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Author: Sia

"Photosynthesis" breaks through China's computing power and accelerates "intelligent change".

There is no doubt that artificial intelligence is the "hottest guy" at the moment.

GPT-4o Mini has just been launched for free, and Llama 3.1 has followed, outperforming GPT 4o. Sora, Keling, and Jimeng are all on the stage. At the just-concluded World Artificial Intelligence Conference, China's first full-size general-purpose humanoid robot open source public version was released.

After years of accumulation of data, algorithms, and computing power, the moment of "smart change" has arrived. In the future, all industries will be reshaped by AI, whether large or small. At this year's National People's Congress, "artificial intelligence +" was also written into the government work report for the first time and listed as the first of the top ten tasks for 2024.

To empower thousands of industries with artificial intelligence technology and develop new productivity, computing power is the key and also a key indicator to measure the AI ​​competitiveness of a region or country. As an important part of the National Advanced Computing Industry Innovation Center,The photosynthetic tissue is exerting its unique "photosynthesis", breaking through China's computing power, accelerating "intelligent transformation", and enabling AI to go deeper and more practical。

1. AI is booming, and the industry is counting down to “intelligent transformation”

Zheng Weimin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said at the 2024 Photosynthetic Organization Leaders Conference: "The current fierce industry competition has brought severe challenges to AI upgrades, but it has also brought rare opportunities. We must remain optimistic, improve hardware performance, and strive to improve high-level industry collaboration."

In China, the "Hundred Model War" is raging, and AI is penetrating into all walks of life at an unprecedented speed.

With the help of big models, the efficiency of creation is greatly improved. Take video creation as an example. The traditional production process with clear division of labor and lengthy cycle can now be completed on a one-stop platform supported by AI. Similarly, in the field of programming, AI assistants can generate hundreds of lines of code in a few seconds, greatly improving development efficiency.

But chatting, creativity and writing are not all of the big model. In the fields of finance, biomedicine, industrial manufacturing, government affairs, scientific research, etc., AI is bringing real value to the industry's rigid needs.

The big weather model uses AI reasoning to solve the problem of weather forecasting. Now, one card can be used to predict the weather for seven days, which used to take thousands of servers and several hours.

In smart factories, an average of one PC is produced every second; in automobile assembly workshops, one car is produced every 53 seconds; the basic model of industrial time series data is realizing a variety of applications such as trend prediction and anomaly detection.

The energy sector is no exception. The six cascade hydropower stations on the mainstream of the Yangtze River, the world's largest clean energy corridor, are constantly colliding with scientific and technological innovation to create new sparks.

"AI for Science is the best opportunity in the history of China's scientific and technological innovation. It has a huge potential and will comprehensively change the process from scientific research to industrial implementation," said Ou Weinan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the International Center for Machine Learning Research at Peking University.

A set of data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology further confirms that "intelligent transformation" has entered the countdown: in 2023, the scale of my country's core artificial intelligence industry will reach 578.7 billion yuan, the number of related enterprises will be 4,482, and the industry chain will cover key upstream and downstream links such as chips, algorithms, data, platforms, and applications, with continuous breakthroughs in subdivided fields. After years of cultivation, the industry has gone through the stages of informatization, networking, and platformization, and is entering a new stage of data-driven intelligence.

2. Threading the needle and composing the "Photosynthesis" concerto

Now, with the help of the artificial intelligence remote sensing system, the details of the "palm prints" of natural resources can be identified and interpreted one by one:

Rolling hills and rolling forests, vast fields and cultivated land, blue coastal lifelines, crisscrossing streets and buildings;

This is just a microcosm of how many AI companies rely on the photosynthetic tissue "effect" to achieve new quality productivity.

Computing power has become a key resource for the development of the digital economy and the advancement of artificial intelligence. In recent years, artificial intelligence technology has been integrated into more industries and scenarios at an accelerated pace, and the demand for computing power has shown explosive growth.

100P can only be regarded as the "starting price". Artificial intelligence enterprise businesses have a huge demand for computing power. The demand doubles every six months. AIGC may trigger a new round of intelligent computing demand.

Therefore, even a "computing giant" company cannot support such a huge demand.

From the perspective of my country's computing power supply, China's total computing power ranks second in the world, but there is still a large gap in data center construction, especially the demand and construction of intelligent computing centers. At the same time, some of the existing computing power has not been effectively utilized. Artificial intelligence is not used in a large number of scenarios, not because it is not used or not needed, but because the cost of building computing power facilities for enterprises is very high and there is a lack of inclusive computing power.

How to achieve the "universalization" of computing power and make computing power the basic resource for the development of AI? The Photosynthetic Organization came into being, bringing together the entire industry chain to compose a "photosynthetic" concerto!

Photosynthesis Organization is the abbreviation of Haiguang Industry Ecological Cooperation Organization, which carries the important mission of establishing and improving the domestic computing technology supply chain and industrial chain, and is empowering important nodes of the "computing network" through its unique "photosynthesis effect". Like the composer of a concerto, it brings together various experts from upstream and downstream enterprises, universities, research institutes, etc. in the domestic computing industry to thread the needle and specialize in computing power and artificial intelligence technology research and application cooperation.

At the just-concluded 2024 Photosynthesis Organization Leaders Conference, Photosynthesis Organization "gained another victory": it held multiple unveiling and signing ceremonies to promote the construction of Zhengzhou as a "City of Computing Power".

On the morning of July 23, the 2024 Photosynthetic Organization Leadership Conference opened at the Zhengzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center in Henan Province.

