On April 29, the 2024 8th China Science Fiction Convention New Product and New Technology and New Scene Conference and Major Project Cooperation Signing Ceremony was held in Shougang Park, Shijingshan District, Beijing, focusing on the current development trend of science and technology frontiers and serving the high-quality development of the science fiction industry, highlighting industry promotion, scientific and technological innovation and science fiction innovation achievements display, landing and centralized signing of 10 key enterprises and projects, releasing 7 major original achievements of science fiction technology leaders, and releasing the "Beijing Science Fiction Industry Development Research Report" to show the latest trends and prospects of the science fiction industry.
The event was hosted by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the Zhongguancun Management Committee, jointly sponsored by the Shijingshan District People's Government and Shougang Group, and undertaken by Beijing Zhongguancun Tongli Technology Service Co., Ltd. Dong Qichao, member of the party group and deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Management Committee, and Li Wenhua, deputy head of Shijingshan District, attended the event, and representatives of relevant enterprises attended the press conference.
Dong Qichao, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Management Committee, said that this event fully demonstrated the development of the science fiction industry in Beijing and Shijingshan District in recent years, as well as the hot spots of the "four chains" of science fiction innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain, and comprehensively looked forward to the development trend of Beijing's science fiction industry. At the same time, through the release of a series of new products, new technologies and new scenarios in the field of science fiction, the cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements of the construction of Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center will be further displayed, so that the public can experience the charm of science fiction up close. The Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the Zhongguancun Management Committee will coordinate all kinds of innovative resources, continue to support the construction of science fiction industry clusters, and further accelerate the cultivation and development of new quality productivity in the science fiction industry.
Li Wenhua, deputy head of Shijingshan District, pointed out that the results released by the event not only demonstrated the comprehensive strength of Shijingshan District in science fiction science and technology innovation, but also injected new impetus into the industrial development of Shijingshan District. Shijingshan District will always adhere to the guidance of innovation, comprehensively coordinate resource elements, take the underlying key core technology research as the starting point, take the creation of high-quality works as the carrier, and take the construction of the service platform as the support to promote the transformation and application of new products, new technologies, new scenarios and new projects, drive the industrial chain with the innovation chain, and promote the leapfrog development of the science fiction industry.
A number of enterprises and key projects have been signed
At the signing ceremony, the Shijingshan District Science and Technology Committee, the Management Committee of Shijingshan Park of Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, Beijing Lungyu Yuanzhi, Beijing Galaxy Zhiyuan, Beijing Hanxing Intelligence, Beijing Shougang Construction Investment Co., Ltd. and Beijing Hangyu Rongkang, and the Barn Intelligent Hardware Benchmark Incubator and Hangzhou Chengtian Technology signed contracts respectively.
Shijingshan District Government, Shougang Group and Zhongguancun KONE jointly signed a cooperation agreement on the "Phase II Construction of Zhongguancun Science Fiction Industry Innovation Center", Zhongguancun KONE signed the "Black Flame Digital Technology R&D Center" project with Chengdu Black Flame, Zhikan Shenjian signed the "Humanoid Robot and Embodied Intelligence Innovation Base" project with State Grid, Hangzhou Yushu and Zhongguancun KONE, and signed the "Intelligent Perception Transmission SOC Chip" with China Beijing CETC Satellite Navigation System and CyberLink Intelligence At the same time, it will jointly release the metaverse application scenario with the State Grid.
Humanoid robots and embodied intelligence innovation base, black flame digital technology research and development center and other projects outside Beijing have been implemented in Beijing, which will further consolidate Beijing's leading position in the national science fiction industry.
Concentrate on the release of major original science fiction achievements
The China Science Fiction Convention New Product and New Scene Conference is currently the largest centralized release platform for new products in the science fiction industry in China, aiming to display new technologies, new products and new scenarios with breakthrough technologies or excellent connotations, strengthen the link between upstream and downstream resources in the industry, promote the integration of industrial resources, and accelerate the scenario-based and application of new quality productivity.
