Use artificial intelligence to empower the upgrading of thousands of industries

Editor's note

The development of new quality productivity is an intrinsic requirement and an important focus for promoting high-quality development. The new quality productive forces are characterized by innovation, the key lies in high quality, and the essence is advanced productive forces. Haidian District is the core area of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center, the only district in Beijing with a GDP of more than one trillion yuan, and the only prefecture-level district and county in the country with a GDP of more than one trillion yuan, and the comprehensive performance evaluation index of high-quality development has ranked first in the city for three consecutive years. The Municipal Party Committee requires us to give full play to the advantages of education, science and technology, and human resources, accelerate the construction of a modern and strong area, a high-quality Haidian, and be a good vanguard of the capital's high-quality development and a demonstration area for new quality productivity in the new era.

At present, Haidian is thoroughly implementing the requirements of "one goal" and "five demonstrations" put forward by the municipal party committee with a sense of urgency. This newspaper has specially launched a column of "Marching New Quality Productivity Demonstration Zone", which goes deep into the parks, enterprises, scientific research institutes and other units, directly hits the vivid practice from the front line, and shows the spirit of Haidian to be the vanguard of high-quality development of the capital in the new era and the demonstration area of new quality productivity.

On March 13, Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Beijing, listened to the report on the development of Beijing's new quality productivity and the speeches of relevant enterprise leaders, emphasizing that artificial intelligence should better empower thousands of industries. Yin Qi, co-founder and CEO of Megvii Technology, attended the symposium as a representative of artificial intelligence enterprises in Beijing and reported the company's technological innovation ideas in the field of large models and the practical results of artificial intelligence industrialization.

As an artificial intelligence (AI) company focusing on Internet of Things scenarios, since its establishment in Haidian in 2011, Megvii Technology has launched a series of products and solutions that integrate software and hardware to promote the application of artificial intelligence in consumer electronics, urban brain, smart logistics, autonomous driving and other industry scenarios. Artificial intelligence is an important engine for the development of new quality productivity, and Megvii Technology continues to make efforts in the "AI+ industry", so that artificial intelligence can empower the upgrading of thousands of industries and help high-quality development.

Independent innovation

Grasp the core technology of deep learning and continue to make breakthroughs

The key core technology is not to come, to buy, or to buy. Iron also needs to be hard. "The core technical capability of this wave of artificial intelligence technology development is deep learning. Yin Qi, co-founder and CEO of Megvii Technology, said that deep learning is the core technology spindle at the bottom. The explosion of large models stems from the accumulation of research results in the core fields of deep learning such as NLP (natural language processing), vision, and speech in academia and industry over the past decade. This is a process from quantitative to qualitative change.

In the past ten years of entrepreneurship, Megvii Technology has achieved a leading position in basic research and vertical industry applications around the core technology of deep learning. Among them, MegEngine, a self-developed domestic industrial-grade deep learning framework, broke the monopoly of foreign giants in one fell swoop, and formed a certain degree of domestic substitution effect for foreign products of the same type.

Integrating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance, Megvii Technology has undertaken a number of major scientific research projects in the fields of deep learning open source framework, datasets, image perception technology, etc., such as the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and participated in promoting the innovation of Chinese artificial intelligence technology. In August 2019, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the construction of a "National New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Open Innovation Platform for Image Perception" relying on Megvii Technology Brain++, and in 2023, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved the cooperation between Megvii Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong University to build a national key laboratory of human-machine hybrid augmented intelligence, etc.

As a technology-driven company, Megvii Technology has established the world's leading AI research institute, bringing together hundreds of top AI research talents in the industry, forming a Chinese AI research team with global competitiveness and influence in terms of top talent density.

"The artificial intelligence industry is ushering in a new wave of development, and we must be guided by the national strategic needs, concentrate on original and leading scientific and technological research, and resolutely win the battle of key core technologies. Inch said.

All-in-one layout

Artificial intelligence is deeply integrated with industry scenarios

Scientific and technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, and is the core element of the development of new quality productive forces. Megvii Technology continues to promote the industrialization of artificial intelligence, deeply integrate artificial intelligence technology with industry scenarios, and build a full-stack technology system covering algorithms, systems and hardware.

