Zheng Shanjie, chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, encouraged everyone to “actively embrace the trends of technological revolution and industrial transformation, strengthen technology research and development, expand industry-enabling applications.” give, and accelerate our country’s high-quality growth. artificial intelligence industry,” the commission said on Sunday.
The NDRC said Zheng visited research institutes and businesses in Beijing, including Zhiyuan Research Institute, Baidu, 4Paradigm, Baichuan Intelligence and Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology, without providing further details.
Technological innovation, which officials are counting on to boost the country’s long-term economic prospects, is widely expected to be a key theme in his report.
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China has made remarkable progress in AI over the past decade, matching or even surpassing the US in some areas such as facial recognition.
However, the landscape has changed in recent years, with leading US firms introducing revolutionary products – such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the recently released text-to-video model Sora – while their Chinese rivals have such high-end developments. Expenditures have lagged behind due to austerity factors. Regulation and Censorship.
“By erecting barriers, the United States tries to monopolize its leading position in AI development, especially core computing in the development of artificial intelligence,” former vice finance minister Zhu Guangyao told a forum in Beijing on Wednesday. In the Power section,” Shanghai news portal The Paper.
“In effect, it’s creating a disconnect between the US and China in the field of AI.”
He said that while “China also has a strong foundation in AI application, especially in industrial systems and information”, Beijing should recognize that there is a computing power gap with the US.
The field is one of the main targets of Beijing’s latest infrastructure drive.
Last month, Zhang Yuzhou, head of the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, ordered government agencies to play a greater role in the AI field, accelerating work on several AI computing centers.
The report also said that one of the country’s biggest projects, China Mobile’s intelligent computing center in Hohhot in Inner Mongolia, will be completed by April next year, with parts of the facility opening in phases earlier. will go.
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When completed, it will be Asia’s largest single intelligent computer center, and more than 80 percent of its components will be made in China.
This follows the opening last year of another large intelligent computing center in Qingdao, operated by China Unicom, which cost about 3 billion yuan (US$417 million) to build.