1. An artificial intelligence unicorn company completes 200 million U.S. dollars of financing according to plans and technologies;
According to the China Securities News, artificial intelligence unicorn company Intuit Technology recently completed 200 million U.S. dollars in C+ financing. The main investors in this financing are Gaocheng Capital, ICBC International, and Puyin International.
The fund raised by ICT will be mainly used for the core technology research and development of artificial intelligence technology in the medical industry, the development of clinical applications in the medical industry, and the construction of the artificial intelligence medical team. At present, the medical team has launched the first real application in China. The clinical artificial intelligence diagnostic imaging products are also the only artificial intelligence companies in China that have achieved full coverage of medical data.
2. Reveal Israel's artificial intelligence and innovation charm;
Artificial intelligence has become an indispensable part of our lives unconsciously. With AlphaGo's fame in the world, artificial intelligence has begun to enter the public eye. 'Artificial Intelligence', this word has become unknowingly, has changed It has become synonymous with high technology. Perhaps artificial intelligence will replace human beings in the future. It will no longer be a point or two, but it will be inseparable from the point where we live.
When it comes to artificial intelligence and neural networks, people can easily think of such a country as the so-called innovation country—Israel. One that has undergone many tests in the past and is now known to the world because of its technological capabilities no less than Silicon Valley. Giant companies from all over the world have also coveted Israeli startups. The economic miracle created by Israel is well-known. As a small country with a population of just over eight million, Israel has created a miracle of per capita GDP exceeding 30,000 U.S. dollars. Ninety percent of them came from their technology industries. It was such a country that was constantly disturbed by the smoke of the war and ethnic conflicts. However, it became the country with the largest number of listed companies in the Nasdaq except the United States.
In Tel Aviv, we found that innovation is rooted in the genes of the city. Most of the startups in the city's Rhodiapolis offices work in some old houses and communities. Even if they succeed in getting financing, they maintain a streamlined team. This is said to allow investment. People’s money lasts longer. Some of their entrepreneurial teams have white hair. Experienced professors and doctors are willing to abandon the comfortable environment of large companies and scientific research institutions. They are willing to work silently for several years to overcome technical difficulties and wait for certain things. Subsequent successful financing came back. This is like a group of Americans in the 60s.
In the field of artificial intelligence, we visited several representative and different stages of startup companies in the field of artificial intelligence. These companies, teams, ideas, and technologies surprised us with the Israelis’ efforts in technological breakthroughs.
The iOnroad that Israel recently acquired by Harman International is a good example. The car navigation app can be seen everywhere now, Gaode map, Baidu map, etc. But unlike ordinary navigation software, iOnRoad has a more accurate positioning system. And more humane functions. We have seen iOnRoad's newly developed virtual reality technology that can display real-time street view maps marked with road names, house numbers, and store names during driving. This technology was recently acquired by Harman, an Israeli company owned by Samsung. It has also been used in Mercedes-Benz's newly introduced A-series in 2018. The iOnRoad augmented reality driving application can also be used in the safe driving of cars to warn drivers of road hazard conditions. The software does not require special With the support of hardware, you can run smart road safety systems on Android, IOS, Windows and Linux software platforms with just smartphone hardware, cameras and accelerometers.
Although Innovid and Ironsource are in different financing stages, we have seen the greatness of Israeli companies. Both companies have adopted unique algorithms to help customers accurately push ads to achieve rapid cash out. Innovid's new advertising technology In the online videos watched by users, the advertisements can be directly embedded in the scenes according to the content. IronSource focuses on how to use huge amounts of data and precise algorithms to help software developers cash in, provide accurate advertising, and accelerate the realization of the market. Therefore, these two The company has amazing profitability, which reflects the characteristics of Israel's innovation in the field of artificial intelligence: Seize the Internet portal, grab large amounts of data, analyze in depth, and then increase profitability with precise matching.
