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Roche
Roche is a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company that focuses on improving people’s lives.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Sector | Pharmaceuticals & Medical Research |
| Website | http://www.roche.com |
Between 2015 and 2025, Roche researchers released482 AI research articles
- #31in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 23.2citations per AI article on average (#178 in PARAT)
- 59highly cited articles (#36 in PARAT)
- +44.7%growth in Roche's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 13articles at top AI conferences (#80 in PARAT)
- 2.1%of Roche's total public research was AI-focused
Roche's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 166 | 18.6 | 36.78 |
| NLP publications | 43 | 14.5 | 86.67 |
| Robotics publications | 10 | 10.8 | -100 |
| AI safety publications | 2 | 222 | -100 |
| Large language model publications | 27 | 35.4 | 266.67 |
Between 2015 and 2025, Roche filed346 AI-related patents
- #71in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 101.1%growth in Roche's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 77AI-related patents were granted to Roche (2017–2020)
- 6.4%of Roche's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Roche's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Computer vision patents | 143 | 95.42% |
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 44 | 120% |
| Measuring and testing patents | 40 | 67.46% |
| Knowledge representation patents | 9 | N/A |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 6 | N/A |
Top use cases across Roche's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Life sciences patents | 242 | 87.58% |
| Personal devices and computing patents | 63 | 108.33% |
| Telecommunications patents | 15 | 190% |
| Business patents | 6 | N/A |
| Security patents | 4 | N/A |
PARAT workforce data for this non-U.S. company may be unreliable. Use with caution. Read more >>
1,107
AI jobs
According to our data, Roche currently employs about 1,107 AI workers (#33 rank in PARAT). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
4,750
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Roche currently employs about 4,750 Tech Team 1 workers (#78 rank in PARAT).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.