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2019-08-28 19:23:05

With the passage of time, the 2019 World artificial Intelligence Conference will begin again, and an intelligent revolution of bold layout and racing against the clock will open a global "new arena" on both sides of the Pujiang River.

A year ago, the first World artificial Intelligence Congress attracted more than 40, 000 guests and 170000 attendees and exhibitions from more than 40 countries. More than 20 projects signed at that time have all been landed.

The popularity of the meeting reflects the upsurge of the entire artificial intelligence industry in the country.

A few months ago, CB Insights, a world-renowned venture capital firm, released a list of global artificial intelligence unicorns in 2019. A total of 32 artificial intelligence companies with a valuation of more than $1 billion are on the list. There are 10 in China, including 6 in Beijing, 2 in Shenzhen, 1 in Shanghai and 1 in Guangzhou.

Judging from the list, Chinese artificial intelligence companies are more technology-oriented, focusing on facial recognition, voice technology and artificial intelligence chip research and development (except for the first-valued byte jump). On the other hand, American companies prefer the application of artificial intelligence technology in agriculture, commerce, medical care, automobile industry and other industries.

The dividend of 1.4 billion people, solid manufacturing foundation, Internet enterprises overtaking around the corner. Let China develop rapidly in the field of artificial intelligence industry. Chinese artificial intelligence start-ups raised $4.9 billion in 2017, equivalent to nearly 50 per cent of the world's artificial intelligence funds, surpassing the US for the first time.

If China and the United States are the leaders in the artificial intelligence industry around the world, then at home, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen are ambitious, far ahead of other cities in China not only in terms of the number of institutions but also in their strength.

"Regional Competition"

On the afternoon of May 27, 2017, Ke Jie, the world's first go player, shed tears in front of the chessboard. He has never experienced such a failure, losing three games in a row, while his opponent, AlphaGo, is an artificial intelligence application developed by Google.

Less than two months after Ke Jie threw in the towel to AlphaGo, the State Council announced the "Development Plan for a New Generation of artificial Intelligence." The plan clearly points out that more funds, policy support and national overall planning will be given to the development of artificial intelligence in the future, and hopes that China will become a global innovation center in the field of artificial intelligence by 2030.

Policy and capital double drive the inter-regional competition of artificial intelligence industry.

Under the guidance of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Science and Technology, China Information and Communication Institute took the lead in launching the China artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance (AIIA) in October 2017. more than 70% of the members of the alliance are located in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, including 215 in Beijing, 74 in Shanghai and 29 in Shenzhen. These 345 institutions can be regarded as the seed units of China's artificial intelligence industry.

According to the statistics of the data Research Center of the China Academy of Information and Communications in 2018, as of the first half of 2018, there were 1040 artificial intelligence enterprises in all parts of China (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta are the areas with the highest concentration of artificial intelligence enterprises. At the urban level, Beijing (412), Shanghai (211) and Shenzhen (122) are the cities with the largest number of artificial intelligence enterprises. Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Chongqing followed suit.

By 2019, according to the latest statistics of various cities, there are more than 4000 artificial intelligence enterprises in the country. There are more than 1000 in Beijing and Shanghai and nearly seven in Shenzhen.

Behind the updated data every year is a more and more crowded track.

Beijing: the overall leadership of scientific research and technology

The development of artificial intelligence is inseparable from the top scientific research institutions and talents, which are the support behind the technological force of the city. Among the 345 alliance member units of AIIA, there are 19 scientific research institutions, 11 in Beijing, 6 in Shanghai and 2 in Shenzhen. Among them, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Institute of Neuroscience of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing are all top artificial intelligence research institutions in China and even in the world.

How strong are these institutions?

The number of artificial intelligence papers in China has surpassed that of the United States since 2014 and far surpassed that of other countries. The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University are the most productive places. In the past 20 years, 26176 articles have been published by the Academy of Chinese Academy of Sciences and more than 19693 by Tsinghua University. The Chinese Academy of Sciences not only has a large number of papers, but also has a high level, with 242 high-cited papers and 7 hot papers ranking first in China. Before 2012-2016, Tsinghua University even surpassed established artificial intelligence universities such as Stanford in terms of citations.

In the Global computer Science Specialty ranking (CSRanking) published in 2019, institutions in Beijing accounted for three of the top 10 universities in the field of artificial intelligence. Tsinghua University ranks first with a score of 110.1. Peking University ranked second and the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranked ninth. This ranking mainly refers to the number of papers of the artificial Intelligence Summit of the American Association for the Promotion of artificial Intelligence (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and the International computer Society.

In addition, Beijing also has more than 10 state key laboratories, including the State key Laboratory for pattern recognition, the State key Laboratory for Intelligent Technology and Systems, and the State Engineering Laboratory for Deep Learning Technology and applications. This may explain why the number of artificial intelligence companies in Beijing is among the best in China. Many startups and entrepreneurs come out of universities and scientific research institutions. For example, Cambrian Technology, a unicorn in the field of AI chips, is an artificial intelligence chip company incubated by the Intelligent processor Center of the Institute of Computing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, while Skyvision Technology, which has just submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, was co-founded by three graduates from the Yao class of Tsinghua University.

Beijing has the most artificial intelligence technology patents, as many as 8183. According to the artificial Intelligence Technology Patent depth Analysis report released by the China Patent Protection Association, the top five applicants for domestic patent applications are Baidu, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Microsoft, Tencent and Samsung. Among them, Baidu ranks first among domestic applicants with 2368 applications, far surpassing Tencent, Alibaba and other enterprises.

