How high is the "intelligence concentration" of the WAIC West Coast branch venue? AIGC, embodied intelligence, gaming and AI gaming | artificial intelligence | AI
Since last year, ChatGPT, which has continuously attracted attention, and Adobe's "Adobe Firefly" service launched in the first half of this year, have both brought "Generative Artificial Intelligence" industry and external attention. Among the more than 10 themed forums at the Xuhui West Coast Branch of the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the fields of AIGC, embodied intelligence, gaming, and artificial intelligence, which have not yet become the main focus of the first two forums, have significantly "heated up" this year.
The reporter learned from Xuhui District that Xuhui will leverage its advantages such as having the most complete industrial categories, the most concentrated leading enterprise group, and the highest density of intelligence pools in the city to create a national level brand for the development of generative artificial intelligence, and promote the development and application empowerment of the AIGC industry. At the same time, Xuhui will also accelerate the gathering of relevant technology, capital, and talent elements, form a technology ecology and governance mechanism that is in line with the development pace of the AIGC industry, and create a new highland for national generative artificial intelligence technology and industry.
Sub venue forum "Intelligence concentration explosion table"
The Xuhui West Coast Branch of this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference is located at the MGM Hotel on the west coast of Shanghai. Although it lacks the theme exhibition area set up along the river by the Xuhui Branch in the past, the "intelligence concentration" of this year's West Coast Branch is quite explosive.
Among them, centering on the theme of "development opportunities and risks of general artificial intelligence industry in the era of big model", Dai Qionghai, academician of the CAE Member, and Richard Sutton, known as the "father of modern intensive learning", will bring a wonderful dialogue on July 7, and the policy of AI big model in Xuhui District will be announced for the first time at the meeting. On the same day, Yao Qizhi, an academician of the CAS Member, will lead the theme forum of "embodied general artificial intelligence"; Tezan Technology and Xingtu Bit will host two sub forums on July 8th, respectively, on "Industry Embracing AIGC" and "AI Big Language Model Technology and Ecological Development". The latter will also hold a signing ceremony for the Artificial Intelligence Empowering Rural Revitalization Plan.
With the sixth year of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference held on the west bank of Xuhui, multiple AIGC and large model related enterprises have successively entered Xuhui. In March this year, Shanghai Siyu Technology Co., Ltd. and Mingzhimeng Technology Co., Ltd., affiliated to MiniMax, a big model enterprise, officially settled down in Xuhui. In the same month, the big language model technology platform was released. Based on "MiniMax", the first domestic general big model engine with the integration of text, voice and visual the third mock examination, it provides enterprise users and developers with rich APIs.
"At the beginning of its establishment, the enterprise accurately judged industry trends and pioneered independently developed public cloud computing and cross cloud computing technologies." Liu Hua, Vice President of Public Affairs of Shanghai Xiyu Technology Co., Ltd., introduced that in the past two years of its establishment, the enterprise has collaborated with public cloud vendors and currently has thousands of NVIDIA A100/A800 graphics cards, which can undertake training tasks for large models with parameters of billions.
Open source and collaboration are the focus of attention for many large model companies. Liu Hua told reporters that taking the MiniMax open platform as an example, it has been connected to hundreds of enterprises and can be used in more than 10 industry scenarios, including office collaboration, intelligent hardware, education, healthcare, and customer service. For example, in accordance with the business requirements of Kingsoft Office WPS, we provide functions such as text generation, key point summary, task distribution, Excel and PPT generation through a large model to help upgrade WPS AI products. During this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, MiniMax will collaborate with Kingsoft Office WPS to hold a technology sharing event in the latter's exhibition area.
Layout the entire chain of AIGC industry
In interviews with reporters, many people expressed that China is still in the initial exploration stage in the field of AIGC, and there is still a gap between the underlying technology and overseas cutting-edge technology. Guiding AIGC to fully unleash its positive application value and form a number of replicable and promotable cases, experiences, and industry standards is of great significance for the overall development of China's generative artificial intelligence industry.
