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Laoshan: Artificial intelligence "spreads its wings" and gathers into the future

There are 13 innovation platforms above the provincial level and more than 200 industry application enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence, and the revenue of enterprises in the first half of the year exceeded 10 billion

The big language model stirs up the "spring water" of artificial intelligence, and Laoshan, which has a strong industrial foundation, is accelerating to the core stage of the field of artificial intelligence with a strong posture -

Recently, the Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Forum and the 5th "100 Enterprises and 100 Scenes" Matchmaking Meeting of Jinan-Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Application Pilot Zone were successfully held, and experts, scholars and representatives of leading enterprises from the national artificial intelligence field gathered in Laoshan to discuss the new future of the artificial intelligence industry.

Similar situations are not uncommon, since the beginning of this year, the artificial intelligence industry in Laoshan District has stood in the "spotlight" more than once.

At the first Newspaper Media Metaverse Application Conference of the China Press Association held on September 21, under the attention of hundreds of national mainstream media such as People's Daily, the Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park in Laoshan District made a key promotion; On September 13, the main leaders of the Municipal Party Committee led a team to investigate the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and the three projects investigated were all in Laoshan District, highlighting the "good quality" of artificial intelligence development; Earlier, Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park went to Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing and other places for investment promotion, attracting a number of large projects and good projects to sign and settle...

Promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy, and in Laoshan, the development of artificial intelligence industry is showing a rapid trend.

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Build a computing power service support supply place

As one of the three core elements of artificial intelligence, computing power is known as the "engine" of artificial intelligence, and every industrial wave is inseparable from the promotion of computing power.

In 2023, under the background of the rapid rise of emerging industries represented by artificial intelligence, computing power has become synonymous with competition in major cities in China, and cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen have laid out and built artificial intelligence computing centers, and Qingdao is no exception.

On February 23, Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park, one of the first batch of emerging industry professional parks in the city, was unveiled, and on the same day, the first artificial intelligence computing center in Shandong Province - Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Computing Center, which planned 100P computing power in the first phase, was put into operation. Since then, artificial intelligence-related enterprises in Laoshan and even the entire Qingdao have been supported by inclusive computing power. According to data from the Laoshan District Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, since the launch of the computing power center, it has served more than 200 enterprises and scientific research institutes, and the utilization rate of computing power has reached 80%.

In Laoshan District, the effect of inclusive computing power continues to be released. Taking Ocean University of China as an example, the university relies on the Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Computing Center to build the world's first Langyabo marine environmental forecasting model applied to maritime security, marine energy development and protection, ocean transportation and marine fisheries, and some of the research results have been adopted by the National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center and the National Meteorological Administration.

In fact, the launch of Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Computing Center is only the first step in building an artificial intelligence highland in Laoshan District. On the same day that the computing power center was launched, the Qingdao Sea Heart Computing Center, which planned the first phase of 150P computing power, signed a contract and planned to be put into use within this year, which can provide higher performance and lower cost computing power and large model data sets for large model training and industrial applications, and support the development of strategic emerging industries.

In addition, at the 2023 International Virtual Reality Innovation Conference held on September 22, the virtual reality computing center built by Yuntianchang in Laoshan District was officially launched. Different from the previous two, the computing power center is a new GPU computing power infrastructure project, which can not only empower the development of the virtual reality industry, provide graphics and rendering computing power services for virtual reality enterprises such as content production and application in Laoshan District, but also use its own advantages to attract partners nationwide to use the metaverse computing power service from Qingdao.

Lighting up the "computing power beacon", Laoshan District has firmly consolidated the foundation for the development of artificial intelligence industry by pooling efforts to build a computing power service support supply area.

Become a source of software and hardware integration innovation

In addition to the computing power base, to build a strong industrial ecology of artificial intelligence, it is also necessary to work strengthening the chain and supplementing the chain.

Relying on the platform carrier of Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park, since the beginning of this year, Laoshan District has continued to introduce high-quality industrial projects into the park around three emerging tracks: information and innovation hardware manufacturing, complex algorithm software research and development, model training and data services, as well as six application scenarios of smart home, industrial intelligence, smart city, smart finance, life and health, and space, space, earth and sea.

