Open the "next golden 20 years" Hangzhou force artificial intelligence

Under the new requirements of developing new quality productivity according to local conditions, this year, the city has focused on promoting the development of artificial intelligence industry, including the clear goal of "creating a national computing cost depression, model output source, and data sharing highland", and the establishment of artificial intelligence industry alliance like action measures. Such an emphasis on an industry has rarely been shown in recent years.

With the grasp of business Internet opportunities, Hangzhou has come to the forefront of the digital economy in the past two decades. Looking to the future, the city's official use of "open Hangzhou development of the next 'golden twenty years' ticket" to compare the importance of artificial intelligence.

"A moment can not wait" Hangzhou

In the field of artificial intelligence for 7 years, Huang Kezhi, CEO of Maxing Medical Technology Co., LTD., has a stronger feeling this year - in Hangzhou, artificial intelligence really wants to "fire".

In 2017, he and his partners focused on the direction of critical care medicine and began to start a business, deeply combining artificial intelligence technology with clinical application scenarios, providing clinical intelligent overall solutions for medical staff, department managers and scientific researchers, and helping ICU intensive care departments improve their digital intelligence capabilities in clinical, quality control, scientific research and other aspects. Further break the technical bottleneck encountered by traditional information technology.

Talking about the origin of the above feelings, Huang Kezhi said, "This year, Hangzhou will have new deployments and new actions every three to five, which is obviously different from previous years." It's definitely a positive sign for us. It will bring new space for the company to expand in terms of talent introduction, technological innovation and market cooperation."

As he said, from ChatGPT to Sora, artificial intelligence has been regarded as a battleground in China, with Hangzhou showing a particularly obvious sense of urgency.

Shortly after the beginning of this year, the main person in charge of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee investigated the development of artificial intelligence industry on a special topic. The government work reports of Hangzhou and many districts and counties also clearly strengthen the layout of artificial intelligence.

In February, on the "first moment of the New Year" in Hangzhou, Liu Jie, deputy secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, mentioned Sora twice, respectively expressing the meaning of "accelerating reform, accelerating development, adapting to and seizing new opportunities in artificial intelligence" and "minimizing the cost of computing power".

In March, Hangzhou established an artificial intelligence industry alliance composed of 160 member units, driving the leapfrog development of the artificial intelligence industry; Released the first big model in the field of achievement transformation in China, "Wise Big Model 1.0". During this time, the Hangzhou official also spoke intensively, proposing to "implement the high-level 'artificial intelligence +' action as the primary task of deepening the digital economy innovation and improving the quality of the 'No. 1 development project'" and "make every effort to create the national computing cost depression, model output source, data sharing highland".

A few days ago, the "Hangzhou Implementation Opinions on Promoting the high-quality development of intelligent robot Industry" (draft for comments) was open to the public for comments, which shows that Hangzhou aims to achieve the industrial output value of the whole industrial chain of intelligent robots exceeding 50 billion yuan by 2026, and strive to create a national industrial platform for intelligent robots.

Around the development of new quality productivity according to local conditions, Liu Jie has publicly said that Hangzhou should further strengthen the strategic focus of "a bit can not change", the initiative of "a moment can not wait", the urgent awareness of "a step can not be slow", and enhance the consciousness of "great science and technology, great innovation". Right now, artificial intelligence is a mirror of that attitude.

Multiple advantages in your hands

Creating a national computing cost depression, model output source, and data sharing highland reflects Hangzhou's ambition. In the view of experts and the industry, Hangzhou also has multiple advantages in achieving the above goals.

LAN Jianping, a member of the Party group and vice president of the Zhejiang Development Planning and Research Institute, said that the recent layout of Hangzhou's artificial intelligence is closely related to its urban positioning of "the first city of digital economy", which is Hangzhou's move to promote the deepening of digital economy innovation and build a modern industrial system in the era of high-quality development.

He believes that the most important factor for an industry to succeed is "people", which is one of the advantages of Hangzhou. No matter in terms of scientists resources, discipline system and discipline capacity building, or the number of college graduates and young migrants, Hangzhou is in the forefront of China's capital cities.

