On April 23, the kick-off meeting of the 3rd Pazhou Algorithm Competition was held in Beijing, and the Guangzhou Pazhou branch was launched simultaneously. At the meeting, it was announced that this year's competition will open 5 competition areas at home and abroad, and the promotion system of the competition area will be opened for the first time. The competition will take the form of a combination of online and offline, and after registration, preliminary round, semi-final and other schedules, the finals and award ceremony will be held in Guangzhou in September.
Yang Yajun, Deputy Director of the Information Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, delivered a speech, and Dai Qionghai, Counselor of the State Council and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered a video speech. Zhao Chunjiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Zhou Zhihua, foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences, relevant persons in charge of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Pazhou Laboratory, Guangzhou City and Haizhu District, as well as representatives of enterprises attended the launching ceremony.
On the same day, the Guangzhou Pazhou branch released and interpreted the "Pazhou Digital Economy Index Research Report 2023", and the Haizhu Partner Platform was officially launched.
The competition is jointly sponsored by the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government and the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, and co-organized by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the People's Government of Haizhu District, the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, the Guangzhou Municipal Service and Data Administration, and the Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (Guangzhou). The Chinese Word Head Association and institutions have joined forces to present a number of battles for the strongest AI brain from April to September.
For the first time, the promotion system of the competition area was established, and the five major competition areas at home and abroad were launched simultaneously
As one of the first blockbuster brand activities in Pazhou, Guangzhou, the Pazhou Algorithm Competition has been held for two consecutive high-quality sessions, becoming the event with the widest range of participation, the most scientific and technological content, and the most practical results in similar competitions in China, which provides a great boost to improve Guangzhou's artificial intelligence innovation source ability.
This year's competition focuses on the hot spots of the AI model and AIGC industry, and invites industry leading enterprises, scientific research institutions, investment institutions, ecological cooperative enterprises, and industry associations to participate in the questioning, solicitation, review, and activities to find technical cooperation and business landing opportunities, which is expected to attract more than 5,000 enterprises and talent teams to actively participate.
In terms of competition topics, this year's competition not only focuses on the foundation of algorithm technology, but also emphasizes the implementation of industrial applications, and sets up three major competition groups: algorithm optimization competition, innovative application competition, and AI large model challenge, and unites leading enterprises and scientific research institutions to set up competition questions for the world. Among them, the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence and the GigaVision Challenge Organizing Committee proposed the "one billion pixel level visual intelligence" algorithm based on the research of a series of cutting-edge problems of visual intelligence. As the world's first intelligent algorithm competition for large-scale, multi-object and complex relationship problems, the GigaVision Challenge attracted more than 1,000 teams from around the world to participate last year.
With strong support from the Chinese Society of Artificial Intelligence, Geely Automobile, JD Retail, Midea Group and Amazon Web Services, the Algorithm Optimization Competition will provide professional industry datasets and guidance in the fields of visual recognition, intelligent driving, logistics optimization, supply chain optimization and biomedicine.
The Innovation Application Competition focuses on six major directions: cybersecurity, intelligent manufacturing, green energy, e-commerce, future industries and AI products, and invites professional institutes and industry associations as cooperative consultants to jointly provide guidance to participants.
As a major innovative exploration this year, the AI Large Model Challenge has set up an AI large model product competition around the mature application of large models, jointly launched a large model training competition in the judicial industry in cooperation with the "China Law Research Cup", and invited the Guangzhou Municipal Affairs Service and Data Administration Bureau to set up a large model training competition for government services, focusing on the application level to test the large model and the algorithm behind it.
This year's competition has opened 5 competition areas at home and abroad, which are divided into East China (Shanghai), Central China (Chengdu), South China (Guangzhou), North China (Beijing) and overseas divisions. Among them, the overseas competition includes the Asia-Pacific region (Singapore), the European and American regions (France, Hungary, Switzerland) and other regions. Participating enterprises and individuals can participate in the competition in their respective competition areas according to their own location and registration guidelines.
It is worth noting that this year's competition is the first time that the regional promotion system has been opened. Compared with the previous two sessions, this year's Pazhou Algorithm Competition focuses more on the actual needs of industrial development. It is understood that this year's competition will focus on the hot spots of the AI model and AIGC industry, and invite industry leading enterprises, scientific research institutions, investment institutions, ecological cooperative enterprises, and industry associations to participate in the questioning, solicitation, review, activities and find technical cooperation and business landing opportunities, which is expected to attract more than 5,000 enterprises and talent teams to actively participate. Representatives of various demanders who are familiar with the algorithm business can participate in many aspects of the competition, so that the algorithm works of the participating teams can be more in line with the market demand, and can get the support from the financial field and the transformation and application of the industrial field to the greatest extent and the first time.
The competition will take the form of a combination of online and offline, and is divided into registration, preliminary round, semi-final, finals, award ceremony and other schedules. In September, the organizer will hold the finals of the competition in Pazhou, Guangzhou, and hold an award ceremony.
The "Pazhou Digital Economy Index Research Report 2023" was released, helping Pazhou to strive to become a highland for the development of the global digital economy
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that "accelerate the development of the digital economy, promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and build a digital industrial cluster with international competitiveness". In this regard, Guangzhou City proposed to build Pazhou into a world-class digital economy demonstration zone.
The kick-off conference released and interpreted the "Pazhou Digital Economy Index Research Report 2023" on the spot. According to reports, Pazhou Digital Economy Index (PDEI) is one of the series of Pazhou Index (PI), which mainly contains the specific evaluation content of six dimensions: economic foundation level, digital infrastructure, scientific research and innovation level, industrial digitalization level, enterprise digitalization level, and digital governance level, and compares Pazhou region with the national average level, as well as Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, The four regions of Guangdong have overall differences in the development of the digital economy and their respective differences in six dimensions. Its role is to comprehensively examine the internal motivations, advantages, characteristics, development trends, comparative differences and reasons for the development of the digital economy in Pazhou, provide reference for specific policy formulation, and help achieve high-quality and rapid development of the region.
