Tencent Dangdang cooperates with the selection of intelligent portable robot "Wukong"

On September 27th, the intelligent portable robot Wukong launched by Tencent and Diantong was officially released. As the industry's first multi-modal interactive robot created by the two parties, Wukong combines the hardware advantages of Ubisoft in the field of humanoid robots, and the artificial intelligence interactive services and content resources of Tencent's industry AI solutions, with superior performance. Power and intelligent interactive experience.

The Goku robot equipped with Tencent's AI assistant is very interesting. It has rich functions such as dance movement, voice interaction, smart call, face recognition, picture book recognition, video monitoring, and object recognition. It can communicate with people to understand. Answering, the expression is rich, flexible and natural, and can be applied to education, family, social, office and other scenes. Wukong Robot will be sold by China's technology product distribution giant Ai Shide Co., Ltd., and it is believed to be the most valuable star product on the market, bringing consumers an unprecedented smart family life experience.

Tencent Dangdang provides customized AI solutions for the robot industry

The humanoid robot is a highly technical industry and a promising AI application field. With the continuous breakthrough of hardware technology, robots are more and more anthropomorphic, and they also need the support of artificial intelligence technology to continuously improve the intelligence of robots.

Zhong Xiangping, vice president of Tencent, said at the press conference that Tencent is one of the strategic partners of Tencent. Tencent provides customized AI solutions for robots based on its deep technology accumulation and rich content and service ecology. The Goku robot equipped with Tencent's AI assistant is the staged result of the connection, application and cooperation between Tencent and Youbie in the open ecology. The multi-modal interaction solution provided by Tencent's AI assistant combines the functions of voice interaction, visual interaction and robot control, and integrates the expressive power of the robot, allowing users to experience different artificial intelligence.

(Zhong Xiangping, Vice President of Tencent)
Focusing on the field of robotics, Tencent Dangdang deeply cultivates user behavior learning accumulation, collation and analysis, making speech technology further in the aspects of lifelike, personalized, emotional and scene, bringing users a more natural interaction and experience. In terms of voice interaction, Tencent's customized AI solution can achieve better recognition results by far-near field through voice wake-up, speech recognition, semantic understanding, speech synthesis, multi-round dialogue and other technologies, making the robot more anthropomorphic. And thinking ways. In terms of image recognition, Tencent's functions such as face recognition, object recognition, text recognition and picture book recognition make robot information collection more accurate and convenient, and become a more intimate partner of human beings. In terms of content and services, Tencent has integrated rich internal and external content and service resources including QQ Music, Tencent News, Tencent Translation Jun, Penguin FM, DragonflyFM, Mint Health, ABCmouse, 100,000 Why, and more than 200 skill services. Covers all aspects of life, providing platform-level business support for hardware products.

Tencent jingle AI assistant multi-domain layout to help smart life

The development of artificial intelligence has injected new kinetic energy into economic and social development. Demand leads the way, and AI applications continue to accelerate. Tencent hopes that the value of AI technology will be brought into play through the opening of AI technology and become a digital assistant in various industries.

As one of the important products in Tencent's artificial intelligence field, Tencent Dangdang AI Assistant has accumulated and polished a whole set of AI technology since 2017, connecting the content and services of many partners inside and outside Tencent, and continuously providing practical AI for the industry. The solution drives the development of the industry. At present, it has been deployed in many fields such as smart speakers, smart TVs, intelligent robots, smart cars, and smart wear.

Tencent Dangdang will continue to work with partners to explore the use of artificial intelligence to achieve breakthroughs and innovations, let AI technology from development and research to the scene co-construction, and jointly realize the value maximization in the open ecology.

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Li Yanhong talks with Lagarde: The Internet is an appetizer. Artificial intelligence is the main dish.

On September 26, 2018, Baidu founder Li Yanhong held a conversation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) President Lagarde at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York on the theme "Technology is the global growth engine." In the face of Lagarde's artificial intelligence will replace some of the employment opportunities, Li Yanhong said that artificial intelligence will also create new employment opportunities while replacing part of the employment.

Li Yanhong said in the dialogue that Baidu's growth has benefited from the development of China's Internet. "Baidu is lucky." When Baidu was founded 18 years ago, there were less than 10 million Chinese netizens, and now it is close to 800 million. He also said that compared with the huge impact of the Internet on people's daily lives, artificial intelligence will not only solve the pain points of life in the life scene, but also change the manufacturing, medical, education and other industries. "The Internet is an appetizer. Artificial intelligence is the main dish."

As far as Baidu’s own AI strategy is concerned, when Baidu announced its second-quarter earnings a month ago, Li Yanhong attributed the strong increase in profits to the “AI-driven liquidity”. In the earnings report, he said that Baidu will increasingly move toward an "AI first" company. "Technology will play an increasingly important role in user experience and liquidity." In Baidu business, AI In addition to changing and innovating Baidu's current core business—search, information flow, and iQiyi's video services, it also attempts to build Apollo for autonomous driving and AI for DuerOS for conversational human-computer interaction. Other lines of business.

However, the impact of artificial intelligence on the distribution of social resources is also causing reflections from regulators and scholars. Lagarde said that a recent study by the International Monetary Fund showed that about 26 million jobs worldwide may be replaced by artificial intelligence. Among them, female workers will be more negative in the job market than male workers. influences.

Talking about the impact of artificial intelligence on the job market, Li Yanhong said that he is relatively optimistic that artificial intelligence can only help humans make decisions. Automated driving technology is still far away from replacing drivers. When some repetitive employment is replaced by machines, new employment Opportunities will be generated during the same period. At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai in September this year, Li Yanhong also said that companies that are not AI-based will not be able to adapt to the new era and are destined to be replaced by a new generation of enterprises.

The Bloomberg Global Business Forum was launched by Bloomberg's founder and Michael Bloomberg, who served as Mayor of New York, to promote a serious dialogue between business leaders and policy makers. In May of this year, Bloomberg announced that it will hold the "Innovation Economic Forum" for the first time in November this year to explore the opportunities and challenges in the global transformation process led by new economies such as China, India, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The first innovation economic forum will be held in Singapore.

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The Oculus Connect conference will be held. What surprises to come this time?

The Oculus Connect 5 conference will be held in San Jose tomorrow, and Facebook and Oculus will showcase their latest virtual reality work and try to prove to the world that virtual reality will come.

