See the New Power: AI Applications as Productivity, 20 Finalists Compete in the "Compute Town Cup" Create@Computing Power Application Innovation Contest Finals
Since 2024, with the continuous advancement of the capabilities of large AI models, their application deployment on the terminal side is accelerating towards a breakthrough point.
On one hand, terminal devices such as mobile phones, computers, glasses, and headphones are integrating AI, attempting to integrate AI application capabilities from the hardware end. On the other hand, AI customer service, AI digital humans, AI videos, AI office, and other applications are emerging in an endless stream, promoting industrial innovation and efficiency improvement in many industries from the software end.
The latest research data from Accenture shows that 59% of Chinese enterprises plan to continue to increase their investment in digital transformation in the next year, an increase of 6 percentage points compared to last year. At the same time, a considerable number of Chinese enterprises hope to seize the AI technology and continuously innovate and accelerate remodeling.
The AI application market is booming, but enterprises in the game have to face potential risks and specific problems:
When the application trend explodes, what kind of products can stand out and not be covered by the bubble? When both C-end users and B-end enterprises begin to pay attention to the value generated by large models, how should the specific implementation path be taken?
On December 4, the "Computing Power Town Cup" Create@Computing Power Application Innovation Competition (hereinafter referred to as the "Computing Power Application Innovation Competition"), jointly organized by Hangzhou Linping New Town and Alibaba Cloud, officially concluded. A total of 20 enterprises from multiple dimensions such as computing power + new consumption, computing power + advanced manufacturing, computing power + medical health, computing power + cultural entertainment, and computing power + diversified development participated in the final round. Among them, Shanghai Zhongxin Information Technology Co., Ltd. won the championship, Beijing Xuanyu Information Technology Co., Ltd. won the Best Popularity Award, and 4 enterprises including Beijing Yanhuang Guoxin Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Qingpeng Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Xihu Pharmaceutical (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Yitai Technology Co., Ltd. won the Innovation Breakthrough Award. 15 enterprises including Boruisaisi Sensing Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Beijing Xuanyu Information Technology Co., Ltd., Anzunxinchuan Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Suzhou Leize Metal Technology Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Suzhou Runxin Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Nuoya Mumu (Hangzhou) Robot Sales Co., Ltd., Denengsen Intelligent Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Aikai Medical Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Tuchen Technology Co., Ltd., Nanjing Future Internet of Things Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Huajiang Film and Television Co., Ltd., Wan You Biochemical Intelligent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Yigu Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Wenlan Qingjiang (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., and Nanjing Jiaoxiang Technology Co., Ltd. won the Application Innovation Award.
Final round roadshow enterprises
AI Empowering New Industrialization, Breaking the Overseas Monopoly Situation
"The core essence of intelligent manufacturing is AI empowering new industrialization." Since this year, Zhou Ji, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the director of the National Manufacturing Power Construction Strategy Advisory Committee, has repeatedly expressed this view externally. Nowadays, the new generation of AI driven by large models, big data, and large computing power is developing rapidly. AI is deeply integrated with advanced manufacturing technology, running through all basic links of the entire manufacturing life cycle, including products, production, and services.
Advanced manufacturing has become one of the main scenarios for the implementation of AI applications, with the core focus on subdivided tracks such as chip design, sensor manufacturing, and AIoT. Among the 20 enterprises participating in the final round, 8 enterprises have focused on the computing power + advanced manufacturing field.
There are three main means of scientific and technological innovation today: theoretical derivation, experimental testing, and computational simulation. Scientific computing is an indispensable scientific research infrastructure in the scientific and technological innovation system. "Zhongxin Technology" focuses on the development of high-end platform products. Its developed high-efficiency and energy-saving autonomous and controllable cube scientific computer is the first in China and the only second in the world to adopt a cube architecture. The core devices and underlying basic software and hardware are 100% independently developed and controllable in China. The computing efficiency of this computer in molecular dynamics has been significantly improved, breaking the monopoly of the US ANTON supercomputer in the field of molecular dynamics simulation.
Anzunxinchuan from Jiangsu focuses on the manufacturing of intelligent edge vibration sensors with integrated sensing, storage, and computing. According to the latest forecast by Market sand Markets, by 2028, the AI sensor market size will reach 22.1 billion US dollars, with a compound annual growth rate of as high as 41.6%.
The huge market potential comes from the wide application of AI sensors. Anzunxinchuan introduced that the intelligent edge sensor is the perception base of the future large-scale and ultra-large-scale distributed artificial intelligence Internet of Things. Compared with traditional sensors, the intelligent edge sensor has the advantages of small size, fast application, high precision, low cost, and 90% of mechanical faults can be detected through vibration monitoring.
Another sensor manufacturer, Boruisaisi, takes gas sensors as the entry point to solve the problem of being stuck in the neck. Gas sensors are the main way to monitor air pollution conditions and have long been monopolized by international giants. Boruisaisi gas sensors are completely independently designed from materials to processes. In terms of technology, a ultra-miniature sensor array is created by using high-sensing-response nanomaterials and high-speed signal-conducting micro-sensing electrodes; in terms of algorithm, precise original data is provided through a multi-channel gas simulation device, and the results are optimized by the BP (Back Propagation) neural network algorithm.
