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1, code Long technology by 220 million B round of financing, into Softbank China's first AI company in China;
Set micro-grid News November 10, the domestic artificial intelligence representative company code Long Technology announced today that it has received from the Softbank China Capital Lead B round of financing, financing a total amount of 220 million yuan This is Softbank China in the field of artificial intelligence in China dropped a company.
YARON Technology Co., Ltd. is an artificial intelligence startup company specializing in deep learning and computer vision technology innovation. Through ProductAI Artificial Intelligence Product Identification Platform, YLT connects all walks of life and integrates vertical industry resources to create in-depth industry application solutions Program Now, ProductAI has more than 200 corporate clients in China, such as China Textile Information Center, Vipshop, China Textile Standard, Mengniu, Map Network, Search Engines, Light Cloud Technology, etc. After the financing , Code Long technology will expand the artificial intelligence business map overseas.
Artificial intelligence-based image recognition technology has rich application prospects in commerce, retail, real estate, home, food and other commercial fields.At the core technology level, the research of Artificial Intelligence of Yalong Technology solves the deep learning algorithm A long time pain point, with the innovative weak supervised learning algorithm, the Internet and the actual production environment of various types of noisy image data is also fully utilized algorithm model training.Combined technology and co-founder and CTO Matt Scott said that this algorithm Innovations save tens of millions of manual annotations data needed to build algorithmic models in the past.
Dr. Huang Dinglong, co-founder and CEO of y Long Technology believes that as e-commerce helped to upgrade traditional commerce during the Internet tide of that year, ying Long Technology is also devoted to helping traditional industries to upgrade with artificial intelligence in this wave of new technological revolution. Significantly improve the efficiency of the industry, and help customers increase revenue and reduce costs.
According to public information, yardsong won several awards in the world's leading technology competitions, and soon won the first WebVision Global Image Identification Challenge co-organized by Google Research Institute, ETH Zurich and the G20 Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Germany Not only that, the scientific and technological achievements of yardsong have long been applied to the actual business scene, becoming the core competitiveness of ProductAI.
Dr. Song Anlan, Partner at SoftBank China, said: "During the interaction with Codex Technologies, I saw an AI team with top-level talent structure, international development pattern and very honest and trustworthy." As the outstanding artificial intelligence We are excited to invest in this technology and look forward to seeing its customers spread all over the world and accelerate their international deployment. "
Softbank China is the leading provider of the round b financing round of code-based Longines Technology Co., Ltd. In fact, since last year, Softbank has started to invest heavily in the artificial intelligence field worldwide. Mr. Sun Zhengyi has also repeatedly said in public that 2018 The year before and after the 'singularity' will come, artificial intelligence will enter an irreversible stage of development and will greatly surpass humans.
Previously, Softbank China was a major investor in Internet giants such as Alibaba.At present, all parties have a strong position in the field of artificial intelligence and the capital power represented by Softbank China is being actively deployed in the field of artificial intelligence.For this financing, Technology said the new financing will be used in three main directions: to deepen the technical innovation and commercial landing in the field of artificial intelligence product identification, continue to dig the combination point of artificial intelligence and traditional industries, and further accelerate the development of international markets.
2, artificial intelligence company Versa Sequoia 30 million yuan Pre-A round of financing;
Securities Times reporter Yue Ya Nan November 9, AI Arta announced that it has completed the Pre-A round of financing, the current round of financing amounted to 30 million yuan, led by the Sequoia Capital China Fund (referred to as Sequoia China), the real grid funds, It is learned that this round of funds raised will be used for the construction of artificial intelligence laboratories, as well as domestic and international market promotion. Versa will set up a deep visual laboratory to create the depth of perception, association, reasoning ability Neural networks, constantly breaking the boundaries of capabilities, empower creators with more advanced generic intelligence.
Earlier, Versa was in July 2017 received the real estate fund leader, Zhen Yun Ventures voted with the 6 million angel round of financing.
