Sprint "artificial intelligence highland" Many places support policies are intensively introduced

Many places have upgraded their artificial intelligence industry policies, and Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places have successively issued policy documents to support the industry

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How to seize the wave of technological change in artificial intelligence and promote regional and industrial development, many first-tier cities have opened a "chase race". Beijing was even more moved, issuing two policies in one day, sprinting to the "first city of artificial intelligence".

China is actively deploying the artificial intelligence industry and racing the "future track". With the growing demand for artificial intelligence in various industries and fields, new models of deep integration with the real economy continue to emerge, forming a R&D system and application ecology with Chinese characteristics, leading the leap from digitalization and networking to intelligence in all fields of economy and society. The technological outbreak represented by the "big model" has accelerated the development of the artificial intelligence industry.

Relevant experts pointed out that new research and new products related to large models are emerging, and general artificial intelligence is becoming a key track for the key layout of various countries.

How to seize this round of technological change and promote regional and industrial development, many first-tier cities have opened a "chase race". Recently, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places have introduced relevant policies and measures to give full play to their own characteristic advantages to innovate "running". Beijing was even more moved, issuing two policies in one day, sprinting to the "first city of artificial intelligence".

Support policies in many places have been intensively introduced

Recently, various places have introduced policy measures to promote the development of artificial intelligence. The "Shenzhen Action Plan for Accelerating the Application of High-quality Development of Artificial Intelligence (2023~2024)" was recently released, which clearly stated: "Increase financial investment and focus on supporting artificial intelligence innovation and application." Give play to the role of government investment guidance funds, coordinate and integrate fund resources, and form an artificial intelligence fund group with a scale of 100 billion yuan. ”

In addition to Shenzhen, the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology publicly solicited public opinions on June 1 on "Several Policies and Measures to Further Promote the High-quality Development of Artificial Intelligence Industry in Chengdu (Draft for Comments)".

The recently released "Several Policies and Measures for Shanghai to Increase Support for Private Investment and Development" proposes to give full play to the guiding role of artificial intelligence innovation and development projects, and support private enterprises to widely participate in the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure such as data and computing power. At present, Shanghai Xuhui District is actively introducing and cultivating a number of large model R&D teams, and will accelerate research to create a large model ecological agglomeration and innovative application highland.

It is not difficult to see that when the new round of artificial intelligence industrial competition continues to heat up, favorable policies to encourage and support the development of artificial intelligence in various places have also been intensively released. The reporter noted that the latest local policy documents all focus on the development of computing power, increase investment in computing power infrastructure, and emphasize the high-quality development of artificial intelligence to expand the depth and breadth of AI innovative application scenarios. A number of people from the AI industry also told reporters that a number of AI industry support policies issued by the state and local governments will give impetus to the development of the industry and further promote the integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy.

Dai Qionghai, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chairman of the Chinese Engineering Intelligence Society, said that China has a broad artificial intelligence application market, but it is still weak in terms of basic technology and talents. From the perspective of policies, mechanisms and inputs, we should deepen the training of artificial intelligence talents and basic research, and strengthen original innovation. Tianyan inspection data shows that there are nearly 2.731 million AI-related enterprises in mainland China, of which more than 232,000 were newly registered in January ~ May this year, with an average growth rate of 66.7%.

"After years of development, general artificial intelligence has become a new hot spot for competition, and the investment and research and development of all parties are unabated." Huang Tiejun, president of Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, said that in the future, visual general artificial intelligence such as SegGPT will be widely used in automatic driving, robots and other aspects.

According to statistics, at present, 79 large models above the scale of 1 billion parameters have been published in China; There are 14 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities carrying out large-scale model research and development, mainly concentrated in Beijing and Guangdong, including 38 in Beijing and 20 in Guangdong.

