Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen explore the development path of "artificial intelligence"
2024-08-14
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This year's "Government Work Report" proposed to deepen the research and development and application of big data, artificial intelligence, etc., carry out the "artificial intelligence +" action, and build a digital industry cluster with international competitiveness. What should "artificial intelligence +" "+" and how to "+"? First-tier cities represented by Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are actively exploring development paths.
Empowering all industries
From last year's AI language model ChatGPT to this year's popular video generation model Sora, the impact of artificial intelligence technology is becoming more and more widespread. my country is stepping up the layout of artificial intelligence technology, accelerating its integration and penetration into the fields of medical care, education, culture, finance, consumption, and urban operations, and the "intelligence" content of production and life is constantly increasing.
Recently, the "Beijing Action Plan to Promote "Artificial Intelligence +"" was officially issued and implemented. In the future, Beijing will rely on large-scale model innovation resources and industrial foundations to take the lead in building an AI native city and promote it to become an innovation source and application highland of artificial intelligence with global influence. Lin Jianhua, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Beijing Development and Reform Commission, believes that artificial intelligence technology is both a technology-driven technology and an application-oriented technology. "Artificial Intelligence +" adds "all walks of life + various application scenarios" to effectively apply artificial intelligence to all aspects of the national economy. A core orientation of the "Beijing Action Plan to Promote "Artificial Intelligence +"" is "application".
The huge market scale and massive application scenarios are the advantages of my country's development of artificial intelligence. According to statistics, in 2023, the scale of Shenzhen's artificial intelligence industry will increase by more than 20% year-on-year, and the number of artificial intelligence companies will increase by nearly 20% year-on-year, forming a good pattern of collaborative development led by leading companies such as Huawei and Tencent, supported by high-growth companies such as Yuanxiang Technology, Simu Technology, Tuzhan Intelligence and Sangfor, and a large number of start-ups. In 2023, the core output value of Beijing's artificial intelligence industry will exceed 250 billion yuan. At present, Beijing has filed and launched 82 large models, accounting for more than 40% of the national proportion. Yang Yongheng, director of the research department of Beijing Economic Information Center, said that at present, Beijing has formed a comprehensive advantage in the artificial intelligence industry. Zhiyuan Research Institute, Baidu, Zhipu Huazhang, Shengshu Technology, etc. have iteratively released artificial intelligence large model products.
Zhang Lei, head of the Software R&D Center of Schneider Electric (China), believes that the application of AI in the industry is changing from "+AI" to "AI+". AI is the driving force that drives the simultaneous evolution of existing technologies and AI. How to create unique core advantages through AI and generate actual business value has become the focus of enterprises. AI can only truly play multiple values with the support of "scenarios". Industry insiders believe that the application scenarios of AI are becoming more and more common, running through R&D design, production and manufacturing to operation and maintenance management, and are a very critical part of the factory's upgrade from digitalization to intelligence.
Accelerate the practice
How to “+” artificial intelligence?
The answer given by Beijing is: to plan and promote from three dimensions: benchmark application, demonstration application, and commercial application, and to build a large model to empower a panoramic view of economic and social development.
Specifically, by the end of 2025, by implementing five benchmark application projects that match the world's leading level, organizing 10 national demonstration application projects, and promoting a number of commercial application results with broad application prospects, we will strive to form three to five advanced, available, self-controllable basic large-scale model products, 100 excellent industry large-scale model products and 1,000 industry success cases. Lin Jianhua said that Beijing will select key areas with rich resource elements, relatively mature foundations, great development potential and significant driving effects, such as robots, education, medical and other sub-industries, to organize and implement a number of comprehensive, benchmarking major application projects. These projects will fully rely on market mechanisms to form a closed loop of integrated development of computing power, data, models, and applications, and then condense replicable and popularizable models, empower thousands of industries from point to surface, and explore effective paths for "artificial intelligence +".
With the comprehensive upgrade of the performance of domestic large models, advanced large model capabilities will gradually be transformed into product applications in commercial scenarios. Tang Jianguo, chief economist of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, introduced that Beijing will start with small incisions and real scenarios, focus on industry hotspots and social concerns, give full play to the enabling role of large model technology innovation in industry applications, and cultivate a batch of large model commercial applications. For example, support large model companies to pair up with equipment manufacturers to tackle key problems, and carry out research and development and application of embedded large model components and intelligent systems around new hardware terminals such as computers, mobile phones, home appliances, and automobiles.
