Face and voice biometrics providers in China boosted by AI market growth, Megvii works on robot networkWith $2.89 billion registered in 2019, IDC reports the AI software and application market in China is forecast to grow… |
