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The “MEET2021 Smart Future Conference”, which was hosted by QBITAI, China’s leading media in AI, and focused on the annual results of the academic and industrial circles, was held in Beijing on December 16. Industry colleagues gathered together to discuss technological development and look forward to the future of the industry. Tan Jianrong, the Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Li Kaifu, Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, and dozens of executives from leading enterprises such as AsiaInfo, Xiaomi, Meituan, Inspur, and experts and scholars from Tsinghua University and other universities attended the conference and delivered speeches; nearly 1,000 industry professionals participated the conference.

Official Announcement of 2020 QBITAI AWARDS

The conference announced the 2020 QBITAI AWARDS. AsiaInfo won the “2020 China’s AI Leading Enterprise”, and Dr. Ouyang Ye, CTO and Senior Vice President of AsiaInfo, was elected “2020 China’s AI Business Leader”.

The selection of 2020 QBITAI AWARDS lasted 3 months. It can be seen from the list of award-winning AI enterprises, technology core, faith of capital, business success and customer trust are taken as important evaluation dimensions, covering 5G, computer vision, natural language processing, voice, chips and other fields, across vertical industries such as communications, finance, healthcare, education, transportation, retail, etc. The listed enterprises not only consist of senior and influential dominant companies, but also the leading companies in various industries. For the candidate list of AI leading figures, in-depth collection and research were made in terms of candidates’ contributions to AI industrialization, peer technical reviews, and data such as professional papers, patents, and soft contributions, etc., in combination with the scores and evaluations of multiple academicians and hundreds of industry experts, to finally form the list of winners. Recommendations and comments of the academician and expert committee: “Dr. Ouyang Ye is the youngest nationally-appointed expert in the field of communications and a pioneer in 5G+AI in China. Driven by his efforts, AsiaInfo is making a brilliant transformation in the era of intelligence, realizing the commercialization of a full range of AI products, which helps Chinese enterprises gain more discourse power in the field of international communications.”

During the conference, Dr. Ouyang Ye delivered a keynote speech on The Next Decade of Communications AI.

Since the start of global commercial use of 3G in 2000, the communications ecosystem has produced massive amounts of data, providing an available and high-quality data source for the development and application of artificial intelligence in the communications field. The introduction of deep learning in 2006 marked the rise of the third wave of artificial intelligence development, and machine learning, deep learning, and enhanced learning began to be tried in multiple application scenarios in mobile communications. Only the 15 years of academic achievements in the field of communications AI in IEEE Explore from 2006 to the present have reached 6.42 times the amount before 2006. So far, with massive ecological data of communications as the “fuel”, algorithms such as machine learning, deep learning and enhanced learning as the “engine”, and academic application achievements as the “booster”, mobile communication and artificial intelligence technologies have begun to accelerate the pace of integration.

“In 2017, artificial intelligence was defined by 3GPP to enter the 5G core network architecture for the first time and present as independent network elements. It is a landmark milestone in the integration development of artificial intelligence and mobile communications as the general purpose technologies. ”

“As the definition of network artificial intelligence and the formulation of the development grading system made by ORAN, ETSI, and 3GPP have become more and more distinct after 2017, 5G + artificial intelligence, as a combination of general purpose technologies, will enter a period of rapid development in the next ten years. ”

AsiaInfo relies on technological innovation, product research and development, and co-construction of ecology to promote the development and industry empowerment of China’s artificial intelligence industry

In response to the needs of the characteristics of fifth-generation mobile communication system and application scenarios of vertical industry, AsiaInfo takes mature AI products, solutions, and comprehensive and personalized services as the effective means to promote the transformation of communication business and empower the digital transformation of a lot of industries. In terms of artificial intelligence, AsiaInfo flexibly applies its advanced AI technology to multi-dimensional business scenarios to give full play to the role of adding intelligence and empowerment of artificial intelligence in vertical industries.

AsiaInfo believes that AI can enable lots of industries, especially in the communications industry. In 2017, the appearance of 5G enabled artificial intelligence to be included into the communication core network for the first time. As the definition of network artificial intelligence and the formulation of the development grading system made by industry organizations such as ORAN, ETSI, and 3GPP have become more and more distinct, 5G + artificial intelligence, as a combination of general purpose technologies, will usher in a period of rapid development in the next ten years. And it will bring greater space for adding and integrating intelligence to the communication core network, wireless access network, network management domain, business management domain, customer experience management domain, and vertical industries.