In terms of chip design, Runxin Microelectronics focuses on three business areas: intelligent vehicles, intelligent terminals, and AIoT. It has pioneered the research and development of 2D-GPU architecture technology and designed and developed products such as intelligent cockpit processors and ultra-low-power AR glasses main control chips, which have significantly reduced the cost of related chips and products and greatly improved performance.
Originating from Peking University, Yanhuang Guoxin focuses on the production of highly reliable, high-performance, and autonomous and controllable power management chips. The initial customers came from the aerospace field, designing power management chips for satellites. Subsequently, the product line gradually expanded to cover four major fields: aerospace grade, general military grade, automotive grade, and consumer grade, with more than 100 products.
Leize Metal, which also focuses on the aerospace field, focuses on the research and development and production of laser additive and subtractive equipment based on an efficient processing system. This equipment innovatively integrates the sequence planning method and the adaptive layering algorithm, and develops a laser additive and subtractive composite manufacturing process optimization system. Combining the advantages of near-net-shape additive manufacturing and subtractive manufacturing to ensure accuracy, it is suitable for the integrated manufacturing and repair and remanufacturing of high-precision complex surfaces and parts with inner holes and cavities, and has broad application prospects in the aerospace, nuclear power, molds and other fields.
In the field of intelligent Internet of Things, AloT intelligent control systems are prevalent. Denengsen is one of the leaders. Its wireless passive products have revolutionarily changed the construction mode of the traditional wired active solution and can be widely used in scenarios such as homes, hotels, and office spaces, maximizing the role of building intelligent control and energy conservation and emission reduction.
In addition, Jiaoxiang Technology is one of the few "growing" enterprises at the scene. The company is expected to be established in December this year and focuses on the research and development and production of intelligent distributed heat storage related equipment. Industrial process heating is a basic step in processing or transforming raw materials in the manufacturing industry, accounting for about 70% of the energy consumption in the manufacturing industry. According to the introduction, Jiaoxiang Technology's distributed heat storage station can solve the problem of grid fluctuations and improve the system energy efficiency by 15%.
Getting good treatment (quality), being able to afford treatment (cost), and having access to treatment (efficiency) have always been considered the "impossible triangle" in the medical field.
In the wave of large models, can AI break the "impossible triangle" of medical treatment? At least from the on-site competition situation, 6 entrepreneurial enterprises in the computing power + medical health field have given an optimistic answer.
First, let's look at quality.
It is undeniable that AI has become an important means in the research and development of innovative drugs. Take Xihu Pharmaceutical as an example. The company takes high-performance computing as the innovative core to accelerate drug discovery, improve the accuracy of target recognition, optimize drug design, monitor clinical trials in real time, and collaborate on drug combinations, significantly improving the efficiency and success rate of new drug research and development. Since its establishment 4 years ago, Xihu Pharmaceutical has completed the clinical research of one drug and is about to be launched.
Aikai Medical is an "all-round" player in the AI medical field, focusing on digital therapy, digital hardware medical products, and AI disease diagnosis and treatment, and has a complete hospital information system product. Its nerve electrical stimulation positioning (acupoint locator) does not rely on expert doctors and can accurately and effectively perform long-term targeted strategic stimulation through the frequency conversion and wavelength of sine waves to help form an immune system memory.
Next, let's look at cost.
The core product of Wan You Biochemical Intelligence is a health detection AI intelligent body based on a battery-free sensor. In terms of hardware, a battery-free sensor is used to detect urine, blood, sweat, and saliva through chromaticity and microfluidic technology, with a cost of only 1/10 of the traditional method. In terms of software, the AI intelligent body provides users with personalized health management suggestions and real-time reminders, such as taking medicine on time, optimizing diet suggestions, or carrying out exercise plans, etc.
Can traditional Chinese medicine, which requires inspection, auscultation, interrogation, and palpation, achieve remote diagnosis? Wenlan Qingjiang's personal health consultation system uses deep learning technology to conduct health analysis and research on TCM tongue images captured by mobile phones, achieving a TCM version of remote consultation. With the optimization of the system, it can also achieve dietary therapy recommendations in the future and enter the field of big health.
Finally, let's look at efficiency.
Noah Mumu focuses on the research and development of medical logistics robots. Since its establishment 9 years ago, the product has been iterated to the 5th generation. In Noah Mumu's view, hospital logistics is not only a deep combination of transporting materials and department processes, but also a combination of medicine and engineering. At present, Noah Hospital Logistics Robot's overall solution can undertake 95% of the hospital's material distribution work, work 24 hours non-stop, reduce the risk of hospital infection, and achieve closed-loop management and fine management of materials.
Artificial bone materials play a crucial role in fracture repair, requiring materials to have characteristics such as easy processing, high biocompatibility, and biodegradability. Based on the metamaterial design large model, Yitai Technology innovatively applies the intelligent design of metamaterials in medical devices and develops the world's first artificial bone implant based on metamaterial design, with a design efficiency increase of 80%.