Tomorrow will be an important day for the hardware industry, although there may not be so many surprises, because Oculus has publicly revealed some plans for its future.
Here are some of the things we expect to happen tomorrow.

Oculus "Santa Cruz" release date and price
The unnamed stand-alone 6DoF head is equipped with a tracking controller, and the device is likely to be launched early next year; the biggest concern is its price.

Although Oculus has been aggressive in pricing, such as the Oculus Go starting at $199, the price range for "Santa Cruz" final pricing is still worth looking forward to. The headset is still running the mobile chipset, although it is likely to be the current generation of snapdragon845, not the old 821 on Oculus Go. The most striking of this device is the motion position tracking and manual controller (we may see the updated design), and the addition and improvement of the function will definitely increase the price.

I expect the price to be between $349 and $399; a lower price may erode Oculus Go's sales, and for consumers who have proved a bit reluctant to buy VR, it is hard to sell at a higher price. Out.

Next generation Oculus Rift
We witnessed the Oculus "Half Dome" prototype at the F8 conference; my guess is that tomorrow we will see more about it and maybe get some demonstrations of functional prototypes.

The company's Rift heads have been around for a few years, so it's time to start thinking about the next generation of PC drivers. Since the introduction of Rift, GPU power has made a big leap. Now Oculus has some products that can eliminate low-end products, and they may also conduct more experiments because they want to get more features of PC professional level.

The importance of the "Half Dome" lies in its new approach to focusing the lens on objects. When using the old system, their fixed focal length makes it impossible to read anything in the length of the arm; and with the new system using electric display and eye tracking, the head will be able to look more like your eyes, in dynamic observation Focus on the object. This, combined with the new lens system, significantly expands the field of view. These are very powerful features, but there are many engineering challenges, so we look forward to hearing more details from the Oculus booth.

The boundaries between Oculus and Facebook will be more blurred
Just as Instagram and WhatsApp are integrated into the Facebook company hierarchy, we may see Oculus more deeply integrated into Facebook's VR department in keynote speeches.

After a massive restructuring at the end of 2016, the Oculus executive structure has seen the co-founders being downgraded, and power has expanded to executives in the Zuckerberg core circle. Hugo Barra's position remains the vice president of Facebook VR, while Andrew Bosworth is the vice president of AR/VR; we are likely to hear about them. In previous years' meetings, we can see Oculus' co-founders on the booth and announce major announcements, but last year it was opened by Mark Zuckerberg and issued a major statement to everyone.

This year, Oculus Research changed its name to Facebook Reality Lab. It's interesting to see where Facebook has entered the Oculus architecture.

Facebook Spaces has gained some playing time in the past few years; the team is likely to return to the booth to share their latest feature updates. We'll see if social apps get "Santa Cruz" support and whether it will grow into a stock app or continue to experiment.

New AAA content
We can expect to hear the news and new games available on the company's existing platform.

Oculus made a major deal last year, seeking AAA game publishers to develop new games for Rift; Oculus Studios may allow us to enter the next wave of games, and we can expect to see some great big game, not some Independent game project.

A few years ago, Oculus detailed that they spent $250 million on content, but we haven't heard the latest developments in the amount of money promised about games or experiences. Maybe we will hear more about the company's investment growth or the company's hopes for the next investment.

Oculus mixed reality
This may be an extension, but this year may be the year we saw the company's augmented reality experiment, after all, they have been deliberately forgetting for the past few years.

We know that the team at Facebook Reality Lab is developing AR head-display technology, but it is equally clear that this technology is still in a very early stage and takes more time. Despite this, Microsoft is likely to showcase the updated HoloLens (focusing on the enterprise) soon, and Magic Leap has demonstrated their first major move in the consumer space.

It would be a bit surprising that Oculus showed his cards so early, but if Apple is close to releasing head-mounted devices as the report suggests, they might want to let people know what they are doing.

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The youngest partner cut the server cable and returned to normal within 26 seconds.

Want to cut the cable not to check Checklater? I am afraid that this idea will be lost.

At the ATEC main forum of Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, Ant Financial deputy CTO Hu Xi simulated the four cables of the Alipay server.

After only 26 seconds, Alipay in the simulated environment was completely restored, and user funds and data 0 were lost. The second-level self-healing relies on a city-level fault automatic disaster recovery system.

Hu Xi announced that Ant Financial's financial technology is officially fully open, providing complete digital financial solutions for the industry, including core technologies and solutions including disaster recovery systems, such as financial security and blockchain. The partner is open.

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The new ability of "three centers and five centers"

It is understood that Alipay has also done the same test on the booth before, cutting 4 cables, but it took 1 second faster. In the same environment, it took 25 seconds to return to normal.

Throughout the process, the audience can log into a virtual account by scanning the code to experience.

This is a small program that Alipay does for the demonstration. After the user logs in, the virtual account name will be automatically assigned. The account contains 1 million virtual funds and the name of the computer room.

Users can also implement virtual transfers through small programs.

Subsequently, the staff of the on-site connection, at the prompt of Hu Xi, cut off the server cable.

Within about 20 seconds after the two computer rooms are disconnected from the network, the account page shows that the system is abnormal. At this time, if the user is assigned to the Hangzhou computer room, or is transferring money to the account of the Hangzhou computer room, the prompt "Test account disaster recovery switching" will appear. .

After 26 seconds, the test user can smoothly transfer the simulation, but the computer room will be assigned to other areas.

Such a computer room structure is called “three places and five centers”, that is, five machine rooms are deployed in three cities. Once one or two of the machine rooms fail, Alipay's underlying technology system will switch all the traffic in the faulty city to the normal operating room. And can achieve consistent data and achieve zero loss.

"In the real environment, if Alipay has problems in two computer rooms in two cities at the same time, the speed of the Alipay account running on these two computer rooms will return to normal at the minute level." Hu Xi explained.

Previously, Zinc Finance introduced in the case of Nanjing Bank's technology upgrade, the traditional two-center three-center deployment structure used by banks and financial institutions, that is, two computer rooms in one city and one cold standby machine room in another.

"Just like you bought two houses in your house, a house has lived for a long time, and another house has not lived. You can take a look at it regularly. If your time rhythm is one month or half a year, the family has a New guests, you still need to clean and solve the hydropower problem, in order to give the guests a living." Hu Xi said, once, banks and financial institutions are difficult to switch to the cold standby machine room, second, the cold standby machine room also needs to have the corresponding load Ability, but usually it is empty, the cost is relatively large.