This conference focused on the release of 7 major original achievements, including AetherOS (Ether Engine), AetherOS (Ethernet Engine), Zhikan Shenjian's Intelligent Brain Humanoid Robot, Fantasy Pai Science Fiction Exploration Hall, Xiao Dorui Ask Government Affairs System Large Model, Galaxy Zhiyuan Patented Intelligent Writing Large Model MIND FLOWING, Tiantu Wanjing AI Innovative Sound Generation Tool Sora Opera, and Cosmic Conjecture Time and Space New Theater.
As a representative of new technologies, Deep Curiosity AetherOS (Ethernet Engine) is the world's first world dynamic evolution engine with large language model (LLM) as the underlying technology. Using the LLM-Computer architecture developed by Deep Curiosity, AetherOS can simulate the complex relationship of various elements such as characters, events, cognition, dialogue, and emotions, so as to build a reasonable, rich, and dynamic world evolution, and provide a cross-era intelligent technology platform for cultural and creative scenarios such as open-world games, scripts, and novel generation. AetherOS can bring users an immersive and realistic interactive experience with a high degree of freedom and constant surprises, and can also provide content creators with strong assistance for interactive production and multi-dimensional collaboration, creating an advanced model for the high-quality development of the cultural industry and bringing science fiction into reality.
The Fantasy Science Fiction Exploration Hall is a typical new scene and new space with digital reality, which combines a unique development and creation system with cutting-edge technology, combined with 5G technology, AR, MR, AI and digital twin technology, 3D projection, panoramic sound, etc., to achieve the seamless integration of digital and real space, breaking through the key core technologies such as traditional interactive narrative content, control system and interactive terminal, and taking the science fiction story of exploring unknown areas such as space and ocean as the background, bringing an unprecedented immersive experience of digital and real integration to the experiencer. At present, the first science fiction exploration hall has been completed in Beijing Zhongguancun Science Fiction Industry Innovation Center.
Among the new products released, the Zhikan Shenjian Intelligent Brain Humanoid Robot integrates artificial intelligence technology, mechanical design technology, sensor technology and control technology for the first time, and has the characteristics of human-like appearance, strong response ability, strong artificial intelligence, strong interactive interaction in application mode, and multiple and complex applicable environments, realizing highly intelligent autonomous navigation and human-computer interaction, and has highly simulated human-like movement capabilities such as walking, running and jumping, going up and down stairs, and expanding application fields including military industry, medical care, education, entertainment, etc.
In addition, the small Dorui Wen model is a large model of government affairs and municipal supervision based on the Transform architecture, and has successfully created unique application products including intelligent voice robots and online consultation robots.
Relying on cutting-edge large model technology, Galaxy Zhiyuan's AI+ intellectual property big data innovation platform realizes multi-dimensional product functions such as intelligent search, intelligent writing, intelligent evaluation, intelligent management and intelligent analysis of patents, provides solutions for the full life cycle of intellectual property rights for science and technology enterprises, and provides strong support for the accelerated development of new quality productivity.
Sora Opera, an innovative AI sound generation tool jointly launched by Tiantu and HUAWEI CLOUD, relies on artificial intelligence to train a large amount of data, automatically perceive and intelligently identify the physical logic in the video screen, and accurately match music and sound effects with a variety of styles, adding sound charm to the video.
"Cosmic Conjecture" LBE Space Theater is an immersive interactive theater based on LBE technology spatial computing, opening up a feast for the senses through virtual reality (VR) experience and enjoying a tour beyond reality.