Versa, former Guevara product partner Tsai Tianyi and former Weihua Zhao chip algorithm scientist Zhao Weijie, co-founded in April 2017. They committed to the artificial intelligence technology used in the processing of visual images, to create the AI era of creativity tools. Users can upload photos on their mobile phones, choose to become Matisse's Fauvism, or Picasso's self-portrait, just 1 second, Versa can create a very shocking visual effects.
Wang Linqing, vice president of Sequoia Capital China Fund, said: 'Technology will produce new tools, works created with new tools can gather to form a new ecology. Sequoia has been committed to finding and supporting technological innovation, Versa is one such the company. '
3, From Algorithm to China 'Core': 'Transitional' Kinetics of AI Industry in China in Smart Age;
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Lin 'lack of chips (chips) less soul (operating system)', breaking the PC era of China's information industry embarrassment.And now, when the artificial intelligence (AI) tide hit, is held in Shanghai No. 1 At the 9th China International Industry Fair, a breakthrough in top-notch technologies is highlighting the opportunities in China in the era of intelligence and bringing "jump-change" to the AI industry in China.
Into the most high-end industry, there is a group of A I 'sharp knife even'
This year the first ICE was set up in the Artificial Intelligence Zone, where a circuit board smaller than P ad was displayed at the booth of the Cambrian in Shanghai. The staff pointed to a small square in the middle. 'This chip is our Self-developed '.
After 3 years, we will strive to occupy 30% of China's high-performance smart chip market, and strive to have more than 10 billion intelligent terminals in the world using Cambodian terminal processor technology. "The founder of the Cambrian Corporation Chen Tian-shih, CEO and concurrently CEO, said that the intelligent chips exhibited in this exhibition have been optimized in terms of power consumption, energy efficiency, cost and other aspects. The performance power consumption is leapfrogging. The scope of application covers image recognition, security monitoring, intelligent driving, Machine, voice recognition, natural language processing and other key applications.
So far, no one company's AI ecosystem in the world has been recognized by the entire industry nor has it been shaped, all of which provide opportunities for China to 'jump' in the field of AI, and more and more companies have passed The improvement of algorithmic system and the development of application scenarios prove that China develops AI, which not only has the advantage of data.
In this zone, many companies including Yituo and Shangtang have brought the solution of "face recognition." In this field, there are several top international competitions, and the national standards by the United States Technology Research Institute organized by the FRVT test, the industry jokingly called the "closed book examination." In 2007, according to map science and technology to become the first Chinese team won the competition champion.Fan Jingyan, vice president of introduction, Billions of large-scale identification, one hundred millionth low false alarm rate, according to plans to focus on the technology scene.
Application-driven, showing the arrival of AI's 'China Program'
In July of this year, the State Council issued the "Plan for the Development of a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence" and conducted a profound analysis of China's short board in its planning. Without major original achievements, the State Council issued a series of preliminary proposals on basic theories, core algorithms, and key equipment, high-end chips, Systems, basic materials, components, software and interfaces are far apart. Scientific research institutes and enterprises have not yet formed an ecosystem and chain with international influence. The top talents of artificial intelligence are far from meeting the demand. They are the basis for the development of artificial intelligence Facilities, policies, regulations, standards system needs improvement.
As a latecomer, the technology in the base layer is relatively weak, but the technology layer and the application layer as a breakthrough point, including face recognition, voice recognition and other fields are leading .Reporter learned that Shanghai, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Jiangxi and many other To plan first, ahead of the layout of this future industry.
Chen Mingbo, director of the Commission of Shanghai Economic Commission, said that in the wave of artificial intelligence, Shanghai will take application as the driving force and attach great importance to the industrial chain integration and industrial ecological training. In terms of data integration, platform construction, demonstration application, production, teaching and research efficiency improvement, industrial ecological support system , Industrial policies and other aspects of serious study and promotion.
