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On November 18, the 2022 HKUST Xunfei Global 1024 Developers Festival officially opened! With new technologies, new products, new platforms and new strategies, iFLYTEK will use an artificial intelligence grand event to lead AI to the new direction and explore the future direction and trend of the artificial intelligence industry.

On the day of the opening ceremony, many academicians, scholars, industry leaders, well-known industry experts and ecological developers gathered here to discuss the latest progress and broad application prospects of artificial intelligence technology. From technological innovation at the source, to platform product upgrades; from industrial digital transformation, to using artificial intelligence to solve the just-needed propositions of society, the 1024 Developer Festival once again leads the ecology of millions of developers and sails the digital blue ocean. ,

Believe because I see [b]

In the face of various uncertainties in the world, where is the main source of power for the next step of China's and even the world's economic development? At the opening ceremony of the 1024 Developers Festival, Liu Qingfeng, chairman of HKUST Xunfei, shared his insights.

The digital economy is a key driving force for global economic recovery, and artificial intelligence is the core engine of the digital economy. It can be seen that in 2021, the digital economy of 47 countries around the world will grow by 15.6%, the AI calls of Xunfei Open Platform will increase by 36%, and the AI calls of various applications will increase significantly. This year's AI Developer Contest has 32,333 teams participating, 10,605 participating teams in the industrial Internet direction, 1,268 participating teams in the virtual reality and metaverse directions, and the average age of the top three teams in the algorithm is 25.6 years old. A series of data show that virtual reality , the Industrial Internet, the rise of the metaverse, and Generation Z are becoming the protagonists of AI developers.

Today, at the 1024 Developers Festival, Liu Qingfeng once again reiterated the goal of iFLYTEK Ultrain 2030 - to let robots with "knowledge, learning, and planning" enter every home. Promoting the Ultrain 2030 plan, iFLYTEK has made breakthroughs in the key technologies of multi-modal perception, in-depth understanding, multi-dimensional expression, and motion intelligence, and continues to empower the fields of education, medical care, metaverse, and robotics. Based on the progress of core technology, Liu Qingfeng said that Xunfei will soon release a robot super brain, which will promote a new era of human-machine collaboration through the combination of multi-mode interaction, motion control and hardware modules.

Artificial intelligence is not only benefiting people's livelihood, but also empowering industry, helping industrial enterprises to bridge the digital divide, and providing a place for industrial Internet developers to use their talents.

In 2021, the Anhui Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology and Xunfei will jointly create and implement a market-oriented operation "Antelope Industrial Internet Platform". Service management” various needs, one-stop solution to the problem of supply and demand docking. At present, the total number of users of the platform exceeds 226,000, and the cumulative number of enterprise services exceeds 455,000.

The Antelope Industrial Internet Platform will provide AI developers, SaaS developers, and industry developers with all-round empowerment in terms of scenarios, policies, technologies, and finance, and help them develop products such as AI SaaS, industrial SaaS, and industrial brain, serving small and medium-sized enterprises, Empower industry leaders.

Liu Qingfeng pointed out that the future should be defined through source technological innovation, systematic innovation and ecology. The best way to see the future is to create it. With our joint efforts, artificial intelligence will surely be deeply recorded in the annals of history for solving the needs of human beings.

The Open Platform 2.0 is advancing steadily, accelerating the integration of data and reality[/b]

On the 1024 Developer's Day in 2021, Xunfei Open Platform 2.0 strategy was officially released. In the 2.0 era, Xunfei is committed to uniting the industry leaders with the most resources and platform capabilities in the industry to jointly build the baseline base of the industry. At this year's 1024 Plan conference, focusing on technological innovation and industry applications, Wu Xiaoru, President of iFlytek, shared the latest progress of Open Platform 2.0.