The computer room structure of the “three centers and five centers” is exactly what banks and financial institutions urgently need.

“Chimney type” is an analogy to the core system provided by traditional IT companies. When the business volume comes up, the bank can only switch to a higher minicomputer. When the production capacity increases, the chimney of the factory will increase.

In the past, the traditional architecture was to replace these boxes with larger ones, while the distributed architecture only needed to add the same size of the box.

"The biggest problem is this kind of architecture. All the key capabilities are in the black box, which is uncontrollable." Hu Xi believes that there is a problem in the previous machine room, which is crazy for the technical team, and does not know the inside. The situation can only be seen by people who are waiting for IOE to check and adjust.

In the same year, Ali also encountered the same problem, the group went to the "IOE", and later Aliyun.

In addition to the "three centers and five centers", Hu Xi and Ant Financial also opened up more capabilities.

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From 2C to 2B, 100% self-operated business is open

"Tmall double reached a record of 256,000 pennies per second, creating a world record", "two machine rooms are faulty and can also be restored in seconds", "Intelligent risk control system makes the loss rate as low as 10 million points 5", "The world's first blockchain cross-border remittance", "the world's first commercial brush face payment"...

These seemingly valuable solutions are now available, and now Alipay and Ant Financial want to open them all.

"This release is a big summary of our continuous exploration and exploration between 2015 and 2018." Hu Xi said in reviewing Ant Financial and Alipay's open road.

At the beginning of its establishment in 2004, Alipay focused on using technology to solve practical problems, cultivate internal strength, and prepare for opening up.

Beginning in 2015, Ant Financial proposed the Internet Propulsion Program and released the Ant Financial Cloud. The principle is “mature, open one”, and the mature technology will be accelerated to open to partners and enter the 2.0 era.

In September 2017, Ant Financial Chairman and CEO Jing Xiandong announced at the Ali Investors Conference that Ant Financial has achieved 100% open self-operated business.

The opening of ant financial technology means that Ant Financial has entered the 3.0 era: Alipay has continued its BASIC strategy, established and established a system, and realized commercialization of technology.

Ideno also announced that Ant Financial is opening up the financial capabilities represented by BASIC (blockchain, artificial intelligence, security, Internet of Things, cloud computing).

At the same time, he announced two open plans: Alipay's small program ecological development plan and ant blockchain cooperation plan.

Ant Financial will set up the STS (Shoulder To Shoulder) Alipay Technology Innovation Fund, investing 1 billion yuan in three years to support technological innovation including small programs; and BaaS blockchain platform partners include PwC and Tsinghua Cloud, Accenture, Standard Chartered Bank, Nono Net.

It is understood that Ant Financial's opening is divided into three levels: business opening, capacity opening and technology opening.

The underlying technology is open, including blockchain, financial distributed architecture, mobile development, etc.

The ability of the middle level is open, including small procedures, life numbers, real-name nuclear capabilities, and credit capabilities;

The top-level business is open, including Yu Ebao Open, Borrow Open, Checklater Open, Ant Fortune Platform.

According to the official website of Ant Financial Technology, there are hundreds of technical menus open to the whole world, including financial security technology, massive financial transaction technology, financial risk control technology, etc.; industry solutions include digital banking solutions and digital insurance solutions. Program, etc.

“Technology is very simple. How do you work with more partners to help solve technical IT problems? This is a relatively common commercialization method; the intermediate capability layer is also relatively mature. How do you use each platform today? Capability interface, Alipay has a set of mature business rules; the top level, often with financial institutions, or with other agencies, biased towards business rules, such as what rules like Yu Ebao, what kind of checklater Rules, there are business rules in it, and commercialization is based on these rules.” Hu Xi explained how commercialization can be achieved when Ant Financial is open to three different capabilities.

Good technical means, naturally need a reasonable business cooperation model to cooperate, open ecology, in order to run faster.

Hu Xi defines Ant Financial's technological ability as "Technology for Good", and he uses the "Alipay version of the Qingming Riverside Map" to show his digital Chinese picture: in the misty forest, several teenagers get up early Collecting green energy; the streets along the river are already noisy, among the pedestrians coming and going, there are small merchants with blue QR codes to do business, there are gentry in the restaurant to eat, and there is a risk of use. The bureaucracy of the brain "breaking the case", the water will flow, the people are moving...

From the opening of 2C to 2B, I believe that the advancement of digital China will be more rapid.

Five ways to subvert the world with 5G technology

Wireless technology protocols have never received the attention of media and users as they are today. 5G is a radical upgrade that fundamentally changes the way we live and work.

From a purely speed perspective, wireless systems and network equipment that are supported by 5G technology will transmit data faster than current 4G LTE data systems. When it began its long-term promotion at the end of 2018, 5G will also incorporate previously independent voice and data service channels for more flexible use.

For example, an enhanced or virtual reality application is just one example of what 5G wants to subvert. “Today, all interactive content is sent to the central cloud system, and then sent back, and everyone you share with is within your line of sight.” Chairman of MobileedgegeX, the edge computing company founded by Deutsche Telekom And CEO Jason Hoffman said. "All processing is done on cloud devices. Processing 3D animations is a process that requires a lot of intensive computer resources and power consumption, and this experience is not shared by everyone, nor is it in-game. Every player can share, which is an inefficient and unsatisfactory way of doing things."

With 5G technology, we can alleviate some problems. Unlike 4G and previous wireless iterations, 5G will make it easier to mix small base stations with large towers, making it easier to enter Wi-Fi frequencies. This means that 5G can complete tasks faster and transmit information without causing interference between users.

So, will this new 5G communication with smoother signal transmission become our only dream? We interviewed some 5G experts and technicians to get expert insights and summarized the changes that 5G will bring to the disruptive experience in these five areas.

1, the group bid farewell to "cables"

5G has the potential to drive download speeds near or below the ground and provide satellite-grade video quality, and 5G may also accelerate the ongoing "wire farewell program." This change has allowed wireless phone companies to long-term efforts to convince cable TV customers to achieve their goals, and to accelerate efforts to attract more customers.

