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The Guangxi Future Artificial Intelligence Industrial Design Innovation Center was jointly initiated by the Shenzhen Industrial Design Industry Association and Guangxi Industrial Vocational and Technical College. It is an autonomous region-level strategic innovation platform that Guangxi has deployed to deeply integrate "artificial intelligence (AI) + industrial design".
China News Service, Nanning, September 10 (Reporter Huang Yanmei) The Guangxi Future Artificial Intelligence Industrial Design Innovation Center was launched in Nanning on the 9th. The center was jointly initiated by the Shenzhen Industrial Design Industry Association and Guangxi Industrial Vocational and Technical College. It is an autonomous region-level strategic innovation platform for Guangxi to deploy the deep integration of "artificial intelligence (AI) + industrial design".
The picture shows the Guangxi Future Artificial Intelligence Industrial Design Innovation Center. Photo by China News Network reporter Huang Yanmei
Guangxi Future Artificial Intelligence Industrial Design Innovation Center takes "artificial intelligence + industrial design" as the path to accurately empower the ten modern pillar industries of Guangxi's manufacturing industry, create a model for Guangdong-Guangxi cooperation and a regional artificial intelligence industrial design cooperation hub, and provide strong support for Guangxi to promote new industrialization and build an artificial intelligence industry highland for ASEAN.
The picture shows people visiting the Guangxi Future Artificial Intelligence Industrial Design Innovation Center. Photo by China News Network reporter Huang Yanmei
The center gathers top experts in the field of artificial intelligence and industrial design at home and abroad, and has attracted 20 corporate institutions. It has AI design laboratory, industrial design laboratory, famous teacher studio, maker trial production space, data annotation laboratory, ASEAN smart AI live broadcast laboratory and other special functional areas. It is equipped with immersive interactive experience and innovative achievement exhibition space to build a functional carrier that integrates creative research and development, trial production and verification, industry-education integration training, international collaborative cooperation, and industrial service transformation.
The picture shows the design works on display at the Guangxi Future Artificial Intelligence Industrial Design Innovation Center. Photo by China News Network reporter Huang Yanmei
The person in charge of the Guangxi Future Artificial Intelligence Industrial Design Innovation Center said that in the next step, the center will combine the actual conditions of the regional industry, integrate innovation resources, and promote the priority application of artificial intelligence design, pattern making, and digital marketing scenarios; popularize and promote artificial intelligence design concepts through lectures, talent training camps, industry-enterprise matchmaking meetings and other activities, stimulate creative innovation vitality, create a good industrial ecology, and promote the in-depth integration and development of "artificial intelligence + industrial design" and local industries. (over)

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