At the algorithm level, Megvii Technology has developed a series of world-class original algorithms such as ShuffleNet, DorefaNet, and RepVGG, and has formed a large model research and development system from multi-modal large models to industry large models. Based on its leading model design capabilities, Megvii Technology is deeply developing a new generation of multi-modal large models.

At the system level, Brain++, a new generation of artificial intelligence operating system independently developed by Megvii Technology, can efficiently support large model training and realize large-scale production and rapid deployment of algorithms.

At the hardware level, Megvii Technology has accumulated a large number of underlying core technologies for robot research and development, and has built an integrated software and hardware product system around sensors, industrial robots, and smart cars.

At present, Megvii Technology has become one of the few Chinese artificial intelligence enterprises that have the ability to realize the independent and controllable full-chain technology of artificial intelligence.

"To promote the implementation of artificial intelligence technology, it must be deeply integrated with scenarios in all walks of life. Yin Qi elaborated on the original intention of Megvii Technology's layout of a full-stack technology system, "AI can only take root and release value when it is deeply integrated with industry scenarios and a mature product system is built." In this process, AI R&D capabilities, software and hardware productization capabilities, and industry scenarios are all indispensable elements. ”

Technology landing

Scientific and technological achievements help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency

The new quality productivity has the characteristics of high technology, high efficiency and high quality, and the total factor productivity is greatly improved as the core symbol. To develop new productive forces, it is necessary to apply the achievements of scientific and technological innovation to specific industries and industrial chains in a timely manner.

Megvii Technology deeply integrates artificial intelligence technology with the industry, and has successively deployed consumer electronics, smart cities, smart logistics, autonomous driving and other fields to promote the intelligent upgrading of thousands of industries.

In the exhibition hall of Megvii Technology, there is an unattended "logistics warehouse", densely packed with shelves, intelligent four-way vehicles, and different types of intelligent robots, each performing its own duties and efficient linkage. Such scenarios have been widely used. Wolong Holding Group Co., Ltd., located in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, has a "black light factory" that has been selected as a case study of the integration of two industries by the National Development and Reform Commission. Here, numerous systems and devices operate autonomously and efficiently around the clock. Compared with the traditional workshop, the overall production efficiency of the automated workshop is increased by 79%, the production and operating costs are reduced by 33.5%, and the energy utilization rate is increased by 16.7%.

Behind these data, it comes from a set of smart warehousing solutions that combine software and hardware created by Megvii Technology. The solution includes a series of intelligent logistics equipment such as intelligent handling robots that can be navigated autonomously, unmanned forklifts, and automated warehouses, and has "Megvii Hetu" as the "brain" of the entire system to automate the scheduling of all equipment.

Megvii Technology combines artificial intelligence, robotics and logistics automation systems to provide a complete set of smart logistics solutions such as robots, four-way vehicles, and dispatching systems to help enterprises upgrade factories and logistics centers digitally and intelligently. As early as 7 years ago, Megvii Technology formulated the warehousing and logistics product strategy of "AI + robot", and so far has implemented more than 500 intelligent warehousing and logistics projects in the field of smart logistics, providing digital intelligent logistics solutions for more than 20 Fortune 500 companies.

In addition to "AI + logistics", Megvii Technology has also innovated and expanded application scenarios such as "AI + Sports", "AI + Chemical" and "AI + Energy", transforming the scientific and technological achievements of AI into system tools that can be used by enterprises and solve enterprise problems, helping enterprises improve quality, reduce costs, increase efficiency, and achieve high-quality development.

At the 2023 Enterprise Business Partner Conference, Megvii Technology announced that its future products will be divided into left and right wings - one is AI infrastructure products, and the other is AIoT (Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things) products. Megvii Technology's development strategy is clearer and its path is clearer.

Entering the Megvii Technology exhibition hall, the first thing that catches your eye is the display wall, listing representatives of partners from all walks of life. Starting from the use of Haidian District's advantages in education, science and technology, economy and other advantages to develop partners, Megvii Technology's "circle of friends" has been expanding. The park where Megvii Technology is located also applies Megvii's technology in daily management. Haidian District's rich innovation ecology and first-class business environment provide a deep soil for innovation, entrepreneurship and creation of science and technology enterprises. With the vision of "making the physical world better", starting from Haidian, Megvii Technology looks to the future and moves forward. (Reporter Ni Henghu)