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Chinese Professor Lands $3.4 Billion Fortune With SenseTime IPO

  • SenseTime relaunched its IPO after U.S. blacklisting
  • Founder Tang Xiao’ou is a professor in information engineering
Tang Xiao’ouPhotographer: Vivek Prakash/Bloomberg
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Just weeks after the U.S. placed a unit of SenseTime Group Inc. on a blacklist for alleged human rights violations, the firm is about to make founder Tang Xiao’ou one of the world’s richest people.

China’s largest artificial intelligence company pricedBloomberg Terminal its initial public offering at HK$3.85 (49 cents) per share, raising HK$5.55 billion.