Overview

In the July 2017 edition of MIT Technology Review, a detailed and fascinating list appears of the 50 smartest tech companies in the world. I thought my readers would LOVE to look this list over. Enjoy! I included comments for those companies I had never heard of 🙂

The 50 Smartest Technology Companies List

1. Nvidia
2. SpaceX
3. Amazon
4. 23andMe
5. Alphabet
6. iFlytek – The Siri of China
7. Kite Pharma – Leader in immunotherapy products
8. Tencent – creator of WeChat
9. Regeneron – Biotech
10. Spark Therapeutics  – Works on inherited blindness diseases
11. Face++ – Face recognition company
12. First Solar
13. Intel
14. Quanergy Systems  – autonomous driving technology
15. Vestas Wind Systems
16. Apple
17. Merck
18. Carbon – 3D printing
19. Desktop Metal – 3D printing
20. Ionis Pharmaceuticals – Spinal muscular atrophy drug
21. Gamalon – Machine learning
22. Illumina – Gene sequencing
23. Facebook
24. Udacity – Massive Open Online Courses
25. DJI – Drones
26. MarcadoLibre – Online retailer in Latin America
27. Microsoft
28. Rigetti Computing – Quantum computing
29. Kindred AI
30. Sophia Genetics
31. Tesla
32. Oxford Nanopore – Genetic analysis
33. Foxconn
34. M-KOPA – Solar power
35. ForAllSecure – Software security flaw detection
36. Flipkart – Ebay in India
37. Bluebird Bio
38. Adidas
39. IBM
40. GE
41. Alibaba
42. HTC
43. Blueprism
44. Africa Internet Group
45. Veritas Genetics
46. Daimler – Electric trucks
47. Salesforce
48. Snap
49. AntFinancial
50. Baidu