In the medical field, we see that Medicizor collects data of each user in detail through unique algorithms to provide accurate, timely, reliable, relevant, personalized medical and disease information for patients with chronic diseases and serious diseases. Many chronic diseases patients today , They often find it difficult to understand the truthful or difficult information on the Internet. In addition, because of the individual characteristics of each person, similar conditions are likely to have different incentives. Medivizor as the first to provide true personality for patients with chronic diseases and serious diseases Websites for information and services, each building a unique health record, and pushing the latest, authoritative, and easy-to-understand professional medical information based on each person’s profile. This is not a major breakthrough in the field of medical big data. .
Companies such as iOnRoad, Innovid, Ironsource, and Medivisor also embody a characteristic of Israeli companies. They all focus on how to use accurate algorithms to create value for a mature market, and never limit themselves to Israel's own population of 8 million. Market (Israel’s neighboring countries are mostly hostile and there are almost no other markets in the region). This has shocked us. Israelis’ use of technology is far more than our imagination, and anyone can create a For their own technology companies, as long as there is a bit, there is an incubator's investment, profitability, financing, which seems to be a matter of course. Originally, Jews from around the world gathered together, with far-reaching culture, religion and way of life, would be enough to collide A new spark came.
In addition to start-ups, we also visited eHealth Venture, a well-known Israeli medical incubator. As one of Israel's most famous incubators, it focuses on medical technology. Its partners include the largest medical services company in Israel, the top US clinics, and global The most famous biotech companies, etc. The Israeli government-supported incubator industry is the most recognized concept in the world. There are nearly 30 incubators in Israel that cooperate with private companies. Each incubator focuses on different industries, and each year evaluates After the screening and investment, 5-10 start-up companies were incubated. For each enterprise, the Israeli government contributed 85% and private capital contributed 15%, but the interest was divided into 5 and 5. This greatly promoted global capital investment in Israeli early start-up companies. mHealth CEO Levi Shapiro said that in terms of talents in the medical field, Israel also benefits from more than half of citizens who use university diplomas, which is the highest among all life science and technology research and development countries, and the medical big data is Israel. The hottest R&D direction.
In Israel, we have also witnessed the thriving relationship between Israel and China. Almost every company we visit, no matter how senior the speaker is, it has a whitish tone, and we ask these high school students in an extremely humble tone and ask them how they should enter. The Chinese market, where we do business. When we visited the Israel-Asia Centre, we learned that Chinese students attending schools in Israel are growing every year. Many Chinese students are working hard to promote Israel and China in science and technology, art. , Culture, Business, etc.
We were shocked by the innovation and entrepreneurial charm of this land in Israel, and also touched the creativity and wisdom of every Israeli inhabitant living here. As a person from the Eastern civilization, we are happy to learn from Israel’s wonderful experiences and learn from China. The young people share their exchanges. Whether it is cutting-edge technology or venture capital, whether it is cultural integration or social governance, Israel has established its core competitiveness with an attractive and sustainable 'small and beautiful' model. We are willing to personally share our experiences, observations and sentiments in Israel with more people who have not yet stepped in this land. We hope that young people in China and Israel can learn from each other, build friendships and trust in technology. In interaction with entrepreneurship, make full use of the respective country's policies and environmental advantages to create a more competitive future.
It is often said that we must learn to discover the small beauty of strange people in our lives. But here is not the same, the people here are very friendly. No company or company has a high shelf. When you step into the door of any company, you You will feel their enthusiasm, their affinity with the company. For them, the company is like another home. They can walk the dog, skateboard, and even bring their children to the company. The meetings will be held here. Like the tea party, they feel the warmth from the Israelis all the time.
