The Yandex company was included in the list of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as one of the world leaders in the development of artificial intelligence. There are currently 23 companies on the list.
MIT, together with the Epoch AI Center, has published a list of leading companies in the field of AI. Forbes drew attention to the publication.
Yandex was the only Russian company included on the list.
The criteria by which the activities of the companies were evaluated:
- number of scientific publications;
- citation fee;
- number of unique authors.
The experts also analyzed technologies for training AI models and developing algorithms.
In terms of the number of scientific publications on the topic of artificial intelligence, Yandex ranked 19th out of 23. The company published 246 such publications between 2010 and 2023.
Regarding the level of citations, the Russian technology company ranked second to last with 3,530 mentions. The leaders in number of publications were Microsoft and Google.
In terms of citations, OpenAI, Meta* and DeepMind came out on top.
Yandex took a higher position when evaluating the number of unique authors and citations of each of them. Here the Russian company beat Amazon, IBM, Intel, Huawei and others.
In addition to Yandex, companies included in the list include Tencent, Baidu, Twitter, Uber and others.
In October, Yandex shared the results of the development of its artificial intelligence technologies: the YandexGPT 2 language model solved several versions of the Unified State Exam in Literature and demonstrated a close to average result among Russian schoolchildren.
*recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia, included on the terrorist list.
Author:
Natalia Gormaleva
Source: RB
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