The opportunity to launch the 'Four Brands' campaign and the upcoming China International Import Expo in November will provide a more open and challenging competitive environment for Shanghai's technological innovation in artificial intelligence, biomedicine and other emerging industries. .
Artificial intelligence commercialization speed
As a representative of Shanghai's local artificial intelligence, the small i-robot that has been in business for 17 years has witnessed the process of artificial intelligence from pure academic concept to industrial application, and is also an important promoter of domestic artificial intelligence industrialization.
Not long ago, the CEO of Xiaoyi, the founder of Xiaoyi Robot, who participated in the 2nd China (Hefei) Brain Intelligence Summit Forum, told the First Financial Reporter that today's artificial intelligence technology is transforming from a classic computer architecture to a brain-like architecture. Shanghai has the talents and foundations for developing artificial intelligence, but if it is done well, it must be continually invested. 'The whole chain is very long, and the effect needs to go through the cycle to show. Simply put, continuous investment, patience, In order to see the effect behind it. To have continuous competitiveness, we need rooted innovation, not one or two big projects. To improve the vitality of innovative companies, we also need to create a good environment and ecology. 'He is like this. Say.
In Zhu’s frequent impressions, artificial intelligence has appeared for many years, but the previous developments have not been smooth. In recent years, due to the change of technology and algorithms, it has rapidly warmed up. Small i robots began to explore artificial intelligence in enterprises in 2006. The application of the service, especially in the customer service industry, can be said to be the main promoter.
The small project of the small i robot in the early stage - 'Shanghai Science and Technology' official online intelligent customer service robot 'Mr. Haide' application is the first successful case of applying artificial intelligence technology to the field of e-government.
The small i-robot, which focuses on human-computer interaction technology with natural language processing as its core, has occupied nearly 90% of the market in the field of intelligent customer service, which has boosted the large-scale commercial use of artificial intelligence in Shanghai.
Zhu frequently told the First Financial reporter that although there are many robots on the market, only one small robot is available for deep interaction and wide application. Analysts of Gartner, an information technology research and consulting company, once thought that the small i robot is in the intelligent robot. The field can be ranked in the top three in the world.
In addition to small i robots, a large number of entrepreneurial teams are also contributing intelligence to the development and commercialization of artificial intelligence.
As a startup based on Lidar and SLAM (Synchronous Positioning and Map Construction) technology, Shanghai Siwei Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Sis Technology') aims to provide high-performance, low-cost robotic autonomous positioning navigation solutions. .
Chen Shikai, CEO of Siwei Technology, told the First Financial Reporter that the laser radar and autonomous positioning navigation system are the key components for realizing the practical and intelligent intelligent robot products, which is like the eyes of robots. Through independent research and development, the first of the company launched RPLIDAR, a low-cost laser radar product, breaks the monopoly of foreign countries and greatly reduces the application cost. At present, this product has been widely used in various service robots. At the same time, this 'Shanghai Made' brand products and technologies have also begun to be exported. To the North American and European markets.
Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Financial and Economic Committee, Dai Liu, president of the Shanghai Robot Industry Association, told the First Financial Reporter that in 2017, the output value of the entire robot industry increased by 98% compared with 2016, which is equivalent to doubling, accounting for The proportion of 40% of the country. Statistically, the data of the robot industry and artificial intelligence will coincide.
Although the market is highly concerned, in terms of the status quo, the commercialization of artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, and there is no basis and significance for comparing who is better. In the view of Zhu Frei, Shanghai has artificial advantages in developing artificial intelligence. More support, but the challenges are not small.
'Artificial intelligence still has some key technologies to be broken. The threshold is not as high-end as we imagined, nor is it based on high-end talents. It needs an ecosystem. Zhu frequently said, 'Shanghai is emphasizing the integration of the Yangtze River Delta. This is a very good strategy. Light depends on Shanghai's local industrial chain, the advantage will be weaker than Shenzhen. If you can link the Yangtze River Delta, it will be very advantageous.
Dai Liu believes that the development of the Shanghai robot industry is in a relatively high position among the central cities of China. The advantage lies in the good vision. It knows where to target next, and also in the manufacturing of chips, large-scale integrated circuits and other industries. Guarantee.