Today, the platform has opened 513 capabilities and gathered 3.7 million developers. The platform 2.0 strategy is steadily advancing, and has been applied in 14 industries such as education, finance, medical care, energy, and real estate, and has reached strategic cooperation with dozens of industry leaders such as Jinmao Real Estate, Gujing Group, Construction Bank, and National Energy Group, forming a Good ecological driving effect. [b]

In the industrial field, based on the Xunfei Open Platform 2.0, with the support of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, the Antelope Industrial Internet Platform was built to help industrial enterprises achieve digital and intelligent upgrades, and reached strategic cooperation with 40+ industry leaders to empower 800+ ecosystems partner.

In the field of education, cooperate with the people's education press, East China Normal University, Xugong Machinery and other industry leaders to create precise teaching, integration of five education and high-quality curriculum resources. It has empowered 600+ partners and served 50,000+ schools in total;

In the financial field, cooperate with industry leaders such as China Construction Bank, China Mobile, and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank to help precision marketing and intelligent customer service. Has empowered 50+ partners and cooperated with more than 200+ financial institutions;

"Technology tops the sky, application lands", Xunfei has always insisted on source technology innovation for 23 years since its establishment, and the promotion of Xunfei Open Platform 2.0 strategy is also inseparable from the support of multiple technologies, including single-point technology breakthroughs and multi-technology deep fusion. In the past year, in the international high-level technical evaluation of voice, image and cognition, iFLYTEK won 12 competition championships; multi-modal perception, interactive brain, multi-dimensional expression, and deep integration of sports intelligence.

In the future, if the open platform continues to be upgraded, four key points need to be grasped: to provide more powerful AI capabilities for the real and virtual economy; scene intelligence requires more efficient use of industry knowledge; human-machine collaboration requires humans to be able to use AI tools more efficiently , AI use convenience and privacy protection and data security. Ultrain 2030 will provide more optimized AI capabilities and create a more powerful AI open platform for ecological partners.

At the press conference, Wu Xiaoru also introduced the development of Xunfei AI virtual human interaction platform. The AI virtual human interaction platform with the four core characteristics of multi-modal perception, multi-dimensional expression, emotional penetration, and independent definition has been implemented in media, finance, cultural tourism, government and enterprise, and has provided services for thousands of customers. At the same time, with the help of the AI virtual human interaction platform, Xunfei and its partners jointly promote the prosperity and development of virtual human, and provide assistance for the development of the digital economy and metaverse.

Release of new AI technology, opening a new era of AI

At the beginning of 2022, Xunfei announced the launch of the Ultrain 2030 plan, which is committed to making artificial intelligence understand knowledge, learn well, and evolve, and let AI robots enter every home. At the AI new technology press conference, Gao Jianqing, vice president of iFLYTEK AI Research Institute, shared a series of technological breakthroughs made by iFLYTEK to realize the Ultrain 2030 plan, including: basic artificial intelligence algorithms represented by deep learning; complex scenarios Multi-modal perception technologies such as speech, emotion, and environment; key cognitive intelligence technologies such as in-depth understanding, active dialogue, and controllable dialogue generation; key technologies for robots integrating software and hardware.

Driven by technology, the Ultrain 2030 program has achieved fruitful results, forming multiple demonstration applications. Based on multi-modal interaction and medical cognitive technology, Xunfei has developed a quantitative depression screening system, which has been piloted in Beijing Anding Hospital, Hefei No. 4 Hospital and other hospitals, and the depression screening effect has increased from 75% to 91%. In the future, based on the basic capabilities of quantitative screening, iFLYTEK will develop a depression screening platform and promote it to more schools to help young people's psychological growth; virtual people for customer service, virtual recruitment, virtual service, legal virtual, and help A professional family of virtual humans composed of virtual humans, with customizable expertise and continuous evolution, has provided efficient digital services for thousands of companies; in order to explore a better human-computer interaction experience for the future Metaverse, Xunfei has also created a set Highly immersive human-computer interaction system.

Translation, multilingual, graphic image, AI+medical, AI+education, many core technologies of iFLYTEK are also continuously optimized and made breakthroughs. Taking multilingualism as an example, based on the multilingual self-adaptive mixed pre-training framework, the effect of speech recognition in each language has been improved by an average of 20%; the research and development of speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation and other technologies for 60 languages have been completed, and 14 key languages have reached international standards. leading level.