In order to further give full play to the data advantages of Pazhou's characteristic digital economy enterprises, combined with a more intuitive industrial perspective to see the development trend of the digital economy in Guangzhou, Guangdong and even the whole country, Haizhu District also selected 7 representative digital economy enterprises in Pazhou to cooperate, and compiled 7 Pazhou characteristic industry indices as a supplement to the Pazhou digital economy index, namely Pazhou Vipshop Special Sale Index, Pazhou Tree Root Interconnection Construction Machinery Index, Pazhou Yatsen E-commerce Beauty Index, Pazhou Pharmacist Gang Pharmaceutical Circulation B2B Index, and PazhouYuanxiang Medical Beauty Consumption Index, Pazhou Red Meal Catering Industry Prosperity Index, Pazhou Yundie Digital Teaching Index.
Looking at the world, the goal of Pazhou Digital Economy Index will be completed in two stages: the first stage, with the help of the evaluation and monitoring results of Pazhou Digital Economy Index, accelerate the comparison and exchange between Pazhou and the leading regions in the development of the domestic digital economy, highlight the advantages, find out the shortcomings, accelerate the development, and help Pazhou strive to be the vanguard of the development of the national digital economy. In the second stage, the coverage area of the Pazhou Digital Economy Index will be gradually expanded, and the "Pazhou Digital Economy Internationalization Index (PDEII)" will be compiled on the basis of the first stage of the "Pazhou Digital Economy Index (PDEI)" With the help of the evaluation and monitoring results of PDEII, we will select target regions and competitive areas on a global scale, strengthen the international publicity and exchange of PDEII, and help Pazhou strive to become a highland for the development of the global digital economy.
Innovate the "Haizhu Partner" platform and improve the efficiency of enterprise matching in a "one-stop" manner
Aiming at the development goal of "world-class digital economy demonstration zone", Haizhu District is relying on the development of artificial intelligence and digital economy pilot zone, firmly grasping the "bull's nose" of artificial intelligence, a new quality of productivity, and accelerating the release of new momentum of digital economy.
This is inseparable from Haizhu District's first-mover advantage, precise positioning and deep accumulation in the fields of "algorithm, computing power, and data", and it is also related to the "Haizhu Partner" mechanism currently vigorously implemented by Haizhu District.
From 2023 onwards, Haizhu District will gradually build and improve the systematic construction of "Haizhu Partners", further iteratively upgrade on the basis of the original "Chief Service Officer", continuously extend and expand service methods, build a platform for industrial chain exchanges and enterprise resource sharing, and promote enterprises to solve the needs of cooperation and development in a localized manner. This year, Haizhu District has continued to explore the linkage between government and enterprises and ecological construction, continuously enriching the connotation and practice of "Haizhu Partners", supporting local leading enterprises to empower small and medium-sized enterprises in the district to reduce costs and increase efficiency, become bigger and stronger, and accelerate the formation of a 100-billion-level ecosystem.
At the kick-off meeting, Haizhu District innovatively launched the "Haizhu Partner" enterprise supply and demand platform. It is understood that the platform takes supply and demand docking as the main core function, and at the same time has modules such as enterprise special, policy services, talent services, cultural activities, financial support, Pazhou Spreadtrum, etc., which provides one-stop service support to improve the efficiency of matchmaking and docking between enterprises in addition to promoting the effective integration and efficient linkage of various enterprise resources in the region, and further demonstrates the firm determination of Haizhu District to give full play to the Haizhu partner mechanism and optimize the business environment.
Since the beginning of this year, Haizhu District has continuously consolidated the three pillars of artificial intelligence, namely "algorithm, data, and computing power", accelerated the layout and built the "Pazhou Computing Valley", and took the lead in building the Pazhou Artificial Intelligence Large Model Application Demonstration Zone in the country, which has aroused enthusiastic responses from all walks of life. In March this year, Guangzhou made every effort to promote Haizhu District to build a leading demonstration area for the application of artificial intelligence large models in China, providing support from three dimensions: the basic layer of large model hardware, the AI application layer and the talent side of the digital economy, and promoted the "Three-year Action Plan for Haizhu District to Accelerate the Formation of New Quality Productivity" to further release a strong development signal to the outside world.
Up to now, a number of large-scale model application projects have been implemented in Haizhu District, and this year we will strive to guide more than 10 more large-scale model filings, more than 20 algorithm filings, and more than 50 industry application projects to form an agglomeration development trend. By 2026, we will strive to promote the in-depth application of artificial intelligence models in more than 8 industries, promote no less than 30 typical application scenarios, select 50 benchmarking enterprises, and reserve more than 5,000 algorithms, and drive the main business income of the demonstration zone to exceed 500 billion yuan, becoming a leading application demonstration highland, policy highland and talent highland in the country.
With the transformation of Haizhu District's focus of enterprise services from giving policies and preferential treatment to expanding the market, finding orders, reducing costs, and promoting cooperation, more and more enterprises feel the convenience and opportunity of "partnering with Haizhu", including well-known leading enterprises such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Toutiao. According to the data, by the end of 2023, there will be more than 36,000 enterprises in the Pazhou Pilot Zone alone, achieving revenue of 447.917 billion yuan, an increase of 6.3%. Driven by the new platform of "Haizhu Partners", more and more high-quality enterprises and talents will "partner" with Haizhu in the future, becoming an important partner in Haizhu District to promote high-quality development and accelerate the development of new quality productivity.
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