Zheng Shanjie, Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said, “We will actively adapt to the trends of technological revolution and industrial transformation, strengthen technology research and development, expand industrial-enabling applications, and contribute to our country's high-quality development.” I encourage everyone to accelerate their efforts.” Artificial Intelligence Industry,” the commission said on Sunday.
According to the NDRC, Zheng visited research institutes and companies in Beijing, including Chiyuan Research Institute, Baidu, 4 Paradigm, Baichuan Intelligence and Beijing Shibapu Huazhang Technology, but did not provide details.
Technological innovation, which authorities hope will boost the country's long-term economic prospects, is widely expected to be one of the key themes of his report.
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China has made remarkable advances in AI over the past decade or so, matching or even surpassing the United States in some areas, such as facial recognition.
However, things have changed in recent years, with major US companies launching innovative products such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and the recently released text-to-video model Sora, while Chinese competitors have developed expensive Japan is lagging behind due to factors such as cost and strict national regulations. Regulation and censorship.
“By erecting barriers, the United States is trying to monopolize a leading position in AI development, especially in the computational power part that is at the core of artificial intelligence development,” former vice finance minister Zhu Guangyao said at a forum in Beijing on Wednesday. “There is,” he said. Shanghai news portal “The Paper”.
“In fact, the ties between the United States and China in the field of AI are being severed.”
He said that although “China has also built a strong foundation in AI applications, especially in industrial systems and informatization,” China should recognize that there is a difference in computing power with the United States.
The sector is one of the main targets of Beijing's latest infrastructure push.
Last month, Zhang Yuzhuo, director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, ordered state-owned enterprises to play a greater role in the AI field and accelerated the efforts of many AI computing centers.
The report also said that one of the country's biggest projects, China Mobile's intelligent computing center in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, will be completed by April next year, with parts of the facility to be opened in stages by then. Then he said.
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Once completed, it will be the largest single intelligent computing center in Asia, with more than 80 percent of its components made in China.
This follows last year's launch of another large-scale intelligent computing center in Qingdao, operated by China Unicom, which cost about 3 billion yuan (US$417 million) to build.