In all industries, it's worth redoing with a big model.
Look, the train of generative AI is roaring forward on the accelerator, crashing into thousands of industries, crashing into daily life, and charging at full speed towards general artificial intelligence with the momentum of breaking everything and reconstructing the world.
Listen, the horn of transforming productivity has sounded frequently, and the helmsmen of the giant wheel of science and technology and the entrepreneurs who are sharp have set off one after another, resolutely rushing to the new era of AI and pursuing a future that breaks through imagination.
The science and technology boss waved his arms and recruited technical talents from all over the world.
The platform factory is waiting for the day, and is fully armed to play combination boxing.
Dark horse start-ups are in full swing, and intensive financing continues to launch new products.
AI models are emerging in an endless stream, and innovative applications are gaining momentum in China.
Standing at a turning point in history, we have witnessed the storm of large models, ChatGPT, AI Agent, and embodied intelligence that have swept the world, and we have a glimpse of the far-reaching changes that general artificial intelligence will bring to human society, and we also recognize the technical limitations and commercialization challenges we are facing at this stage.
Entering the new year, there are new starting points, new goals, and new opportunities. With the wave of innovation surging, the passion of entrepreneurship burning, the ideal of changing the world like a torch, and the action that ignites the current like the wind, in this promising new era, China's generative AI forces are gearing up to open a new situation in the changing situation and create a new chapter in the AI industry.
From April 18th to 19th, the 2024 China Generative AI Conference will be held in Beijing. This is the second generative AI industry event initiated and hosted by Zhidong and Zhiorangutan after the first high-level innovation summit focusing on AIGC in China will be held in 2023. With the theme of "Reconstructing the World and Heading for the Future", this year's conference plans to invite 50+ heavyweight guests to share on the same stage, and deconstruct the time and situation, crisis and opportunity, destruction and establishment of generative AI with a forward-looking panoramic vision.
The stars are so bright, and the lights are shining everywhere. Although artificial general intelligence has a long way to go, a group of daredevils have set out bravely. In the era of generative AI, who dares to take the sword out of the sheath? Which technologies and applications have made small achievements on the road to commercialization? How can shovel sellers and water sellers catch the "pouring wealth" brought about by strong demand? Stay tuned for the answers given by these pioneer companies.
1. Conference agenda: seven major plates, to explore industrial changes and breakthroughs
The conference will invite academic representatives, business leaders, technical experts, and senior investors to present the cutting-edge technology paths, product innovation achievements, application trends, and business challenges of the generative AI and large model industry through keynote speeches and roundtable discussions.
At the main venue, the opening ceremony and large-scale model session will be held on April 18. In 2023, the "100 model war" will be in full swing, with the strongest models breaking records with each other, derivative products evolving rapidly, and non-Transformer architectures also breaking ground one after another. From language, speech, vision to multimodality, from limited tokens to ultra-long contexts, from closed-source hegemony to open source popularity, from architecture innovation to competition and implementation, it is the continuous exploration of large model trainers that lays a good foundation for the prosperity of generative AI applications. Participating experts will share the route selection, latest achievements and current challenges of technology, application and ecology in the large-scale model session.
The AI Basic Software Session will be held on the morning of April 19. This session will focus on the middle-level players hidden behind the generative AI wave, and invite representatives of leading companies in the AI basic software segment to share their experience and insights in filling the gap in AI technology, helping to accelerate large model training and inference, and lowering the threshold for customized generative AI products and applications.
The AIGC application session will be held on the afternoon of April 19. Following the "AI iPhone" moment brought by the phenomenal product ChatGPT, based on a large model with the ability to generate text, audio, images, video, multimodality, etc., there are a variety of AIGC applications with detailed functions such as chatting, painting, retouching, office, programming, and audio and video editing. In this session, creators of benchmark products and tools in China will be invited to share how they are using generative AI to reshape the application experience and achieve commercial success.
In the sub-venues, AI computing infrastructure is the foundation to support the large-scale implementation of large models and generative AI applications, and is the driving force for the continuous iteration of large model training and the stable operation and maintenance of commercial applications. The China Intelligent Computing Center Innovation Forum will be held on April 19, focusing on how core enterprises in the intelligent computing industry can give full play to the synergistic advantages of software and hardware and reconstruct the data center system in the era of large computing power to meet the strong demand for computing power.
