When you think of Wuhan, what comes to mind? Is it the transportation hub of the nine provinces, or the Wuhan spirit of fighting the epidemic?
On December 18, at the 2021 East Lake International Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum held in Wuhan, another Wuhan was revealed: Wuhan Height. With the completion and operation of the Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center, Wuhan is becoming a highland and model for the development of Chinese intelligent industries.
The hub of the AI ecosystem
As Wang Tao, managing director of Huawei, said, Wuhan is creating three "directions" in the development of the artificial intelligence industry: from the Wuhan model to the Chinese model, from wuhan speed to Wuhan height, from Wuhan architecture to Wuhan hub.
In particular, the Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center hides the code for the development of the Chinese intelligent industry, that is: ecology.
The figures can show that it is understood that within half a year after it was put into operation, more than 100 enterprises have settled in the Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center, with an average daily computing power of more than 90%, and more than 50 scenario-based solutions have been jointly incubated.
At this forum, the new evolution of ecology was demonstrated: two major industry alliances, namely the Intelligent Remote Sensing Open Source Ecological Alliance and the Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, were established.
This is the evolution of ecology in depth. The Intelligent Remote Sensing Open Source Ecosystem Alliance and the Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, respectively, are working in the field of intelligent remote sensing open source ecology and general artificial intelligence, which will promote the development and application of AI in both fields. Taking multimodality as an example, the multimodal large model Zidong Taichu of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the result of incubation in the Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center, is the world's first three-mode large model of graph, text and sound, which leads the world in cross-modal understanding and generation capabilities, and supports the efficient completion of downstream tasks such as cross-modal detection, visual question answering, semantic description, video understanding and generation.
This is also the evolution of ecology in breadth. The two alliances have one thing in common, that is, they bring together the forces of production, learning, research and use. For example, the Intelligent Remote Sensing Open Source Ecological Alliance has a national research institute such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as enterprises such as Aerospace Hongtu, 21st Century Space Technology Application, Beijing Feidu Network Technology, and Beijing Supermap Software. The multimodal artificial intelligence industry alliance has also brought together enterprises, institutions and research institutes such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mobile, Xinhua News Agency Technology Bureau, Huawei, and iQiyi.
As Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said, the combination of "production, education, research and application" is one of the keys to building a "Chinese system" of artificial intelligence, so that it can not only be built quickly, but also used well, and drive the centralized and intensive development of the AI industry.
It is this evolution that has made Wuhan's artificial intelligence ecology form a development situation of open cooperation, symbiosis and co-prosperity. It's a lot like costa Rican ecology: Costa Rica is located at the crossroads of North and South America, bordering Panama to the south and Nicaragua to the north, with no separation from the mainland. The unique geographical advantages have created an open and diverse ecosystem with more than 500,000 species and a global biodiversity ranking among the highest in the world.
At this forum, The Wuhan Ascend Artificial Intelligence Ecological Innovation Center was established, which is the main body for the operation, service provision and creation of industrial shelves for the artificial intelligence computing center. Obviously, Wuhan Ascend Artificial Intelligence Ecological Innovation Center is exploring new paths ecologically.
When the "smart ecological flywheel" turns
What is the value of ecology to the development of artificial intelligence industry? The answer can be seen in the Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center, that is, when more and more industry-university-research forces join, the development of the artificial intelligence industry is like a flywheel, and the convergence of wisdom will produce crowd forces, which will push this flywheel faster and faster.
Yangtze River Computing is a very typical example, which relies on the Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center to complete the training of intelligent manufacturing algorithms and has been launched in its own server manufacturing base. It is understood that the AI quality inspection program deployed by Changjiang Computing on the server production line brings value to the factory such as accuracy improvement, efficiency improvement and cost reduction. For example, in the A3 station that detects 36 kinds of control points such as memory modules and network cards, and more than 2,000 control points, after the deployment of the AI quality inspection program, the detection accuracy rate is close to 100%, and the quality inspection time is increased from 30 seconds/piece to 5 seconds/piece in the manual post.
