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From September 1 to 3, the 2022 World artificial Intelligence Congress (WAIC) was successfully held in Shanghai. This year's conference focused on the topic of "AI+5G enabling meta-universe" with the theme of "Zhaopin World, being born without boundaries". More than 300 important guests, including President and CEO Ammon of Qualcomm, gathered together to bring you an industry feast about AI, 5G and meta-universe.

When it comes to meta-universe, this is undoubtedly the hottest topic in the technology industry in the past two years. As Qualcomm President and CEO Ammon said in the keynote speech at the opening ceremony of this WAIC, "meta-universe is the future of the Internet, that is, the spatial Internet", it "will usher in a new era of highly immersive and customizable digital experience".

Like the virtual game world depicted in the 2018 movie number one player, meta-universe is a super space in which we can live, play, and even work, as if it were another reality.

And building a meta-universe will be a long and long way. At present, we are moving in some necessary paths and directions, promoting the deep integration of some key technologies at the infrastructure level, the more important of which are AI and 5G.

Why is the deep integration of AI and 5G so important to the meta-universe? Building a meta-universe is a "systematic project" that involves a wide range of disciplines and industry technologies, such as XR extended reality, cloud computing, 3D rendering and reconstruction, but all of which must be built on a solid infrastructure.

The key elements of infrastructure are 5G and AI. One is responsible for senseless connections, providing capacity guarantee for rich graphics and bandwidth-intensive experiences in meta-universe, and the other brings pseudo-realistic computing to support users' deep perception and create highly realistic virtual avatars and environments. The deep integration of 5G and AI has shaped the core experience of meta-universe.

First of all, let's talk about 5G. To take a simple example, we know that all objects in meta-universe are virtual, which must require massive and diverse graphical computing. It is obviously not realistic to leave all computing tasks to the cloud. Therefore, a considerable part of the high-density operations must be completed in the cloud and the results must be transmitted to the terminal. This requires an ultra-high-speed, very low-latency network to ensure the experience, and 5G is the best fertile soil for this process.

In addition, AI, the most important thing about meta-universe is to simulate the real world and the digital world, and to bring about more natural interactions, so it needs to learn and adapt to the changing environment and user preferences in real time, such as using computational photography and computer vision for depth perception, tracking the position of hands, eyeballs and people, and understanding and perceiving the situation in the interaction, all of which require powerful AI. To shape a natural user experience.

In addition, AI will also play a key role in perception algorithms, 3D rendering and reconstruction, natural language processing, etc., in short, it is as ubiquitous as 5G.

As we said earlier, the important role of 5G is to transmit a considerable part of the high-density operations carried out in the cloud to the end-side in real time, but it is obviously not feasible to put all the operations on the cloud, especially the real-time context-aware AI operations on the terminal side, and some operations related to user privacy and security, so the terminal-side AI is also very important.

In other words, meta-universe needs cloud AI and terminal-side AI to cooperate with each other, massive edge-side terminals need to share AI operations with other terminals and clouds in real time through 5G, and cloud computing data should also be transmitted to terminals in real time. 5G and AI need close cooperation and deep integration to enable excellent applications, services, environment and experience in meta-universe.

The forerunner of AI+5G has appeared, and it is not easy to see how it can promote the deep integration and coordinated development of 5G and AI. How are we doing in this respect? Speaking of which, I have to mention a name, that is Qualcomm. At this year's World artificial Intelligence Conference, Snapdragon X70 modems and RF systems from Qualcomm were successfully selected into the Top30 list of WAIC's highest award-SAIL Award. This is precisely the outstanding performance of Snapdragon X70 as the world's first modem integrated with 5G AI processor in integrating AI into 5G functions.

The Snapdragon X70 introduces the world's first 5G AI suite in modems and RF systems, taking full advantage of AI capabilities to achieve breakthrough 5G performance such as 10Gbps 5G download speed, amazing upload speed, low latency, excellent network coverage and energy efficiency.

So how exactly does the AI suite enhance 5G performance? There are many ways, for example, through AI-assisted channel state feedback and dynamic optimization, the communication effect between the mobile phone and the base station will be greatly enhanced, so that the mobile phone can receive the best signal all the time.

For example, Snapdragon X70 also integrates the world's first AI-assisted millimeter wave beam management, which can also significantly enhance the performance of millimeter waves in mobile scenes and the stability of coverage.

And AI can also assist in network selection, resulting in excellent mobility and link stability. In addition, in Snapdragon X70, AI can also assist in adaptive antenna tuning, increasing the context awareness of mobile phone network by 30%, achieving higher average transmission speed and larger network coverage.

In short, Snapdragon X70 brings the ultimate 5G performance to consumers' digital life and application scenarios in many industries by introducing powerful AI capabilities, which is also a pioneering work in the whole industry.

Of course, in addition to introducing AI capabilities for modems and RF systems, Snapdragon Mobile platform also has a powerful artificial intelligence engine AI Engine on the terminal side, such as the seventh generation AI engine of the new Snapdragon 8 + mobile platform, which improves the overall AI reasoning performance by four times and AI energy efficiency by 1.7 times compared with the previous generation. AI Engine can collaborate with Snapdragon X70 on the overall level of the terminal, resulting in a better intelligent experience.

