On July 31, Zoomlion announced that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Professor Wu Enda's artificial intelligence company Landing.AI. The two parties will cooperate in the agricultural field to jointly develop new products based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology and build a new product. The top artificial intelligence technology team finally helped Zoomlion to become the leading equipment manufacturing enterprise driven by artificial intelligence. The signing of this agreement marks the beginning of Zoomlion's high starting point into the field of artificial intelligence technology and becomes the first AI agricultural equipment in China. Manufacturing company. Zhan Chunxin, Chairman of Zoomlion, and Wu Enda, founder of Landing.AI, attended the signing ceremony.
Zoomlion, LANDING.AI and Zoomlion Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd.
Signing a strategic cooperation agreement
Zoomlion and the world's top AI team
Zhan Chunxin, chairman of Zoomlion, said that the use of new technology to transform equipment manufacturing, from the traditional and emerging, from the traditional and intelligent, from the traditional and smart, new technology is endless charm, new technology is endless vitality, Zoomlion Embracing new technology is full of expectations.
This time, Zoomlion and the world's top artificial intelligence scientist Wu Enda and its Landing.AI team have attracted much attention in the industry.
Wu Enda is a world-class leader in artificial intelligence. In 2017, he founded the company Landing.AI, which aims to provide enterprises with artificial intelligence transformation solutions and services, with a special focus on providing new technological kinetics for the transformation and upgrading of traditional enterprises.
Wu Enda has the experience of leading top technology companies to successfully transform into artificial intelligence companies. He has helped two world-leading technology companies, Google and Baidu, to transform artificial intelligence. During his tenure at Baidu, he led 1,300 engineers and scientists to form an artificial intelligence team. Driving the company's global artificial intelligence strategy and infrastructure. At the same time, he also led the creation of the 'Google Brain' project, bringing artificial intelligence to Google products to a new level.
Zoomlion is a technology-driven equipment manufacturing company. Since its establishment in 1992, the company has created a number of technologies and products that lead the development of the global industry through independent innovation and integration. For example, it has set off a new global concrete industry. Material revolutionary carbon fiber material technology, and ultra-large 3200-ton crawler cranes with hoisting accuracy controlled within 2 mm. In recent years, the company has achieved fruitful results in the field of intelligent manufacturing. The heavy-duty agricultural machinery products have initially realized the functions of automatic driving, automatic harvesting, intelligent drying, etc., and built a data center, which laid the foundation for the application of artificial intelligence technology.
Three-party team photo
The cooperation between the two parties mainly covers the two directions of technical cooperation and talent cultivation. In technical cooperation, Landing.AI will provide artificial intelligence technology for Zoomlion agricultural machinery and other fields. The two parties will jointly develop several artificial intelligence based on artificial intelligence. Technical agricultural machinery products. In terms of talent cultivation, Landing.AI will help Zoomlion recruit, train and establish a professional artificial intelligence technology team to enable Zoomlion to continue to use artificial intelligence technology to serve the development of enterprises.
Wu Enda is looking forward to cooperating with Zoomlion on 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) + Agriculture'. He said: 'Zhan Chunxin has a strategic vision and Zoomlion has established a related basic database. Now, many Enterprises are taking advantage of artificial intelligence transformation, but I think Zoomlion's agricultural machinery is at the forefront. ' (Weare thrilled to partner with Zoomlion on AI+Agriculture. Chairman Zhan is agreat visionary, and has already built up a sophisticated data infrastructurefor Zoomlion AI is transforming multiple industries, and Zoomlion is at theforefront of this transformation in agriculture machinery.)
It is understood that this cooperation is inseparable from the promotion of Hony Capital. As the top PE in China, Hony Capital has rich experience and resources in cross-border M&A, value-added services and capital operation. At present, the investment focus is also smart manufacturing, mobile Internet, new consumption and other new economic areas are expanding. Zhao Yihuan, Chairman of Hony Capital Investment, said: ''Value-added services, value creation' is the core concept of Hony Capital, and Hony is promoting the combination of international leading innovation formats and Chinese corporate markets. Success stories. As a strategic partner of Zoomlion for many years, we are very happy to promote the cooperation between Zoomlion and Landing.AI. The cooperation between the two parties will help promote the application of high-tech applications such as AI, as well as equipment manufacturing enterprises. Future development injects new momentum. '
Jointly lead China's agricultural machinery industry to high-end intelligence
The cooperation between the two parties first focused on the field of agricultural machinery. 'This has also found a new force for the Zoomlion agricultural machinery sector, and has been transformed into a high-end intelligent direction.' Zoomlion said.
In recent years, although China's agricultural mechanization has maintained a rapid development momentum, there are not many high-end agricultural machinery products and low-end products. At present, Zoomlion is increasing its investment in agricultural machinery and developing towards 'smart agriculture'. .
The global agricultural industry is at the forefront of the 'technical revolution'. 'We deeply feel that artificial intelligence will bring revolutionary changes to the future of agriculture. Therefore, we first choose to cooperate with the world's top teams, 'Zhonglian Heavy Chen Yongjun, vice president of the Academia Sinica, said.
The cooperation between the two parties will first develop several agricultural machinery products driven by artificial intelligence technology. These machines will have the ability to make intelligent decisions on the job site by using machine learning, and take the intelligent control of products to a new height.
Zoomlion said: 'Zhonglian Heavy Industry has been committed to boosting China's agricultural machinery to the high end of the global value chain. We are very optimistic about the development prospects of this cooperation, and believe that it will eventually bring users artificial intelligence-driven products. And service. Zoomlion will work with like-minded partners to promote the development of China's agricultural machinery to high-end intelligence.
In addition, the first focus of cooperation on agricultural machinery stems from the shared mission of both sides. Wu Enda said: 'Agriculture driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology will help reduce the labor intensity of farmers and make the whole process more environmentally friendly. AIin agriculture will make the lives of countless farmers easier, alleviate theshortage of farmers, help protect the environment. Through this, we will make safe and healthy food more available for Everyone.)
Be the first to build a domestic AI agricultural equipment manufacturing enterprise
With the development of big data and the Internet of Things, the era of artificial intelligence is coming, all industries are looking forward to embracing AI technology. However, the development of AI field follows the development inertia of digital economy in China, and more favors the consumer market. How to make the real economy and AI Technology has come up with a major proposition of business value. Although traditional industries have already begun to explore, but as some experts have said, 'the lack of real investment and action'.
Zoomlion signed a strategic cooperation agreement with artificial intelligence company Landing.AI, and took the first step in the industry. It became the first domestic AI agricultural equipment manufacturing enterprise, and injected new kinetic energy into its own transformation and upgrading.
Chen Yongjun said that the artificial intelligence technology terminal scenario application is still in the early stage of development, but once this process begins, the development speed will be very fast.
According to the report of China Artificial Intelligence Development Report 2018, the scale of China's artificial intelligence market reached 23.7 billion yuan in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 67%. It is expected that the growth rate of China's artificial intelligence market will reach 75% in 2018. With the maturity of emerging technologies such as AI, a new round of digitalization is kicking off, and it is expected to bring huge commercial value of 7 trillion US dollars to China's real economy by 2030. It can be said that the next 10 years will be the era of artificial intelligence.
In the face of such a large blue ocean market, Zoomlion is confident. 'We believe that through the cooperation with Landing.AI, we will maintain Zoomlion's leading position in the industry. Artificial intelligence technology will become an important part of the company's future development. 'Accelerator' ' .