China News Service, Shanghai, March 6 (Reporter Zheng Yingying) Shanghai is also called the Magic City, which is used to describe the city's complex and diverse appearance, all-encompassing social customs and citizen life.

With the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence and the rise of large-scale model craze, Shanghai is striving to become a "model city".

Data map, 2023 Global Artificial Intelligence Developer Pioneer Conference held in February 2023.

(Photo by reporter Zheng Yingying)

　　Artificial intelligence takes root in Shanghai and gains momentum

　　West Bund, located in Xuhui District, Shanghai, has been particularly lively recently.

The prototype space here has become a hot ground and innovative nursery for the development of artificial intelligence in Shanghai.

　　Later this month, the 2024 Global Developers Pioneer Conference, an annual event where global developers gather in Shanghai, also moved its home venue to the West Coast.

Zhong Junhao, secretary-general of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, revealed that the 2024 Global Developer Pioneer Conference will be held from March 23 to 24. The theme is the source of developers' "model" power. The conference will focus on the upstream and downstream industries of large models. chain and application scenarios, prepare for the release of major municipal application scenarios in Shanghai, and provide enterprises with the latest trends in industry technologies and products.

　　In fact, looking back on 2018, artificial intelligence had not yet received such intense attention as it does today. At that time, Shanghai held the first World Artificial Intelligence Conference, and the Xuhui West Bank where it was held was still a large construction site.

Gan Jin, vice chairman of Shanghai West Bund Development (Group) Co., Ltd., said that the spillover effect of the first World Artificial Intelligence Conference brought Shanghai's first AI Tower (Shanghai West Bund International Artificial Intelligence Center) named after artificial intelligence to West Bund.

　　When artificial intelligence technology represented by large models triggered a new round of development boom, China's first professional incubation and acceleration carrier for generative artificial intelligence - Mosu Space (Shanghai "Mosu Space" innovation ecological community) was launched in 2023 It was unveiled at the end of September 2018, and within half a year, nearly 60 companies settled in the project.

Qian Jin said that he hopes that the mold speed space can be large-scale and fast, so that it can attract large factories and colleges to form industrial clusters here and create high-quality incubators.

Model Speed ​​Space (Photo courtesy of Model Speed ​​Space)

　　Is China eager to have its own ChatGPT and Sora?

　　Artificial intelligence has been around for a long time, and a new generation of artificial intelligence has been mentioned for many years. But when this field really "breaks" into the public eye, we have to mention the "whirlwind" caused by ChatGPT.

Recently, Sora has made a stunning appearance with "small team, big works". Practitioners in related fields in China are inevitably asked why such innovation has not happened in China?

When will China have its own blockbuster innovation?

　　In fact, Chinese practitioners are doing quite a lot of research and development.

According to reports, the "China Artificial Intelligence Large Model Map Research Report" released in May 2023 by the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Research Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology shows that the number of large models developed in China ranks second in the world.

　　The Apache Software Foundation is a world-renowned open source software foundation.

Apache Software Foundation incubation mentor Shi Shaofeng said that the Chinese developer community has continued to grow and develop over the past 20 years, and the power of Chinese developers is forming an increasingly strong influence around the world.

　　Shi Shaofeng said in an interview with reporters that in the past five years, most of the new incubation projects in the Apache Software Foundation were contributed by Chinese developers. Among them, there are a lot of open source projects related to data. From this, we can see the strength of the Chinese developer community. rise.

　　Industry insiders believe that in the field of artificial intelligence, China is still groping, and the Chinese team still has a gap in the most cutting-edge theoretical research. This requires a lot of research accumulation and reserves, and also needs a lot of high-quality data to support it.

　　"Although there is a lack of cutting-edge innovation, it does not mean that we cannot innovate in other fields. In terms of cloud computing, big data, etc., we still have a lot of innovations, but they may not be as eye-catching and well-known." Shi Shaofeng explain.

　　Shi Boming, assistant director of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, also said that after the release of some technologically advanced large models, China's advantage is that there are many scenarios and data. In these aspects, China can build its own ecological advantages for large models.

　　Ge Dongbo, chief engineer of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, said that in the face of new situations and new requirements, Shanghai has focused on artificial intelligence large models, software and hardware collaboration, etc., and introduced a three-year action plan to support the innovative development of large models.

What he is referring to is the "Several Measures in Shanghai to Promote the Innovation and Development of Artificial Intelligence Large Models (2023-2025)" released in 2023, which covers 11 measures including the implementation of the large model innovation support plan and the implementation of the large model demonstration application promotion plan. .

It pointed out that Shanghai encourages Pudong New Area, Xuhui District, etc. to establish large-scale model ecological clusters, focusing on large-scale model research and development and industrialization to increase support.

In terms of talents, Shanghai focuses on supporting the settlement of talents with skills in short supply related to large models; organizing enterprises, universities, and scientific research institutions to jointly cultivate interdisciplinary large model talents.

　　From setting up spaces, launching measures, and holding grand events, Shanghai’s support for the large-scale model series is “vocal.”

Perhaps as one person in the industry said, the industry must be "noisy", and the outside world is still waiting to see what "noise" the development of large models will have.

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