In 2023, after ChatGPT became popular, it triggered a wave of investment in generative AI technology and industry discussions on technology-enabled industrial innovation and development.
Behind the large model opening up a new world of AI, the industry is looking forward to the arrival of a technological revolution to help the emergence of the blue ocean market in emerging industries.
In December 2023, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting to analyze and study the economic work in 2024, and clearly proposed to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, continue to inject strong impetus into high-quality development, lead the construction of a modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation, and improve the resilience and security of industrial and supply chains.
As a major manufacturing province in China, scientific and technological innovation has always been the core driving force for the transformation and upgrading of industries. In order to help the implementation of innovative technologies, we will further explore new trends in industrial transformation. On January 11, 2024, a salon hosted by Southern Metropolis Daily will be held in Guangzhou with the theme of AIGC scenario application to help the innovation and development of bay enterprises. This event specially invites university experts and scholars and domestic leading technology companies to provide scientific and technological support for the innovation and development of enterprises by building a platform for exchanges and cooperation between academia and enterprises, and provide opportunities for teachers and students in the field of image graphics to interact with enterprises, and discuss the cutting-edge trend of intelligent technology to help the application and upgrading of enterprise large models.
Relevant experts predict that ChatGPT is not only a breakthrough for a new generation of chatbots, but also a huge change for the information industry.
Guangdong's regional innovation continues to lead, and Bay enterprises have outstanding advantages in innovation and development
Since 2023, after traditional industries have ushered in multiple challenges, the rapid development of emerging industries empowered by scientific and technological innovation has become the focus of the industry's expectations.
The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that it is necessary to promote industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, especially to use disruptive technologies and cutting-edge technologies to give birth to new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, and develop new quality productive forces.
Zhao Changwen, dean of the National Development Research Institute of Sun Yat-sen University, said in an interview with the media a few days ago that there are many advantages and opportunities in the development of new productivity in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. First, the Greater Bay Area is a gathering place for many advanced production factors, including high-level universities and scientific research institutions, a relatively developed financial system, and a complete manufacturing cluster; second, Hong Kong and Macao, as free and open economies, and Guangdong, as the vanguard, pioneer and pilot zone of reform and opening up, can become a new highland for reform and opening up and institutional innovation.
In November 2023, the "China Regional Innovation Capability Evaluation Report 2023" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") was released in Beijing, and Guangdong's regional innovation capability ranked first for a consecutive year, leading the country for seven consecutive years.
From the evaluation system set up in the report, Guangdong ranks first in the country in the three indicators of enterprise innovation, innovation performance and knowledge acquisition, and the report specifically points out that Guangdong has outstanding performance in enterprise innovation and innovation performance.
A large number of globally competitive high-tech enterprises are an important part of Guangdong's innovation system. According to the report, there are currently 67,000 industrial enterprises above designated size in Guangdong, an increase of 20,000 in five years, 69,000 high-tech enterprises, more than twice the number in five years, and Guangdong ranks first in terms of investment in enterprise research and development and comprehensive indicators for improving technical capabilities.
At present, Guangdong has formed 17 national-level innovative industrial clusters and 8 trillion-level industrial clusters, making Guangdong lead the country in innovation performance indicators.
Artificial intelligence has gradually entered the social economy and daily life.
To promote the application of technology, Guangdong should be a "trendsetter" leading the development of the AI industry
In 2023, AIGC can be described as one of the hot words in the field of global scientific and technological innovation, from the emergence of large models represented by ChatGPT, to the rapid innovation of the application layer, and then continue to advance to in-depth business scenarios, its role in serving the real economy is becoming more and more obvious. In Guangdong, a hot land of innovation, the relevant exploration in the field of artificial intelligence has also been at the forefront.
In November 2023, the Guangdong Provincial People's Government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a Leading Innovation Place in the General Artificial Intelligence Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). Among them, it is proposed that Guangdong should seize the major strategic opportunities for the development of general artificial intelligence, give full play to Guangdong's advantages in computing infrastructure, industrial application scenarios, data elements, etc., and accelerate the construction of a leading place for general artificial intelligence industry innovation.
Wang Yueqin, director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, introduced that by 2025, Guangdong is expected to achieve the largest scale of intelligent computing power in the country and the world's leading, the scale of the province's artificial intelligence core industry will exceed 300 billion yuan, and the number of enterprises will exceed 2,000.
At present, Guangdong Province has a series of advantageous resources for the development of artificial intelligence industry. At present, Guangdong has 7 national new-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platforms and 16 provincial-level new-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platforms, and "Pengcheng Cloud Brain II" can provide training tasks to support nearly 1,000 domestic AI models, becoming one of the most important AI large model training platforms in the country. Relying on major provincial and municipal talent projects, nearly 50 innovation teams in the field of AI have been introduced, and 14 doctoral degree programs and 34 master's degree programs in artificial intelligence-related fields have been built.