Verizon has announced plans to offer free Apple 4K TV and free YouTube TV subscriptions to early 5G users. For families with only 50 million broadband providers in the US, 5G has a network speed of more than 25 megabits (FCC's broadband threshold), and 5G can help American families mitigate the negative impact of high prices and poor customer service. . The result is that every family will now have at least two broadband TV providers to choose from.

2. Distributed artificial intelligence

Currently, most computing that drives artificial intelligence systems exist in remote data centers. This means that state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems cannot train their continuous learning algorithms in the feedback loop of the field to perform real-time evaluation and enhance machine learning capabilities. Instead, the data must be captured and sent to processing.

When 5G is combined with a new communication technology paradigm called edge computing, the latter provides a wider range of distributed computing capabilities. As a result, new forms of artificial intelligence technology can run on the fast 5G of micro-data centers located in the community, including the smartphones we carry with us.

Nirav Desai, a senior partner at Geobeam Computing Consulting's Moonbeam, said the breakthrough seems to have achieved its goal, "depending on how infrastructure uses this hardware, it can make awareness on the local cloud." Services help achieve better immersive artificial intelligence tasks such as object detection, spatial mapping, computer vision, and voice AI."

3, automatic driving high-speed data transmission

This new technology will also solve the main problems currently in the field of autonomous vehicles. This is what should be done when the car driving system fails. If the car lacks the steering wheel, this will be a particularly difficult problem, just like some of Google’s. The same is true for auto prototype cars.

The speed of the 5G should be fast enough to allow the control center staff to take over the faulty vehicles in the first place and provide them with remote driving control when they leave the state highway in an orderly manner and enter the complex city center.

4, 24 hours doctor

Telemedicine and more complex robotic surgeries also require stable data connections, which has provided many types of remote control methods in the field. But 5G can allow the use of surgery and other medical robots in remote areas away from the doctor's office to help surgeons or specialists advance to where their patients are.

“With 5G, medical procedures will become more accurate and accurate, and surgeons will have the speed of communication needed to save lives,” said Dan Burgar, a virtual reality and AR consultant in Vancouver, Canada, who has already conducted telemedicine technology. Tracking for several years.

5. Enhance all experiences

Just like the “primitive force” in Star Wars, a content and communication network that infiltrates life, hybrid simulation and the digital world will soon blur the distinction between digital and real life, and 5G technology is precisely this vision. The key enabler.

“In the past, using immersive technologies like augmented reality or virtual reality was an independent and special experience that was separate from life,” said Taylor, managing director of immersive and interactive content studio Brightline Interactive. Tyler Gates said.

Gates said: "With 5G now, everything we see in the virtual reality experience can be a part of our daily lives. Whether it's video, chat, enhanced maps, etc., we have been using it and feeling it. It has become a very natural part of the world in which it is located. This means that every sporting event can be an enhanced or virtual live broadcast platform. For example, a space where a virtual virtual audience and a live audience may share, while hearing the cheers of both people Sound and see the same scores, and there may be more virtual audiences on the sidelines. You can chat with each other and even clap and share a space with the audience.

Although some experts warn that, like the Internet itself, 5G represents a subversive force that will accompany new classes and types of businesses. While this is true, existing businesses also need to adapt to the new realities of fast, ubiquitous 5G connectivity, as the Internet of Things will ultimately provide a flexible and ubiquitous infrastructure.

Of course, in the short term, this is a very practical technology that brings benefits to ordinary families. Now everything we do on smartphones will soon become faster in the 5G world.

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Scale up: how artificial intelligence and next-generation companies can create a future economy

In the past, mass market consumer brands have been convincing us to pursue fashion and eager for what others have. The biggest advantage of Starbucks, GAP and other brands is to provide the same experience for consumers around the world. But technological innovations have made everyone more and more inclined to individualized products and experiences, and even began to pursue "absolute perfection," which makes the company not necessarily the bigger the better.

Heminant Taneja, a venture capitalist, and Kevin Maney, the author of the two, "Descale: How Artificial Intelligence and Next-Generation Enterprises Create Future Economy (Unscaled: How AI And a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future), which argues that artificial intelligence and the technology wave that it spawns enable highly focused small-scale innovative companies to compete with traditional old-style economies of scale. "Going to scale." The future of scale customization is in the hands of independent creators, and emerging companies can provide new experiences for targeted markets and users with personalized needs.

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How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future

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Technology has spawned "de-scale"

For a century, consumer brands in the mass market have often kept us flowing. We have been buying standardized products such as Starbucks coffee and GAP jeans. Their original intention and advantage are to attract as many consumers as possible and give consumers around the world the same consumer experience. But now, the situation seems to have changed. We no longer want to buy the same things as others, and technology makes personalization possible. Emerging companies such as private custom companies and 3D printing services are redefining a new era, giving each of us what we want: a product and consumer experience that is unique to one person, not everyone.

Protolabs, a manufacturer of prototype custom and on-demand parts, said its CEO, Vicki Holt, said: "The demand for personalized products and mass customization is a trend and will continue to grow. Today, companies need to differentiate their products, sell at high prices, and connect with consumers. Just as the traditional automobile manufacturing industry is coming to an end, the Black Ford T-cars bring the same assembly line, and now have a certain scale of customization. It is also the need of the times."

Writer Kevin Maney and venture capitalist Hemant Taneja made an anticipation of the industry's general trend in the book Unscaled, the consumer market. The transformation is one of them. This is not a technological wave that start-ups are hampering established companies, but artificial intelligence and the technology that has spawned them, enabling highly-focused small-scale innovative companies to compete with traditional old-style economies of scale, which they call “de-scale”.

Artificial intelligence enables learning and understanding of individual consumers. Therefore, small businesses can specialize in targeted production and services for those markets with strong individual needs but huge potential, and even the entire market.

The future of scale customization

In the hands of independent creators

The traditional approach is usually to win by the scale of the factory, the large distribution network, and the large number of store shelves. But now, these are becoming more and more troublesome and burdensome. For example, in the razor industry, although P&G has a wealth of resources, it lost its market when competing with more flexible start-ups such as Dollar Shave Club, a US unicorn company that specializes in razor products. Share. These start-ups are free of suppliers and contractors, can directly face consumers, and are faster to market, providing new experiences for new users in a narrower market. With these advantages, they can steal a large market share from the current market occupants.

