From governments at all levels to major technology companies, from experts to users, AI artificial intelligence is undoubtedly the hottest topic in recent years, especially generative AI (AIGC), which is typified by ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion applications, which has made more and more people feel the revolutionary new experience that AI can bring, as well as its endless potential.
Recently, ZOTAC, a major board manufacturer, held a unique AIGC Exploration Summit in Xi'an, the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, where many representatives of science and technology companies, professional scholars, AI pioneer artists, and UP masters jointly demonstrated the changes brought by AIGC and looked forward to the infinite possibilities of the future.
The decoration of the venue is special and ancient, and all the participants are wearing Hanfu
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ZOTAC is a brand that everyone should be familiar with, PC Partner is wholly owned by PC Partner, and NVIDIA is the global core AIC.
Founded in 1997, PC Partner Group employs more than 2,000 people worldwide and has R&D bases in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shenzhen and Dongguan.
At present, PC Energy Group has 200 R&D engineers, 150 production engineers, 150,000 square meters of exclusive factory buildings, more than 60 SMT production lines, and an annual output of 18 million pieces, meeting the global product and quality certification system.
Founded in 2006, the ZOTAC brand entered the Chinese mainland market the following year, and its products include consumer-grade graphics cards, gaming hosts, enterprise-class ZBOX mini PCs, servers, workstations, edge computing terminals, VR GO backpacks and so on.
ZOTAC's most well-known main product is, of course, the rich NVIDIA GPU graphics card, and the ZBOX is the industry representative of the mini machine, with a long history and a complete range of categories.
These include the Q-series for professional workstations, the E-series for edge computing, the M-series for all-rounders, the C-series for zero noise, the cost-effective B-series, the ultra-mini P-series, the PRO series for business and embedded, and more.
Two ZOTAC RTX 40 graphics cards on display.
In response to AI needs, ZOTAC has specially created its own GPU server barebones products, which can bring stronger computing performance, higher energy consumption ratio, and better scalability than traditional CPU servers.
Among them, the basic type uses a tower/rack chassis, and the third, fourth, and fifth generation Xeon platforms of Intel can be selected, which is suitable for AI inference, 3D rendering, simulation models, etc.
The advanced model uses a 4U rackmount type, and can choose from Intel 4th and 5th Gen Xeon and AMD 4th Gen EPYC, which is suitable for transfer learning, model fine-tuning, AI inference, etc.
The advanced model is still a 4U rack type, Intel fourth- and fifth-generation Xeon, which is oriented to large model training and cloud AI training.
In his speech, Mr. Gui Honggang, General Manager of ZOTAC China, mentioned a point made by NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang: "Every country needs to have its own artificial intelligence. "This can be said to be a deep insight into the current technology development trends.
In fact, building sovereign AI infrastructure is not only an inevitable choice for technological development, but also a strategic need for national security and future development.
As a supplier of AI basic equipment, ZOTAC is exploring how to make its products better serve the society and all walks of life.
Mr. Lv Zhuang, Product Manager of NVIDIA's Consumer Business Unit, shared NVIDIA's latest AI technology trends and leading advantages.
NVIDIA's advantage in the AI era can be described as both soft and hard, grasping with both hands, and hard with both hands, among which the hardware is naturally powerful computing power, RTX 4090D can provide an astonishing 1177 TOPS, and the mainstream RTX 4060 has 242 TOPS, which is simply different from the core graphics in thin and light AI PCs.
In terms of software, it is based on CUDA's powerful development and application ecosystem, a variety of development tools and software, a variety of applications and games, and more than 500 models have used RTX GPU acceleration, covering all walks of life.
【AIGC Application Case Sharing: Thousands of Industries Are Different Because of It】
The official opening of this summit is a carefully prepared "Shaanxi Province AI Cultural Tourism Promotional Video", which shows the Zhong Lingyuxiu of Chang'an through the ages and the prosperity of Huaxia from multiple angles.
The four dynasties of Lizhou, Qin, Qianghan, and Tang Dynasty, the four dynasties with the most historical significance in China and the spiritual core of Chinese civilization, are all deeply rooted in this ancient capital.
The author of the short film is the champion of AIGC creative contests such as Alipay/Zhanku/Yongle Palace/Taobao/Meitu, Ali AITIC cooperative lecturer, and AIGC design consultant of South Korea's exprive agency Thirteen teachers and their team, and a large number of AIGC based on ZOTAC RTX GPU graphics card acceleration, so that history and modernity are staggered, showing the auxiliary role of AI in realizing human creativity, especially how to harness AI technology and tell human stories well.
The realization of this short film makes full use of the power of AI, and various tools, software, and functional features can be significantly accelerated by RTX GPUs to improve work efficiency.
In the early stage of creative design, storyboard scripts and other work, ChatGPT and Claude played the role of ChatGPT and Claude, and integrated with human brainstorming.