In addition to Baidu, the enterprise laboratories built by Internet giants such as JD.com, Meituan and Lenovo have invested a lot of social capital in artificial intelligence technology research and development.

The gathering of top science and engineering universities and scientific research institutions, a good industrial foundation and high salaries provided by advantageous enterprises have all attracted artificial intelligence talents to go north and concentrate deeply. Beijing has the largest number of artificial intelligence talents in the country, accounting for nearly 28 percent, while Shanghai, which accounts for 12.1 percent, ranks second.

According to the statistics of China Institute of Information and Communication, Beijing has the largest number of artificial intelligence enterprises, and it is also the most diversified place in the field of artificial intelligence technology applications. From the perspective of enterprise types, artificial intelligence enterprises in Beijing cover the upstream hardware manufacturing (such as Cambrian, Horizon), software technology research and development (Shangtang, discerning), general platform support (Baidu, Jinshan), terminal industrial applications (go out to ask, assistants to also) and other links of the industry chain.

Shenzhen: transform the algorithm into sustainable operation

"most of the abstract research work on artificial intelligence has been completed, and most of the difficulties encountered in the research have been solved," Lee Kaifu wrote in AI Future. "now is the time for entrepreneurs to roll up their sleeves and work hard to transform deep learning algorithms into a sustainable business."

The behavior data of tens of millions of users are in the hands of Internet giants. The leading role of leading enterprises in commercial application has even exceeded the promotion of technological innovation brought by scientific research institutions. Whoever has a large amount of data, whose algorithm will be more accurate, will be able to gain the upper hand in this game. Shenzhen knows this very well.

Of the 345 core member units of the China artificial Intelligence Industry Development Alliance, only 27 enterprises and 2 research institutions are in Shenzhen, far less than Beijing and Shanghai. But these 27 enterprises include the famous Tencent, Huawei, ZTE and Ping an Technology. Among them, more than half (14) of the enterprises have registered capital of more than 50 million yuan, have more than 205623 patents and 3632 software copyrights, and 6 companies have raised more than 100 million yuan.

What makes Shenzhen special is the manufacturing system that allows software to land on the ground. In Shenzhen's dazzling electronics market, thousands of circuit boards, sensors, loudspeakers and cameras are available for entrepreneurs to choose from. "Electronic components that take three months to find in the United States may only take a day to Huaqiang North." In order to build smart home systems, Xiaomi in Beijing has invested in 220 companies and incubated 29 start-ups, most of which are located in Shenzhen.

Among the top 100 artificial intelligence enterprises in Shenzhen, more than 70% are in the application layer of the industrial chain. Xu Yangsheng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), believes that Shenzhen has a complete manufacturing industry chain, including robots, which can provide unique conditions for the design, development and manufacture of human intelligent systems.

Shenzhen's scientific research institutions mainly rely on corporate and government-led research institutes, such as Tencent YouTu Lab, Tencent artificial Intelligence Lab, Huawei Noah Ark Lab, ZTE Cloud Computing and IT Research Institute, while government-led research institutes include Shenzhen Intelligent Robotics Research Institute, Shenzhen artificial Intelligence and big data Research Institute.

With the help of the technology accumulation and R & D capabilities of giant enterprises such as Tencent, Huawei and ZTE, Shenzhen also occupies a place in the field of artificial intelligence technology innovation, with 739 artificial intelligence patents ranking fourth in China.

Shanghai: the sword points to the global highlands

According to the industry report released by China Information and Communication Institute at the 2018 Global artificial Intelligence Conference, Shanghai ranks second in China and fourth in the world with 211 artificial intelligence companies, firmly occupying the first echelon of artificial intelligence city intelligence.

Shanghai has the largest number of policies related to Taiwan in the country, with 44. Through the support of planning and funds, we should make full use of technological innovation resources, talents and market advantages to create an artificial intelligence gathering area. There are six artificial intelligence industrial parks in Shanghai, which provide integrated resources of talent, capital and technology for artificial intelligence enterprises in the park.

From the perspective of policy orientation, Shanghai's policy of coming out of Taiwan is involved in talent, innovation ecology, industrial agglomeration, investment and financing support, especially for the opening and application of data resources that enterprises are concerned about. The influx of capital and the gathering of well-known enterprises at home and abroad can be seen as a response to the policy-the financing amount of start-ups in Shanghai is 35 billion yuan, nearly four times more than the third place in Shenzhen.

Compared with Beijing and Shenzhen, the biggest feature of Shanghai is globalization. Microsoft, Amazon, SAP and other international companies have set up artificial intelligence research institutes in Shanghai. In addition to the international giants, Shanghai has also gathered a large number of domestic industry leaders to layout, the industrial cluster effect is obvious. Huawei, Tencent, JD.com and other domestic leading enterprises have set up eight artificial intelligence innovation platforms in Shanghai. Alibaba, Baidu and other 10 innovation centers have settled in Shanghai.

There are also many small original companies with great potential in Shanghai. For example, Yitu Technology ranks 11th in the global AI unicorn enterprise, is currently the top technology company in the field of face recognition, and has won the first place in the global face recognition test (FRVT) sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

If we say that self-driving, intelligent medical treatment and face recognition are the results of the application of artificial intelligence technology, then artificial intelligence chip is its basic supporting hardware, and this has always been a weak field of artificial intelligence industry in our country. it is also the key layout of artificial intelligence industry in Shanghai.

This year, Shanghai launched the construction of the country's first pilot area for the innovation and application of artificial intelligence, and launched the construction of a new generation of artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zone in Shanghai. Cambrian technology, the world's first unicorn start-up company in the field of artificial intelligence chips, has settled in artificial intelligence innovation to lead the development zone Lingang.

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