At the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, researchers from the humanoid robot research team are debugging robots at the National Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Yehua
An autonomous sanitation vehicle operates in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Huanzong
2024 will be the tenth anniversary of the construction of the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center.
Data show that as of the end of 2023, the number of invention patents per 10,000 people in Beijing has more than quadrupled compared to 2014, and the number of national high-tech enterprises and the number of newly established technology enterprises every day have more than doubled. Today in Beijing, a technology company is founded in less than 5 minutes on average; the number of unicorn companies in the city reaches 114, ranking first in the country.
In 2023, the added value of Beijing’s digital economy will account for 42.9% of the regional GDP. The development of 6G technology, artificial intelligence, computing power platforms and other industries has injected strong impetus into the construction of an international science and technology innovation center.
Promote the development of 6G technology
According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as of the end of March this year, a total of 3.647 million 5G base stations have been built across the country, and the 5G user penetration rate exceeds 60%. While 5G technology is accelerating its integration into thousands of industries, higher-level 6G technology is also booming.
“6G technology is an intergenerational update of 5G. It is expected to be commercialized around 2030, and the standard will be formulated around 2025.” Wang Zhiqin, deputy director of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said that 6G technology will become the link between the physical world and the digital world. A bridge to meet the needs of people, things and intelligent entities to access the network.
Faced with this forward-looking, innovative and integrated new technology, Beijing is actively seizing development opportunities.
Relevant persons in charge of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Management Committee introduced that Beijing has the country’s leading human resources and scientific research results in terms of 6G technology development. “Beijing is home to many of the country’s leading universities and research institutes in the field of information and communications. It has a number of national-level scientific research platforms and nearly a hundred top scholars in the field of information and communications. It is a gathering place for global information and communications scholars. This provides a platform for the development of 6G technology. Fertile soil.”
As of the end of 2023, the number of papers published by Beijing scholars at top international conferences and journals in the 6G field ranks first in the country. Among them, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications took the lead in proposing a new paradigm for information communication development – the intelligent simplified system, and developed an end-to-end semantic communication system.
Zhongguancun Panlian Mobile Communication Technology Innovation and Application Research Institute (“Panlian Institute”), located in Haidian District, is an innovative R&D institution jointly established by China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd., Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and TD Industry Alliance. It focuses on 6G key technology research. According to reports, the Pan-Joint Research Institute has released the country’s first 6G air interface test platform, which can support 100Gbps communication experiments; in terms of visible light communication, it has achieved single-tube 10Gbps data transmission, which is at the world’s leading level.
Relevant persons in charge of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the Zhongguancun Management Committee said that at present, Beijing has layouts in the fields of base station equipment, terminal equipment, instrumentation, chip devices, etc., and has built a relatively complete mobile communications industry chain, initially forming an industrial space. The layout is expected to create a new front for 6G future industrial development. An action plan for Beijing’s 6G technological innovation and industry cultivation will be released in the future to accelerate the construction of a 6G original innovation source and industrial development cluster with global influence.
Laying out the artificial intelligence industry
Artificial intelligence technology is a typical representative of new productivity. In recent years, Beijing has continued to increase its support for the artificial intelligence industry.
In 2023, Beijing has successively issued special policies such as “Beijing’s Implementation Plan to Accelerate the Construction of a Globally Influential Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center (2023-2025)” and “Beijing’s Several Measures to Promote the Innovation and Development of General Artificial Intelligence” to promote artificial intelligence technology. Innovation and industrial development. In 2024, Beijing will focus on artificial intelligence and other fields and establish four new tens of billions of government investment funds.
“Beijing has provided a comprehensive support system for the development of the artificial intelligence industry, including policy support, innovation ecology, financing channels and data openness. These measures constitute a good innovation ecology.” Chen Zhenjiao, a professor at the School of Information at the University of International Business and Economics, believes that as the first As a national new-generation artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zone, Beijing has strong industrial agglomeration capabilities and has formed a relatively complete artificial intelligence industry chain layout.
