Feel the new pulse of the AI industry at the CIIE

On the screen, an automated three-dimensional warehouse gradually took shape. How the shelves are arranged, how the equipment operates, and whether the logistics are smooth can all be designed and simulated before construction.

This is a scene that can be seen at the German Jungheinrich booth at the 9th China International Import Expo. Industrial design that used to take multiple professional engineers two or three weeks to complete can now be completed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted programming, and ordinary people can also participate in preliminary design and verification.

A total of 4,142 overseas companies participated in the CIIE this year, and more than 480 representative exhibits were premiered globally, first in Asia, and first in China. Cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, new generation mobile communications, semiconductors, and smart equipment were unveiled.

Walking around the major exhibition areas, new trends in the development of the AI ​​industry are coming.

The “concentration” of AI innovation has significantly increased

In the technical equipment exhibition area, Schindler Elevator from Switzerland demonstrated a smart escalator equipped with a passenger safety intelligent response system. According to Zhu Kangzheng, President of Schindler China Field Operations, escalators are equipped with sensors that rely on AI visual recognition technology and edge computing to promptly warn passengers of dangerous escalator behaviors such as falling, driving in the wrong direction, or pushing strollers.

GE Healthcare exhibited a whole-body AI ultrasound diagnostic system. The device has a variety of built-in AI auxiliary diagnostic tools, which can realize automatic tissue recognition and intelligent parameter adjustment, and can cover more than 60% of routine clinical applications.

Lightwheel Intelligent (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., which participated in the CIIE for the first time this year, demonstrated a continuous learning system for robots. He Zhong, the company's product strategy director, said that from industrial equipment to medical health and then to the field of embodied intelligence, AI is being deeply integrated with different industries and gradually becoming a key starting point for industrial upgrading.

Focus on actual implementation

In the artificial intelligence experience area, Shanghai's "Model Speed Space" organized eight local companies to participate in the exhibition, with exhibits covering 3D generative models, intelligent hardware, etc. Global companies can thus more intuitively understand China's artificial intelligence industry ecology and look for opportunities for technical cooperation, supply chain collaboration and application implementation.

AI industrial inspection, AI medical treatment, humanoid robots, embodied intelligent simulation algorithms... Compared with previous CIIEs, the artificial intelligence technologies and new products exhibited this time are more "down-to-earth" and closer to daily life.

Zheng Zhongbin, chief expert of the Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said that at this CIIE, artificial intelligence exhibits will focus more on interactive operations in real environments. Taking humanoid robots as an example, robots no longer only complete fixed actions, but can try to cope with changing real-world scenarios through AI, and their practical capabilities continue to improve.

Joint innovation becomes a new trend

At the Siemens booth, a humanoid robot developed by a Chinese company grabbed parts with its hands, simulating the real operating process of flexible production.

Behind these demonstrations is Siemens' ever-deepening pace of local innovation layout: opening up six types of production scenarios in five factories in China and conducting actual tests with Chinese companies; in September this year, it signed cooperation agreements with 108 manufacturing companies in the Yangtze River Delta region to promote industrial AI from single-point trials to large-scale deployment; in October, its AI intelligent agents have entered hundreds of local manufacturing companies.

Siemens is not alone. Bao Wenyan, head of marketing of Jungheinrich China, said that Jungheinrich has set up a software research and development center in Shanghai. The intelligent warehouse planning platform exhibited this year was developed by local Chinese system engineers combined with AI-assisted programming.

From "international R&D, made in China" to "Chinese R&D, global sharing", many foreign companies have confirmed the continuous extension of the CIIE platform's functions with practical actions - global companies bring the latest products and technologies to China through the CIIE, find customers and verify solutions in a variety of application scenarios; China's local R&D teams, manufacturing capabilities and supply chain systems participate in the product development of global companies, promoting innovative results to the global market.

Jiang Xiaojuan, a professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that in the era of AI, AI innovation is global innovation. Open-source large models can quickly level the gap in AI capabilities and levels between companies in different countries, reducing the cost of cross-border flow of innovation resources and joint innovation on a global scale.

From the display of new products to the local verification of technology, from the deployment of R&D centers in China by multinational companies to the globalization of Chinese innovation results, the CIIE is promoting the in-depth integration of global innovation elements and the Chinese AI industry, allowing technological input and joint innovation to resonate at the same frequency, and contributing to the orderly and healthy development of global artificial intelligence.