In its view, the rich application scenarios are also the unique advantages of Hangzhou. "This comes from the large number of small and medium-sized enterprises in Hangzhou and even Zhejiang, and their vitality and charm will be greatly released in the process of 'artificial intelligence +'." Hangzhou takes the transformation of technological achievements as an important entry point at present, which is to make more artificial intelligence technologies into products and services in scene applications. A huge application market is an irreplaceable advantage in all technological progress and economic development."

The vast scene creates the industrial base and industrial ecological advantages. According to the "2023 Zhejiang Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Report", Hangzhou has 548 enterprises included in the Zhejiang artificial intelligence industry statistical system, with a revenue of 248.7 billion yuan. According to the "China Artificial Intelligence Computing Power Development Assessment Report 2023-2024", Hangzhou will rank second in China's artificial intelligence city assessment ranking in 2023, second only to Beijing.

"I recently also just know that there are several small companies in Hangzhou seriously studying the matter of liquid cooling, and it has reached a very good industrialization." At the establishment conference of Hangzhou Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, Wang Jian, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of Zhijiang Laboratory, talked about liquid cooling technology closely related to computing power improvement. This also reflects from the side of the city where the above longboard.

From the perspective of enterprise development, Huang Kezhi believes that a good business environment can also bring empowerment to Hangzhou. "Hangzhou has always valued innovation, and when we just settled in the China Artificial Intelligence Town in Yuhang District, we not only got the research and development fund support of the park, the office space reduction policy, but also the financing support provided by Yuhang Rural Commercial Bank for high-tech start-ups." The relationship between government and business, service efficiency and increasing policy strength here will further amplify the attraction for AI companies."

In order to promote the development of the artificial intelligence industry, the city has made it clear that it will focus on cultivating a new industrial ecology of "high computing power + strong algorithm + big data", effectively play the role of the artificial intelligence industry alliance, and fully promote key work such as the construction of city-wide integrated computing power system, algorithm model innovation, data development, opening up and circulation, and constantly expand artificial intelligence application scenarios.

On the basis of the above, how does it need to enrich the playing method to continue to force?

Huang Kezhi believes that the rapid development of artificial intelligence has an increasing demand for computing power, especially in the face of a large number of computing tasks. How to ensure the sustainability of computing power supply is a key consideration for Hangzhou; In the process of creating a data sharing plateau, how to establish a safe and efficient data sharing mechanism, while protecting data privacy and compliance is also a test.

In addition, he also expects that the official can introduce enterprise support policies for more vertical fields to further stimulate the vitality of the industry.

The person in charge of a local traditional enterprise told reporters that the government can open up the construction and operation of the artificial intelligence innovation platform to more industry leading enterprises and chain main enterprises, and introduce special policies to encourage leading enterprises to create a national AIGC innovation platform. At the same time, we will promote the enterprise-led innovation platform and high-level national laboratories and Academy of Sciences to open up R & D resources, realize the integration of industry, university and research, and promote the circulation and training of talents.

In LAN Jianping's view, Hangzhou and even Zhejiang are still facing challenges such as the need to consolidate the innovation base, the low efficiency of factor coupling and the urgent need to improve industrial competitiveness.

He believes that in order to create data sharing highlands, the local level should take the initiative to plan the construction of national data trading platforms such as national data exchanges at the planning level, and promote the realization of the value of data elements. At the same time, in order to turn a large amount of public data into public services, it is necessary to reshape rules and systems through value-added reform of government services, take the reform of production relations as a breakthrough in a new round of reform, stimulate new quality productivity with new production relations, and provide the best institutional guarantee for artificial intelligence.

"In addition, Hangzhou should also step up its layout at the level of urban computing power, make urban computing power more promoted and improved in the integration process of the Yangtze River Delta, and actively create the 'Yangtze River Delta artificial intelligence industry innovation base' to provide service platform guarantee for artificial intelligence." Finally, we must implement the goal of "three places" into the construction of a number of important projects." LAN Jianping said.

Artificial intelligence is a new track and a new starting point for urban development, and in Hangzhou, it has an obvious intention of starting again. Next, how this city of digital economy completes the "Mei open two degrees" in the tuyere of technological revolution is worth paying attention to.