The demographic dividend of mobile Internet is gradually disappearing. In 2017, all the global technology giants will enter the market in full competition for the commanding heights of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence will be the focal point for the future competitiveness of the company.
On February 12, the 'AI + Investment Committee' (hereinafter referred to as 'AI + Investment Committee') was established in Beijing and declared that the investment boom around artificial intelligence was rekindled once again on the eve of the Spring Festival.
'AI + Investment Committee' is jointly invested by Beixin Source, Cyberjaya Investment, Haitian Club, China Construction Investment China Branch, Intelligent Logistics Foundation, Capital Capital Venture Capital, Shengquan Investment, Leifu Capital, and Li Si Chen by the Artificial Intelligence Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance Education Angel Fund, Ji Jiu Investment, Bi Xi Consulting, and other well-known investment and financing institutions and research institutes jointly launched to ameliorate the artificial intelligence industry capital and enhance the technology and product financing efficiency of alliance member units. The cooperation of innovative enterprises and research institutes provides capital leverage, supports innovative products and innovative enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence, and helps the rapid innovation and development of China's artificial intelligence industry.
'AI + Investment Committee' has an existing fund of more than 200 billion yuan and plans to build one trillion yuan of industrial capital pool within five years and incubate a batch of world-class artificial intelligence innovative enterprises.
There were a number of A-share companies in the sponsors of the 'AI + Investment Commission', of which Northern Credit Union was one of the 50 initiating units involved in initiating an artificial intelligence industry technology innovation strategic alliance as early as December 2016. At present, On the one hand, based on the source Peas platform, it recruited specialized industry professionals to study the corresponding technologies and products; on the other hand, the Company set up the artificial intelligence industry technology innovation alliance in April 2017 (Beijing ) Technology Co., Ltd., and actively layout the basic technical research and industrial application of artificial intelligence development, building an international perspective and influence of artificial intelligence technology, industry open cooperation platform.
Li Si-chen Education Angel Fund is also one of the sponsors of AI + Investment Committee. Li Si-chen was established in 1999 and was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in October 2009. Currently its business has developed into two major industrial groups, education groups and information Security Technology Group Co., Ltd. At present, Li Si Chen established Li Si Chen Qing Ke Internet Education Fund and Li Si Chen Education Industry Fund. Since 2014, Li Si Chen 13 companies by way of investment and mergers and acquisitions, of which 7 100% equity mergers and acquisitions, and the establishment of three education and investment funds.
In fact, listed companies in the field of artificial intelligence performed outstandingly last year. The leading company in artificial intelligence, ITE, saw an increase of 124 %%, ranking first in the computer sector and once in a hundred billion in market capitalization. It has become the market with the highest market value and the largest increase (excluding new shares ) Other AI subdivision leading enterprises such as Zhongguang dawn, NavInfo, Ziguang shares, the United States Si Zhuang, Venus, etc. rose more than 10%.
In 2017, the field of artificial intelligence is booming. The research on the domestic artificial intelligence technology layer mainly focuses on computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning. Computer vision accounts for 55% of the total in the field of computer vision. Natural language processing and machine learning Accounting for 13% and 9%. The concentration of resources has also led the country to take an international lead in these three areas.
At the industry level, artificial intelligence has been rapidly landing in areas such as security and security, and security has become a major source of income growth for businesses such as Shang Tang and Kuangshi etc. In terms of automatic driving, Baidu formally released the Apollo Plan to open up the industry to autonomous driving technology and greatly promoted the industry Development process.In the field of medical imaging, Tencent released the AI medical imaging product Tencent, which is also the first clinical trial in the world to apply the AI medical imaging screening project of esophageal cancer.With the consumer terminal, the latest flagship handsets of Huawei and Apple are embedded Artificial intelligence chips, artificial intelligence began to formally enter the mobile terminal, and Apple, Google, BAT and other giants have also launched their own smart speaker products.
Even the traditional manufacturing foundry giant, Foxconn prepared for an A-share IPO, has also announced a high-profile investment in artificial intelligence at a recent extraordinary general meeting, Gou said that the next 5 years will provide artificial intelligence research and development 21.43 billion yuan of investment, from AI talent cultivation, IOT industrial field applications, big data analysis and other fields to promote the transformation of the Group to become AI-driven industrial Internet companies.Guo Taiming made it clear that Foxconn Industrial Internet will be the world's largest industrial Internet of Things , Which will be in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Shenzhen Component AI Lab, if A-share market success, the funds raised will be used for Internet technology research and development.