Released three major development trends in the science fiction industry
According to the "Beijing Science Fiction Industry Development Research Report" released by Sun Shicheng, general manager of Beijing Zhongguancun KONE Company, there are 632 science fiction enterprises and institutions in the city so far, of which 314 are supporting layer (science and technology support and operation services), accounting for 49.7%, with outstanding technological leadership. In terms of regional distribution, the development trend of Shijingshan's science fiction industry is rapid, gathering 184 science fiction industries and enterprises, ranking first among all districts in the city, and basically forming an industrial development pattern of "content creation + IP transformation + film and television venture capital + film and television shooting + technology + experience".
Since 2023, Beijing's science fiction industry has gradually entered a new stage of rapid development. The research shows that the development of Beijing's science fiction industry presents three major trends: first, the "science fiction fever" has given birth to a 100 billion market, and science fiction games have become the main force of science fiction revenue; second, the deep empowerment of cutting-edge digital technologies has comprehensively improved and optimized the science fiction industry chain; third, the science fiction empowerment effect has become more and more prominent, and the emerging cross-border business format of "science fiction +" continues to derive.
The country's first science fiction industry gathering area has improved quality and efficiency
According to Miao Fang, deputy director of the investment promotion center of Shougang Construction Investment Co., Ltd., the country's first science fiction industry agglomeration area will be unveiled in Shougang Park in 2020. Up to now, a total of 124 enterprises have been introduced, and nearly 90% of the upstream and downstream enterprises of science fiction have been introduced.
According to the "Beijing Science Fiction Industry Development Research Report", the total revenue of the science fiction industry agglomeration area will reach 1.65 billion yuan in 2022, with an average annual growth rate of 30.5% in the past three years (2020 to 2022), with a strong development momentum. The science fiction industry agglomeration area has successively built a number of characteristic industrial spaces such as Jin'an Science Fiction Plaza, Zhongguancun Science Fiction Industry Innovation Center, and Zhongguancun Virtual Reality Industrial Park. Among them, Zhongguancun Science Fiction Industry Innovation Center is the only benchmark hard technology incubator and innovation service platform featuring the science fiction industry in China, and has successively landed 89 science fiction enterprises and institutions, accounting for 48.4% of the total number of science fiction enterprises in Shijingshan and 14.1% of the total number of science fiction enterprises in the city, basically forming a complete science and technology service space carrier chain of "research institute + incubator + accelerator + industrial cluster".
Yi Di, Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Perfect World Group, said that as a key enterprise in China's science fiction industry, Perfect World has always maintained its layout in the science fiction field for many years, and its business involves science fiction games, science fiction movies, science fiction cultural tourism and other fields, and has been working with Microsoft, NVIDIA, Epic, Unity and many other well-known technology manufacturers to explore the application scenarios and effects of science and technology for a long time. Relying on the strength of cutting-edge technologies such as VR, AR, MR, and AI, as well as the complete sci-fi industry chain with IP as the core, Perfect World is constantly exploring new scenarios for the integration and innovation of the sci-fi industry and traditional industries, helping to build Beijing into a new highland for the development of the sci-fi industry and promoting the high-quality development of China's sci-fi industry.
Wang Xubing, chairman of Beijing Juliwei Technology Co., Ltd., a representative of high-growth sci-fi enterprises, demonstrated and released 3D film-level video AIGC technology on the spot, supporting AI performances at the level of real actors, ensuring the complete consistency of objects in different shots and movements, supporting arbitrary duration, and achieving refined editing. The full-process 3DAI film and television production platform - Cyber Ape 3.0 allows everyone to have their own AI crew.
This event is the only centralized press conference of the 8th China Science Fiction Convention 2024 that brings together new products, new technologies and new scenarios of science fiction industry-related enterprises, and creates a future-oriented science fiction display platform in order to highlight the effect of promoting industrial development. Focus on the science fiction industry and the frontier field of science and technology, and achieve the realistic goal of promoting production and developing the industry with the meeting. A number of sci-fi companies have released a number of sci-fi companies to promote the implementation of sci-fi innovations, accelerate the construction of the sci-fi industry ecology, and help Jingxi build a highland for the development of the sci-fi industry.