Ten years, enough time to change a business or even an industry.
In 2007, Jingdong headquarters was still located in Yinfeng Building, Suzhou Street, Beijing. At that time, Liu Qiangdong, the CEO of Jingdong Group, visited the office every day to see the working status of each and ask about the sales data. Participation In the following decade, Jingdong's size has increased by a hundredfold, while Liu Qiangdong, as the ruler, has also reduced its engagement with specific businesses.
Today, Liu Qiang East came to the platform is the highest level Jingdong Technology Group Conference - JD Discovery / Data Conference (hereinafter referred to as 'JDD').
10 years ago, Jingdong last held the year-end assembly of all employees of the entire group, each employee attended the meeting. At that time Liu Qiang East's feeling is that we are in the era, is definitely the greatest era, the first 20 years And in the next 20 years, can not find such a huge opportunity.
Ten years later, with AI technology rapidly changing the overall marketplace, the JD founder added another sentence at today's JDD Conference - a historical opportunity that is just artificial intelligence.
'AI is both a technology and a way of thinking.' Referring to the core application of AI in Jingdong, Liu Qiangdong today took the initiative to talk about two divisions within Jingdong called X, Y, Z and a plan.
Among them, X Division main Jingdong smart logistics technology, mainly related to unmanned delivery.
According to the data provided by Liu Qiangdong today, Jingdong now has a daily capacity of 100,000 unmanned warehouses. With 400+ logistics centers in China, Jingdong now basically realizes the transformation of the logistics system with AI as the underlying technical capability.
At present, the unmanned vehicle in Jingdong has completed the delivery test of major universities in Beijing. Next year's distribution of the university scene will fully realize the delivery of robots.
The JDU currently has a one-time flight of 240 kilometers, and as of yesterday, the JDU has conducted more than 170,000 hours of flight tests nationwide.
After the Spring Festival, the first heavy drone in Jingdong will undergo actual take-off test, and we plan to fly 500 to 1,000 kilometers of heavy drones for one to two tons of cargo within the next three years. In the long run, we expect heavy-duty UAVs to deliver more than 200,000 tons of loaded cargo, "Liu added.
In contrast, the establishment of the end of last year, Jingdong Y Division focused on building intelligent supply chain capabilities, mainly the use of artificial intelligence technology to build sales forecasting platform, the refined sales forecast to each unit of product to help self-Jingdong Management staff to develop product sales strategy and stocking plan, the user wants to buy the goods in advance to the nearest warehouse.
Liu Qiang East today focused on the Jingdong X, Y Division parallel 'Z plan'.
This plan for the AI era focuses on how to solve the problems arising from the AI era, such as the future where the JD's dispatchers should go in the AI era.
'I hope that the artificial intelligence developed by Jingdong will not only save everyone but also reduce the efficiency and cost of each industry and enhance the efficiency and user experience of each industry in which it is located, Good job. "In fact, Liu Qiangdong has already found a way out for more than 100,000 clerks in Jingdong.
'In the future delivery will be replaced by AI, my brothers can sit in the office to monitor the drones, delivery robots.We now have 800 unmanned vehicles, 30,000 unmanned stations, but also a lot of maintenance In addition, Liu Qiangdong believes there are many other art creation related work that can not be replaced by AI, and after mankind is freed from heavy work, it can put subjective initiative in more places where creativity is needed.