From the Google campus in Tel Aviv, there was a drizzle in the sky. Breathing the fresh air in the Mediterranean shores, our team seemed to be immersed in the brightly lit event space, listening to the artists in the field of artificial intelligence to share images with us. Breakthroughs and achievements in the field of word recognition and text recognition. Here, our horizons seem to be able to span the endless white buildings of Tel Aviv, all the way to the distant China.... 3. Internet giants connect Hong Kong R&D to build a joint AI laboratory;
Reporter Dai Chunchen Intern Guo Qianqian Longgang, Shenzhen
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The mainland Internet giants ATJ (Alibaba, Tencent, Jingdong) are introducing Hong Kong artificial intelligence resources through the joint construction of joint laboratories. Hong Kong's R&D-inland transformation model has spawned a large number of innovations such as Dajiang Innovation and Shangtang Technology. Angular Enterprise. The establishment of a joint laboratory, while utilizing the scientific research resources of Hong Kong and the Mainland, the scientific research results will be shared by both parties to jointly promote industrialization.
The mainland Internet giants ATJ (Alibaba, Tencent, Jingdong) are introducing Hong Kong artificial intelligence resources through joint construction of joint laboratories.
On June 12th, the Hong Kong Chinese University (Shenzhen) in the east of Shenzhen City welcomed the guests of Tencent's AI lab. On the same day, the joint laboratory for machine intelligence built by both companies was unveiled and established, claiming that computer vision will be implemented in the future and natural language processing will be carried out. Joint research in such areas as joint talents including the Doctor of Artificial Intelligence.
Jingdong Group will also sign an agreement with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) on June 15 to jointly build an artificial intelligence joint laboratory. On May 25th, Alibaba teamed up with Shangtang Technology, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, and the three parties announced the establishment of artificial labor in Hong Kong. Smart laboratory.
In recent years, with the acceleration of the economic restructuring and upgrading of the Mainland, the cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland in the field of science and innovation has continued to accelerate. Hong Kong’s R&D-inland transformation model has spawned a large number of unicorn enterprises such as DJI Innovation, Shang Tang Technology, etc. Once, the establishment of a joint laboratory, and the use of scientific research resources in Hong Kong and the Mainland, scientific research results shared by both parties, and jointly promote industrialization, indicating that the scientific and technological cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland has entered the era of 'co-building and sharing'.
Connecting Hong Kong and Mainland R&D Resources
No matter whether it is the newly born machine intelligence joint laboratory or the Hong Kong artificial intelligence laboratory which is not yet full moon, there are already relatively comprehensive construction drawings.
On June 12, after signing an agreement with Tencent's AI lab, Luo Zhiquan, vice president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), said that the main features of the machine intelligence joint laboratory are financial independence, joint training, and joint research and development.
The joint laboratories are financially independent, and the funding for doctoral students is provided by Tencent AI Lab. Tencent will provide doctoral students with internship opportunities. Qualified graduates will be awarded doctoral degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the joint laboratory will also be available worldwide. Post-doctorate.
'The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) is implementing the system of Hong Kong institutions of higher learning. The application process is adopted at the graduate student stage. Applicants do not need to take the postgraduate exams. There is also no limit on the number of students enrolled. 'Luo Zhiquan said, 'Limiting our enrollment is limited to funding.'
At the same time, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) and Tencent AI lab will conduct joint research in many areas of artificial intelligence, and conduct in-depth cooperation in machine intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing and other machine intelligence fields to build an international first-class enterprise, research and integration Innovation system and complete ecosystem. This is Tencent's basic research field as a company's demand, and it is also the low-level technology that many companies in Shenzhen and even mainland enterprises need for application development.
After the signing of the joint laboratories by Tencent's forefoot, JD Group can not wait to cooperate with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). According to the staff of the university, on June 15th JD Group will sign a joint labor contract with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Smart lab agreement.
Xu Yangsheng, Principal of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), said that the cooperation between the two companies to set up a joint laboratory is a powerful alliance that is expected to promote the development of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao Bay Area and global artificial intelligence.
Both Hong Kong Chinese University (Shenzhen) and Tencent have a strong background in the field of artificial intelligence. Hong Kong Chinese University (Shenzhen) has established a number of national and local joint engineering laboratories for robotics and smart manufacturing. Key Labs, and three Nobel Scientist Research Institutes and a Turing Award Scientists Laboratory. Tencent AI Lab currently has 70 top research scientists and 300 application engineers in China and the United States. Research papers have covered top international academic conferences.
