MIT Technology Review Reveals 50 Smartest Companies List in Annual Business Issue

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Jun 27, 2017, 08:22 ET

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, MIT Technology Review releases its 2017 list of 50 Smartest Companies. Over the last 12 months, the honorees have taken risks and demonstrated superior technological leadership and business acumen in their fields.

"The companies on the list combine a high level of technology innovation with a business model that will help them make the most of it," states Nanette Byrnes, senior editor for business. "Public and private, large and small, based in countries around the globe, this group of companies is creating new opportunities and pouncing on them. These are the ones that competitors must follow."

Artificial intelligence, a technology that MIT Technology Review believes will drive much of the economic growth over the next few years, is sprinkled throughout the list. The company at the top, Nvidia, has gained expertise in AI and used it to transform itself. Once known as a maker of chips for gaming, it is now a leading player in deep learning and autonomous vehicles.

2017 50 Smartest Companies:

1.	Nvidia	18.	Carbon	35.	ForAllSecure
2.	SpaceX	19.	Desktop Metal	36.	Flipkart
3.	Amazon	20.	Ionis Pharmaceuticals	37.	Bluebird Bio
4.	23andMe	21.	Gamalon	38.	Adidas
5.	Alphabet	22.	Illumina	39.	IBM
6.	iFlytek	23.	Facebook	40.	General Electric
7.	Kite Pharma	24.	Udacity	41.	Alibaba
8.	Tencent	25.	DJI	42.	HTC
9.	Regeneron	26.	MercadoLibre	43.	Blue Prism
10.	Spark Therapeutics	27.	Microsoft	44.	Jumia (Africa Internet Group)
11.	Face++	28.	Rigetti Computing	45.	Veritas Genetics
12.	First Solar	29.	Kindred AI	46.	Daimler
13.	Intel	30.	Sophia Genetics	47.	Salesforce
14.	Quanergy Systems	31.	Tesla	48.	Snap
15.	Vestas Wind Systems	32.	Oxford Nanopore	49.	Ant Financial
16.	Apple	33.	Foxconn	50.	Baidu
17.	Merck	34.	M-KOPA

The list is included in MIT Technology Review's annual business issue, which is available online now and on newsstands worldwide on July 4, 2017.

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