On June 28, the D20 Global Design Dean Summit (D20 Summit) was held in Hangzhou. As the first industry-academia summit on the theme of AI design, deans from more than 20 design schools at home and abroad, as well as industry representatives from the AI industry and design industry were invited. At the summit site, Ali International's AI design product "Duiyou" officially released the educational version.
According to Yang Guang, vice president of Alibaba International Digital Business Group and head of Alibaba's design committee, Duiyou Education Edition is a custom-developed AI design teaching management platform for the majority of colleges and universities, one-stop solution to AI design model needs, tool needs, teaching needs, computing power needs, etc., so that teachers and students can "run into the AI era" together, he said, "We should pay more attention to 'designers who can use AI' than 'AI that can do design'." ”
It is reported that as a one-stop design platform, Duiyou is known as the domestic version of Midjourney, and was selected as one of the "Top Ten AIGC Tools of 2023" announced by UISDC, a well-known design platform in China. At present, Duiyou has more than 1 million active users, and the average number of works generated per day has exceeded 100,000.
The launch of the education version of Heiyou will explore the frontier of design education in the AI era with major universities, and the top 20 design colleges and universities in China have launched exclusive channels for university cooperation. Among them, five colleges and universities, including Zhejiang University, Jiangnan University, Guangdong University of Technology, Qingdao Huanghai University, and Hainan Software Vocational and Technical College, have built a new paradigm of "artificial intelligence + design education" integration of industry and education with Duiyou, and will jointly build industry-education cooperation laboratories and training bases.
In addition, backed by Ali International's cross-border e-commerce experience, Duyou Education Edition will also launch a large number of e-commerce design courses. The reporter learned that at present, Ali's international design team has applied AI design capabilities to the actual combat of cross-border e-commerce, and its Duiyou and Pic Copilot have become "AI e-commerce design artifacts", which can help cross-border merchants easily break down language and cultural barriers and complete the whole process of e-commerce design in 5 minutes.