A month ago, the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, with the theme of "Zhilian World, Generating the Future", made an exciting debut in Pudong. At this conference, a total of 210 upstream and downstream enterprises were contacted, with an intention to purchase an amount of 11 billion yuan, and 32 major industrial projects were signed with a total investment of 28.8 billion yuan. Among them, the project investment driven by Pudong exceeded 6 billion yuan.
As a "big stage" showcasing the latest AI achievements, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference is a fascinating venue, and the magnetic field effect of the behind the scenes conference continues to manifest in Pudong. Pudong is exploring new trends in the development of artificial intelligence with a forward-looking perspective, exploring new tracks in the application of artificial intelligence, enhancing the new value of artificial intelligence empowerment, and continuously promoting the implementation of conference results, releasing the spillover effect of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on Pudong's artificial intelligence industry.
'Advanced layout' strongly releases' magnetic field effect '
The number of visitors in the exhibition area of this year's conference exceeded expectations, and we have also gained a lot. In Pudong, more visible AI is emerging, and larger technology integration and higher level artificial intelligence innovation platforms are gradually emerging. Many Pudong enterprises marvel at the scale of the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, but also become a "hot spot" on various award platforms.
At the opening ceremony of the conference, 4 major innovative achievements were unveiled, with Pudong accounting for 2 of them; There are four seats related to Pudong enterprises among the nine treasures of the town hall selected by this conference; The highest award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the annual SAIL Award, has been awarded five times, with Pudong enterprises accounting for nearly half. COMAC Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute 3D Supercritical Wing Fluid Simulation Heavy Equipment "Dongfang · Yifeng", Jingtai Intelligent Pharmaceutical Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Jingtai Technology Intelligent Automation Drug R&D Platform, Fourier General Humanoid Robot GR-1, Shanghai Suiyuan Technology Co., Ltd.'s "Cloud Sui Intelligent Computing Cluster", Zhangjiang SUPERCITY, and a group of Pudong enterprises, Pudong Technology, and Pudong Scenery shine brightly.
Among them, many companies have won multiple awards. Taking Jingtai Technology as an example, its independently developed macromolecular drug generation AI model, ProteinGPT2.0, based on GPT like technology, has been fully implemented in real drug research and development pipelines, demonstrating excellent performance in antibody discovery, antibody engineering, antigen design, and protein de novo design. This technology was also included in the top ten innovative technologies in artificial intelligence in Pudong New Area during this year's artificial intelligence conference.
The cutting-edge AI technology covers various key areas of the artificial intelligence industry, fully reflecting the technological innovation ability and complete artificial intelligence industry ecology of Pudong enterprises. In the process of turning "nurseries" into "forests", a series of "advanced layouts" have also been implemented during the artificial intelligence conference, forming a strong release of the "magnetic field effect": exploring the element array? The opening of the ITU-T Metaverse Focus Group working group and the launch of the Shanghai Zhangjiang AI+Advanced Incubation Laboratory have become new starting points for core technology breakthroughs and institutional innovation in the field of artificial intelligence in Pudong, marking a new journey for the construction of the Pudong Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Application Pilot Zone.
Accelerated Implementation of AI Achievements and Abundant Achievements in the Artificial Intelligence Industry
With the "tropical rainforest" style ecological environment, Pudong's cutting-edge AI products are rapidly transitioning from "blueprints" to "construction drawings".
The latest product of Fourier Intelligence, the universal humanoid robot GR-1, which shone brightly at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, has sparked strong industry expectations since its debut. Four days after the closing of the conference, Fourier Intelligence held a general robot strategy conference, officially announcing that Fourier Intelligence entered the trillion level general robot race.
Gu Jie, Chairman and CEO of Fourier Intelligence, stated that humanoid robots have great potential in multiple application scenarios such as industry, rehabilitation, home, and scientific research. In the long run, the demand for universal humanoid robots will be much higher than the current demand for industrial robots. Fourier Intelligence hopes to achieve mass production and delivery of universal humanoid robots within one or two years, and looks forward to robots being able to skillfully complete some universal tasks within about three years, In 5-10 years, robots will truly enter the homes of ordinary people.
The progress of innovation achievements and industry cooperation among artificial intelligence enterprises in Pudong has also entered an "acceleration period". In mid July, Jingtai Technology announced a strategic cooperation with the research and development of new materials focused on lithium battery functional materials, empowering AI and automation experiments to jointly promote the research and development of new materials for next-generation lithium batteries; In August, Yingsi Intelligent announced that, with the collaboration of the Shanghai drug research and development team and the Middle East artificial intelligence development team, a series of mother core structures have been generated through the self-developed artificial intelligence molecular design platform Chemistry42. With this technology, there is potential to bring innovative therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Global technology competition, only innovators advance, and the artificial intelligence industry has achieved fruitful results. How can Pudong go further? In order to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries through new generation digital technology, enhance the development level of key industrial chains, and further strengthen the leading function of high-end industries in Pudong New Area, Pudong has also launched the "Pudong New Area Industrial Digital Leap Plan (GID) Three Year Action Plan (2023-2025)", which specifies that by 2025, Pudong will focus on cultivating 30 "GID chain leaders" in industries such as manufacturing, finance, shipping, commerce, and agriculture, Build 10 digital platforms, build 100 intelligent factories, gather 100 influential digital service providers, and drive the digital transformation of 1000 enterprises.
Opening up a New Paradigm for AI 2.0 and Creating More Experimental Sites and Incubators
At the Smart River of Zhangjiang Science City, L2+level unmanned ships achieve automatic navigation, autonomous obstacle avoidance, and automatic berthing and disembarking. Riding unmanned ships can tour the landmarks of Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Island, Zhangjiang Science Hall, and other science city landmarks; On the open testing road of Jinqiao Intelligent Connected Vehicles, AutoX Antu, Baidu Zhixing, and Xiaoma Zhixing have obtained the road testing license for unmanned intelligent connected vehicles, embarking on a new journey of unmanned driving in Pudong New Area.
In the past, in the era of AI 1.0, specific tasks such as image recognition, sound recognition, and language processing were mainly achieved through training models. However, the huge leap forward of AI 2.0 now lies in overcoming the limitations of the former being single domain and multiple independent models, and possessing self supervised learning ability, which can learn and generate new content from massive amounts of data. In the new wave of AI, Pudong is at the forefront again.
Supported by the industrial cluster of artificial intelligence and metaverse data chain in Zhangjiang, Zhangjiang Group has collaborated with Yijing Digital to create a new AI2.0 paradigm of digital twin "Future City", lighting up innovation with scenes and creating a new model of digital transformation for an internationally leading future city.
As the first pilot area for innovative application of artificial intelligence in China, there are currently over 600 key AI enterprises in Pudong, with an output value of over 120 billion yuan. Driven by application scenarios, Pudong New Area will create more testing grounds and incubators for cutting-edge technologies in the field of artificial intelligence.