This means that the joint laboratories have achieved scientific and technological resources in Hong Kong and even overseas, and introduced common connections for the resources of the Mainland's corporate sector, providing platform conditions for the cooperation and integration of the two.
Tencent rival Alibaba.com and its collaborators also share the same considerations for scientific research resources that link both Hong Kong and the Mainland. According to earlier news, the Hong Kong Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is positioned as a platform for scientific and technological exchanges between the Mainland and Hong Kong.
Kechuang cooperation 'co-building' era
The construction of a joint laboratory game is also breaking the convention of cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland.
At the beginning of reform and opening up, the cooperation between Hong Kong and the Mainland was mainly the processing trade of 'front and back factories'. Hong Kong's technology was transferred to factories in the Mainland. This model enabled the economic development of the Pearl River Delta region. In recent years, the economic transformation in the Mainland has been accelerated and promoted continuously. 'Shuangchuang' and the transformation of scientific research achievements, a group of patented technologies developed in Hong Kong, found suitable soils for transformation in Shenzhen, the Pearl River Delta region and even the wider hinterland.
The Shangtang Technology Co., Ltd., which participated in the joint venture, has its visual identity and deep learning skills from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The drone company DJI, which is known around the world in recent years, has its technology derived from the graduate of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Wang Hao. design.
According to market analysis, Hong Kong universities and research institutes have higher potential energy in the areas of artificial intelligence, biopharmaceuticals, and other universities and research institutes in the Mainland. At the same time, due to the limited local market in Hong Kong, the Mainland is particularly close to Hong Kong. The Pearl River Delta region has a wide range of applicable markets. Therefore, the Hong Kong R&D and the Mainland's transformation model is feasible.
Hong Kong's R&D-inland transformation model is more advanced than the Hong Kong technology-inland production model in the past. Its advantage is to make up for the lack of scientific research resources and talent resources in the interior of the Pearl River Delta region in particular.
Take the Pearl River Delta cities as an example. Except for Guangzhou, which is the capital of Guangdong Province, with Zhongshan University, two 985 colleges and universities and some scientific research institutes of South China University of Technology, there are almost no universities or research institutes in other cities. Shenzhen is famous for its scarcity of higher education and scientific research institutes. Currently, it is mainly based on new research and development institutions established by enterprises and social capital. The emergence of the Tencent AI lab at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) is the embodiment of Shenzhen's “Compensation Board”.
In contrast, Hong Kong has four top 100 universities in the world including the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
The 21st Century Business Herald reporter learned that one of the goals of the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau that is brewing is to establish an international science and technology innovation center. Prior to this, the Hong Kong SAR Government was promoting the “Creation Project” and the Guangdong Province also positioned international technology. Industrial Innovation Center. Many economists have analyzed the development of enterprises such as DJI Innovation. Hong Kong R&D - Mainland transformation, Hong Kong Science and Technology + Pearl River Delta manufacturing will be one of the feasible cooperation modes in the future.
However, the aforementioned model still has a major drawback. Despite the lack of scientific research resources in the Pearl River Delta region, scientific research resources in Guangzhou and Shenzhen can still play a role. The operation of this model completely ignores the role of scientific research resources in the Pearl River Delta Region.
Zhou Linsheng, deputy chairman of the China Economic System Reform Research Institute, believes that Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau need to establish cooperation mechanisms between industry, universities, and research institutes to allow Hong Kong universities to pair up with enterprises in the Pearl River Delta to understand the specific needs of companies and industries, thus promoting the integration of basic research and industrial applications. .
According to Zhang Wei, Director of Tencent's AI lab, Tencent and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) can simultaneously play different functions of high-tech companies and first-rate universities in basic research.