At present, Shanghai has become a gathering hub for China's digital creativity, online entertainment, and online gaming industries, which provides a solid foundation for AIGC's industrialization. Especially in Xuhui District, in recent years, it has accelerated its development in the field of large-scale models at the grassroots level, with nearly 200 related enterprises, including more than 30 core enterprises. Since last year, two unicorn enterprises in the AIGC field have also emerged.
The reporter learned from the Science and Technology Commission of Xuhui District that Xuhui is currently empowering key industries around "AIGC+". For example, focusing on "AIGC+Digital Entertainment", Xuhui District takes the West Bank Media Port as the core and relies on the "one body, two wings" industrial pattern of "AI+ART" in Xuhui Binjiang to promote AIGC empowering the entire chain of digital content production, operation, dissemination, distribution, platform, and review.
West Coast Digital Valley
Taking game companies as an example, Tencent, MiHoYo, and others plan to conduct data training and model optimization for game scenarios. Xuhui District will support these game companies in developing vertical domain language models centered on games and radiating to empower the digital entertainment industry. These models will be used to create intelligent NPCs with thousands of people and faces, generate game storylines in real-time, and create game social systems.
This year's Xuhui West Bank Branch of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference has also set up multiple sub forums focusing on "Games and AI". Among them, at the "Frontier Exploration Forum of Game Artificial Intelligence", the establishment of a Joint Research Center for Game Artificial Intelligence Universities will be launched. Tencent Games and Tencent East China headquarters will also jointly host the "Game AI Applications and Game Technology Forum".
"Two Poles" Drive Deep Cultivation of AIGC Industry
As of now, there are over 750 artificial intelligence related enterprises in Xuhui District, and high-tech enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence account for about one-third of the total number of high-tech enterprises in the district, including 9 listed enterprises and 27 unicorn related enterprises, forming a full stack industry chain from basic research, technology, products to applications.
Compared to the new round of urban spatial renewal in Shanghai 2035 and the development layout of Shanghai's "4+X" artificial intelligence industry, Xuhui District is constructing a new development spatial layout of AIGC with "two poles and two belts" as the main thread.
West Coast Smart Tower
The "one pole" driven by the "two poles" is the growth pole of industrial agglomeration in the West Bank Digital Valley. The MGM Hotel, the venue of the West Coast branch, is located in the West Coast Smart Tower. With the West Coast Smart Tower East and West Towers as flagship, Xuhui District is fully absorbing headquarters enterprises and industry leaders in the fields of art media, intelligent terminals, modern finance, etc., promoting the deep cultivation of basic theories, key technologies, and interdisciplinary research in the Xuhui Binjiang area.
The other "pole" in the "two poles" is the innovation and growth pole of the Caohejing industry, which already has an advantageous position in digital entertainment, intelligent computing chips, data intelligence and other fields. With the Caohejing Yuanchuang Future Metaverse Industry Innovation Park as the core, a new metaverse economic model guided by "promoting reality through virtuality and strengthening reality through virtuality" is flourishing. For example, companies such as Mofa Technology and Blue Cursor are leveraging CaoDevelopment's advantages in AIGC technology to enhance the production efficiency and interaction ability of digital humans, and expand the application of digital humans as virtual idols, e-commerce live streaming, digital employees, and more.
Around the four major industrial clusters in Xuhui District and the new track of digital economy, the generative artificial intelligence industry will also be deeply integrated with areas such as life and health, financial technology, intelligent terminals, and e-commerce retail in Xuhui. For example, constructing medical knowledge graphs and medical big models to improve regional diagnosis and treatment levels; Accelerate the construction of Xuhui Binjiang Financial Technology Application Demonstration Belt; Building an intelligent terminal industry cluster that connects multiple terminals such as intelligent connected vehicles and consumer electronics, with the West Bank Digital Valley as the core... Taking advantage of the opportunity of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, further promoting the upgrading of Xuhui's artificial intelligence brand.