Seizing Opportunities and Gathering Surging Momentum - Observation on Anhui Empowering High Quality Development with Artificial Intelligence
2024-06-06
Recently, at the 2024 Global Summit on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity held in Geneva, Switzerland, participants engaged in lively discussions on the applications of artificial intelligence in education, health, communication, and other fields. As a strategic technology that leads a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, artificial intelligence is regarded as an important engine for China's development of new quality productivity. In Anhui Province, where efforts are being made to build a hub for technological innovation and emerging industries, a new landscape of artificial intelligence empowering high-quality development is being accelerated by constructing an industrial development pattern of "big model+big computing power+big data+big scene". Gathering resources to build an industrial ecosystem, iFlytek recently announced the free opening of the Spark Model API capability, attracting many developers to flock and jointly promote the development of artificial intelligence technology. "We plan to officially launch the Starfire Big Model V4.0 version by the end of June, upgrading various capabilities of the big model and further empowering various industries." Liu Cong, Dean of iFLYTEK Research Institute, said. China Sound Valley is the first national level industrial base positioned in the field of artificial intelligence in China. It was jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Anhui Province with the support of iFlytek. Today, it has gathered more than 2000 enterprises, forming a language and artificial intelligence industry chain from basic research, technological research and development, platform support to industrial development and application. From China Sound Valley to China Vision Valley, China Sensor Valley, from the provincial capital Hefei to Wuhu, Suzhou, Ma'anshan, Anqing and other places, Anhui has comprehensively laid out the AI industry, and various scientific innovation and talent resources have accelerated convergence. At present, Anhui has a number of national science innovation platforms, such as the National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, the National Engineering Research Center for Speech and Language Information Processing, and more than 8000 scientific research institutions, such as the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, providing strong momentum for the development of AI. At the Hefei Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Song Yanzhi, the director of the Industrial Software Laboratory, and team members helped enterprises develop industry big models and explore intelligent management throughout the entire lifecycle of the industrial field. Founded in 2022, the Hefei Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data was jointly established by the Shushan District Government of Hefei City and the Beijing Institute of Big Data, with E Weinan, an academician of the CAS Member, serving as the director of the academic committee, bringing together more than 60 talents from well-known universities at home and abroad. In less than two years, five AI enterprises have been incubated. According to data from the Anhui Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the revenue of 559 artificial intelligence enterprises above designated size in the province reached 132.77 billion yuan in 2023. 733 landing projects were attracted through various forms such as scene investment attraction, with a total investment of over 300 billion yuan. Multi scenario application empowers productivity innovation in the air conditioning assembly production line of Haier Industrial Park in Hefei. After each air conditioner passes through a semi enclosed rectangular iron box, the test results are displayed in the background. This is an intelligent quality inspection equipment that integrates multi-dimensional artificial intelligence technologies such as machine vision, hearing, and cognition. "Intelligent quality inspection equipment can complete more than 20 quality inspection tasks in 7 categories, including product functions, voice interaction, and identification appearance, with an accuracy rate of up to 98.5%." Dai Yongsheng, General Manager of Hefei Haier Air Conditioning Co., Ltd., introduced that it is currently the peak season for air conditioning production. The quality inspection equipment of a production line can complete the testing of over 4000 products per day, greatly reducing labor costs and improving production efficiency. The intelligent living environment also makes people's lives more convenient. The latest new energy vehicle launched by Chery is equipped with the "LION AI" model jointly developed by iFlytek and Chery. By creating a "thoughtful" full scene voice assistant, it achieves more flexible and generalized human vehicle interaction. "Compared to the industrial era, the computing power of the artificial intelligence era is equivalent to electricity, data is equivalent to raw materials, large models are equivalent to machine tools, and scenarios are equivalent to market demand." Wu Jinsong, Secretary of the Party Group of the Department of Science and Technology of Anhui Province, stated that Anhui is seizing the strategic opportunities for the development of general artificial intelligence and building an industrial development pattern of "big model+big computing power+big data+big scene". At the same time, it is laying out a special "artificial intelligence+" project, focusing on breaking through the integration and application of artificial intelligence with fields such as automobiles, industrial manufacturing, education, and quantum technology. The reporter walked into the office of the Anhui Provincial Artificial Intelligence Industry Promotion Group to optimize the "soft environment" and strengthen the "hard support". The staff were discussing new trends in the artificial intelligence industry, and the latest information such as investment plans and project progress was densely listed on the whiteboard next to them. In order to better promote industrial development, Anhui has successively issued a three-year action plan and related policies for the innovation and development of general artificial intelligence, providing unprecedented support for enterprises to lead research and development, and releasing policy dividends such as fully open data resources and full time and full area scenario applications. In June, Huawei Cloud East China (Wuhu) Data Center will officially open for service. According to Zhang Peng, Vice President of Huawei Cloud China, this is a large-scale intelligent computing cluster that will provide faster and better computing power for the development of artificial intelligence enterprises through Ascend AI cloud services. Anhui continuously optimizes the regional layout of intelligent computing power, and the province's intelligent computing power has jumped from around 800P in April 2023 to over 8000P in April 2024. In order to ensure the training data of artificial intelligence big models, Anhui promotes the development of open data while ensuring data security and privacy protection. The development of text data such as government documents and archives exceeds 500GB; We have taken the lead in launching the construction of a provincial-level integrated application scenario market nationwide, and have collected and released over 200 scenario projects throughout the province. "We will strive to achieve 12000P of intelligent computing power in the province by July this year, focusing on the construction of high-quality industry datasets such as automobiles and industry, further promoting the wider application of artificial intelligence technology, and strengthening new drivers of high-quality development." Wu Jinsong said. (Lai Xin She)
Edit：He Chuanning Responsible editor：Su Suiyue
Source：Xinhua
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