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  50 Smartest Companies 2017
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  It Pays to Be Smart

  Superstar companies are dominating the economy by exploiting a growing gap in digital competencies.
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  Carbon Prints Amazing Materials

  Using his background in chemistry, CEO Joseph DeSimone has taken a whole new approach to advanced manufacturing, enabling Carbon, number 18 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, to print materials with a broad range of useful properties.
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  Oxford Nanopore’s Hand-Held DNA Analyzer Has Traveled the World

  A British company, number 32 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, bets a tiny analyzer will change how we look at DNA.
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  A Reality Check for IBM’s AI Ambitions

  IBM, number 39 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, overhyped its Watson machine-learning system, but the company still could have the best access to the kind of data needed to make medicine much smarter.
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  General Electric Builds an AI Workforce

  As part of its shift toward high-tech businesses, the 125-year-old company, number 40 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, is threading artificial intelligence throughout its operations, starting with its scientists.
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  Google Stakes Its Future on a Piece of Software

  Alphabet, number 5 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, thinks it can wrest the cloud computing market away from Amazon by helping companies make use of machine learning with a tool called TensorFlow.
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  Why Tesla Is Worth More Than GM

  A few companies that master digital technologies are capturing huge chunks of the economy. Does this explain the persistence of slow growth?
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  Zipline’s Ambitious Medical Drone Delivery in Africa

  In Rwanda, an early commercial test of unmanned aerial vehicles cuts a medical facility’s time to procure blood from four hours to 15 minutes.