LAS VEGAS, Jan. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sogou Inc.
(NYSE: SOGO) ("Sogou" or "the Company"),
an innovator in search and a leader in China's internet
industry, announced its CEO Xiaochuan Wang delivered the keynote speech at
the 2019 Las Vegas "China Night," an
annual event that brings together leading consumer electronics
businesses ahead of CES.
Las Vegas "China Night" is
jointly hosted by the Consulate General of the P.R. China in San
Francisco and the Organizing Committee of China Information
Technology Expo (CITE). Under the theme of "Innovation and
Cooperation in an Era of Great Change," this year's event brought
together over 300 leading Chinese and American entrepreneurs with
the aim of sharing learnings and facilitating collaboration.
During his keynote speech entitled, "Technological Progress and
the Evolution of Civilization," Mr. Wang noted that the rapid
development of the internet and AI have accelerated the evolution
of human civilization into a new era of "Intelligent Civilization."
In this new era, technology empowers and enables humans to
communicate more freely across languages, cultures and locations,
and benefit from the immediacy of information. Mr. Wang noted that
language barriers still exist, particularly for many in
China, despite Chinese being the
most widely spoken language in the world. Cross-language
communication is therefore increasingly important, becoming a
crucial link in connecting China with the world. For Wang,
AI-powered machine translation will be the "ultimate breakthrough"
that leads humankind into the "Intelligent Civilization."
While the information civilization has gradually evolved into
the intelligent civilization, Mr. Wang predicted that Sogou's
Vocational Avatars that can enable more natural interactions
between humans and machines could greatly improve human efficiency
and become a future technology trend. Sogou's Vocational Avatars
provide users with information via a more seamless and lifelike
human-to-machine interaction. Sogou and Xinhua co-developed the
world's first AI news anchor which is now in daily use. Sogou's
Vocational Avatars also provide personalized medical and legal
advice for users and will be widely used in customer service
functions.
As a leader in language-centric AI technologies, Sogou's
human-to-machine translation technologies have ranked first in many
internationally renowned competitions, including WMT 2017 and IWSLT
2018, and their application is widespread.
Sogou's AI-powered machine simultaneous translation technology
was successfully used to provide bilingual Chinese and English
interpretation during Mr. Wang's keynote speech and panel
discussions at Las Vegas "China
Night." This marks yet another international event outside
of China to leverage Sogou's world-leading technology. Sogou's
human-to-machine translation technologies are expected to support
more international conferences, acting as a bridge between
different languages and cultures, and thus fulfilling Sogou's
mission to make it easy to communicate and get information.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements.
Statements that are not historical facts, including statements
about our beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements.
These statements are based on current plans, estimates, and
projections, which involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We
caution you that a number of important factors could cause actual
results to differ materially from those contained in any
forward-looking statement. Potential risks and uncertainties
include, but are not limited to, intense competition in the market
for search and search-related services; our need to continually
innovate and adapt in order to grow our business; our reliance on
Tencent platforms for a significant
portion of our user traffic; and uncertainty regarding the extent
and reach of PRC governmental regulation of sponsored search.
Further information regarding these and other risks is included in
Sogou's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2017 filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on February 28,
2018, and other documents Sogou files with or submits to the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Sogou
Sogou Inc. (NYSE: SOGO) is an innovator in search and a leader
in China's internet industry. With a mission to make it easy to
communicate and get information, Sogou has grown to become the
second largest search engine by mobile queries and the fourth
largest internet company by MAU in China. Sogou has a wide range of innovative
products and services including the Sogou Input Method, which is
the largest Chinese language input software for both mobile and PC.
Sogou is also at the forefront of AI development and has made
significant breakthroughs in voice and image technologies, machine
translation, and Q&A, which have been successfully integrated
into our products and services.
For media enquiries, please contact:
Rachael Layfield
Brunswick Group
Tel: +86 10 5960-8600
Email: sogou@brunswickgroup.com
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