Beijing issued two blockbuster policies in one day

At the major results conference of the closing ceremony of the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum held recently, the "Implementation Plan for Beijing to Accelerate the Construction of a Source of Artificial Intelligence Innovation with Global Influence (2023-2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") and "Several Measures to Promote the Innovation and Development of General Artificial Intelligence in Beijing" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures") were released. Through these two policies, from the perspective of encouraging and guiding the development of the industry, Beijing will further coordinate resources around the common needs of innovation and development, comprehensively promote the construction of artificial intelligence independent technology system and industrial ecological development, and basically build a source of artificial intelligence innovation with global influence by 2025.

It is rare to issue important documents so intensively around artificial intelligence, and Beijing's determination and strength to build an artificial intelligence highland are clearly visible.

First of all, the "Plan" puts forward 16 key tasks around the five directions of breakthrough key technologies, consolidating the underlying foundation, building an industrial array, promoting scene construction, and building an innovation ecology. The Measures take specific measures to improve the overall supply capacity of computing power resources, improve the supply capacity of high-quality data elements, systematically build a general artificial intelligence technology system such as large models, promote the application of general artificial intelligence technology innovation scenarios, and explore the creation of an inclusive and prudent regulatory environment.

In these two blockbuster documents, several important points and keywords are worth paying attention to.

First, breakthrough and originality. The "Plan" mentions "breaking through the frontier basic theoretical innovation of artificial intelligence", emphasizing "carrying out research layout around the mathematical mechanism of artificial intelligence, big data intelligence, multimodal intelligence, decision-making intelligence, brain-like intelligence, scientific intelligence, embodied intelligence, etc., to form an original theoretical system of artificial intelligence with international influence". It is not only necessary to have a basic theoretical framework system, but also to emphasize "originality".

The second is two important contents. The "Plan" mentions that "support innovation subjects to focus on breakthroughs in basic platform technologies such as distributed and efficient deep learning frameworks, new large-model infrastructure, deep ultra-large-scale graph computing, and ultra-large-scale simulation computing." It supports the research and development of key algorithms such as data and knowledge deep joint learning, high-dimensional spatial multimodal semantic alignment, large-scale cognition and reasoning, controllable content generation, efficient and low-cost training and reasoning, and strives to promote technological innovation related to large models. Encourage relevant technologies and algorithms to be open source."

The scale of core industries will reach 300 billion yuan

"The scale of the core industry of artificial intelligence has reached 300 billion yuan, maintaining a continuous growth of more than 10%, and the scale of the radiation industry has exceeded 1 trillion yuan." The Programme presents specific target data.

The 16 priorities and 21 specific measures revolve around this goal. From the general direction, under the national decision-making framework for the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence, the "two artificial intelligence zones" in Beijing - Beijing National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development Pilot Zone and National Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Application Pilot Zone, "One Place" - the source of artificial intelligence innovation with global influence, and "One Center" - the International Science and Technology Innovation Center continue to layout, deepen and strengthen and comprehensively promote.

Around this blueprint, detailed goals are also specified in the Plan. Beijing will make breakthroughs in the basic theory of artificial intelligence, the theoretical framework system of artificial intelligence will be basically formed, and the prototype of general artificial intelligence will appear; Natural language, general vision, multimodal interaction large model, etc. form a complete technology stack, and the key algorithm technology has reached the domestic leading and international advanced level. The layout of artificial intelligence computing power has taken initial shape, the market proportion of basic software and hardware products such as domestic artificial intelligence chips and deep learning frameworks has increased significantly, and computing power chips have basically achieved independent and controllable; The proportion of domestic hardware has increased significantly.

The investment in scientific research of AI leaders continues to increase, the number of start-ups continues to grow, the total number of enterprises remains leading in China, and 5 to 10 newly cultivated unicorn enterprises.

According to the Plan, Beijing will also build a number of AI scientific research institutions with world-class influence and introduce and cultivate a team of world-class innovative talents; Strive for the number of high-level scholars to exceed 10,000, and maintain a leading proportion in China. We will also strive to make important progress in AI-related policies and measures, ethical safety, and technical standards. (Workers' Daily reporter Lai Zhikai)

Source: Daily Worker