50 Smartest Companies in 2016 by MIT Technology Review

The editors of MIT Technology Review picked the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business model. These  companies are considered “smart” in the way they create new opportunities.

Companies taking advantage of amazing new digital technologies dominate this list of 50 Smartest Companies. But despite the excitement of recent advances in such fields as artificial intelligence, automation and genomic medicine, technology has failed to energize the overall economy.

1. Amazon

2. Baidu

3. Illumina

4. Tesla Motors

5. Aquion Energy

6. Mobileye

7. 23andMe

8. Alphabet

9. Spark Therapeutics

10. Huawei

11. First Solar

12. Nvidia

13. Cellectis

14. Enlitic

15. Facebook

16. SpaceX

17. Toyota

18. Airware

19. IDE Technologies

20. Tencent

21. Didi Chuxing

22. Oxford Nanopore

23. 24M

24. Alibaba

25. Bristol-Myers Squibb

26. Microsoft

27. Fanuc

28. Sonnen

29. Improbable

30. Movidius

31. Intrexon

32. Carbon

33. Bosch

34. T2 Biosystems

35. Editas Medicine

36. Nestlé

37. RetroSense Therapeutics

38. Line, subsidiary of Naver

39. TransferWise

40. Veritas Genetics

41. FireEye

42. Seven Bridges

43. Slack

44. Coupang

45. IBM

46. Snapchat

47. Africa Internet Group

48. LittleBits

49. Intel

50. Monsanto