Not only for the intelligent upgrading of its own manufacturing base, Changjiang Computing is also cooperating with Huawei, based on the ascend AI basic software and hardware platform, will create the ascend intelligent manufacturing solution external output, tailor-made quality inspection, factory safety, robot vision and other one-stop, high-precision, out-of-the-box AI services for the manufacturing industry, and open up the "last kilometer" of the AI landing manufacturing industry.
At the forum site, Changjiang Computing, Baode Computer, Sichuan Hongxin Software, Hunan Xiangjiang Kunpeng, Huanghe Technology, Shenzhou Kuntai, Tongfang Computer, Baixin Information, Jiangsu Beilian Guoxin Technology and other machine manufacturers, AsiaInfo Technology, Yuncong Technology, Yiyi Technology, Ande Medical Wisdom, Hemei Information, the Fourth Paradigm, Galaxy WaterDrop, Huaao Technology, Tuowei Information, Yunhua Energy, Zhiyang Technology, Dongsheng Technology, Jushi Technology and other ISV manufacturers, as well as Linghua, AAEON, Feitu, Quanai, Dongsheng, IHV manufacturers such as Runhe also demonstrated their own artificial intelligence solutions, which also made the forum a "big parade" for the intelligent ecology of Chinese workers.
These companies are contributing their own capabilities and advantages to promote the development of artificial intelligence industry flywheel rotation. At the same time, they are also gaining a lot from this rotation, which is called "I am for everyone, everyone is for me".
AsiaInfo Technology is like this, its AISWare AI2 general artificial intelligence platform, providing step-by-step construction of algorithm models and full-life cycle management services for enterprise intelligent transformation, which can help enterprises continuously sink their business into algorithm models to achieve the purpose of reusing, combining innovation and building intelligent services on a large scale. It is understood that the general artificial intelligence platform fully releases the powerful computing power of Huawei Ascend, and has been widely used in telecommunications, finance, transportation, energy and other industries, promoting the development of industry intelligence.
For example, an energy group in the subordinate wind farm production monitoring, there are a large number of blank useless data to manually verify, data backhaul analysis cost is extremely high, risk prediction is not timely, low false alarm rate and other issues, through the introduction of AsiaInfo TECHNOLOGY's AI video monitoring system, to achieve automated, visual, intelligent safety production supervision, manual inspection workload reduced by 60%, production accidents reduced by nearly 80%, risk warning average of about 40 minutes in advance.
The example of cloud from technology is also very typical, its human-machine collaborative operating system CWOS, is running on the general operating system or cloud operating system, providing human-computer collaboration related computing power, algorithms, data management capabilities and application interface of the underlying software system, can reduce the threshold of artificial intelligence applications, improve the efficiency and experience of intelligent collaboration between humans and machines. The AI foundation of smart city solutions jointly built by CWOS and Ascend Computing Power plays an important role in the construction of smart cities. Taking Chengdu Tianfu New District in Sichuan as an example, Yuncong Technology "Sichuan Tianfu City Brain" is an innovative demonstration of human-machine collaboration and a pioneer representative of smart city construction, which fully uses cutting-edge technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence to promote the innovation of urban governance models, promote the modernization of urban governance systems and governance capabilities, and create the fourth pole of China's economy.
It is the efforts of so many ecological forces that the smart ecological flywheel is turning faster and faster, and it also promotes AI to penetrate into thousands of industries.
Postscript: The big era of AI industry integration
The evolutionary theory of Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center shows that a big era of AI industry integration is coming, which opens up an unprecedented integration of production, learning, research and use, and is also a key milestone in promoting artificial intelligence infrastructure from construction to use.
It can be expected that the Wuhan model will be replicated to other regions in the future, more and more AI hubs are being born, and more and more intelligent ecological flywheels will turn.
This is a grand picture, as Xu Yingtong, president of Huawei's Ascend Computing Business, said, which will open up the path from the scientific research results trained by the Artificial Intelligence Computing Center to the landing of the industry. "In time, we can imagine that the networks and large models trained by the Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center, as well as the applications developed by Huawei and its partners, will soon be applied to the urban operation management of the Greater Bay Area through the computing power network, and applied to the production lines of factories in a third-tier city in the Yangtze River Delta region, and finally achieve regional coordination, industrial complementarity, and the integration and penetration of AI and thousands of industries."
Such a future is worth looking forward to.