Shenzhen also has its own answer. Recently, the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Shenzhen Action Plan to Accelerate the Construction of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer City", which aims to promote the integration and innovation of artificial intelligence technology, application scenarios and business models, accelerate the construction of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Innovation Development Pilot Zone and the National Artificial Intelligence Innovation Application Pilot Zone, and strive to build an artificial intelligence pioneer city and accelerate the cultivation and formation of new quality productivity.
Specifically, Shenzhen will focus on smart products, application scenarios, smart connected vehicles and other fields, and strive to create five pioneers: "full-stack innovation pioneer, smart product pioneer, data cross-border pioneer, scenario application pioneer, and smart driving pioneer." In terms of full-stack innovation, Shenzhen will build an artificial intelligence ecosystem by building an intelligent computing system of "one superpower and multiple strong general dispatch", accelerating full-stack innovation of core technologies, laying out major artificial intelligence scientific research platforms, and building a domestic artificial intelligence ecological source innovation center.
Previously, He Qing, Party Secretary and Director of Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Cheng Peng, Party Secretary of Shanghai Economic Information Work, and representatives of 11 municipal enterprises jointly issued the "Shanghai State-owned Assets and State-owned Enterprises AI+ Action Initiative". He Qing said that in the future, Shanghai state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises will further implement the state-owned enterprise reform and deepening and upgrading action, further seize opportunities, increase investment, and effectively give play to the "leader effect" of artificial intelligence in empowering the industry, the "activation effect" of driving potential industries, and the "multiplier effect" of improving the total factor productivity of enterprises.
Strengthening the technical foundation
As time goes by, the implementation of intelligent scenarios in the industry is showing a trend of becoming deeper and wider. However, the advancement of artificial intelligence applications still requires the continuous support of underlying technologies.
In May this year, Tencent Cloud released three PaaS tools: "Big Model Knowledge Engine", "Big Model Image Creation Engine" and "Big Model Video Creation Engine", which enable enterprises to have the underlying ability to quickly call big models and build applications suitable for their own scenarios. Jiang Jie, vice president of Tencent Group, said that Tencent regards artificial intelligence as the company's long-term strategy. The company insists on independent technological innovation as the core driving force, combining scenarios to promote the research and implementation of AI. After iterative upgrades, the number of parameters of Tencent Hunyuan Big Model has reached one trillion. Tencent will promote the application of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies such as big models in the fields of real economy, cultural protection, scientific discovery, etc., and provide technical support for the intelligent upgrade of the whole society.
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai not long ago, many companies demonstrated new progress in the field of big models. SenseTime released the WYSIWYG model "Daily New 5o", which integrates cross-modal information and brings a new AI interaction mode based on multiple forms such as sound, text, image and video; Alibaba Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren announced the latest progress of Tongyi Big Model and Alibaba Cloud Bailian Platform: from May to June this year, the download volume of Tongyi Qianwen open source model increased by 2 times, exceeding 20 million times, and the number of customers served by Alibaba Cloud Bailian increased from 90,000 to 230,000, an increase of more than 150%; Kingsoft Office released WPS AI 2.0 and launched Kingsoft Government Office Model 1.0.
Wu Yunsheng, vice president of Tencent Cloud and head of Youtu Lab, said that through the continuous iteration and development of products such as the big model base, TI platform, knowledge engine, image creation engine, and video creation engine, big models are being implemented to help companies improve quality and efficiency.
Experts said that the development of big model technology is far from bottoming out and needs continuous iteration. At present, the development of artificial intelligence at home and abroad presents the following characteristics: on the one hand, the three elements of computing power, data, and algorithms are continuously advancing the research of big models; on the other hand, the industry application of big models is simultaneously promoted, and the level of model intelligence is improved through application verification and feedback.
In order to get through the "last mile" of AI application implementation, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Management Committee are actively planning to build a number of joint R&D platforms for AI application scenarios, supporting industry users to take the lead and jointly tackle key problems with leading AI technology companies. Han Jian, director of the Information Technology Department of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Management Committee, introduced that the platform aims to integrate innovative resources and high-quality data in the field of AI, open up core business scenario requirements, provide a joint R&D environment, attract and gather leading innovation teams, and accelerate the advancement of AI technology and the implementation of the industry. The platform will serve as a bridge connecting industry users, enterprises, universities and research institutions, providing integrated services such as technology R&D, scenario verification, achievement transformation, and talent training. Subsequently, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Management Committee will regularly solicit joint R&D platforms across the city, and provide support policies such as science and technology plan projects, finance, talents, parks, intellectual property rights, exchanges and cooperation for platform co-construction units in accordance with the principle of "mature a batch and start a batch". (Economic Daily reporter Han Bingzhi, Yang Yangteng, Li Zhiguo)
(Source: Economic Daily)
