As the most anticipated landing scene of artificial intelligence, low profile has been lying for 30 years and Skyworth needs to activate.
Recently, BAT's eyes once again aimed at the new track of China's living room economy. The intelligent upgrade of the traditional home appliance industry was slowly opened. Baidu and Skyworth jointly announced that they have reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation, Baidu Strategic Investment Skyworth Holdings Shenzhen Kukai Network Technology Co., Ltd. In the future, Skyworth CoolOpen will be deeply integrated with Baidu DuerOS System, and will bring together new home intelligence experience through the combination of technology, content, data and operations.
Yesterday, Lu Feng, deputy director of the Internet Research Institute of the CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in an interview with the Changjiang Business Daily reporter who would win the dominance of smart home development in the era of artificial intelligence and tap into the application of artificial intelligence technology in the home field. Important.
Internet Gene Boost Estimates Rise 3 Times a Year
Internet tycoon Li Yanhong and Skyworth founder Huang Hongsheng, who has not been seen for a long time, is rarely on the same platform at Baidu Building, talks about artificial intelligence, and allows capital to be sensitive to business opportunities.
It is reported that the cooperation between the two parties has risen to the capital level. Baidu will invest RMB 1,055 million in Skyworth's Cocoa company. In the future, Skyworth CoolOpen will be deeply integrated with Baidu's DuerOS system through technology, content, data and operations. The combination of strong and powerful, together to bring a new home intelligence experience.
According to public information, this is not the first time that Skyworth’s Coolcom has established a close relationship with the internet giant. Prior to this, Baiyi’s video website iQiyi had obtained a 5% stake in Coolpad for 150 million yuan. Tencent has also acquired 7% of the shares. After this investment, Baidu’s shareholding has increased to 16%, surpassing Tencent and becoming the second largest shareholder of the latter.
According to incomplete statistics, in less than a year and a half, Coocaa has raised RMB 1.5 billion. The valuation has increased from RMB 3 billion when IGI took shares in 2016 to nearly RMB 10 billion. More times.
Want to take advantage of artificial intelligence overtaking
In recent years, the profits of the television industry have been continuously declining, but artificial intelligence technology can be an 'accelerator' for innovation in the home appliance industry. According to the market research firm IDC report, by 2020, the global artificial intelligence system will bring more than 47 billion yuan for home appliance companies. Dollar income.
According to Lu Feng, deputy director of the Internet Research Institute of the CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Baidu is another important strategic investment in the company's artificial intelligence technology scene. With Skyworth’s market position in smart TV, Baidu can quickly The artificial intelligence technology has been applied to the Internet TV field and can take advantage of the strategic opportunities in the development of artificial intelligence to launch new competition with companies such as Xiaomi, which has won the initiative in the field of Internet TV, in an effort to achieve lane change and overtaking.
For Skyworth, the cooperation with Baidu not only brought Baidu’s new technologies such as face recognition, image recognition, and big data into the Coocaa system, but also improved the level of Internet TV platform networking and intelligence, and also enabled Baidu’s Internet thinking was introduced into Internet TV operations to promote its business model innovation. ' Lu Feng said.
In the industry's view, with Baidu's blessings, cool TV or fast-replacing markets lost by LeTV, the new list of Internet TV's top three became Xiaomi, storm and cool.
In Lu Feng's view, with the acceleration of smart home construction, the intelligentization of homes including television has become an inevitable trend, and artificial intelligence technology is an indispensable technology for home intelligence, Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. Enterprises have introduced artificial intelligence technology into home audio and other smart devices. Whoever wins the dominance of smart home development in the era of artificial intelligence, it is crucial to explore the application scenarios of artificial intelligence technology in the home field.