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2021 is the first year of the singularity explosion of the meta-universe, and its explosion speed far exceeds the speed of AI. 2022 is the second year of the meta-universe singularity. We invite you to work with more than 3.5 million industrial chain users and experts of Xinzhiyuan Think Tank to find the leader and innovator of the new world in the future.
In March 2021, Roblox, the "first stock of the meta-universe", went public, and its market value directly soared to $40 billion, first detonating the technology industry.
The metacosm became the singularity of the Big Bang for a time.
The speed of its eruption is beyond imagination, and the shock wave and gravitational wave of the explosion are surging forward.
So, how far is its explosion speed and impact?
In October, Zuckerberg announced at the annual Connect conference that he would rename Facebook to Meta, planning to invest tens of billions of dollars to go all out into the metaverse.
Following Meta, Microsoft officially announced its entry into the metaverse at the Ignite conference on November 2 and launched mesh, a mixed reality conferencing platform.
On November 9, three virtual people from NVIDIA's Avatar platform also appeared at GTC 2021, defining the Omniverse platform as "engineer's metacosm".
Then, on November 10, Unity spent $1.6 billion to acquire Avatar's behind-the-scenes special effects company, Weta.
On December 9, Meta announced that it will officially open its VR world Horizon Worlds to Americans and Canadians.
Global technology giants have set sail intensively on the metaverse track, accelerating the layout of the metacosm. So what are Chinese companies doing in this singularity year?
Byte acquired VR startup Pico in August, Xiaoice released "Xiaoice Island" in September, and Tencent also launched a 5-figure Homo sapiens...
2021 is the first year of the metacosmic explosion.
In the second half, AI encountered a cold winter
2021 is still a year of ups and downs for artificial intelligence.
On the one hand, the field of artificial intelligence is still surging and the breakthroughs made are remarkable.
DeepMind open-sourced AlphaFold2, which can predict 98.5% of the protein structure, made the academic circle boil again.
In addition, after the release of the 175 billion parameter GPT-3 in 2020, the NLP large model is also constantly breaking records.
Microsoft and NVIDIA jointly released the 530 billion parameters of "Wei Zhen Tian", the "Wu Dao 2.0" of Zhiyuan 1.75 trillion parameters, and the Ali Damo Academy released a record 10 trillion parameters multimodal model "M6".
On the other hand, the landing of artificial intelligence has encountered the limitations of the scene, just like sailing against the current, and it takes more strength to move forward in the rapids.
From the perspective of the external environment, the escalation of US sanctions and the unstable international situation have made it more difficult for Chinese technology companies.
Chinese companies such as SMIC, DJI, YITU, and Yuncong Technology have become targets of repression. There are also many obstacles to the listing of SenseTime, which has been blacklisted by the United States for investment.
From the perspective of its own development, the development of the artificial intelligence industry has encountered obstacles, and it is impossible to find new breakthroughs, and there are limitations in landing scenarios.
Many leading companies, such as BAT and other companies' AI Labs, are facing the status quo of unclear positioning, and they have to land scientific research and are in an embarrassing situation.
In addition, in the past year, the big guys of Internet AI Labs have left the industry, some choose to return to the academic world, and some choose to start their own businesses. For example, Ali Qi Yuan and Byte Li Lei returned to the academic world; Wang Gang, vice president of Ali and helmsman of autonomous driving, chose to start his own business.
In addition, the number of continental tech unicorns in the world is surpassed by Europe. For many years, The size and number of Unicorn Companies in China ranked second in the world.
A new analysis says that in 2021, europe will generate more tech startups valued at least $1 billion than China.
In the future, if China does not seize the opportunity in the future, it will continue to be left behind by Europe and will not be able to maintain the brilliant achievements of the past.
Despite the difficult and dangerous road ahead, these unicorns need to continue to move forward in the rapids and accelerate their running.
Again, we're going to continue to unearth unicorns in the metaverse.
Who is the navigator of the Starship?
2022 is already the second year of the meta-universe singularity.
The speed of the metaverse explosion and the scale of users are greater than imagined.
In the past 5 years, AI has been the fastest growing industry. In 2020, GPT-3, a pre-trained model with 170 billion parameters of OpenAI, heralds a big explosion of computing power and algorithms.
Artificial intelligence is growing dozens of times faster than Moore's Law, and the metacosm explosion rate is exceeding the speed of AI deep learning.
Therefore, under such an explosive speed, Chinese companies stand in the singularity and continue to erupt with the rhythm of the metaverse.
Xin Zhiyuan believes that in the 2022 Star Trek, we must strive to find the direction, with the driving force of innovation, in the second year of the meta-universe explosion, to find the "brightest star" of the meta-universe, as well as the "pilot ship".
In the field of the vibrant metaverse, the digital buds representing unicorns are growing, and infinite possibilities await us.
You will be the navigators and innovators of this new green world of the future.
"2021 AI Era & Meta universe Innovation Award"
Here, we sincerely invite enterprises that pay attention to New Zhiyuan to participate in the award.
This year, we will be judging the following awards:
AI Innovation Enterprise Award TOP50
Meta-Universe Pioneer Awards TOP30
Eligibility Criteria:
1 Units registered in the territory of the People's Republic of China with legal business qualifications;
2 The enterprise has a good reputation and has no major complaints or records of violations of laws and disciplines in the past 3 years;
3 In the past 3 years, he has not been ordered to stop business, his qualifications have been cancelled, his property has been taken over, frozen, and he has been bankrupt;
4 In the past five years, at least 3 mature projects have landed project performance.
Through the "New Zhiyuan AI Era Impact Evaluation Model", the 80 companies shortlisted for the 2021 AI Era & Meta Universe Innovation Award were selected by comprehensive indicators such as Tencent WeChat Index, Weibo Index and Baidu Data Statistics retrieving AI-related information and information in the past year. Finally, according to the four dimensions of data of "enterprise user scale, market share", "enterprise valuation or market value", "enterprise core product competitiveness", and "research team and laboratory scale", the selection is carried out, showing the open and rising meta-universe ecology.
Meta-Universe Pioneer Award Selection Dimensions:
1 User scale, market share
2 Valuation or market capitalization
3 Core product competitiveness (provide core products such as: VR hardware, AR hardware, virtual people, algorithms and other related introductions)
4 Research team and laboratory size
Schedule:
From now on: Start the selection process and accept the information delivery.
March 7, 2022: Information submission deadline.
March 7-15: The results are summarized and calculated through the model.
March 30, 2021: List release and awards.
Registration:
Enterprises can register in the following ways: