A few days ago, Internet giant Li Yanhong and Skyworth founder Huang Hongsheng, who had not been seen for a long time, were rarely on the same platform to talk about artificial intelligence at the Baidu Building. At the same time, the two sides announced that the two companies, Baidu and Skyworth, had reached an in-depth cooperation.
It is reported that the cooperation between the two parties has already risen to the capital level. Baidu will invest RMB 1,055 million in the shares of Skyworth's Coolco, and become the second largest shareholder of the latter. Through this cooperation, Skyworth will identify Baidu’s face, New technologies such as image recognition, big data, etc. are introduced into the Cool Open system.
In the industry's view, with Baidu's blessings, cool TV or fast-replying the loss of LeTV as the market, the list of Internet TV's top three became Xiaomi, storm and cool.
Skyworth re-aligns Baidu
Recently, Skyworth and Baidu announced a strategic cooperation under the platform of the founders of the two companies: DuerOS, Baidu's interactive AI operating system, will be fully connected with the CoolOpen system; both parties will launch a series of in-depth cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence.
It is worth noting that, in order to speed up the layout of smart products and other areas, Baidu has established cooperation with home appliance manufacturers such as Haier and Midea. However, with such a comprehensive cooperation with home appliance manufacturers, Baidu is the first time. In addition to cooperation at the business level , Baidu will also strategically invest in Skyworth's Internet TV operation brand.
On the same day, an announcement issued by Skyworth stated that Skyworth Group’s subsidiary Shenzhen Kukai Network Technology Co., Ltd. obtained Baidu’s strategic investment of 1.01 billion yuan, holding a share of 11%. Meanwhile, Baidu will open its employees’ equity incentive plan shareholding platform. Cool Gold Shenzhen hands to buy a certain percentage of cool open shares. After the completion of the investment, Skyworth Digital is still the largest shareholder of Cool Open. Baidu will hold 11% of Coocasure shares and become the second shareholder of Coocaa.
Huang Hongsheng said: 'At present, one third of Skyworth's high-end TVs have applied artificial intelligence. In cooperation with Baidu, Skyworth can sell more than 100 million home appliances each year with updated artificial intelligence technology.'
Li Yanhong believes: 'The age of artificial intelligence has come. The age of artificial intelligence allows the system not only to interact, but also to understand users. This TV screen has a lot of room for innovation in the future. 'He also said: 'This cooperation will promote Baidu and The development of Skyworth, more importantly, it will promote the progress of China and even the world.'
'Smart homes and artificial intelligence have become an outlet, and Internet companies have an urgent need for related technologies to go online. The introduction of more new technologies and operators by home appliance companies can enable them to achieve a deeper layout in smart homes and discuss with Internet companies. More business models. ' Home appliance industry marketing expert Hong Shibin said.
Artificial intelligence or will fully erupt
The government work report of 2018 proposes to strengthen the research and application of new generation artificial intelligence, develop the smart industry, and expand smart life. This is the first time that the 'artificial intelligence' has appeared in the government work report since it was first written in 2017. This year At the two sessions, 'artificial intelligence' was also frequently referred to by the big names.
Two of Li's four proposals involve artificial intelligence. They hope that the state will introduce policies to encourage artificial intelligence as an open platform and accelerate the time for autonomous driving related legislation. Li Yanhong’s proposals in recent years are all related to artificial intelligence. This year he again Propose this topic.
In addition to Li Yanhong, Tencent Ma Huateng, Lenovo Yang Yuanqing and other big technology companies have submitted proposals on artificial intelligence.
According to industry insiders, China's artificial intelligence technology is rapidly landing and gradually commercializing. In this process, the application of artificial intelligence technology is also infiltrating all aspects of people's lives, inspiring huge market demand, smart home, smart home The market potential of the industry is erupting.