In the production stage of single-frame images, Mid-Journey is used to ensure high quality and high aesthetics, Stable Diffusion and DallE3 are used for high customization, Photoshop AI is used to process details and composit, and Magnific AI is used to enhance image quality.
In the video stage, Dreamina is suitable for high motion amplitude control, Runway's benefits are high-definition image quality, high controllability, and low loss of detail, Deforum can produce a variety of advanced camera movements and transition effects, and Haiper, SVD, Pika, Pixverse, etc. also have their own strengths to cooperate with each other.
For further processing after the initial completion of the video, such as stylization, you can use Stable WarpFusion to make advanced video stylization, Comfyui Animatediff to achieve stable video stylization, and Ebsynth to process stable video transpilation.
In the final editing and compositing stage, we used Topaz Video's high-definition upscaling and frame filling, DaVinci Resolve's noise reduction and flickering, as well as familiar tools such as AE, PR, and editing.
Mao Jiaping, co-founder and executive vice president of Shanghai Kuanfan Technology, shared his thoughts on being a computing equipment supplier and service provider in the AIGC era.
With the change of computing power demand driven by AIGC, the introduction of new computing architectures, and the intensification of competition between specialized chips and general-purpose chips, computing power platforms must also keep up with the pace of the times and fully realize the important role of AI in increasing efficiency and speeding up the future cloud computing field.
Yu Guanglai, founder of Shanghai Kaitian Studio, looked forward to the future of AI from the perspective of the digitalization and physical development of Chinese culture.
In his view, in the era of digital intelligence, AI will be our most loyal and reliable helper, with the help of AI, we can realize the artistic inheritance and reproduction of traditional Chinese culture, and realize our unchanging beliefs, imagination and pursuits.
Mr. A Qiu, a partner of Youshe.com, the person in charge of the brand center of Zaoshi, and the manager of the AIGC Navigator Club, talked about the subversive changes brought by AI to the work of designers and helped designers break the limitations of creative thinking.
For example, post-00s who don't understand AE at all can complete a video in 3 hours, and visual design that used to take five people seven days to complete can now be completed by only two people in three days, and so on.
Bao Shuai, a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland and a former researcher of AI4Science at Southern University of Science and Technology, shared the bright future of AI4Science in the field of lithium batteries, and AI has played a positive role in promoting the research and development of battery materials science.
For example, in the process of finding new battery materials, AI can greatly accelerate high-throughput computational screening and material science simulation, and hundreds of thousands of compounds that originally needed to be tested one by one can be screened into only a few dozen.
Jiao Yuxuan, founder of China Construction Northwest Design and Research Institute, XA-AI Studio, and long-term strategic partner of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in the direction of AI, discussed AIGC's research on the design direction of exhibition space.
He pointed out that AIGC can help designers better achieve creativity and innovation, but it does not mean that the requirements for designers are reduced, but they need to truly understand and master AI technology, become the master of this tool, and use it to pay less manpower and time, get better and faster solutions, and more creativity.
Mr. Diao, the head of AI for architecture seniors and the official lecturer of SketchUp, shared how AIGC empowers interior architectural design.
From line drawing generation, model generation, real-time generation, and building models, AI will enable workflows to be upgraded across the board.
Tudouren, a pioneering artist in the field of AIGC, believes that when it takes less than 5 seconds to go from idea to output, countless industries do not exist.
He was one of the first people to be knocked down by AI, collapsed as an advertising creative, but rebuilt as a digital artist, opened up a new AIGC workflow, and cooperated with more than 20 top brands around the world to achieve a large number of successful cases.
He pointed out that AI has not only subverted the advertising industry, but also allowed people's endless imagination to be presented to more people in the form of artistic vision, and at the same time, only by injecting soul into computing power can we gain a long-term foothold in the future AI field.
The advent of the AI era is not only changing people's lifestyles, but also has a profound impact on the economy, society, and culture. "Artificial intelligence +" is an important proposition in various fields of the industry in the future, and it is also the starting point of historical change for mankind to enter a new era of AI.
Some people think that the power of AI makes people lazier, too lazy to think, too lazy to do it.
Some people also believe that AI is becoming more and more powerful, and it will eventually replace humans.
In fact, as with every technological change in human history, no matter how AI evolves, humans are the true masters. AI is not fundamentally different from any new technology, it is just a tool, and how to make it better for me is the key point.
"Under the flood of numbers, we must be more loyal to ourselves. ”
【ZOTAC RTX 40 Graphics Card Live Display】
During the conference, ZOTAC showcased its full line of RTX 40 series graphics cards, from the best RTX 4090 D we can buy, to the mainstream RTX 4060, PGF, AMP, Apocalypse, Opal White, Moon White, Xingchen...... A variety of styles compete for beauty, and there are also Spider-Man IP co-branded models.
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