Industrial and commercial sectors often measure innovation by market capitalization and R&D spending, but these metrics fail to capture the full picture. Tech companies dominate market headlines with AI product launches and chip releases — and our own ranking of most innovative firms of 2024. In addition, tech firms currently hold the top market cap…
Exclusive infographic: Tech giants increase patent lead in 2024
According to an R&D World analysis of major technology companies, the largest tech companies continue to maintain a commanding lead in patent generation, with the profiled companies producing more than 35,000 patents in 2023. This lead widened in 2024, with the 14 tech firms generating patents at 2.8x the rate of the automotive companies profiles…
What embeddings are and how to explore them in R&D
One of the unsung heroes of the recent explosion in interest in AI — especially in terms of large language models and natural language processing — is the word embedding. Representing a vector of real numbers, embeddings have been around in one or another since for decades. In the 1980s and 1990s, researchers explored a…