Select the Right Cut Point to Release the Potential of Vertical AI Software
Not long ago, BVP (Bessemer Venture Partners) put forward a view: Vertical AI software will be the future.
This is related to the emergence of many vertical new models in the world in the past 12 months. They have made great progress in understanding the context, reducing hallucinations, and overall reasoning ability, unlocking many new application scenarios for AI.
Similarly, this trend also affects the domestic market. At the final scene, 6 innovative enterprises gave implementation ideas from different application aspects.
Xuanyu Information, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 502nd Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, provides a digital quality solution in the aerospace field. It is understood that this SaaS platform has the advantages of structured system requirements, visualized processes, knowledge sharing, intelligent decision-making, and collaborative management. It has been applied to more than 400 scientific research and production units, industry associations, and military users.
Qingpeng Intelligent, incubated by Tsinghua University, focuses on the construction of an energy large model. It is understood that this model can achieve new energy power prediction, power market agency trading, optical storage and charging configuration optimization, and virtual power plant operation optimization through refined scene adaptation and appropriate parameter design.
In the field of AI edge computing, Future Internet of Things builds an edge-side fully self-developed product system around edge computing technology, precipitates the platform capabilities of AI, forms a series of standard tools such as middleware and algorithm distribution, realizes the decoupling of hardware, software, and algorithm applications, and provides targeted solutions for different industries.
In the 3D design field, Tuchen Technology relies on BIM and AI technology to create an independent and controllable AIGC 3D software product system for the industrial and construction industries to achieve cost reduction and efficiency increase.
AI + IP, AI + animation, AI has great potential in the digital field. Huajiang Film and Television is a film and television media company dedicated to exhibition planning and digital animation research. It integrates AI technology into character design and animation production, and creates an ecological closed loop by combining the secondary element industry. In the booming and lively AI education field, Yigu Intelligent precisely targets quality education as the entry point. Its products are ingeniously designed to build a complete quality education framework covering from the enlightenment stage, through the adolescent period, to the teacher training system. Through this system, children can comprehensively and systematically grasp artistic common sense, gradually improve their artistic literacy, and achieve effective accumulation and consolidation of artistic knowledge in a relaxed and pleasant learning process, strongly empowering the advancement of children's comprehensive quality.
The Double Alliance of Computing Power Town and Alibaba Cloud Accelerates the Implementation of Innovative Applications
20 enterprises made a high-quality appearance in the Computing Power Application Innovation Competition. Then what is the background of this competition?
At the final scene, Xia Chengtao, a member of the Party Working Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee of Linping New Town, gave an official answer: This is an innovation competition jointly organized by the Computing Power Town and Alibaba Cloud, and it is an "activity" in the "four ones" system of the Linping District Computing Power Town.
In 2021, Linping District seized the opportunity of the AI industry revolution and took the lead in proposing the development of the computing power industry to build the first computing power town in the country, focusing on chip design and artificial intelligence, and building a "four ones" system: One platform, Hangzhou Data Element Operation Center (China Data Valley • Linping) is the only trusted operating space with the ability to develop and utilize multiple data elements currently landed in Zhejiang Province, and it is also the first collaborative innovation center for data elements in the communication industry in the country, gathering five core modules including information project research and development, security operation, model training, data processing, and contact display; One policy, the "Special Support Policy for Promoting the Development of the Computing Power Industry in Linping District, Hangzhou City" was issued, and a series of policy measures were formulated in the three major areas of ensuring the supply of computing power elements, accelerating the empowerment of innovative scenarios, and promoting the clustered development of the industry. With service and environmental sincerity, it provides strong support for the computing power industry in Linping District; One fund, the establishment of the first phase of a 400 million yuan computing power-led industrial fund; One activity, jointly organizing an innovation competition with leading enterprises to provide solid data, computing power, funds, policies, and innovation support for the industrial development of the Computing Power Town. A set of industrial service closed-loop mechanisms for project selection, fund support, business model verification, and scenario support is formed.
The importance of the Computing Power Application Innovation Competition to the Computing Power Town is self-evident, and Alibaba Cloud is one of the best collaborators of the Computing Power Town.
Alibaba Cloud is grown in Hangzhou and is committed to providing strong computing and data processing capabilities through an online public service form, promoting computing and artificial intelligence to become inclusive technologies. In the past 10 years, Alibaba Cloud has reduced computing costs by 80% and storage costs by nearly 90%; the official website prices of more than 100 products and more than 500 product specifications have decreased by an average of 20%, with the highest reduction reaching 55%.
With the help of Alibaba Cloud, the technology gap between small and medium-sized enterprises and large enterprises is continuously narrowing, while promoting the effective integration and utilization of data resources, and accelerating the technological upgrading and business expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises.
One side provides policies and stages, and the other side provides technical support, effectively achieving complementary advantages and resource interaction.
In early 2023, the Linping District People's Government and Alibaba Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Alibaba Cloud collaborates with regional product innovation through technology to help enterprises quickly access cloud computing resources. Through a series of training and open platforms, enabling resident enterprises to achieve in-depth applications in big data, the Internet of Things, and AI.
With the smooth progress of the initial cooperation, in September this year, the