From an international point of view, China still has a clear gap with developed countries. Recently, the series of reports on the "G20 National Science and Technology Competition Pattern" jointly published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Document Information Center and Ke Ruiwei An showed that human resources in the field of artificial intelligence research and development. In terms of basic research funding, there is currently a competition situation in which the United States is dominated by the United States, the United Kingdom, India and Canada are closely followed, and there is still a clear gap in China.
Among them, in the four branches of artificial intelligence (machine learning, natural language processing, speech processing and computer vision), the United States' scientific and technological strength ranks first in the G20 countries, China in the field of machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision Outstanding performance, scientific and technological strength is second only to the United States and the growth rate is obvious. Some scientific research influence indicators have surpassed the United States, but the overall quality of scientific research results needs to be further improved.
Local biopharmaceutical companies fill the gap
In addition to popular artificial intelligence, Shanghai is actively strengthening its strategic presence in the future frontiers of life health, quantum communications, etc., while accelerating the development of strategic emerging industries, focusing on the development of next-generation information technology, biomedicine and high-end medical devices, new energy. With the intelligent network and other industries, accelerate the formation of new kinetic energy for industrial development.
More and more local companies are filling industry gaps in multiple areas.
Shanghai Yisi Medical Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Yisi Medical'), located in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, has developed its own endoscopic stapler, energy knife and endoscopic system products, which has become one of the few in the world to provide complete tumor minimally invasive surgery. Medical device business for surgical solutions.
The idea of attracting high-end overseas talents, Di Precision Medical Group (hereinafter referred to as 'Idea Di') is also filling the gap in the integration of domestic medical treatment. 'At present, the only one in China that can integrate medical treatment is ours, but internationally. Only Roche. 'The Vice President of Idea Di Li Fugen told the First Financial Reporter, 'We are very small now, but it is hard to say after ten or twenty years.'
According to Li Fugen, Idea Di has built the world's largest liver cancer PDX (patient-derived tumor animal model) and PDC (tumor primary cell plate) preclinical research and drug development platform, and developed the world's first new molecular PD. -L1 single domain antibody (tumor immunosuppressive therapy), also the only company in China that develops new drugs in parallel with the United States and Japan.
Shanghai Zhangjiang Biobank is an intensive third-party storage center built by the Shanghai Municipal Government. It is a new model for biological sample banks and the maker of domestic bio-storage industry standards. The biobank is expected to have 10 million copies of biological samples. Capacity; By the end of 2020, 10-15 biological sample resource sub-centers will be established throughout the country to promote the exchange and cooperation of biological samples.
Every case of enterprise development has given the Shanghai economy a good transcript.
The bigger highlight is the adjustment of industrial structure: From January to June 2018, Shanghai's GDP increased by 6.9% year-on-year, and the dependence on the economy was further reduced. The total industrial output value of the city's strategic emerging industries was 506.132 billion yuan, up 8.1 year-on-year. In the first half of the year, Shanghai's industrial strategic emerging industries grew rapidly. New energy vehicles, new generation information technology and biology increased by 29.6%, 14.2% and 15.0% respectively. The emerging service industry featuring innovation is developing well and is becoming Shanghai. The new pillar of the economy.
The added value of the tertiary industry was 1,617.197 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4%, accounting for 69.2% of the city's GDP. This means that Shanghai has basically reached the standard of a world-class 'service-oriented city'.
In the momentum of steady progress, the automobile industry in the real economy continues to play an important role. The new vehicles of Weilai Automobile, Weimar Automobile, etc. have begun to enter the mass production phase. Recently, Audi also took 1%. The share ratio of the shares into SAIC Volkswagen means that the cooperation between SAIC and Audi has been officially confirmed. SAIC has been authorized by the Audi brand to produce and sell Audi brand cars.
As early as the beginning of 2018, Shanghai Mayor Ying Yong clearly pointed out in his government work report that advanced manufacturing and strategic emerging industries are the major support of Shanghai's economy. It is necessary to take the lead in manufacturing high-end development, innovation and development, and transformation and development. Road. Shanghai wants to gather more 'invisible champions' and 'unicorns' businesses to accelerate the development of new energy and intelligent network vehicles, next-generation information technology, intelligent manufacturing equipment, biomedicine and high-end medical equipment and other world-class advanced manufacturing. Industry cluster. At the same time, Shanghai must focus on building smart cities, seize the major opportunities for the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence, implement the Smart Shanghai initiative, and promote a number of application demonstration projects in the fields of production and management, health management, food safety, etc. More intelligent, more in-depth into the enterprise, into the family, to the society.