Data is an artificial intelligence fuel and one of the core elements that attract talented people, and at this point being the owner of many of the core data - the government is actively changing its minds. "We insist on bringing application-driven first, Opening up sharing and launching a number of demonstration projects in the fields of urban safety, government service, medical health, and cultural creativity. "Fang Shizhong, head of Xuhui District in Shanghai, said Xuhui's goal is that by the year 2020, the basic construction will be complete Of the artificial intelligence ecosystem, built internationally renowned artificial intelligence innovation center, forming a scale of 10 billion artificial intelligence industrial clusters.
Seize the opportunity of 'jump change' and move forward to the world's leading artificial intelligence innovation center
Sun Ninghui, director of the CAS Institute of Computing, said that in the face of new situations and new opportunities, we should focus on nurturing and expanding artificial intelligence-based software and hardware enterprises to inject new momentum into the development of China's smart industry. "Our R & D occupies a leading position in the world of smart chips By cooperating with upstream and downstream partners, it is expected to lead the Chinese artificial intelligence industry in making a change of lane.
Earlier this year, McKinsey has reported that China and the United States are currently leaders in the development of AI globally, but recruiting talent is crucial to the development of AI in China, with more than a dozen data scientists in the United States having more than a dozen Years of work experience, while China has less than five years of research staff up to 40%.
In view of this, the plan clearly states that strengthening cooperation among industry, universities and research institutes encourages colleges and universities, research institutes and enterprises to cooperate in the development of artificial intelligence disciplines. The reporters also found that more and more technology companies have begun to cooperate with universities to provide powerful Computing power and a large amount of data assets to provide 'hands-on exercises' for researchers engaged in machine learning Just last month, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shang Tang Technology announced the formation of a joint laboratory of 'deep learning and computer vision'.
'The key to the competition in artificial intelligence is talent competition, and it is difficult for those who are proficient in deep learning technologies to cultivate through traditional methods and to achieve seamless convergence between academia and industry.' "Xu Li, co-founder of Shang Tang Technology, This not only can greatly promote the mutual transformation of technology and application, the mutual penetration of business needs and scientific research directions, but also effectively promote the cultivation of cutting-edge talents in AI field and help to create original Chinese technologies.
4, chip manufacturers to start artificial intelligence arms race ';
As sales of personal computers and smartphones have cooled, chipmakers are racing to develop artificial intelligence products to boost growth.
Nvidia co., NVDA, Intel Corp. (INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), and a host of startups are developing new processors to enter the artificial intelligence market, according to International Data Corp. International Data Corporation, referred to as IDC), artificial intelligence market is growing at 50% annual growth rate.
For example, this week the networking equipment maker Broadcom Ltd. (AVGO) proposed a $ 105 billion acquisition of smart phone chip leader Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) Offer, or become the semiconductor industry's largest ever deal.
IDC estimates that worldwide spending on hardware and software related to artificial intelligence will increase from $ 12 billion this year to $ 57.6 billion by 2021, with a substantial portion of that spending going into data centers. IDC predicts that by 2020, a quarter of all AI related Calculations will be made by the data center.
Some artificial intelligence technologies have become central to product technology capabilities in recent years, such as artificial intelligence, the core technology used by Echo smart speakers at Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) to understand voice commands.Artificial intelligence also enables Google ) Nest cameras at parent company Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) sounded a warning that distinguishes acquaintances from strangers, and artificial intelligence has also given Facebook Inc. (FB) the ability to send messages to posters matching their interests, based on social media postings advertisment.
Large Internet companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, International Business Machines (IBM), Microsoft Co. (MSFT) and Chinese Internet giants are using specialized hardware to equip their data centers and speed up the use of In the translation of artificial intelligence software such as training.
These internet giants are exploring an artificial intelligence development called deep learning that allows software to find patterns and patterns in digital documents such as images, sound recordings, documents, etc. This approach requires artificial intelligence software to spend some time To find meaningful rules and patterns from the training data, and the Internet giants want to improve their algorithms so they do not have to wait weeks to determine if training is working.
While chipmakers are scrambling to offer their products to these Internet giants to help speed up the development of artificial intelligence. The Wall Street Journal