On April 17, at the IPF2024 of the Ecological Partner Conference held by Inspur Information in Beijing, it was proposed that the development of artificial intelligence + should adhere to the "application-oriented, system-oriented", focus on stimulating innovation vitality, expanding innovation paths, accelerating innovation landing, and promoting artificial intelligence to become the productivity of hundreds of industries.
The development of artificial intelligence+ should focus on innovation, path, and landing
Mobile applications are developed, data resources are abundant, application scenarios are diversified, and the AI industry chain is highly complete...... Under the superposition of various factors, application has become one of the core advantages of Chinese's artificial intelligence industry.
Peng Zhen, chairman of Inspur Information, said that artificial intelligence + is both a goal and an opportunity. Application innovation is demand-driven, requiring the coordinated development of algorithms, computing power, and data, and system-centered global innovation has become a new paradigm in the industry to promote the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
Peng Zhen further pointed out that in the development of artificial intelligence+, it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of application, carry out innovation around vitality, path and landing, stimulate innovation vitality with open source, multi-mode and multi-mode, expand innovation path with system innovation and global optimization, and accelerate innovation implementation with a collaborative symbiosis, open and win-win ecology, so as to realize the coordinated development of AI innovation and AI applications.
In the era of large models, the multi-mode brought about by open source and openness has become an objective fact and a way of market competition, but at the same time, it has also injected a steady stream of innovation vitality into the artificial intelligence industry, allowing intelligent applications to emerge at a faster speed and meet differentiated needs. Therefore, in the early stage of the development of the intelligent era, it is reasonable to support, protect, and encourage the parallel development of multiple and multi-modal models, promote industrial development, and finally let the hands of the market and users decide the survival of the fittest.
When the parameter scale of a large model reaches the level of 100 billion or even trillions, the measurement scale of computing power has risen from a single machine to a system dimension. Since the advent of the Transformer model in 2017, the chip performance has been improved by about 8 times due to process improvement, but through system innovation, the performance of AI computing systems has been increased by up to 1,000 times. However, the development of AI computing systems still faces challenges such as low algorithm efficiency, insufficient computing resources, limited interconnection bandwidth, and bottlenecks in energy efficiency.
The fundamental goal of artificial intelligence + is to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and hundreds of industries, and under the multi-modal industrial pattern, only by building a collaborative symbiosis, open and win-win ecology can we gather more forces to participate in it and accelerate the implementation of innovation. Through open source, ecological collaboration, system innovation and tool empowerment, Inspur Information will empower more ecological partners with its accumulated artificial intelligence capabilities and practices, and realize the endogenous growth of artificial intelligence innovation from endogenous growth to symbiotic growth.
Upgraded the Metabrain brand and released EPAI, an enterprise large-scale model development platform
Hu Leijun, general manager of Inspur Information, believes that the significant changes brought about by the intelligent era are "all computing is AI", AI computing power is penetrating into every computing device, the computing power paradigm for artificial intelligence is constantly innovating, and all computing equipment in the future needs to have AI capabilities.
In line with the trend of change, Inspur Information announced at the conference that it will comprehensively upgrade the computing brand to Meta Brain, "Giving birth to 100 wisdom, wisdom of all things", and providing the world's leading computing products for artificial intelligence, cloud computing and big data. In the future, the meta-brain will be both intelligent and ecological.
The technical potential and market space of large models are huge, but the technical threshold is high, the development is complex, and the cost is expensive, and the deep integration with industrial scenarios requires the support of platform tools. In order to better accelerate the implementation of large models, Inspur Information has released the enterprise large model development platform EPAI (Enterprise Platform of AI) "Metabrain Enterprise Intelligence", which provides an efficient, easy-to-use and safe end-to-end development platform for the landing application of enterprise AI large models, provides a series of tools such as data preparation, model training, knowledge retrieval, application framework, etc., supports the scheduling of multiple computing power and multi-model algorithms, and helps enterprises efficiently develop and deploy generative AI applications and create intelligent productivity.
In addition, Inspur Information has also released an AI general server, which can realize the single-machine operation of hundreds of billions of parameter models, and provide users with a high-performance, high-bandwidth, and high-expansion intelligent computing platform. The new Super AI Ethernet Switch "X400" is the first in China to support the Spectrum-X platform, which improves the performance of traditional RoCE networks by 1.6 times, providing ultra-high network performance for large-scale data center infrastructure.
Strengthen AI empowerment and launch the EPAI seed program
In 2023, the open Metabrain ecosystem will achieve rapid growth, and the number of Inspur Information Ecological Partners will reach 30,000, a year-on-year increase of 33%, of which the number of Metabrain certified partners will exceed 10,000 for the first time, doubling.
Mao Bolin, general manager of the channel promotion department of Inspur Information, said that in 2024, Inspur Information will strengthen AI empowerment and implement four major reform actions, namely EPAI to drive change, accelerate industry AI, deepen distribution value transformation and create a "partner intelligent cabin", comprehensively enhance the artificial intelligence + innovation power of Metabrain partners, and jointly promote the intelligent transformation of industry customers, so as to achieve win-win development.
At the meeting, Inspur Information released the EPAI seed plan, with EPAI as the core to build an ecological engine that empowers partners, and fully empowers partners to develop commercial large models through a variety of measures, and the plan is expected to expand the number of partners to 1,000 within 3 years.
As the largest product technology innovation event of the year, IPF2024 attracted more than 2,000 distributors, ISVs, SI and other partner representatives, as well as industry experts, scholars, and enterprise executives, and nearly 200 innovative artificial intelligence products, technologies and applications were exhibited during the conference.