It can also be seen from the example of Stitch Fix that a more personalized consumer experience works. Founded in 2011 by Katrina Lake, Stitch Fix combines artificial intelligence with manpower to provide a custom look for every consumer. The products sold by Stitch Fix are mass-produced, but the style and size of the clothing are tailored to each consumer.

New users of Stitch Fix first need to complete a close-up of online style, explain their size, size, answer some questions, and reveal some information about their lifestyle, such as "What occupation do you work for?", "Do you have children?" . The stylist then picks up five pieces of clothing based on your style. Consumers can buy their favorite clothes and then send other clothes back, and artificial intelligence can further understand the consumer style based on the selection of these clothes. Every few weeks, the specific interval is set by the user, and Stitch Fix will resend a batch of clothes that will be left or returned by the consumer. With these transactions, the software can understand the consumer's personal preferences, and in the long run, they can even better guide the stylist, so that the clothes sent by the stylist are right for the user's appetite.

Stitch Fix's evaluation is now well-deserved, and it scores only 3.6 stars (out of 5 stars) on Facebook. But even if this model is not perfect, it is still a case of scale customization and can represent a trend. The clothes may not be customized, but the consumer experience is definitely. Stitch Fix's goal is to understand consumers and find clothes that are right for them but they may not know. In the past, this vision was only achieved by relying on private buyers, who needed a lot of manpower. Artificial intelligence and data create a personal relationship between consumers and businesses. Although this relationship is not real, it is precisely because of this, this private order is more likely to achieve large-scale development.

Another case is that the scale of consumer products will become reality with 3D printing. Currently, 3D printing is still in its infancy. But maybe within ten years, the new shoes or new chairs you ordered will no longer be remote factories from mass production. In contrast, many companies make small-scale, customized productions based on ordering.

Shapeways, a 3D printing customization platform, was founded in 2007. With the above assumptions, it has raised more than $100 million in funding, including $30 million raised earlier this year. Shapeways can provide 3D printing services to any user who has design content or needs design assistance. Next, Shapeways wants to help creators in specific industries package and market their products while serving consumers. In April 2018, Shapeways CEO Greg Kress said: "We believe that the future of scale customization is in the hands of independent creators. The production technology of 3D printing is only the driving force to achieve this goal. force."

"Sales of Satisfaction" is being abandoned

The combination of artificial intelligence, data, and 3D printing allows companies to deepen their understanding of individual consumers and then offer or build proprietary products. If you can choose between your own and popular products, which one would you choose?

A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers states: “Today's consumers, especially younger consumers, are abandoning the deep-rooted 'satisfaction rule'. The term was coined by the economist Herbert Simon. Because of the limited accessibility and lack of information, consumers tend to be satisfied with 'good enough' instead of pursuing 'absolute perfection'. The situation has changed; the new goal of consumers is no longer relatively satisfactory, but Perfect. Now, absolute perfection seems to be within reach."

With the continued development of the trend of “de-scale”, giant companies such as Starbucks, GAP and Apple will have to make adjustments. The advantages brought about by large-scale are gradually eclipsing.

In the new era of scale-up, if a small company has a clear goal and regards individual consumers and consumer experiences as the center of all work, then when competing with companies that do not distinguish between consumers and target the mass market, They are more likely to win.

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MeiTuan listed on the first day opened 5.65% higher market value reached 40 million Hong Kong dollars super JD.COM

On September 20th, MeiTuan Review-W (03690) was listed on the first day, opening 5.65%, to HK$72.9, and the latest market value reached HK$403.0 million.

According to Phillips trading data, MeiTuan commented that it closed at HK$71.5, which was up by HK$2.50 compared with the offer price of HK$69.00. It was up 3.6% from the IPO price, and 100 shares per lot, regardless of handling fee, earning HK$250 per lot.

MeiTuan commented that the placement price range of the placement was 60-72 Hong Kong dollars, and the final price was 69 Hong Kong dollars, each handing 6900 Hong Kong dollars. Among them, the number of public offerings is 17105, the rate of one-handed signing is 100%, and the over-purchase multiple is 1.5 times.

Earlier, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange announced that it will launch the MeiTuan Review Futures and Options HKEx options configuration on September 20 and include the MeiTuan Review in the list of approved short selling designated securities. International index company FTSE Russell said recently that MeiTuan will follow the fast-inclusion mechanism after the market closes on the first day of listing, and include MeiTuan's review in its FTSE Global Equity Index Series FTSE China 50 Index, September 27 (next Thursday) Effective after the market closes.

As the world's leading provider of food and beverage delivery services, MeiTuan's take-out volume in the first half of 2018 ranked first in China's take-away market, accounting for 59% of the market share, and the average day of about 2,500 cities and counties in China in the fourth quarter of 2017. The number of transactions was 14.7 million. In 2017, the annual transaction amount of MeiTuan's food and beverage delivery service was RMB 171 billion. The market share of the restaurant business in the past three years and the first quarter of 2018 also ranked first, the hotel business is only slightly lower than the Ctrip ranking market.

In terms of financial data, from 2015 to 2017, MeiTuan's operating income was 4 billion yuan, 13 billion yuan and 33.9 billion yuan, up 223.2% and 161.2% year-on-year. Among them, food and beverage take-outs dominated, accounting for about 60% of the company's annual revenue. Especially from 2015 to 2017, MeiTuan's food and beverage sales revenue grew rapidly, reaching 1.8 billion, 5.3 billion and 21 billion yuan respectively. In the same period, the operating income of stores and liquor companies reached 3.8 billion, 7.1 billion and 10.9 billion respectively. In addition, from 2015 to 2017, the company's losses were 8.474 billion yuan, 6.255 billion yuan, 3.826 billion yuan, and the loss for the first four months of this year was 2.526 billion yuan.

According to the report published by Wei Zhida, it is believed that with the expansion of high-margin service market promotion, grocery store and non-food placement business, the monetization process of the company's business can be enhanced, and investors are advised to subscribe. According to the bank, the net profit margin of MeiTuan's review has improved from -147.2% in 2015 to -8.4% in 2017, and its valuation per share is equivalent to 2.3 to 2.7 times of sales revenue in 2020, compared with peer valuation of 2.9. Up to 9.4 times (including Alibaba, Ctrip and more), the valuation of MeiTuan is considered attractive.