The deep integration of 5G+AI not only has a far-reaching impact on meta-universe, smart phones and other fields, but also permeates thousands of industries. For example, in the equally hot field of smart cars, Qualcomm can also deeply integrate 5G and AI, not only to bring a richer cockpit experience, but also to accelerate self-driving.

Here, for example, is the new DHT-PHEV lidar version of the Wei Mocha under the Great Wall, which made its debut on August 26, the first car in China to be equipped with the Snapdragon Ride platform. The Snapdragon Ride platform is a highly scalable, open, customizable, high-performance platform based on a range of Snapdragon Automotive SoC and accelerators, including scalable and modular high-performance heterogeneous multicore CPU, industry-leading GPU, and energy-efficient AI engines and computer vision engines with superior AI capabilities.

In addition, the Wei brand mocha DHT-PHEV laser radar version also carries the automotive Zhaopin platform and cockpit platform of the Snapdragon digital chassis, which can provide strong 5G networking capabilities, as well as C-V2X (cellular networking), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and advanced positioning capabilities. It can be said that this car is also an example of the deep integration of 5G and AI to power the intelligent driving experience.

In short, Qualcomm is accelerating the integration of 5G and AI through a comprehensive and rich product portfolio, bringing leading features and new experiences to the digital transformation of various types of terminals and industries.

AI enables a more powerful 5G, bringing a better XR experience back to the meta-universe. We just mentioned that AI+5G is the key infrastructure of the meta-universe, and in such a building as the meta-universe, there is also a very important "superstructure", that is, the unbounded XR.

Just as smart phones are the entrance to the Internet era, XR is also the main entrance to meta-universe at this stage. Without XR, it would be difficult to find a better carrier for meta-universe.

There is a good foundation to have a variety of amazing and solid buildings, similarly, there is a strong 5G network, can also have a better XR experience. The reason behind this is that as mentioned earlier, a large number of high-density and high-load operations in XR need to be completed in the cloud, and the results must be synchronized with the terminal side in real time. Only a high-speed and stable 5G network can complete this "synchronization" task.

At this 2022 World artificial Intelligence Conference, we also saw what kind of experience the unbounded XR supported by the super 5G network can bring to us.

At the conference, the technical demonstration of "5G Separation rendering Technology to enhance the Unbounded XR New experience" jointly presented by Qualcomm, China Mobile and Zhonghe Group was successfully selected as the treasure of WAIC Town Pavilion.

The demonstration was completed using iqiyi's adventure Dream Pro VR all-in-one machine (equipped with Snapdragon XR2 platform), Xiaomi smartphone with China Mobile terminal slicing solution (equipped with Snapdragon Mobile platform), and the 5G home base station jointly developed by China Mobile Research Institute and Shiju (based on Qualcomm FSM100 5G RAN platform).

The demo uses the immersive interactive content provided by Danghong Qitian, in which the resolution of the content seen in the demo is monocular 2Kx2K@90fps, the delay of the "Action-render-reality" (M2R2P) process is less than 70 milliseconds, and the 5G round-trip delay (RTT) is lower than that of 20ms. In addition, the demonstration has a stable average downlink throughput of 70-90Mbps, and the uplink supports 500Hz posture refresh rate.

With the achievement of this series of parameters, the demonstration users can feel an immersive world that is as clear as reality, lifelike and interactive in real time, and they do not have to be bound by wires, and the experiencers can move freely. It's like being in another real space.

This demonstration verifies end-to-end that under the separated rendering architecture, XR users can take advantage of the high-speed and low-latency transmission provided by 5G to cooperate with the edge cloud side for real-time rendering, while combined with local optimized rendering on the XR terminal side to provide a low-latency immersive and unbounded XR experience.

The success of the demonstration has laid a solid foundation for future XR users to experience lifelike visual effects and unfettered XR experience anytime and anywhere.

Of course, the industry has achieved more than that in promoting faster commercial deployment of borderless XR. On July 6, Zhonghe Group, China Mobile and Qualcomm Technology Co., Ltd. jointly announced that they planned to explore new ways to enhance the experience of sports enthusiasts based on the "5G+XR"-enabled 5G unbounded GTVerse experience program. It also means that soon we will be able to watch sporting events and have an immersive experience through Unbounded XR.

In addition, with the large-scale deployment of 5G unbounded XR, a wider range of application scenarios will also be transformed, including manufacturing, entertainment, gaming, health care, education / training, industry, tourism and retail.

Conclusion: the focus of this year's World artificial Intelligence Conference is "meta-universe". The broad prospect that meta-universe brings to the world is indeed exciting, but behind meta-universe, the deep combination of 5G and AI, which brings profound changes to thousands of industries, is actually even more exciting. Meta-universe can be understood as the proudest flower under the soil of this trend, and 5G+AI will bring us a sea of flowers belonging to the future.

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