Parallel Development of Production, Learning, Research and Use Makes AI an Accelerator of Digital Transformation

1. Lead the establishment of standards with advanced technology

AsiaInfo founded “Telco AI Labs”, a communications AI innovation laboratory, to keep up with market demand and promote AI technology innovation and product R&D. The laboratory has obtained a number of AI software copyrights and obtained more than 100 international and domestic patents; actively joined international and domestic authoritative organizations such as 3GPP, GSMA and ITU to participate in the compilation and formulation of industry standards (such as 3GPP R17 and the first international standard of AI federated learning in the field of communications, and a number of standard proposals participated by it were passed by related meetings of ITU), and has gained the affirmation of international and domestic authoritative organizations for a number of technologies and products (for example, its global artificial intelligence platform AISWare AI² was listed into the Recommendation Catalog of Products and Activities of Digital Empowerment Services for SMEs, the global intelligent operations platform AISWare AIOps won the second place of “2020 International AIOps Challenge”, and the intelligent network security recorder won the “2020 CIS Top Ten Innovative Products Award”, etc.).

2. Coordinated development through the combination of production and research

AsiaInfo believes that the full integration of the resources of production, learning, research and use in the AI field and promotion of the horizontal and cross-domain development of AI technology and capabilities are effective and necessary ways to guarantee the sustainable innovation in China’s AI field. For this purpose, AsiaInfo continues to increase R&D investment, and has established a joint AI laboratory with Tsinghua University, and cooperates with enterprises and organizations such as China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, and Beijing Software and Information Service Industry Association to establish a joint innovation agency.

The “5G Technology Series” of AsiaInfo published by Tsinghua University Press is a concentrated embodiment of the combination of production and research. This series of books has a comprehensive thinking about the development of AI, big data, intelligent operations and other technologies and services in the 5G era, which helps promote the development of industrial development, ecological construction and talent training of artificial intelligence in China, and accelerate the digital transformation of lots of industries enabled by AI.

3. Empower different domains through product ecology

AsiaInfo has formed a series of AI products, including the global AI platform AISWare AI², edge AI (network security) recorder AISWare AISP, process automation robot AISWare AIRPA, global intelligent operations platform AISWare AIOps, etc., to “add intelligence” in a global, comprehensive and full process manner. At present, the series of AI products have been deployed and applied in many provinces across the country, covering several industries such as communications, finance, transportation, and energy.

AISWare AI² global AI platform

It is an infrastructure used to build large-scale intelligent services. As the hub of intelligence middle-ground of enterprises, it can provide step-by-step construction of algorithm models and full life cycle management services for the intelligence transformation of enterprises, and can help enterprises continuously accumulate their businesses into algorithm models to achieve the purpose of reuse, combination innovation, and large-scale construction of intelligent services.

AISWare AISP edge AI (network security) recorder

This product is an edge product for people’s livelihood, security and intelligent management scenarios, which can be applied to the daily management and production & operation scenarios of enterprises and institutions. It introduces AsiaInfo’s universal artificial intelligence capabilities, performs pre-tuning of software and hardware integration based on a fusion architecture, and adopts a new distributed parallel computing architecture to scale horizontally to thousands of nodes. It has powerful computing and processing capabilities and is “out-of-the-box” for simple and reliable use.

AISWare AIRPA process automation robot

It provides cross-platform, cross-system and cross-application process integration capabilities, reduces high repetitiveness and low efficiency routine work through automation, realizes automatic discovery of process data anomalies, automatic identification of process changes and automatic accumulation of process knowledge through data intelligence.

AISWare AIOps global intelligent operations platform

It is based on the AI platform algorithm model of AsiaInfo and focusing on the three directions of quality assurance, cost management and efficiency improvement. Oriented at the intelligent solution capabilities of operations scenarios such as failure discovery, diagnosis, disposal, whole process of prediction as well as intelligent decision-making, intelligent question-answering, capacity planning and resource optimization, the product will conduct componentized encapsulation to build reusable and evolvable operations model and stipulation and provide capabilities to the external world in the form of Open API, in order to support the rapid implementation of intelligent operations requirements, simplify the connection process, and reduce the cost of intelligence integration and addition of the operations system.