The conference also held closed-door technical seminars around the two cutting-edge technology focuses of "embodied intelligence" and "AI agent". By combining a variety of technologies and domain knowledge, AI can autonomously decompose, plan and complete tasks through automated workflows, and explore technological breakthroughs and commercial paths that further liberate human hands, reduce the cost of human-computer interaction, and allow models and machines to solve more complex tasks.
Embodied intelligence can learn autonomously from environmental interaction, generate an understanding of the objective world, and use it for iterative optimization of its own capabilities, match entities for the landing of large models, and complete the last piece of the puzzle for general robots. Stanford University's "Cyber Nanny" Mobile ALOHA, which can stir-fry and wash pots, Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus, which can fold T-shirts, and Microsoft Research, which uses ChatGPT to control robots to find specific drinks, are becoming more and more scientific research cases that allow people to see the dawn of embodied intelligence creating value for human society.
AI agents are seen as "the next battle of big models". In the prompt word interaction mode, the user needs to constantly communicate with the AI to obtain satisfactory results; in the copilot mode, the AI has the ability to provide more professional knowledge and improve search efficiency, and provide more assistance for the user to complete the task; while in the AI agent mode, the user only needs to propose the task, and most of the work will be done by the AI agent with the large model as the brain, and the task disassembly, tool selection, progress control, etc. Accomplish the goal, and humans play more of a supervisory role throughout the process.
What is the latest progress of the two frontiers, why can it subvert the productivity of the industry and change the rules of the game, what technologies and landing challenges need to be overcome?
2. Annual list: China's top 50 generative AI companies
As one of the important parts of the conference, the list of "AI Productivity Innovation Pioneers - China's Top 50 Generative AI Enterprises" will be officially announced during the conference.
The list aims to focus on the pioneer enterprises in China's generative AI wave (involving large models, generative AI applications, AI infrastructure, etc.), and select the leaders who have played an important leading role in innovation breakthroughs or industrial transformation according to the innovation value and industrial influence of generative AI-related technologies, products, applications, and solutions.
The organizing committee will announce the registration channel for the list applicants in the near future. Readers and friends are welcome to leave a message and recommend your optimistic generative AI companies.
3. Enrollment starts: Expansion of the generative AI exhibition area
At the same time of the conference, a generative AI exhibition area will be set up next to the main venue and sub-venues. Compared with previous years, the area of the exhibition area and the number of booths have been expanded to a certain extent.
The exhibition area is mainly open to large models, computing power, AI basic software, AIGC applications, AI agents, embodied intelligence and other related enterprises. At present, the exhibition recruitment work is in full swing, if you are interested in exhibiting, you can add a small assistant at the end of the article for consultation.
4. Previous review: the first AIGC high-level innovation summit in China
On March 24, 2023, GTIC 2023 China AIGC Innovation Summit, the first high-level innovation summit focusing on AIGC (AI content generation) in China, was held in Beijing. With the theme of "AI New Era, Creating a New World", this summit brought together more than 20 industry-university-research leaders to launch a round of fierce technical confrontation and collision of views.
▲Guest of GTIC 2023 China AIGC Innovation Summit
From the confrontation of basic models to the collision of investment views, from the early adopter of pioneer products to the discussion of intelligent computing paths, from the battle of the route of "large model VS small model" to the soul torture of "Chinese version of ChatGPT...... More than 1,000 people attended the summit, and the exchange atmosphere was very warm, with more than 4.2 million people watching the live broadcast on the whole network.
▲GTIC 2023 China AIGC Innovation Summit site
This year, the 2024 China Generative AI Conference has been upgraded and set up as a two-day agenda for the first time, which will continue to focus on technology to promote industrial transformation, adhere to the tradition of being highly professional and full of dry goods, and provide original and high-quality insights for the industry to grasp the pulse of the times.
5. Registration opens: The audience registration channel is open simultaneously
Preparations for the China Generative AI Conference are in full swing, and the audience registration channel has officially opened. The summit e-ticket is set up with free tickets, standard tickets, VIP tickets and premium tickets. Among them, for free tickets, the application must be approved before attending, and standard tickets, VIP tickets and premium tickets must be purchased.
You can scan the QR code below to add the assistant "Bubble" to apply for registration and purchase e-tickets. Old friends who have added "Bubbles" can send a private message to "Bubbles" and send "GenAI24" to sign up.
At the same time, enterprises or experts who have conference sponsorship and speech needs can also send a private message to "bubble"~