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AI is not just a kind of industry, but a new factor of productivity that is equally important to capital and labor force and will become a new impetus to China's economic growth. In the past, there were also AIs, but neither the algorithm nor the data made AI a From this perspective, it is high time for the state to lift it to a national strategic level.
"I'm sorry to go out and raise funds without adding AI," one investor at a big data forum in Beijing said with a smile that AI's popularity in China's capital markets is clear.
From central to local AI industry policy overlay release, Cambrian, IFT and other AI companies held a press conference in Beijing intensive high-profile, showing AI strength.
Among them, the industrial policy that triggered the biggest attention to capital was none other than the first batch of national artificial intelligence open innovation platform announced by the Ministry of Science and Technology on November 15 respectively. Relying on Baidu's construction of autonomous driving, Aliyun building the city's brain, Tencent building medical images, Building a new generation of artificial intelligence, such as smart voice, an open platform for innovation. These four platforms are called 'AI team.'
Twenty-first Century Economic Reporter interviewed BAT and ITE related person in charge, interpretation of the AI strategy and the national team will do what Ali and Tencent have publicly said that the establishment of AI platform to attract SMEs to participate in the field of innovation.
In July of this year, the State Council printed and distributed the "New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Development Plan", deployed to build the first mover advantage of the development of artificial intelligence in China and accelerate the construction of an innovative country and world's scientific and technological power.
As a key driver of the new round of industrial transformation, artificial intelligence has become a new engine of economic development, and artificial intelligence, as the core driver of a new round of industrial transformation, will further release the tremendous energy accumulated by scientific and technological revolutions and industrial changes and create new and powerful engines for injecting new And put forward the goal that the scale of artificial intelligence core industry will exceed 150 billion yuan in 2020.
Why are these four?
BAT + IFT led the list of four artificial intelligence platform released, the industry does not seem surprised.
At the same time, the state announced the establishment of a new generation of artificial intelligence strategic advisory committee to advise on the planning and implementation of major scientific and technological projects and the related major deployment of national artificial intelligence. Its members include Yu Kai, head of Horizons and other four entrepreneurs Relevant person in charge of the four platforms.
Baidu, an AI expert told 21st Century Business Herald reporter, Baidu in automatic driving, generous digging people, in the talent pool is indeed the most advanced domestic; and IETF speech recognition technology is second to none, which The company has accumulated in the field of AI for a long time.
And why the application of the medical field of Tencent Tencent? According to Tencent, Tencent invested a lot of medical companies, including micro-medical (registered network), a good doctor online, Lilac Park and many other mobile Internet medical companies.
Luo Bin, head of the Diaolong data, was not surprised and recently returned to the Cleveland Clinic Summit from the United States, telling 21st Century Economic Reporter he had seen some AI-based medical companies in the United States and also visited Tencent's booth, See AI pathology, imaging aspects of the show, Tencent found that research and development in this area has been very professional.
As early as the beginning of 2017, during the two sessions of the National Congress, Ma Huantang, in an interview with media reporters including 21st Century Business Herald, mentioned that in all areas of the Internet, medical education and education are the hardest parts to play in every angle The chain is very complicated.
'I personally am very much interested in the internet and information technology that can do a lot of things in this area, including how medical devices are integrated with the Internet of Things.' 'Ma said he encouraged more investment in healthcare informatization related industries.
August 3, Tencent officially released the AI medical imaging products - Tencent find its way, including six artificial intelligence systems, diseases include esophageal cancer, lung cancer, sugar network disease, cervical cancer and breast cancer.
According to the official announcement of Tencent, this selection is the result of the joint efforts of Tencent Industrial Policy Department, Internet + Cooperation Department, Tencent Cloud, AI Lab (Tencent Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and R & D Management Department.
A platform company sources, can become one of the four platforms, mainly because the company has AI floor application, has stepped out of a road, a successful practice, the company did not deliberately declare, the relevant ministries and more sensitive leadership into .
'National team' how to drive AI +
For the four platforms, different interpretations of the industry.One of the middle managers of a platform to 21st Century Business Herald reporter analysis, into the national team for the company, is an industry-level recognition.
One of the four platforms of the iFLYTEK, November 22, the market value of one billion trillion reached 103.8 billion yuan, more than doubled in the share price more than one year on November 23, Tencent and Xiong An signed a strategic cooperation agreement, Tencent also announced with Hebei Province Health Commission, the Drug Administration, Hebei Medical University reached a comprehensive Internet + medical cooperation, the focus of cooperation is Tencent's first AI medical products Tencent find its shadow.
Minli Wan, chief scientist of Aliyun, told 21st Century Business Herald reporter that the urban brain itself is also an open platform. It is necessary to dilute Aliyah's identity so that relevant AI-oriented enterprises with relevant ideas can participate and enjoy the path opened up by large enterprises.