Biaobei Technology, which has just settled in Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park, is one of the leaders. "The many convenient conditions provided by Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park have exempted us from worries about development. At present, we have carried out relevant business in Qingdao around artificial intelligence platform, large model, voice interaction and other subdivisions. Luan Yongle, regional head of Biaobei Technology, said.

While doing a good job in strong chain articles, aiming at the shortcomings of industrial development, Laoshan District also accurately implements policies and does a good job of supplementing chain articles.

Machine vision is a branch of the rapid development of artificial intelligence and has become the key to upgrading advanced equipment from automation to intelligence. However, compared with advanced regions such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area, the layout of Laoshan District enterprises in the field of machine vision still has a lot of room for improvement. To this end, Shandong Industrial Technology Research Institute (Qingdao) took the lead in promoting the establishment of the first machine vision proof-of-concept center in Shandong Province, and signed cooperation agreements with a number of domestic artificial intelligence enterprises in the field of machine vision. "In April this year, we also launched the construction of the first computational medicine proof-of-concept center in Shandong Province to help AI companies in the field of medicine and health quickly realize the transformation of results." Zhao Yubo, executive director of Shandong Industrial Technology Research Institute (Qingdao), said that at present, the institute is accelerating the convergence of upstream and downstream enterprises in the artificial intelligence industry chain to Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park.

Since the beginning of this year, Laoshan District has accurately introduced a number of key projects and core supporting enterprises in the industrial chain. Numbers are the best footnote - in the first half of 2023, enterprises in the artificial intelligence industry chain in Laoshan District achieved revenue of about 11 billion yuan, an increase of 53%, and have gathered 13 innovation platforms above the provincial level in the field of artificial intelligence, gathering more than 200 industrial backbone enterprises, 50 more than last year. Among them, there are two newly cultivated listed enterprises in Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park, with a total of 5; 3 newly recognized specialized and special new "little giant" enterprises, with a total of 7; There are 9 newly recognized provincial "gazelle" enterprises, bringing the total to 21.

Laoshan District has built and strengthened the artificial intelligence industry ecology by improving the artificial intelligence industry chain including hardware, software, content and application, and is moving towards the goal of becoming a source of software and hardware integration innovation.

Build a leading place for industrial intelligent applications

Predict typhoons, develop new drugs, identify failures, develop production plans... As an important driving force for a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the "head geese effect" of artificial intelligence empowering thousands of industries has appeared.

Laoshan District is one of the earliest urban areas in China to lay out the artificial intelligence industry, while accelerating the gathering of resource elements and improving the industrial ecology, it also actively promotes the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy to create a new highland for the development of artificial intelligence industry. In Qingdao Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park, build a large industry model around key areas such as urban governance, manufacturing, and financial services, and then empower all walks of life.

For example, the Laoshan District Urban Cloud Brain, built by Donghua Software Development, was officially launched in June this year. The cloud brain makes full use of 5G, big data, cloud computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence and other new generation information technologies to achieve accurate analysis, overall research and judgment, collaborative command, and scientific governance of urban governance, and its integrated visual intelligent perception system of space, space and ground relies on satellite remote sensing, distributed UAV swarm, and the construction of an intelligent video perception network covering the whole region, and distributes AI algorithms to intelligently analyze and perceive relevant urban events in real time.

The National High-end Intelligent Household Appliances Innovation Center, the only national manufacturing innovation center in the field of home appliances, focuses on home health scenarios, launches new home health overall solutions, builds the digital brain of home health in the industry, and realizes the new family health service of "hospital treatment" to "home health care". Through this scenario, it only takes 30 seconds to accurately obtain relevant health reports and detect health status through wireless sensing technology. With scenario construction to drive the landing of artificial intelligence technology, products and applications, Laoshan District is focusing on building a leading place for industrial intelligent applications by launching a number of "AI+" Qingdao solutions.

Artificial intelligence, which is driving profound changes in the global technology landscape, is creating a future full of infinite possibilities and opportunities. Anchoring the goal of building a national first-class artificial intelligence innovation and application pilot zone, Laoshan District takes the industrial chain as the "main battlefield" and the professional park as the "main position" to accelerate the creation of an "upgraded version" of the development of the artificial intelligence industry. (Qingdao Daily/Guanhai News reporter Yi Tao)