Driven by the expansion of e-commerce services and the increase in market share, DBS Wei-Guo initially predicted that the company's revenue growth rate will reach 55.4% from 2017 to 2020, and its revenue forecast for 2020 will reach 127.23 billion yuan.

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Alibaba announced the establishment of Flat top Semiconductor Co., Ltd. to issue chips in April next year

At the Yunqi Conference held on September 19th, Alibaba announced the establishment of Flat Top Semiconductor Co., Ltd. According to reports, Flat top Semiconductor Co., Ltd. is a combination of Midsky micro and Dharma's chip team.

The data shows that the current Dharma chip team is close to 100 people, most of whom have experience in chip manufacturers such as AMD, ARM, NVIDIA and Intel. Coupled with the recent acquisition of Zhongtianwei, it is estimated that the number of new companies will reach 200 to 300. In the future, Flat top Semiconductor will build a smart network chip platform for many industries such as automotive, home appliances, and industrial.

Like the Dharma courtyard, Flat top aims to be ultimately independent. In the early stage, Alibaba Group gave enough investment and support, and after several years of operation, it became profitable and eventually grew into a self-financing company.

Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng said that he hopes that this company will learn the spirit of Flat top "not afraid" and continue to carry forward the burden. Through the self-developed powerful technology platform and ecosystem integration capability, the industrialization of domestic independent chips will be promoted.

Alibaba's chip strategy is "cloud integration", self-developed and ecological cooperation. The independent chip company mainly developed artificial intelligence chips and embedded chips in the early stage, and the long-term goal is to achieve self-financing. The origin of the name "Flat top", like the "Dharma courtyard", is decided by Ma Yun, which is derived from Ma Yun's recent trip to Africa. “Flat top” is another name for candied fruit. The honey pot is the only animal under the genus Capillaris. It is inhabited by tropical rain forests and open grasslands. It is called “the most fearless animal in the world”.

According to reports, next April, Alibaba will release the first neural network chip.

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Why is Jack Ma doing charity?

A few days ago, the retirement of Jack Ma was a sensation in the global business circle. Jack Ma said that after retirement, he will put more energy into public welfare and education.

So when it comes to charity, you have to talk about Jack Ma's old friend Bill Gates. Jack Ma said: I learned a lot from Bill Gates, and it is likely to follow Bill Gates to set up his own foundation.

For Jack Ma's move, Gates said, "I haven't talked to Jack Ma about this decision personally, but I look forward to having the opportunity to talk to him because I believe that he will have a lot of gains as he joins in charity. I will understand the philanthropy in the Chinese context. I hope he can bring the new thinking and new energy that has created Alibaba to charity."

Gates strongly praised the success of Ant Financial in the digital field. "Ant Jinfu has sufficient experience in digitizing the currency and reducing transaction costs. The Gates Foundation has been paying attention to inclusive finance and has also cooperated with Ant Financial. Promote digital currency to places like India."

Still more netizens said: Why Ma Yun is going to be charity, it is to learn Bill Gates!

Regarding Bill Gates, I believe that everyone is familiar with it. Someone asked Bill Gates before, why not want to run for the president, and Bill Gates’ answer is that he is more willing to do charity because he likes it because there are too many people in the world. Their help.

In January 2000, Bill Gates announced his retirement as CEO of Microsoft and established the "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" with his wife Melinda Gates. Since its inception, the foundation has donated With approximately $36 billion, it is the world's largest private charitable foundation.

At the same time, Bill Gates also encouraged young American entrepreneurs to be like him, such as Zuckerberg. Under Bill Gates's rendering, a foundation called "ChanZuckerberg" in the name of her own and her wife's surname will be established to promote equality and children's rights, and to create a better world for her daughter. Facebook official said that Zuckerberg’s donation is independent of the company, and Zuckerbock is still the actual controller of Facebook in the foreseeable future.

At the same time, Bill Gates and Jack Ma have one thing in common, that is, they are very concerned about young people, and the so-called young people are the hope of the future.

Bill and Melinda Gates are optimistic about the current growing population of young people who believe they are the new force driving progress. Investing in the health and education of young Africans will unlock productivity and innovation potential and bring about the “third wave of poverty reduction” following China and India.

Jack Ma is speaking in many places around the world, encouraging young people to learn to innovate, because the future world will be an innovative world for young people, and also use Alibaba's resources to serve young people.

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Will the robot replace 75 million jobs in the next five years, do you have a job?

On September 17, a recent report from the World Economic Forum pointed out that humans currently carry 71% of the world's work tasks, and by 2025, machines will take on more work than humans. Workplace machines and algorithms are rapidly evolving, creating 133 million new jobs, replacing 75 million jobs that will be lost between now and 2022.

The "2018 Future Employment Report ("Report") survey covers more than 300 global companies in a wide range of industry sectors, representing more than 15 million employees, involving 20 developed and emerging economies (total) 70% of global GDP).

This trend will have a profound impact on global labor. According to the Report, the rise of workplace revolutions around the world will dramatically change the way humans work with machines and algorithms. At present, the machine is responsible for 29% of the world's work tasks, and by 2025 will be more than half. The Report is positive about this. It points out that the outlook is still optimistic about the overall number of new jobs. Compared to the lost 75 million jobs, it is expected to add 133 million jobs by 2022.

automation

The Report states that automation will have a disruptive impact on the global workforce and will almost certainly result in dramatic changes in the nature, location, form and duration of jobs that will require close attention from public and private sector leaders.

“About 50% of companies expect that by 2022, automation will reduce the number of full-time employees, nearly 40% of companies expect to expand their workforce, and more than a quarter of companies expect automation to create new jobs within the company.” The report said.

Saadia Zahidi, Director of the New Economic and Social Center of the World Economic Forum, said: "Companies need to complement the automation plan with a comprehensive strengthening strategy. To maintain vitality, differentiation and competitiveness in the age of machines, companies must invest in the development of human capital. It is both morally and economically necessary. Without active action, companies and workers may miss the economic potential of the fourth industrial revolution."

New growth

Although the Report expects a net increase in the number of positions, the nature, location, format and duration of the new position will be significantly different.

As the division of labor between humans and machines continues to develop, workers will need new skill sets. According to the interviewed company, humans currently bear 71% of the total task hours, while the machine is engaged in the remaining 29%. By 2022, it is expected that humans will bear an average of 58% of mission hours, and the share of machines will rise to 42%.