Driven by the Ultrain 2030 plan and more systematic technological innovations, iFLYTEK's AI technology tree is thriving. In the future, Xunfei will continue to lead technological breakthroughs with source innovation, drive technological development with industrial goals, and promote ecological prosperity with an open ecology.

New product releases on the platform have ushered in a new era of human-machine collaboration[/b]

In the past year, the artificial intelligence industry has shown vigorous vitality. The open AI capabilities of Xunfei’s open platform and ecological partners continue to grow. The number of AI capabilities in the fields of social networking, home, travel, learning, office, and reading continues to increase. Artificial intelligence has penetrated into human production and life in the stage of human-computer interaction. All aspects, and play a major role in their respective fields. However, there are still many problems in human-computer interaction. Artificial intelligence is urgently needing to move from the current passive interaction of machines to the era of efficient collaboration with humans. Intelligent integrated applications based on robots will usher in a broad space for development.

Yu Jidong, president of iFLYTEK Consumer Business Group, said that in order to fully empower human-machine collaboration scenarios, iFLYTEK's open platform has undergone a new upgrade. Relying on the strong technical base of perceptual intelligence, cognitive intelligence and motion intelligence, it is built around capability empowerment, intelligent interaction, digital assets, model training, automation and robotic superbrain, with API, low code, software and hardware integration and solutions , to build N kinds of scene-based robots for physical robots and virtual digital humans, empowering industry, agriculture, service industry, energy industry, etc., connecting industrial ecology, and jointly building industry scenarios.

Among the newly upgraded open platforms of Xunfei, the robot super brain AIBOT deserves special attention. AIBOT can help developers quickly build robot motion capabilities through the combination of multi-modal interaction, in-depth understanding, motion control and hardware modules.

At present, the upgraded Xunfei open platform has practical applications in the field of physical robots and virtual digital humans. In terms of physical robots, Xunfei and Yushu Technology launched a quadruped robot that supports outdoor inspections, chemical inspections and other multi-scenario inspections; and Luoshi Robots jointly launched a flexible robotic arm to achieve safer cooperation with people, which can be used for Scenarios such as industrial inspections and business services; in terms of virtual digital humans, digital robots help companies build new collaboration models, virtual human assets are further expanded, and Xingzhou Digital Collection creates interactive digital assets for brand customers.

To let every innovator enjoy the fun of AI, the Developer Beacon Project was also officially released at the press conference. This plan is aimed at technology developers, business developers, innovative developers, and developers of various industries. It provides industry scene empowerment, technology empowerment, brand cooperation endorsement, laboratory cooperation and other supports to create symbiosis, co-creation, sharing, Diverse and prosperous developer ecology, hand in hand into a new era of human-machine collaboration.

In addition to the release of new technologies and new products, Academician E Weinan shared his thoughts on the direction and possibility of the next generation of artificial intelligence at the conference site; Academician Pan Jianwei took us into the mysterious world of quantum mechanics; Turing Award winner, European Academy of Sciences Academician Joseph Sfakis explained in detail why building a credible autonomous system is a big step towards general artificial intelligence; Song Zhiping, president of the China Association of Listed Companies, shared his in-depth insights on the direction of enterprise innovation; China's electronic information industry Zhang Li, President of the Development Research Institute, released the China Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Development Index.

Xunfei has always been adhering to the original intention of "building a better world with artificial intelligence", insisting on meeting the rigid needs of society, returning to the foundation of value creation, and promoting social progress. However, as Liu Qingfeng said in the opening ceremony, the construction of a happy China and a powerful industrial country is far from enough to rely on core technologies alone, and it is necessary to grow and work together with ecological partners. In the future, Xunfei hopes to join hands with ecological partners and millions of developers to continuously break through the boundaries of innovation, use artificial intelligence to help the high-quality development of the digital economy, and jointly build a new future for the digital world.