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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

 

Congressional report advocates inching when miles are needed to curb China AI

The U.S. government should change how it uses sanctions to curb Chinese aggression, according to a House of Representatives committee….

Feb 2, 2024

Megvii, Yitu among companies slapped with fresh U.S. sanctions

Washington has added more names to a list of Chinese firms that could be supporting Beijing’s military-industrial complex, including facial…

Jul 18, 2023

Megvii still wants IPO; execs filing $840M offering

Having unsuccessfully tried twice before to float an IPO, Chinese AI and biometrics firm Megvii is preparing its third try,…

Jul 12, 2023

Newer algorithms join incumbent facial recognition developers among accuracy leaders

A series of new facial recognition algorithms submitted to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology for its Face…

Mar 7, 2023

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, competition

The 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 continents

A 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 blacklist

U.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 soon

An 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 China

The 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 again

Face 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 uplist

Ipsidy 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 exchange

Megvii 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 revealed

Huawei 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 exchange

Megvii 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 systems

Reports 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 authorities

In 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 IPO

Chinese 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 markets

Megvii has launched its biometric access control solution Koala to Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates to help…

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