Build platform to promote cluster development Anhui artificial intelligence industry leads a "sound" bit

For the future, adhere to the innovation in the modernization construction in anhui global core status, further implement the strategy of innovation driven development, science and technology strong province strategy, including strategy, talent strategy of strong province of anhui, adhere to a high level of science and technology free-standing self-improvement, increasing crucial key core technologies, building also has the important influence of scientific and technological innovation.

For 5 consecutive years, the growth rate of output value and number of enterprises exceeded 30%...... This is the "valley speed" of China Sound Valley, the country's first national-level artificial intelligence (AI) industrial base, over the past five years.

With the platform strategy, China Sound Valley continues to build new industrial advantages, forming a mature technology open platform covering intelligent speech, brain-like intelligence, intelligent writing and other fields.

Anhui will rely on China valley important strategic platform such as layout, construction of the national important industrial area in artificial intelligence and the strategic high ground, realize the artificial intelligence industry reached 150 billion yuan, drive the related industrial scale up to 1 trillion yuan of long-term goal, to build in the country has the important influence of a new generation of artificial intelligence major emerging industrial base.

Preemptive layout, build a good development environment

In Hefei, Anhui Province, artificial intelligence brings to mind the city's new landmark, Sound Valley of China. As China's first national-level important AI industrial base, Chinese sound valley has gained national new industrialization industry demonstration base, national small miniature enterprise business innovation demonstration base, national science and technology business incubators, national new information consumption demonstration project, national advanced manufacturing industry cluster, national technical standard innovation base, the national characteristic service export base and so on 11 "state" of honor, has formed a good industrial development environment.

A smart mouse that can listen and write, a translator that can speak multiple languages, and a smart wearable wristband that can measure sleep quality. Walking into The Sound Valley of China Experience Center of Hefei High-tech Zone, the products in front of you are full of science and technology.

In 2015, most of the products and company development of these first batch of science and technology enterprises that just entered Sound Valley of China are in the "road show" stage. Lack of capital, market and immature technology application, science and technology innovation enterprises are faced with a series of common problems such as how to make products and how to sell them.

"With the help of various platforms built by Sound Valley of China, we turned the intelligent mouse in PPT into a product that can be obedient and can type in less than half a year." Said Feng Haihong, head of Anhui Micus Technology Co.

"The era of ARTIFICIAL intelligence is full of opportunities and challenges." Hkust xunfei co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as the hkust xunfei) chairman qing-feng liu said that in order to make artificial intelligence to benefit more people, as early as 2010, hkust fly was released in the industry take the lead in - fly open platform, fully open industry-leading core technology, for the hardware and software developers to lower the difficulty of integration, provide enterprises with the industry solutions, support business developers. At present, iflytek open platform has opened 493 AI products, gathered 3.373 million developer teams, a total of 1.501 million applications, connected with more than 4.2 million ecological partners, covering more than 3.3 billion terminal devices.

"We did a test where we had four developers build apps on the platform on the spot, starting at 7.30pm and presenting at 8.30pm. "It can take months to develop software, then weeks, and now it can be done in an hour, which is a huge increase in productivity and a reduction in cost." Liu qingfeng said.

Manufacturing center, marketing platform, Internet data center data platform, investment and financing platform...... Through the construction of various industrial service platforms, China Voice Valley has formed a siphon effect on innovative projects.

At present, China Sound Valley has built 18 public service platforms, including voice open platform, brain-like intelligent technology and application platform, natural Language Understanding (NLP) open platform, intelligent writing platform and intelligent office platform, and public services are gradually improving. Among them, the open platform of brain-like intelligence brings together 180 global advanced engineering algorithms and 170 high-value data sets.

"Platform construction is related to industrial development, so the platform strategy should be more accurate and take the lead in layout." A person in charge of Hefei Economic and Information Bureau said that under the coordinated scheduling and promotion of provincial, municipal and district levels, China Sound Valley project matches high-quality industrial resources and focuses on the core of the industry, and has taken the lead in the field of artificial intelligence.

Cluster Construction, Out of industrial "acceleration"

Laser display technology in The Beijing Winter Olympics "snow screen" magic dazzling color; Aerial imaging technology allows people to control the elevator, register the number and adjust the temperature of the refrigerator with a point of aerial image. Brain-like intelligent technology gave birth to the first substation "general practitioner", realizing all-weather intelligent inspection...... The annual "World Sound Expo & IFLYTEK Global 1024 Developer Festival" has become an artificial intelligence industry event, attracting hundreds of enterprises to participate.

