Megvii donates face masks to help fight coronavirus outbreak at the frontlines  

BEIJING, February 11, 2020 – Megvii Technology Limited (“Megvii” or the “Company”) announced today that as of Feb 10, it has donated more than 100,000 medical-grade face masks to help fight the novel coronavirus outbreak at the frontlines of Hubei province and other major cities, as part of the company’s broader contribution to China's anti-epidemic efforts. Masks have been in shortage of supply in recent weeks across the world and especially in Hubei province.  

Megvii has immediately assembled an emergency working group at the outset of the outbreak, led by Yin Qi, Megvii co-founder and CEO. Last week, the company deployed a new AI-enabled body temperature detection solution in public spaces in Beijing, including a subway station, to spot and locate people with elevated temperature in the crowd, without requiring close physical contact with ground staff, which will help optimize passenger flow and reduce transmission risks.  

Megvii will continue to watch closely the development of this devastating outbreak and leverage its technology and resources to do more to combat it. 

Caption: Megvii donates medical-grade face masks for fighting the coronavirus at the frontlines

About Megvii Technology Limited

Megvii is a world-class AI company with core competencies in deep learning. Founded in Beijing in 2011 by Yin Qi, Tang Wenbin and Yang Mu, three Tsinghua University graduates who studied under the Turing-prize winning Chinese computer scientist and computational theorist Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Megvii is a pioneer in applying AI technology and computer vision algorithms to Internet of Things (IoT) use cases. The Company’s mission is to power humanity with AI. 

Megvii’s first commercialized AI product was a facial recognition solution. The Company has developed its proprietary deep learning framework Brain++, which functions as a unified underlying architecture and provides critical support tailored for the Company’s algorithm training and model improvement processes. 

Leveraging its strong software-hardware integration capabilities, Megvii offers full stack solutions to its customers, and has achieved leading positions in several key vertical markets, including personal IoT, city IoT and supply chain IoT. Megvii is building an AI infrastructure to connect and empower various IoT devices, to solve real life problems and pain points encountered by customers in sectors including fintech, transportation, logistics and others. Megvii is dedicated to helping customers achieve specific goals such as user authentication and fraud reduction, traffic optimization, and labor efficiency gains. 

Headquartered in Beijing with over 2,000 employees, Megvii maintains four research and development centers in China. 

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