Qu Xiaojie, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, said that at present, the integration and application of general artificial intelligence technology in various fields in Guangdong has achieved remarkable results. The large model has been applied to the R&D, production, supply chain and other links of the enterprise, effectively improving the efficiency of the whole process. Guangdong is also actively guiding enterprises to integrate general artificial intelligence and other human-computer interaction technologies into various basic software and hardware of existing terminals.
As of 2022, the scale of the province's artificial intelligence core industry will reach 150 billion yuan, with about 170,000 artificial intelligence-related registered enterprises and more than 900 core enterprises, ranking first in the country. In Guangdong, the "big manufacturers" of science and technology represented by Huawei, vivo, Tencent, and NetEase, as well as leading enterprises in subdivided fields such as Jiadu Technology, Yuncong Technology, Yuntian Lifei, and Hanwang, have joined the "battle" of general artificial intelligence technology application.
According to the observation of the reporter of Nandu Bay Finance Society, compared with other regions in China, the key advantage of Guangdong's development of general artificial intelligence is that it can rely on a rich industrial cluster system and a huge demand for industrial transformation and upgrading. The application of large-scale artificial intelligence scenarios is supported by Guangdong's increasingly complete industrial chain and coordinated industrial clusters. Guangdong's total economic output has ranked first in the country for 34 consecutive years, and it is one of the regions with the most active economy and the highest degree of marketization in China.
New kinetic energy, new opportunities, this industry salon decodes the key to the application of new technologies
In November 2023, Guangdong held a conference to accelerate the promotion of new industrialization and high-quality construction of a strong manufacturing province, at which it was proposed to take the realization of new industrialization as the key task of Guangdong's modernization, which is also an important direction of Guangdong's industrial development in 2024. From the perspective of the industry, the core development momentum of Guangdong's promotion of new industrialization comes from the drive of scientific and technological innovation.
Pan Xuanming, a senior researcher at the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Institute in Guangzhou, believes that the development direction of the manufacturing industry in Guangdong Province in recent years can be summarized as "1234", and "1" is to take scientific and technological innovation as a core driving force, and then focus on increasing the proportion of manufacturing in GDP and increasing the proportion of high-tech manufacturing. "3" refers to large platforms, large projects, and large teams, which includes the platform of large-scale science and technology innovation centers, as well as the introduction and implementation of scientific and technological talents and scientific and technological teams. "4" is digitalization, intelligence, greening and manufacturing service. Pan Xuanming said that in order to achieve high-quality industrial development, Guangdong must overcome the "medium technology trap" and rely on the new "troika", that is, basic research, applied technology and financial support.
In the new year, AIGC is expected to provide a strong boost for Guangdong's industrial upgrading and development at the level of application technology. IDC (International Data Corporation) recently released the white paper "Top Ten Trends in the Application Layer of AIGC in 2024" jointly released by DingTalk, which believes that the force for large-scale implementation of artificial intelligence in the future will inevitably focus on application layer innovation. IDC predicts that application-layer innovation will become the definite direction of the development of the AIGC industry in 2024. Large models will change from "fashionable" to "really useful", and become an important means for industrial enterprises to improve efficiency.
Artificial intelligence large-scale model technology is gradually coming to fruition in various scenarios and creating rich application value, becoming an important driving force to promote industrial upgrading and an important force to change society. However, the survey shows that the current development of large-scale model applications is still in the early stage, and there is still a gap from "really novel" to "really useful", "usable" to "easy to use".
How to make the application of technology more qualitative and efficient, reduce the waste of social resources caused by repeated development, and enable enterprise customers to quickly enjoy the real dividends brought by artificial intelligence large model technology is becoming the focus of attention of all parties.
On January 11, 2024, a salon hosted by Southern Metropolis Daily will be held in Guangzhou with the theme of AIGC scenario application to help the innovation and development of bay enterprises. Standing at the starting point of the new year, this event will invite well-known scholars, industry experts, and business executives to discuss the topic of AIGC application to help enterprises improve business efficiency, and share practical experience and forward-looking views in different fields. Stay tuned!
Event Information:
Theme: "AIGC Application Helps Enterprises Increase Efficiency"
Time: January 11, 2023, 14:00-17:00 Location: Southern Intelligent Media Building, South Tower 2103
Event Registration: Xiaonan 19924384312 (limited to 30 people for offline participation)
Written by: Xu Jincong, reporter of Nandu Bay Finance Agency