China is using "new infrastructure" to start post-epidemic economic reconstruction, but unlike in the past, AI technology companies such as Baidu will play an important role in "new infrastructure".
Recently, the central government has promulgated relevant policies intensively. Various provinces and cities have successively released key construction projects in 2020, and "new infrastructure" has become the focus of attention from all walks of life. Different from traditional infrastructure, "new infrastructure" refers to the infrastructure construction that focuses on technology. It mainly includes 5G base station construction, UHV, intercity high-speed railway and urban rail transit, new energy vehicle charging piles, big data centers, and artificial intelligence. , Industrial Internet seven fields. Many economists and industry analysts believe that the "new infrastructure" will play an important role in hedging the economic downturn and promoting economic transformation and upgrading. Accelerating the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks, artificial intelligence, and data centers can achieve the dual effects of mitigating short-term economic shocks and improving long-term growth potential.
Different from the period of the construction of the "Iron Gongji", technology companies with advanced AI technology have explored in many industries for many years, and have laid the technology and product foundation for the "new infrastructure" in advance. In 2019, Baidu said that in the next decade, the "smart economy" will become the label of the Chinese economy. Artificial intelligence will promote industrial intelligence and change production methods. At the same time, in the future including education, medical care, transportation, etc., infrastructure in almost every field will undergo major changes.
Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng said that the "new infrastructure" will drive the transition of new and old kinetic energy for national economic development through the rapid breakthrough and application of emerging technologies. As one of the important chapters, in the recent epidemic prevention and control and resumption of production, AI, big data, and cloud computing have shown the important value of serving the society and the economy. In particular, Baidu Smart Cloud's smart customer service, Internet of Things, and smart Provide timely and effective assistance for epidemic prevention and control in medical and other fields. It is believed that the next stage will usher in greater development. It is a general trend that city managers and education, medical, financial and other companies directly access AI services through smart clouds. For Baidu, we are not only the builder of AI infrastructure, but also the leader and promoter of AI technology and application innovation. AI platforms represented by Baidu's brain, flying paddles, and intelligent clouds have become important infrastructures in the intelligent era, and are helping the country's social development to achieve the simultaneous improvement of economic and social benefits.
Baidu is already taking on the role of a new type of infrastructure builder, and has deployed intelligent cloud computing data centers across the country. Beijing, Baoding, Suzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Yangquan, Xi'an and other places have successively settled in China, achieving North China, East China, South China, Northwest China Comprehensive coverage of regional users. As we all know, due to the impact of the epidemic, the demand for services such as cloud office, cloud education, cloud medical, and cloud games has soared. At the same time, it has also driven the demand for high-quality cloud services, including faster network speeds and better storage costs. More powerful computing capabilities and smooth live streaming applications. Companies such as Homework Help, National Elementary and Secondary School Network Cloud Platform have achieved rapid expansion through Baidu Smart Cloud, and there has been no stuttering in the "Air Classroom", achieving a "silky" user experience. IDC believes that because public clouds better solve the problem of AI deployment and operation, it is a general trend for AI applications to migrate, restructure to cloud platforms, or directly use AI services on the cloud.
Observing the three industrial revolutions in history will find that any technology that can trigger the industrial revolution is not limited to a certain industry, but has a strong versatility, which can accelerate the implementation and application of technology. Baidu took the lead in promoting "AI industrialized large-scale production" in the industry. Baidu's brain has realized the integration and innovation of AI capabilities and application scenarios. It has been upgraded to a "soft and hard integrated AI large-scale production platform". It uses the deep learning platform of the propeller as the basic technology base, which opens up. All processes related to the implementation of artificial intelligence industrialization have realized the standardization, automation, and modularization of AI technology. This will eliminate the need for developers and companies to learn cutting-edge technology that is difficult and fast to iterate from the beginning, avoid repetitive “building wheels”, reduce the threshold for enterprises to use AI, quickly develop their own application products at low cost, and realize the role of “new infrastructure” .
In fact, during the epidemic period, Baidu urgently launched a series of epidemic prevention and control products in a short period of time, and was applied in a number of cities and regions, allowing urban government affairs, education, medical care, industry and other fields to take the lead in enjoying "new infrastructure". Bring the smart upgrade bonus.
In the field of urban smart government, Baidu launched a package of prevention and control products such as AI temperature measurement systems, intelligent outbound call platforms, and electronic pass cards, which were quickly applied to transportation hubs, grass-roots street communities, factory parks, and commercial office buildings, which improved epidemic information. Examination efficiency to make community protection work more difficult; in the field of smart medicine, Lingyi Zhihui's intelligent consulting assistant helps third-party institutions to provide online consultation services to the public, multiplying the efficiency of new online pneumonia manual online consultation; intelligent quality inspection help Manufacturing companies resume work safely, solving the problem that workers cannot return to the factory.
Xin Yongfei, director of the Institute of Policy and Economics of the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology believes that at present, 5G, industrial Internet, and artificial intelligence are key areas in which major countries are stepping up their strategic layouts. The world is in a window period of uncertain patterns and major breakthroughs. Retreat, slow forward and retreat, it is imperative to speed up the construction of new infrastructure. Technology companies such as Baidu, which has been cultivating AI for many years, will play an unprecedented new role in this new "stable growth and innovation" economic cycle, and at the same time open up new growth space for themselves in the future.