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The State Council is China's Central People's Government: the executive body of the highest organ of state power and the highest organ of state administration, led by a Premier who assumes overall responsibility.

ChinaEnterpriseInteroperability

Thomson Reuters describes itself as an AI and technology company supplying professionals with trusted content and workflow automation. It owns the Westlaw legal research database, and its copyright suit against Ross Intelligence became a closely watched test of fair use in AI training.

EnterpriseData & datasetsCreative tools

A UK government research body created in 2023 to study the most powerful AI models and AI safety, renamed in 2025 to focus on national security and serious crime. It advises government but has no regulatory power.

Safety & governanceEuropeInteroperability

A public research university in Toronto where Geoffrey Hinton has been affiliated since 1987 and where AlexNet, the 2012 deep convolutional network, was developed.

Research historyDeep learningComputer vision

XRCE's computer-vision team competed in the ImageNet challenge and won the 2011 classification task using high-dimensional image signatures, product quantization and linear SVMs; its Fisher-vector methods performed strongly across the 2010–2014 challenges.

Research historyScienceComputer vision

Yitu Technology is a Chinese computer vision company founded in September 2012 by Zhu Long and Lin Chenxi. It is counted among the "CV four little dragons", alongside Megvii, SenseTime and CloudWalk, that grew out of computer vision in China's early AI industry.

Research historyChinaEnterprise