On August 28, the first H•I³ AI Discovery Summit 2024, jointly hosted by the Global Computing Consortium, GCC Board Member and Platinum Member iSoftStone Information Technology (Group) Co., Ltd., and Knowledge City Group, was successfully held in Huangpu, Guangzhou. With the theme “Co-Building the Future Intelligent World,” the summit featured a keynote speech by Miao Fuyou, CTO of the GCC Secretariat, titled Embracing the Era of Data-Driven Intelligent Computing and Developing a Diverse Computing Industry Ecosystem. At the summit, iSoftStone announced the official establishment of its Intelligent Computing Headquarters in Huangpu, Guangzhou, and released several major full-stack intelligent products.

On August 28, the first H•I³ AI Discovery Summit 2024, jointly hosted by the Global Computing Consortium, GCC Board Member and Platinum Member iSoftStone Information Technology (Group) Co., Ltd., and Knowledge City Group, was successfully held in Huangpu, Guangzhou. With the theme “Co-Building the Future Intelligent World,” the summit featured a keynote speech by Miao Fuyou, CTO of the GCC Secretariat, titled Embracing the Era of Data-Driven Intelligent Computing and Developing a Diverse Computing Industry Ecosystem. At the summit, iSoftStone announced the official establishment of its Intelligent Computing Headquarters in Huangpu, Guangzhou, and released several major full-stack intelligent products.

Frontier Insights: Artificial Intelligence Accelerates the Development of New Quality Productive Forces

In recent years, artificial intelligence technologies have penetrated thousands of industries and become an important engine of new quality productive forces. As intelligent transformation accelerates, the application and popularization of AI will become increasingly extensive, and its role in social and economic development will continue to grow. Therefore, focusing on the development of data, computing power, algorithms, and related industries, and strengthening new infrastructure represented by intelligent computing power, is crucial to maintaining industrial competitiveness.

As an important engine of scientific and technological innovation in Guangzhou, Guangzhou Development District and Huangpu District have gathered many high-end talents, research institutions, and innovative enterprises. Hong Hui, Director of the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau of Guangzhou Development District, stated that in recent years, Guangzhou Development District has focused on digital transformation and AI new infrastructure, vigorously promoted the development of emerging industries such as the digital economy and artificial intelligence, and attracted a number of key enterprises including iSoftStone. The launch of iSoftStone’s Intelligent Computing Headquarters in Guangzhou Development District will provide important support for building a digital economy industrial ecosystem in the district.

In addition to improving production efficiency, personalized services, and decision optimization, AI applications are also playing an increasingly prominent role in promoting technological innovation and scientific research. AI technologies are driving a transformation in the scientific research paradigm. Zhao Yuliang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chief Scientist of GBA Institute, said in his speech that AI technologies have wide application scenarios in the medical field, including nanomedicine, medical image recognition, drug R&D, chronic disease management, and biological exploration. At the same time, AI applications in scientific research, such as AlphaFold2’s breakthrough in protein structure analysis, have demonstrated the huge potential of AI for Science.

With the emergence of AGI, artificial intelligence technologies have initially completed the leap from 0 to 1. Moving from 1 to 10 means there will be many possibilities for industrial development. Wu Lianfeng, Vice President and Chief Analyst of IDC China, introduced strategies for enterprises to create value with generative AI. He stated that generative AI has become a new engine for digital transformation. In the process of maximizing the value of generative AI, enterprises need to follow five principles: cognition must be in place, scenarios must be clear, cases must be referenced, budgets must be sufficient, and partners must be suitable. These strategies can help enterprises better use generative AI technologies to optimize business processes, customer interactions, and management decision-making.

With the rapid growth of data volume and the fast development of deep learning technologies, we are entering a new era of data-driven intelligent computing. In the view of Miao Fuyou, CTO of the GCC Secretariat, in the era of data-driven computing, deep learning, large models, and generative AI technologies have become the core, and application software development is increasingly reflected as a process of data processing and training. On the one hand, AI technologies are driving the diversification of computing chips, including CPUs, GPGPUs, NPUs, and brain-inspired architectures. On the other hand, they will also drive the evolution of computing architectures, pushing computing resources toward fully distributed pooled architectures and further toward diversified equal computing architectures. Diversified equal computing architectures will become the mainstream architecture of the computing industry, and new industry organizations are needed to bring together industry partners and reconstruct the new computing industry ecosystem.

Intelligent Computing Begins: Building an Implementable Intelligent Computing Industry

As a core resource supporting the development of the digital economy, computing power is indispensable to cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Increasing investment in the intelligent computing industry demonstrates iSoftStone’s determination to deepen its presence in the AI field.

At the launch ceremony for iSoftStone’s Intelligent Computing Headquarters, leaders and guests including Hong Hui, Director of the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau of Guangzhou Development District; Liu Tianwen, Chairman and CEO of iSoftStone; Wei Junqiang, Assistant General Manager of Knowledge City (Guangzhou) Investment Group Co., Ltd. and Chairman of Knowledge City (Guangzhou) Industrial Investment Group Co., Ltd.; Wu Jun, Chairman of iSoftStone Intelligent Computing Technology (Guangdong) Group Co., Ltd.; Li Jianbo, Assistant General Manager of Guangzhou Industrial Investment Capital; and Teng Feng, