In recent years, China's artificial intelligence has made great strides, and the government has also promulgated a series of policies to promote the integration of artificial intelligence in all fields. In 2016, China promulgated a three-year plan of action on artificial intelligence + implementation plan; July 20 this year , The State Council printed and distributed "a new generation of artificial intelligence development plan", and artificial intelligence formally rose to a national strategy. On November 15, the Ministry of Science and Technology held a new generation of artificial intelligence development plan and the launching ceremony of major scientific research projects, marking that artificial intelligence has entered a comprehensive implementation stage. Driven by such a large background, a large number of home appliances conglomerates and high-tech Internet companies have invested in the implementation of artificial intelligence research and development.However, the group of home appliances represented by Haier and high-tech Internet companies represented by millet In particular, both have the same goal, but take a different path.
November 28, Beijing, 'U + cloud brain, + AI ecological' Haier U + AI wisdom home solution conference and 2017MIDC first Xiaomi IoT Developer Conference held at different locations at the same time, a lot of you sing me momentum.
Haier: Work together to dig up the artificial intelligence technology upstream platform
Not long ago, when Haier learned the spirit of the Nineteenth Congress, Zhang Ruimin, Chairman of Haier's Board of Directors, said: 'A better life needs to be integrated with the times and now we are entering the era of Internet of Things. Haier is turning appliances into connecting users' ', Let users participate in innovation, the beautiful life of a' net 'done.'
Up to now, the number of online Haier smart devices has reached 21 million units; the total number of online smart families has reached 1.68 million; the total number of users has reached 72.39 million; the number of online interactions has reached 327.6 billion times. The field of smart home, Haier walked in the forefront of the group of home appliances business.
'U + cloud, + AI eco' Haier U + AI smart home solutions conference, Haier released smart home industry's first artificial intelligence solutions and cover artificial intelligence interactive system, based on the depth of learning two solutions for smart home platform Apply floor results.
Haier aims to create an intelligent platform for artificial intelligence, opening up an innovative platform to empower smart home industries. At the meeting, Haier U + initiated a joint Sogou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, SIC, Ali, Family + AI Family 'program, Haier U + will introduce the AI industry's technology companies, resource companies, developers and others to build an open ecosystem of artificial intelligence in the field of artificial intelligence and promote the integration of artificial intelligence and smart home.
In order to promote the application of artificial intelligence in smart home, Haier U + and Sogou signed a strategic cooperation agreement at the conference to define the application scenario of future artificial intelligence in smart home. Both parties will set up a joint R & D team to jointly develop and implement smart home appliances Natural interaction of end devices and smart products, to provide users with a better experience of intelligent life solutions.
According to Zhao Feng, CTO of Haier Home Appliances Industry Group, Haier U + artificial intelligence solution is a one-stop artificial intelligence solution launched by Haier U + in the face of smart home industry. It is a set of IoT, OS, big data, artificial intelligence and cloud platform In an integrated solution designed to home devices as the core of cloud computing family, data collection and calculation, perception, analysis of the user's lifestyle, to the natural way to interact with the user to provide the necessary services for the At the same time, through the open-source and open-door approach to modularization and opening up to industry developers, AI providers, big data service providers and partners, building an industry-led open artificial intelligence platform, enabling the smart home industry and realizing the Internet of Things Popularization and Application of Large Scale AI Family 's AI.
Haier U + site showcased two major applications of artificial intelligence and smart home solutions, one is artificial intelligence interactive system solution, which is a solution for intelligent home providing distributed intelligent home natural interaction system.This time showed the speech module, human Face recognition module, food identification module, clothing identification module, etc. The Haier U + artificial intelligence interactive system is now open to third-party services, including software and hardware integrated voice solutions, intelligent device interaction services, hardware data entry , Skills development interface, etc. Through the open platform, the future will be landing six intelligent audio, smart TV, smart phones, smart appliances, robots, smart furniture applications such as the six scenarios. The second is based on the depth of learning smart home solutions, In the U + brain as the core data acquisition and calculation of the entire real-time intelligent home-based analysis, automatic analysis and learning habits of users, the recommended system to provide users with customized solutions to create 'thousands of thousands of noodles' Smart home, to provide users with convenient, comfortable, energy saving, healthy students Way. Now, Haier U + depth of learning smart home solutions, has landed eight scenes and living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, entertainment room five space family's water, air, heating, energy, security, health, entertainment and education.
It is worth mentioning that, Haier's goal is not 'AI +', but '+ AI', the purpose is to promote the deep integration of AI technology and smart home, at the same time, will own research and development of AI technology to the industry open source, enabling intelligent families Industry, to create a smart home industry innovation and open platform.
Millet: Assembled downstream industrial chain product users a two-pronged layout wide
Xiaomi started laying out artificial intelligence industry two years ago. Lei Jun, the founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, once said: Artificial intelligence is the most important technological revolution in the next 10 years and will certainly affect the entire human society. It is suggested that artificial intelligence should be listed as a national strategy Now, Lei Jun's proposal has become a reality.
At 2017MIDC's first Xiaomi IoT Developer Conference, Lei Jun revealed that as of November 5, 2017, the Xiaomi IoT platform has over 85 million connected devices, over 10 million daily living devices and over 400 partners, ranking the world's top The largest intelligent hardware IoT platform.
Compared to the total network equipment 85 million units, millet founder, chairman and CEO Lei Jun said: Millet IoT platform daily living equipment more than 10 million units of data more delightful, in the daily living performance indicators of user stickiness, Millet IoT platform ahead of the industry, which also proved that the millet IoT does change the user's lifestyle through intelligent hardware products, and truly enhance the user experience.
Since the beginning of 2015, Xiaomi officially launched the IoT strategy and released the first Xiaomi smart module to the outside world, the Xiaomi IoT business has won the No. 1 ranking in the world in only three years through an open, non-exclusive and non-exclusive cooperation strategy. Lei Jun announced that the Xiaomi IoT next Stage of the strategy will be fully open, the announcement of the millet IoT developer program is a concrete manifestation of this concept.
Millet IoT strategy has always been adhering to the open concept, as of November 2017, millet IoT already have, including China Mobile, Microsoft ice, Siemens, Philips, Supor, including more than 400 partners, at the same time after more than 3 years and millet The growth of IoT, including Purple Rice, China Rice, Chi-mimi, ninebot, Xia-ai and other Xiaomi ecological chain companies also ranks among the unicorn companies. The future millet IoT will face more and more open-mindedness with more third-party brands.
At the conference, Liu De, co-founder and senior vice president of Xiaomi, also released a new product, Mi Jia Bluetooth Hygrometer, which not only has high color value but also can be used with other Mi family Bluetooth devices Intelligent linkage, allowing air conditioning, fans, humidifiers and other equipment automatically open and adjust, turn off.
Conference, Xiaomi and Baidu announced a depth of cooperation, Baidu rely on the advantages of the layout and development of artificial intelligence, millet to the industry-leading IoT advantages and advantages of artificial intelligence products, the two sides joined forces to give users a better experience.
According to Gao Xiaoguang, vice president of millet ecological chain and head of millet IoT platform, the opening of the millet IoT developer program is reflected in the following: open access to modules and hardware, open access to Miya APP, open access to new retail channels, intelligent device interoperability Open control, open sharing of AI cloud / big data, etc. The intelligent hardware team can use the standard technical documentation provided by Xiaomi IoT and the unified API interface to connect to Miya APP through its own intelligent module hardware, and also can choose to use the official provided by Xiaomi IoT Intelligent module hardware.After accessing the MI APP, the third-party intelligent hardware will also be linked and controlled with all the products on the existing Xiaomi IoT platform.
Gao Ziguang said: millet IoT developer program is designed to help third-party brand intelligent hardware products and the current rapid integration of millet IoT products, linkage control.
Gao Ziguang also said: The new retail channel open access also represents the determination of the opening of the millet IoT platform, the current millet retail strategy in full swing, millet network has become the world's eighth largest e-commerce platform, millet also opened the offline millet home , There are currently over 200 offline millet stores and Xiaomi also introduces more third-party boutique smart home products through self-built boutique e-commerce platforms, and future smart hardware products participating in the Xiaomi IoT Developer Program Also have access to millet new retail channels.
For the domestic smart hardware team mostly for the initial small size of the status quo, millet IoT developers plan also put forward: Start-up team support program, Developer program, outstanding team incubation plan and the star product subsidy plan.At present Xiaomi IoT developer plan official website has been online More details can also be found at https://iot.mi.com/.
In fact, being the world's largest IoT platform for smart hardware is just a new starting point for Xiaomi IoT, with more third-party developers joining the platform as the Xiaomi IoT Developer Program is launched, driving IoT throughout The explosive growth of the industry. The full penetration of IoT devices will also boost the rapid development of millet AI. Smarter and more user-friendly AI technology will quietly change everyone's lifestyle so that everyone can really enjoy the technology pleasure.
They all have an intelligent heart
It should be said that Haier and Xiaomi both have different starting points and starting lines, but the two targets are the same.Haier is hoping to deepen the intelligence technology and establish the industry's deep benchmark through the combination of platform resources and small and micro enterprises of their own innovation ; Xiaomi is hoping through the open way, the integration of industry chain resources, touch the margins of the industry.This is like the goal is to dig a pond, Haier's practice is to dig a well-sized place, dug the required depth of the pond, and then to This is the standard continue to dig a larger area; millet approach is to set the size of the pond, and then continue to dig deep. Can be said that the results of the two methods are the same .At present, the progress of both have entered a similar Where, millet to smart hardware-based product array more and more appliances in the figure, and Haier appliance-based product array also appeared more intelligent hardware.
Overall, Haier and Xiaomi's path of development to other Internet companies and the group of home appliances business reference lies in its own resources, to find their own path.This path is not a standard template, but indicates the correct direction.