Data shows that in 2023, the core output value of Beijing’s artificial intelligence industry will exceed 250 billion yuan. Here, many large-scale model products for ordinary users were born, such as Baidu’s Wenxin Yiyan, etc.; it also cultivated many advanced results in the field of basic artificial intelligence research, such as domestic AI developed by Cambrian, Moore Thread and other companies. chips; at the same time, products integrating artificial intelligence technology with medical, financial, transportation, government affairs and other fields are also emerging.
Various districts in Beijing provide rich application scenarios for artificial intelligence companies.
In Daxing District, the “AI+Medical” project initiated and constructed by the Daxing Biomedical Industry Base has introduced artificial intelligence pharmaceutical innovation companies such as Zhongke Genomics and built the Beijing Bioinformatics Intelligent Computing Center to use artificial intelligence technology to accelerate the research and development of new drugs and enhance the medical and health industry. Productivity.
In the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the country’s first artificial intelligence data training base was opened in March this year. This training base can organize data suppliers, processing service providers, and model training parties to work together to facilitate the fine-tuning of general model and industry vertical model training. According to the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Yizhuang Smart City Research Institute Company, the base operator, the training base has established a complete supervision mechanism for data compliance and scenario application of large model training to provide guarantee for new technology innovation iterations.
In Haidian District, the Beijing General Artificial Intelligence Innovation Park will be completed by the end of this year. After the park is completed, it will provide open, inclusive and high-quality computing power supply services to artificial intelligence enterprises, attract and gather a group of innovative artificial intelligence enterprises, and create a new generation of information industry cluster.
Relevant persons in charge of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the Zhongguancun Management Committee introduced that Beijing will continue to promote the leadership of artificial intelligence technology innovation, aiming at national strategic needs, focusing on the core directions of artificial intelligence basic software and hardware, basic large models, etc., and promoting innovative entities to accelerate technological iterations. Strive to achieve technological independence and self-reliance in the field of artificial intelligence.
Build a public computing platform
Computing power is a public resource just like a city’s power supply and water supply. The accelerated development of technologies such as artificial intelligence is inseparable from the support of computing power, a new infrastructure.
The public computing power platform can provide high-tech enterprises with stable and large-scale computing power and accelerate the construction of Beijing as an international science and technology innovation center. In the past two years, Beijing has deployed and constructed public computing power platforms in many regions across the city.
In March this year, in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the city’s largest public computing power platform, which can provide 3000P computing power (P is a unit of computing power, 1P is approximately equal to 1000 trillion calculations per second), was launched. The Economic and Technological Development Zone will issue 100 million yuan in computing power coupons every year for companies to apply for and rent computing power. According to the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, in the future, the zone plans to build a computing power scale of more than 10,000P, and will also launch supporting policies to provide artificial intelligence companies with public and inclusive computing power and innovative and leading computing network services. , meticulous and complete solutions to promote large model training and industry applications.
Recently, the second phase of Beijing West Smart Valley-Beijing Unicom Independent Innovation Artificial Intelligence Computing Center was opened in Mentougou District. Last year, Beijing West Intelligent Valley Intelligent Computing Center was launched in Mentougou Park, Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park. This is also the first market-oriented artificial intelligence computing center in Beijing. After the second phase of the project is put into use, the computing power of Jingxi Intelligent Valley can reach 500P and can serve more than 200 small and medium-sized enterprises and units.
Zhongke Vision (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the beneficiary enterprises of Beijing West Smart Valley. The company’s unmanned road disease intelligent detection vehicle, AI visual early warning platform and other products have been trained on large models with the support of the computing power of the Jingxi Zhigu Intelligent Computing Center. Xu Chao, the person in charge of the Zhongke Visual Language Project, said that for start-ups, the computing power services provided by Jingxi Zhigu Intelligent Computing Center can help companies obtain computing power support on time and on demand, reducing the cost of building self-built computing power facilities. the cost of.
At present, the inclusive computing power services provided by the Beijing West Intelligent Valley Intelligent Computing Center have covered enterprises and scientific research institutions in multiple industries such as digital audio-visual, intelligent medical care, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent transportation, and intelligent finance. (Li Zhen)
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