Previously, Tencent had invited visiting scholars. Scientists came to visit the company and participated in the research of the company. They could understand the frontier problems in the industry and find the specific direction for their basic research. The companies can get basic research results that are more suitable for the application. This 'win-win' situation will continue in the joint laboratory model.
Luo Zhiquan told the 21st Century Business Herald reporter that the joint laboratory also focused on the key technology of the industry. The research results will be shared by the school and Tencent, and can be applied in Tencent, and can also be extended to more enterprises in the Mainland through intellectual property transfer. 21 Century Economic Report
4. Hikvision's strategic cooperation with Midea Group in-depth cooperation in areas such as artificial intelligence;
On the afternoon of June 12th, Midea Group and Haikangwei signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. The two parties will play their respective industrial sector advantages in smart home, smart retail, smart manufacturing, industrial Internet of things and robots (17.900, -0.39, -2.13% ) Automation, artificial intelligence and other aspects of in-depth cooperation. Sina Finance
5. Hisense releases the World Cup version artificial intelligence TV system;
China Securities News On June 13th, Hisense officially released the VIDAA AI World Cup artificial intelligence TV system at the Asian CES Exhibition. The system will begin at Hisense TV including laser TV and ULED on June 14th. Department of new product upgrades on the line, for the global user to bring the history of the World Cup has never had artificial intelligence experience.
Hisense uses image recognition technology and big data technology to create graph search interactions that make television images no longer just images, but become the entrance to the user to open the world. This technology was first created by Hisense.
Hisense map search interaction is achieved through the special 'small' button on the remote control. The user clicks the 'small' button for only 0.1 seconds. The high-definition screen of the athlete's game will be accurately screened in the background, identified, detailed by the player. Information and even the same clothing and equipment will be displayed simultaneously to the user. Hisense's small gathering of search and interaction data covers nearly 900 players of 2018 Russian World Cup teams. Although it is difficult to capture high-speed motion pictures, the recognition accuracy rate is already high. 99%, almost accurate. Another exciting application of Hisense's image search interaction is that you can use a small key to capture the highlights of the game in one shot. The mobile phone can directly share the circle of friends after scanning the code.
For this World Cup, Hisense will combine artificial intelligence with football commentary for the first time. World Cup schedule, game time, game results, player information, team data, etc. World Cup Wikipedia will answer questions. The application scenario of Hisense map search interaction is not limited to the World Cup. Its data also covers more than 20,000 star resources, users can enjoy the powerful map search experience while watching movies.
At the same time as watching the competition, book delivery, book airline tickets, book hotels, voice translation, check traffic, check weather and other complicated life services to Hisense TV, and everything can be done easily. Hisense's full scene voice interaction has opened 36 scenes of life scenes. , Hundreds of life services, At the same time support six major dialects, voiceprint recognition, 33 kinds of character relations multidimensional question and answer advanced artificial intelligence voice services.
As the official TV cooperation brand of the 2018 World Cup, Hisense not only fulfilled its commitment to the development of new display technology for the event around the FIFA World Cup, but also provided users with a full range of watching options in the World Cup content service. Hisense launched a new VIDAA AI World Cup. The version system has specially developed a 'World Cup Channel' which not only covers the CCTV World Cup gold video resources, but also the official FIFA World Cup exclusive content, and the non-stop update of more than 60 self-made programs, the most timely World Cup information and surrounding highlights are in full control , to meet the needs of each fan.
The Hisense VIDAA AI artificial intelligence system platform was independently developed and completed by Hisense Polymer Technology Co., Ltd.. Yu Zhitao, General Manager of Goodlooking, introduced, Hisense VIDAA AI will create the best 'people-field-end' service platform to make the service available to users. - Scenario - Free flow between terminals, allowing TV to become a provider of consumer life wisdom. Relying on the deep cultivation of television intelligent technologies and user operations, the number of users of Hisense Global Smart TV has reached 34.72 million, with Hisense on AI technology. With the continuous improvement of popularization and user experience, this data is expected to increase substantially. (Wang Chunhui) China Securities Net