All industries are expected to form a significant skill gap with an average skill instability of 42%, highlighting the severity of helping workers respond to changes in existing positions and future new positions. Certain capabilities will become increasingly important, including proficiency in technology (such as process design and programming) and unique human skills (such as creativity, critical thinking, and persuasion).

The extent of labor expansion and contraction varies from industry to industry. Job turnover rates are expected to vary significantly. For example, in the mining and metals, consumer goods, information and technology industries, the proportion of companies that are expected to cut jobs is higher than that of companies in the professional services industry. Jobs and skill needs in one industry are reduced, but another industry may grow. The Report shows that there are opportunities to coordinate and promote career transformation strategies among different industries.

The report's recommendations are: “Workers must have the right skills to adapt to future employment needs, and the actions of business and policy makers must be coordinated and complementary, investing in the development of human capital.”

According to the report, respondents who participated in the report said that they should respond to the challenges of the new employment situation, three strategies: long-term employment of new employees with new technology-related skills; full automation of work tasks; and retraining existing employees. There are also many companies that expect to assign jobs to professional contractors, freelancers and temporary workers.

Employee retraining

Through a survey of the chief human resources officer and top strategist of 12 companies and 20 developed and emerging economies (70% of global GDP), the Report found that 54% of large company employees need effective skills. Training can fully grasp the growth opportunities brought about by the fourth industrial revolution. At the same time, less than half of the companies surveyed said they plan to retrain their employees in key positions, and only one-third of the companies plan to retrain employees at risk.

Among the companies surveyed, respondents expect that the number of jobs will decrease by approximately 984,000 from the present to 2022, an increase of 1.74 million. Among the 20 economies covered by the report, according to these trends in non-agricultural employees of large companies, it is likely that 75 million jobs will be lost as the division of labor between humans, machines and algorithms changes. It is expected to create 133 million jobs that are more suitable for the new division of labor.

All industries are expected to form a significant skill gap, and the Report expects that the highest demand for skills retraining in 2018-2022 is aviation and tourism. In the ICT, financial services and investment, mining and metals industries, the skills gap is also significant. The transportation industry is the least likely to retrain existing employees, while business leaders in the global health and medical, chemical, advanced materials and biotechnology industries are most likely to retrain employees.

According to the Report, the demand for data analysts and scientists, software and application developers, e-commerce and social media experts will increase in all industries, and these positions are particularly dependent on or benefit from technology. Positions that clearly require “human skills”, such as sales and marketing professionals, innovation managers, and customer service staff, will also see an increase in demand. Jobs that are expected to be oversupplied include white-collar jobs for routine work, such as data entry, accounting, and payrollers.

According to the report, companies will use more contractors to perform specialized tasks, hire workers in a more flexible manner, remotely staff, change the location of the organization's operations, and ensure access to talent.

In addition, job requirements vary from region to region. It is estimated that the projected increase in job requirements in the regions includes: financial and investment advisers in East Asia, the Pacific and Western Europe; assembly and factory workers in Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and Bibi, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa; Electrical engineer, etc.

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Lenovo's IoT and AR hybrid software will reference blockchain technology

Recently, the Credits platform announced in a medium-sized post that it joined Lenovo's new technology project.

According to reports, the two companies will focus on the Internet of Things and AR software development. The software is used in various fields such as finance and technology.

The official press release stated that Credits will use their blockchain expertise to help build Lenovo's new vision technology project and facilitate the further development of blockchain technology.

The focus of the Lenovo project is on the AI/AR field. The purpose is to provide professional industry solutions for partners from the aspects of infrastructure and system integration, platform development and hardware development.

Lenovo's new technology program integrates Credits' blockchain solutions to streamline internal operations and management processes and increase productivity.

The CEO of Credits said: “The Internet of Things and Augmented Reality have changed the way we interact with the world. We are very happy to work with Lenovo’s new vision, which will help us a lot and the combination of the two. Destined to bring about different changes. I saw that the combination of AI/AR and the Internet of Things has changed the business environment."

Lenovo's new vision technology chose Credits because of its uniqueness and unique solutions for different problems, such as the unique consensus algorithm consisting of dpos (trusted equity) and bft (byzantine fault tolerance).

Credits builds a blockchain platform that can execute up to 1 million transactions per second. It provides 0.01 seconds of processing speed, plus a commission of as low as $0.001, which is very convenient and cost-effective to use. The extended functionality of Credits Smart Contracts makes it possible to set up cycles and create plans, and this plan is currently being implemented.

Credits is an autonomous blockchain platform based on the principle of peer-to-peer network. The platform provides a variety of services for startups to release Dapp, and brings great possibilities for the use of blockchain technology.

Credits' website claims that it is by far the fastest blockchain platform. Credits provides partners with blockchain expertise in smart contracts, application development, public registration and ledgering, proof of concept and MVP development.

The system incorporates users of the network and uses blockchain technology to provide them with access to financial services. Everyone can enjoy different services.

Today, more than 100 companies on the Credits partner list have used the platform to develop floor-to-ceiling application services based on blockchain systems.

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China's AI super server comes out, providing AI calculations 20 million times per second

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[Xinzhiyuan Guide] On September 12, Inspur Group and IDC Research released the "China AI Computing Power Development Report". The report shows that China's AI investment increased 10 times last year, Beijing's AI computing power lost to Hangzhou, ranking second. At the same time, AI computing faces these four major problems.

The only artificial intelligence conference in the industry centered on "AI Computing" released an important report yesterday.

On September 12th, the abstract version of the “China AI Computational Power Development Report” was officially announced at the 2018 AICC Artificial Intelligence Computing Conference.

This report was published by Inspur Group and IDC. The report is worthy of attention. Beijing's AI computing power ranks second only, Hangzhou is the first; AI investment has increased 10 times last year; biometrics and smart city areas are facing Big chances.

This report aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of China's AI computing power, including the regional distribution of computing power and industry distribution, clearly showing the development trend of China's AI industry, industry status and typical applications, and the AI ​​that will mature in 2025. Typical application scenarios are expected to be worth collecting.

In addition, Inspur is still the world's first AI super server - AGX-5, this server has a computing performance of up to 2 petaflops per second, and can have 16 latest boards high-speed interconnect in 8U space. It is currently one of the most powerful AI computing hosts in the world. The development of the AGX-5 is also a new result of the pursuit of higher research and development effectiveness under the challenge of the surge in computing volume.

