2023WAIC: Ant Group lays out "AI+root technology" to help the large-scale industrial landing of artificial intelligence

Zhongxin Wanghai News, July 7 (Reporter Jiang Yu) The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) with the theme of "Intelligent Connected World, Generating the Future" is being held in Shanghai. During the conference, Ant Group displayed a big picture of digital technology with "AI+Root Technology" as the core, its trusted AI product "Ant Jian 2.0" was selected as the "Treasure of the Town Hall" of this conference, and the digital copyright protection platform "Quechi" was shortlisted for the highest award of this conference, SAIL Award TOP30.

During this conference, Ant Group also released two privacy computing open source products, Hidden Words Open Source Framework Version 1.0, and HyperEnclave, the first domestic financial security TEE solution, hoping to build an industry technology ecosystem through openness and help the high-quality development of AI security.

("Ant Jian 2.0" was selected as the 2023 WAIC "Treasure of the Town Hall")

Ant Group believes that the in-depth application of artificial intelligence not only puts forward higher requirements for data, algorithms and computing power, but also poses more challenges to security, privacy and ethics. Under the premise of ensuring data security and privacy protection, and improving the ethics and security of artificial intelligence, AI technology can truly release the application value.

It is understood that Ant Group continues to invest in technology in the field of artificial intelligence, and based on the needs of large-scale business scenarios, it has laid out AI technology fields including knowledge graph, operations research optimization, graph learning, trusted AI, large models, etc. "Ant Group's accumulation in computing, storage, security and other root technology fields has provided strong technical support for the large-scale implementation of artificial intelligence to release digital value, and jointly promoted the large-scale application of Ant artificial intelligence in the fields of finance, people's livelihood and sustainable development." Wang Zhirong, vice president of Ant Group and chief scientist of artificial intelligence, said.

"Ant Jian 2.0" selected as the 2023 WAIC "Treasure of the Town Hall"

At the WAAC booth, Ant Group systematically demonstrated the technical architecture of Ant Trusted AI for the first time, as well as the newly upgraded trusted AI industrial detection platform - Ant Jian 2.0. Among them, "Ant Jian 2.0" was selected as the "treasure of the town hall" of this year's conference.

The development of large models has once again aroused widespread attention to AI from all walks of life. In fact, AI has become an important productivity tool to promote digital development, and how to make AI applications comply with safety specifications has become a key problem in the industry in recent years.

"Antjian AI Security Detection Platform" is the industry's first industrial-grade AI security detection platform that supports all data types such as text and images. It debuted to the public during last year's WAIC, and at this year's WAIC conference, Ant released "Ant Jian 2.0", a fully upgraded new version that adds AIGC security and AI explainable capabilities.

"Antjian 2.0" can generate massive test sets through intelligent confrontation technology to induce AIGC generative models interactively, much like a 24-hour sleepless "security hacker" looking for a large model, so as to find the weaknesses and security problems of the large model.

The upgrade of "ant jian" adapts to the new trend of large model development. According to the staff of the Ant Group exhibition area, "Ant Jian 2.0" has been promoted to generalization and standardization through joint scientific research with Tsinghua and other universities, which can not only support digital finance, but also support the demand for AI security detection in industries with outstanding AI and AIGC applications such as education, culture, medical care, and e-commerce. After polishing and precipitating practical applications, AntJian 2.0 can escort large-scale and complex business scenarios.

The birth and iteration of "Ant Jian" reflects the technical strength and application accumulation of Ant Group in the field of trusted AI. It is reported that the practice and exploration of trusted AI started by Ant Group since 2015 is one of the key layouts of Ant Group in the field of artificial intelligence. Through the breakthrough of trusted AI technology, Ant Group has built a set of world-leading intelligent risk control solutions. At present, Ant Group's trusted AI technology has been widely used in multiple risk control scenarios including anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, enterprise joint risk control, and data privacy protection.

"The risk control judgment of completing a payment often only takes 10 milliseconds. Alipay's asset loss rate has been below 1/100 million for three consecutive years. The staff of the Ant Group exhibition area introduced that the AI technology of Ant Group also supports the continuous upgrading of Alipay's intelligence, ensuring the digital service experience of more than one billion people.

Ant trusted privacy computing "hidden language technology stack" open source upgrade

Ant Group also works with the industry to build a data security moat in the AI intelligent era through technology openness.

At the "Data Elements and Privacy Computing Summit Forum", Ant Group released two key open source products: Hidden Language Open Source Framework Version 1.0 and HyperEnclave, the first domestic financial security TEE solution. It is understood that Ant spent 6 years to create a set of industrial-grade "hidden language technology stack", the hidden language framework is the computing engine layer, and HyperEnroll is the trusted base. These two blockbuster open source actions are expected to bring leaps and bounds to the ease of use and versatility of privacy computing, and will also help AI intelligence to use data advantages more safely and more confidently.

This is not the first time that the Hidden Language Framework was open-sourced, the Hidden Language Framework was first open sourced in July last year. Wei Tao, vice president and chief technology security officer of Ant Group, said that the core products of open source privacy computing have always been Ant Group's attitude towards the industry, and in the future, Ant Group will continue to increase the openness and breadth of privacy computing, work with the industry to build a data security moat in the era of AI intelligence, and call on more peers to participate in open source and ecological construction.

Public information shows that in recent years, Ant Group has carried out fruitful exploration in the field of privacy computing. Since 2016, Ant Group has laid out privacy computing technology, and has developed a set of industrial-grade hidden language technology stack with more than 1,000 patents, including leading products such as hidden language framework, Occlum TEE open source operating system, HyperEnclave, etc., and incubated new privacy computing technologies such as trusted secret computing (TECC). This technology stack will also be awarded the "Treasure of the Eight Towns" of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in 2022.

Showcase a big picture of digital technology with "AI+Root Technology" as the core

During this WAIC, Ant Group also displayed a big picture of digital technology with "AI+Root Technology" as the core.

The large-scale application of artificial intelligence in the industry must solve the problems of data explosion, data trusted circulation, user privacy and data security, complex correlation of massive data, and reducing computing energy consumption. Ant Group's continuous root technology hopes to help solve these problems.

Ant Group's OceanBase is a fully self-developed distributed database on the cloud, which provides agile, elastic and trusted computing services to meet the needs of enterprises for geometric growth of data volume and ensure data security on the cloud.

AntChain is a product formed by Ant Group based on blockchain technology, which can support the trusted flow of data; Privacy computing ensures that data is secure and used legally and compliantly. The combination of AntChain and privacy computing technology can ensure the credibility of data sources and circulation, help participants in all links of the industry achieve secure data sharing and circulation, and promote the digitalization of industrial collaboration. (End)

Editor: Jiang Yu