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On September 6, Tencent announced in Shanghai that it has reached a strategic cooperation with the world-renowned Science journal, and the two sides will cooperate in the field of artificial intelligence research based on academic awards, industry-university-research exchanges and other forms.
At the same time, the more important information is that Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent, announced that tencent Youtu Lab will be upgraded to Tencent Computer Vision R&D Center, which will focus more on research and development in the field of computer vision, and will continue to increase investment in the research and development of computer vision technology in the form of no kpi (performance indicators).
This shows ThatCent is long-term bullish on the direction of image AI. Tang Daosheng regards the development of image AI as the key to opening the "Cambrian explosion" of artificial intelligence, and there is a view in the field of biological sciences that organisms evolved vision, which made the full prosperity of biological species appear in 540 million years, historically known as the Cambrian explosion. Therefore, Tang Daosheng said that through the development of computer vision, machines may break through cognitive bottlenecks and usher in rapid development of artificial intelligence.
Tencent's cooperation is based on Youtu Labs, as one of the three major artificial intelligence laboratories established by Tencent in 2012, its technical support has supported dozens of product lines within Tencent, including QQ and qq space, and has also been applied in external platforms such as WeBank, SF, and China Unicom.
Utu Lab has also supported many products that are very disseminated on the general user side. For example, the daily p map has produced 1 billion spread p map military uniform photos, the national k song 50 million days active portrait beauty. In addition, the image beautification technology of Youtu Lab has also become the main promotion function of Weishi some time ago, which is an indirect participation in Tencent's current very important short video battle.
The other very potential application direction of image AI technology is concentrated in enterprise applications, which is also the area that Tencent hopes to expand at present. Including Tencent's medical AI Miying, Tencent's smart container solution with Daily Youxian, and Tencent's intelligent inspection cooperation with China Southern Power Grid are also applying the technology of Youtu Lab.
The AI parallel strategy of Tencent's three major business groups
When Tencent develops artificial intelligence, a very obvious feature is to emphasize the overall application of artificial intelligence technology. Therefore, Tencent has set up an AI lab that emphasizes basic research in the TEG (Technology Engineering Business Group), and has also set up AI R&D teams in the two product platforms with the largest number of users, the sng (social network business group) business group where qq is located and the wxg business group where WeChat is located.
In the view of [Penguin Ecology], this is also the development mechanism that Tencent is widely used internally. It is multiple different business teams, besieging the same focus area from different directions. For the extremely important artificial intelligence technology, Tencent even has three business groups that are vigorously investing this time.
Liang Zhu, vice president of Tencent, said that the AI teams of the three business groups have different positioning, "there are very few cases of collisions in the same field", WeChat's AI team serves WeChat itself more, and teg's AI team emphasizes basic scientific research. As sng's own AI research and development team, it also emphasizes specific practical applications and scenarios.
Liang Zhu said that in terms of finding application landings, Tencent's user scale is an advantage. Through the platform of direct contact with users, Tencent can obtain massive feedback data and continuously optimize, which is difficult for third parties to achieve. Tencent's AI research and development team also cooperates with other businesses, "the demand for industrial testing comes from Tencent Cloud, and the demand for retail is followed by payment, and there are also followed by investment."
Liang Zhu finally stressed that talent is the key to the development of artificial intelligence technology, the general manager of Tencent Youtu Lab is Jia Jiaya, a tenured professor at hong Kong Chinese University who joined Tencent last year, Jia Jiaya revealed that the full-time staff of Youtu Lab currently has more than 80 doctoral degrees, and the total number of cited papers published exceeds 20,000 times. Jaya is obviously proud of the team he leads: the core algorithm of the human body key point project, the core algorithm personnel we invested in are completed by three or four people, but a small company may not be completed by forty people.
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