Founded in 1999, iFLYTEK is a well-known intelligent speech and artificial intelligence publicly listed company in the Asia-Pacific Region. Since its establishment, the company is devoted to cornerstone technological research in speech and languages, natural language understanding, machine learning, machine reasoning, adaptive learning, and has maintained the world-leading position in those domains. The company actively promotes the development of A.I. products and their sector-based applications, with visions of enabling machines to listen and speak, understand and think, creating a better world with artificial intelligence.

As an innovation-driven company, iFLYTEK is on the cutting-edge of technological development and has continued to be among the best during a variety of international evaluations in machine translation, NLU, image recognition, image comprehension, knowledge graphs, knowledge discovery, and machine reasoning. The company has won the State Science and Technology Award twice and the Information Industry Technological Invention Award. iFLYTEK holds a leadership position in the national speech interactive technical workgroup, which is in charge of setting standards for Chinese speech industry.

Xiaoyi is a Chinese AI-powered robotic medical doctor developed by the iFlyTek, an AI company headquartered in China. The robot is developed to function as an assistant to human doctors to improve efficiency in the future treatments as in competition to IBM's Watson, Amazon's Echo and Google's DeepMind Health. Xiaoyi is known to be the first robot in the world which makes history by passing the China's National Medical Licensing Examination, the first assessment of its kind for any would-be doctor practicing in the country.