According to the data released at the "World Sound Expo and IFLYTEK Global 1024 Developer Festival" in 2021, the number of developer teams increased by 69% in the past year. The number of participating teams increased by 146%, with 40% coming from new first-tier cities and 87% from entrepreneurs under the age of 30. Sixty percent of its development and application is in the field of industrial production and manufacturing, and AI is contributing to the building of an industrial power.

"Look at these machines, do they look like human eyes, ears and nose? These are our electric 'general doctors', mastering the four skills of' looking, smelling, asking and cutting '." At the exhibition hall of Hefei Zhongke Brain Intelligent Technology Co., LTD., located in Sound Valley of China, Liu Haifeng, chairman of the company, said that the machine can "see" the surrounding environment of the substation through a vision system containing AI chips. Substation abnormal overheating will release harmful gases, the machine can be very sensitive to "smell" these harmful gases; The machine can also judge its operation efficiency and status by "listening" to the sound of substation operation. Coupled with the limbic box, all state information can be processed in real time.

In 2021, the number of ai cluster enterprises in Hefei reached 846, up 23.2 percent year on year. The scale of the ai industry exceeded 81.5 billion yuan, up by 21.1%, among which the scale of the intelligent voice industry exceeded 18.5 billion yuan, accounting for 64.9% of the total output value of the industry in China.

A person in charge of China Sound Valley told Science and Technology Daily that its ai intelligent education products have provided services for more than 100 million teachers and students in 50,000 schools in 32 provinces. Smart Medical Assistant has been applied in 26 provinces and cities including Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, covering more than 200 tertiary hospitals in China.

Collaborative innovation, to create a new industrial landmark

The power of capital is the power of Sound Valley of China after it gathers technology, talents and supporting facilities and other innovative elements. Through cooperation with funds, banks, guarantees, small loans, financial leasing and other financial institutions, China Sound Valley has built an "online + offline" diversified innovative financial service system.

Up to now, sound Valley's various financial service platforms have supported enterprises in the base to grow bigger and stronger through credit loans, financial leasing, debt issuance, guarantee and other channels, helping more than 200 enterprises to obtain financing of more than 1.7 billion yuan. In addition, the Chinese sound valley around in various fields of AI fu can type ecological investment industry, has propped up GuoYi quantum technology (hefei) co., LTD., anhui mi rat technology co., LTD., anhui tao cloud technology co., LTD., and other enterprises, support ecological enterprises about 15000, 170 platform hatching enterprises, nearly 100 strategic investment enterprises.

In April 2021, the Chinese sound valley joint institute of advanced technology, hefei university of science and technology of China comprehensive national center for science in the artificial intelligence research institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, hefei technical innovation engineering, hefei university of technology institute of intelligent manufacturing technology, start the "four yuan a valley" strategic cooperation, make full use of their respective in such aspects as talent, technology, market advantages, Promote efficient allocation of innovation resources.

Not long ago, IFlytek won 7 world championships in the Global Challenge for Machine Learning prevention and Prevention of Epidemics and other international competitions. One of the research achievements won the first prize of "Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award", the highest award in China's intelligent science and technology; The invention patent "Speech Recognition Method and System" won the "China Patent Gold Award", realizing the zero breakthrough in this award in Anhui province in the past 5 years. In addition, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center has for the first time realized three-dimensional analysis of the whole brain of rhesus monkeys with micron resolution, making it possible to map the primate brain.

At present, China's sound valley gathered the speech and language information processing national engineering laboratory, classes, brain intelligence technology and application of national engineering laboratory, Internet of things of agriculture technology integration and application of key laboratory, key laboratory of process optimization and intelligent decision-making and hefei institute of comprehensive national center for science in the artificial intelligence innovation platform at or above the provincial level, 70.

"In the future, Sound Valley of China will follow the national strategy and develop an industrial development road with Chinese characteristics under the coordinated promotion of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities." Yu Yaohuo, director of software service Department of Anhui Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology, said that the competition and cooperation between industrial policy guidance and market entities will forge the core competitiveness of China Sound Valley and realize the grand vision of "building a world-class industrial landmark".