The following is a highlight of the "2018 China AI Computing Power Development Report" and the Artificial Intelligence Computing Conference:

AI is still breaking out: investment increased 10 times last year, computing power increased by 230%

The report shows that artificial intelligence began to break out in 2017, thanks to the explosive growth of data volume, the emergence of new machine/depth learning algorithms and the increase in computing power.

The various financing, investment and valuations around AI have also reached a historical peak. In 2017, investment in AI increased by 10 times, computing power increased by 230.7%, and data volume increased by 50%.

The explosive growth of data provides sufficient “nutrition” for artificial intelligence. According to IDC, by 2025, the global data will climb from 20.9ZB in 2017 to 163ZB, and the compound annual growth rate will reach 29%.

As AI investments go up, the demand for AI computing infrastructure is growing rapidly. From 2016 to 2021, both AI investment and computing power showed an upward trend.

Among them, the AI ​​consumer market will grow from 24.31 billion in 2017 to 5.893 billion in 2021; the GPU market will grow from 17% to 5.6449 billion in 2017 to 34.0803 in 2022. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

Looking back at 2017, the annual compound growth rate of AI investment and the compound annual growth rate of computing power have reached the highest point, respectively 414.3% and 230.7%, which is one of the reasons why 2017 is called the Chinese AI first year.

China's AI computing power is uneven: Top10 cities account for half of the eastern part, and Beijing ranks second.

In the development of China's AI computing power, Inspur comprehensively considers the impact of computing power, algorithms, and data on the development of artificial intelligence, focusing on the four main dimensions of investment and supply in the AI ​​field, industry and region, demand and application, potential and trend. And reached the key research conclusions.

First of all, from the perspective of the city, the competition in the investment and computing power of several major cities in China is quite fierce. The top five cities in the development of AI computing power cities are Hangzhou, Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Hefei, which are in the first camp of AI computing development. Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, and Guiyang ranked in the second camp of AI development (in no particular order).

The report shows that in these cities, the mature market environment and good industrial policies have laid a solid foundation for the development of artificial intelligence. In particular, Hangzhou, Beijing and Shenzhen, which are among the top three, have gathered a large number of AI fields. High-tech companies have formed a good atmosphere for AI entrepreneurial innovation.

However, from the perspective of regional distribution, East China, South China and North China are in the top three. Overall, the degree of AI development in the eastern region is higher than that in the western region, and the development in the southwest and northwest regions is the lowest.

Business Opportunities for the Next 2 Years: Biometrics and Smart Cities

At present, China's artificial intelligence has been applied in many vertical fields such as the Internet, government, medical and financial. The AI ​​computing TOP industry includes the Internet industry. The application scenarios include search engine and e-commerce user behavior analysis. The government departments are mainly used for government departments. Public safety and public services; the medical industry for disease prediction and diagnosis, credit risk management; the financial industry for knowledge management and generation, online business face recognition, etc.

It is expected that in the next 2-3 years, the application of artificial intelligence in biometrics and smart city construction will take the lead in the maturity of commercial applications; in the next 5-10 years, the application of artificial intelligence industry in smart home and industrial manufacturing is expected. It will also gradually step into the fast-growing industrial window.

Liu Jun, general manager of AI & HPC of Inspur Group, explained that in the next five years, we will see that the empowerment from emerging economic AI enters a climbing stage. For example, smart factories and QC automation in intelligent manufacturing will develop rapidly.

AI computing faces four major challenges, heterogeneous computing combined with cloud to solve computing power problems

With the continuous development of the convergence of artificial intelligence and computing, AI computing has also encountered challenges in this process. This report gives advice on the current status of Chinese AI computing power.

At present, China's AI computing development faces four major challenges:

First of all, the development of computing power has not met the demand. The report recommends solving the problem of computing power through the combination of heterogeneous computing and cloud;

Second, the amount of data is still limited. The report pointed out that data sharing + integration can be used to solve this problem;

In addition, AI computing power still has many problems in the process from laboratory to practical application, which requires capacity output and ecological construction as support;

Finally, there is still a gap between the application scenario and the provision of a well-established industry solution. This report points to the need for accurate industry insight and pain analysis if you want to narrow your distance.

Currently the strongest AI super server AGX-5 is released, providing AI calculations of 20 million times per second.

In fact, in the entire AI computing field, from the perspective of the entire industry, many artificial intelligence companies in the past few years have noticed a relatively large change in industrial development. This contains very important technological changes. Liu Jun proposed three important Trend:

In the application development cycle of AI, the industry hopes to shorten the development cycle as much as possible and improve the efficiency of innovation. Therefore, everyone pays more and more attention to AutoML, trying to find the most suitable model through automation, and replace the original consumption with the computing power of the machine. a lot of manpower time;

When AI applications are deployed online, how to save online operating costs has become the focus of more and more attention, and customizable computing has become a technology that everyone pays more attention to;

When AI becomes a pivotal part of the company's entire R&D, more and more customers want to integrate and integrate AI with existing IT technology facilities. This is the change of AI+ cloud.

After sharing the "China AI Computational Power Development Report", Liu Jun clearly stated that these trends are facing the challenge of "how to achieve higher R&D effectiveness in such a rapidly increasing computing environment."

Under this influence, in response to the rise of AutoML, Inspur launched the world's first AI super server, the AGX-5, at the conference.

The AGX-5 is one of the most powerful AI computing hosts in the world. Liu Jun said that it is currently able to have 16 of the latest board high-speed interconnects in a 8U space, providing AI calculations of 20 million times per second. On the strong support, AGX-5 can realize global sharing of 16 GPUs and achieve high-speed interconnection, which greatly improves the performance of AI calculation. When doing some AI recommendation and machine translation, it will be better than other architectures. The performance of 16 GPUs has increased by more than 2.7 times.

Although technological change is one of the major challenges, Liu Jun also said: "We found that the biggest challenge is not technology, technology only completes 10% of the work, and the latter work comes from the entire ecological challenge."

If all the AI-related opportunities we see today are only 10% of the icebergs on the sea, then how to open 90% of the industry market may be the biggest challenge in the entire industry chain. Without sufficient human resources, insufficient partners and a sound system, how will this support such a large-scale transformation of AI? This issue is deeply thought out.

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