[FONT="]Nvidia [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Continues to tweak its chips, originally developed for gaming, to help develop breakthrough technologies like deep learning and autonomous driving. [/FONT]
[FONT="]$3 billion:[/FONT]
[FONT="]spending on R&D to create its new data-center chip [/FONT]
·[FONT="] 2 [/FONT]
[FONT="]SpaceX [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Changing the economics of space travel with its successful landing and recycling of rockets to be recycled for multiple trips[/FONT]
[FONT="]10 percent:[/FONT]
[FONT="]price discount being considered for customers who agree to fly their payloads on reused rockets[/FONT]
·[FONT="] 3 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Amazon [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Creating an AI-powered store of the future with Amazon Go while expanding intelligent voice assistant Alexa into phones, cars, and more.[/FONT]
[FONT="]12,000:[/FONT]
[FONT="]number of programs that software developers have published for Alexa[/FONT]
[FONT="] [/FONT]
·[FONT="] 4 [/FONT]
[FONT="]23andMe [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Vindicated this year when the U.S. FDA granted permission to tell customers whether their DNA puts them at higher risk for some diseases.[/FONT]
[FONT="]1 million plus:[/FONT]
[FONT="]number of customers who have consented to have their genetic information used for scientific research [/FONT]
·[FONT="] 5 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Alphabet [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Continues to dominate research into AI while expanding innovation in phone systems, virtual reality, and self-driving cars. [/FONT]
[FONT="]40 percent:[/FONT]
[FONT="]amount of energy the company says it saves applying machine-learning algorithms from its DeepMind subsidiary to cooling its data center. [/FONT]
·[FONT="] 6 [/FONT]
[FONT="]iFlytek [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Its voice assistant technology is the Siri of China, and its real-time portable translator puts AI to remarkable use, overcoming dialect, slang, and background noise to translate between Chinese and a dozen other languages with surprising accuracy.[/FONT]
[FONT="]70 percent:[/FONT]
[FONT="]iFlytek’s share of China’s market in voice-based technologies [/FONT]
·[FONT="] 7 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Kite Pharma [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nearing FDA approval of its experimental immunotherapy that uses a patient’s own blood cells to combat cancer.[/FONT]
[FONT="]39 percent:[/FONT]
[FONT="]proportion of study participants very sick with lymphoma who showed no sign of the disease six months after a single treatment with Kite’s therapy[/FONT]
·[FONT="] 8 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Tencent [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Turning its insanely popular chat platform WeChat into a virtual operating system featuring mini programs.[/FONT]
[FONT="]50 percent:[/FONT]
[FONT="]proportion of WeChat’s 770 million daily users who are on the service at least 90 minutes a day[/FONT]
[FONT="] [/FONT]
·[FONT="] 9 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Regeneron [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]The biotech company has a strong drug pipeline and track record treating eye and other diseases, and it’s testing treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and pain. [/FONT]
[FONT="]500,000:[/FONT]
[FONT="]number of U.K. volunteers whose genetic data it is helping sequence[/FONT]
[FONT="] [/FONT]
·[FONT="] 10 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Spark Therapeutics [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Its blindness treatment could be the first gene therapy approved in the U.S. to treat an inherited disease.[/FONT]
[FONT="]1 in 30,000:[/FONT]
[FONT="]estimated number of individuals affected by the disease, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy[/FONT]
[FONT="]36 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Flipkart [/FONT]
[FONT="]Why[/FONT]
[FONT="]Benefiting from the consolidation of India’s competitive e-commerce sector, including $500 million investment from eBay.[/FONT]
[FONT="]$11.6 billion:[/FONT]
[FONT="]company’s current valuation, the highest for any Indian e-commerce startup[/FONT]
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