Zhang Tong, director of Tencent's AI Lab, also responded to the platform, monopoly and ecological relations in an interview with 21st Century Business Herald in Chengdu in November.
'There are certainly plenty of opportunities for small companies and why AI is so hot because AI will cover all industries.' "Zhang Tong said he also said that large companies, and especially the Internet giant, may now be the most leading players from a monopoly perspective It is impossible for large-scale companies to solve their problems one by one.
21st Century Business Herald reporter found that, in fact, all major platforms are building their own AI ecosystem.October 24, IETF started 1.024 billion ecological support fund, at the same time launched the AI ecological plan, teaching plan and public welfare plan , Launched the ecological offensive October 19, Baidu released 'prairie fire plan' prop up AI developers, intends to attract more than 500 eco-partners for Baidu in 2018, the selection of more than 60 start-up companies into the AI accelerator.
According to the ministry of science and technology, to strengthen the main business and market-oriented, highlighting the enterprises in the technical route choice and the industry product standards in the main role in accordance with the layout of the Ministry of Science and Technology, various companies have different research directions.
How national strategy boosts AI
According to Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang, we must strengthen the deployment of key tasks and build the forerunner advantage of artificial intelligence in our country so as to form the forward-looking layout of the new generation of artificial intelligence technology system. To promote the innovation and application of artificial intelligence on a large scale, The deep integration of artificial intelligence and real economy leads the smart economy and intelligent social development.
The chief scientist of a company who has been working in Silicon Valley for many years tells 21st Century Economic Journal correspondent that in the United States, this industrial policy of establishing an open platform by enterprises and countries is rare. On the one hand, the research and development strength of the universities in the United States is very strong. In addition, It also plays an important role in the research and development of science and technology in key national layouts.
In his opinion, the government chose to partner with enterprises to build national teams in the field of AI. Enterprises also have an absolute advantage. Big data is very important to AI. All four platforms have accumulated data, which is unattainable by universities and national laboratories. In addition, AI is not just an industry, but a new factor of productivity, equal to the capital and labor ownership, which will become the new impetus to China's economic growth. In the past, there were also AIs, but none of the algorithms and data gave way The extent to which AI becomes a productive force is, from this perspective, now the time when the state has elevated it to a national strategic height.
In fact, including the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and other countries all raised the AI layout to the national strategic level, and the development of AI industry in China has already stood on the "fast track".
In an article in the July issue of The Economist, multiple factors prompted China to become a global AI center, including multiple industries looking to capitalize on AI for digital transformation, talent and data advantages, large-scale investments in startups and BATs, and government Strongly support.
Recently, Beijing Zhongguancun and Shanghai have promulgated the series of AI industry policies.In the industrial policy of AI released by Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan, the total industrial output value proposed in 2020 has surpassed the national standard of '2020 artificial intelligence core Industrial scale more than 150 billion yuan 'this goal.
Zhang Tong also said that cutting-edge research in the United States more companies for domestic enterprises, it is relatively new AI technology has a characteristic that it is relatively close combination with the industry, some of the research results can be directly converted into Industry, using industry big data in industry.
In a recent interview with 21st Century Business Herald in Beijing, Tan Chang, vice president of ChinaInfo's Big Data Research Institute, mentioned that China is not bad at capital investment and application. The real difference is that on the originality, the United States and the United Kingdom Of companies do a better job of originality, while China is a very fast time-to-market for new technologies that can be quickly implemented.
As for the specific data comparison, he cited Tencent Institute recently released report.The report shows that, from the historical point of view of the company, the development of artificial intelligence enterprises in the United States earlier than China 5 years.The United States as early as 1991 sprout; 1998 into the development period ; After 2005, the rapid growth period began to take off and the development stabilized after 2013. The AI enterprise in China was born in 1996 and the industry entered the development period in 2003, reaching a stable period after reaching its peak in 2015.
From the perspective of venture capital investment, the United States is investing in industries as a whole, investing in the basic, technical and application fields, while the enterprises accepting financing in China are mainly concentrated in the application layer. The AI industry in the United States leads the overall layout. At the basic level, Layer and application layer, especially in the core fields of algorithms, chips and data industries, has accumulated a strong technological innovation advantages, the number of enterprises at all levels overall lead in China.
In the field of research, the number of papers and patents in artificial intelligence field in China has kept its rapid growth in recent years and has entered the first tier. In contrast, China's artificial intelligence needs continued investment in research and development costs and R & D personnel scale, Basic disciplines of personnel training, especially in the field of algorithms and calculations.
Wan Gang mentioned at a press conference on November 15 that taking artificial intelligence development as a strategic task for the present and future will bring together all kinds of resources such as high-end talent, financial capital, financial capital, policies and regulations and comprehensively promote artificial intelligence Technology breakthrough, industrial development and economic and social application of depth, grasp the window of opportunity for the development of artificial intelligence, provide strong support for the building of a powerful socialist modernization, and make contributions to the world's artificial intelligence development.