As a link between the east and the west, Henan began to lay out computing power construction as early as November 2020, laying the foundation for Zhengzhou in the "East Data West Computing" project. Its intelligent computing power not only ranks among the top in the country, but also has infrastructure such as the Zhengzhou Artificial Intelligence Computing Center and the 360 ​​Intelligent Computing Center. Recently, the Central Plains Computing Valley was unveiled in the Science and Technology Transformation Zone of the Central Plains Science and Technology City. This project with an investment of over 10 billion yuan and a computing power of over 10,000 P will undoubtedly become an important support for the computing power industry highland in the central region. In order to achieve efficient "interconnection" and "intercommunication", Zhengzhou is making every effort to build a "computing power city" and lay out the first urban computing power network in the central region.

At the conference, Henan Provincial Party Secretary Lou Yangsheng personally unveiled the Zhengzhou Advanced Computing Research Institute and the Zhengzhou Base of the Haiguang Ecological Adaptation Center. The establishment of these two institutions will provide Zhengzhou with advanced computing capabilities and technical support, becoming an important cornerstone for building a "computing power city".

Through the matchmaking of the Photosynthetic Organization, Zhengzhou Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center, Zhengzhou Artificial Intelligence Innovation Development Alliance, and Central Plains Science and Technology City Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park were also unveiled on the same day, planning a complete closed loop from R&D innovation, ecosystem construction to landing space and services.

The photosynthesis of plants requires the participation of sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. The "photosynthetic effect" of Zhengzhou's computing power ecology also requires the joint efforts of industry, academia and research. At the conference, the National Advanced Computing Industry Innovation Center also signed contracts with Zhengzhou University and Henan University on industry-university-research cooperation and talent training bases. The Zhengzhou Municipal People's Government signed contracts with 10 intelligent computing companies including Sangfor, AIS, QingCloud Technology, and Jietong Huasheng, accelerating Zhengzhou's pace from a "computing power city" to a "smart city."

3. Full-chain collaboration, rich domestic computing power

In addition to how to better meet computing power needs and reduce computing power usage costs and usage thresholds, at the current stage, root technological self-reliance is also a rigid development requirement.

Artificial intelligence is an important engine of new productivity, and computing power is the basis of algorithm models. It is particularly necessary to build a self-owned intelligent computing foundation to support the future development of the industry. The Photosynthesis Organization, as an industrial ecological alliance initiated by Haiguang Information Technology Co., Ltd., is becoming the core force to solve the challenge of localization with its strong centripetal force and leading role.

After more than four years of development, the Photosynthetic Organization has established a huge ecosystem with more than 4,000 member units, covering the entire industry chain from chip design to application services.

In the field of chips, the Photosynthesis Organization has worked closely with domestic chip manufacturers to promote the development and application of CPUs and GPUs. In terms of storage, it has promoted the development of domestic solid-state drives and large-capacity storage systems. For servers and network equipment, the Photosynthesis Organization is promoting the innovation of domestic brands such as Tongfang and Lenovo Kaitian to meet the needs of large-scale computing and massive data transmission, and has been recognized by key industries and fields such as finance, energy, and telecommunications.

In terms of middle-layer software, such as operating systems, the Photosynthesis Organization actively promotes domestic operating systems such as Tongxin and Kylin, and promotes their deep adaptation with the underlying hardware. For databases, it supports the development and application of domestic databases such as DAMO, and promotes the implementation of these products in various industries. At the same time, the Photosynthesis Organization is also promoting the localization of key basic software such as middleware and virtualization platforms.

At the application software level, the Photosynthetic Organization has not only promoted the localization of enterprise-level software such as ERP and CRM, but also promoted the development of domestic solutions in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and big data analysis, and built a high-level business system.

For example, by cooperating with industry partners (such as Baidu and AISpeech), we support the deep integration of domestic AI frameworks such as Baidu PaddlePaddle with underlying hardware, and promote the deployment and optimization of AI models on domestic computing power bases. Against the backdrop of the continued rapid development of AIGC, we actively adapt to most mainstream large models at home and abroad, such as Wenxin Yiyan, and realize the comprehensive application of large models represented by LLaMa, GPT, Bloom, ChatGLM, Wudao, Zidong Taichu, etc.

As the latest achievement of this ecological cooperation, at the 2024 SCO Leaders Conference, the first domestically produced AI PC, Lenovo Kaitian M90h G1t AI PC Yuanqi Edition, was officially released through the joint efforts of Haiguang Information and Lenovo Kaitian.

In the eyes of many members, the Photosynthesis Organization provides a good platform for the ecological docking of the AI ​​industry. Users need a complete solution, and it is difficult for a single manufacturer to provide a complete set of products from the underlying architecture to the front-end application. In this context, the integration of ecological forces is very critical.

The birth of Chongliang Online's "AI Security Open Platform" was precisely the Photosynthetic Organization Solution Competition. In the process of adapting the AI ​​model based on the deep learning framework to the Haiguang chip, they proposed a large number of optimization and adaptation requirements to Haiguang, all of which were quickly responded to. This solution eventually won the bid in a project to improve the security capability technology of a bank's AI SaaS service.

In the process of migrating the intelligent scrap steel determination model, UFIDA ran the algorithm almost without any obstacles. Thanks to the community's detailed product documentation, any problems encountered during the adaptation and use process were responded to in a timely manner.

With the continuous breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology, the demand for computing power has shown explosive growth, and the "bottleneck" of computing power has become the most troublesome problem for major manufacturers in the competition for AI.

The Photosynthesis Organization brings together the efforts of more than 4,000 member units to help build an ecosystem for the entire industry chain from chip design to application services. It not only provides a strong computing power foundation for more companies, but also promotes the popularization of computing power.

In this AI era, computing power is like sunlight to photosynthesis in plants, and is the key energy that drives the growth of the entire industry. The photosynthetic tissue is using its "photosynthesis" to promote the computing power revolution and accelerate the AI ​​industry to "go deeper and more practical."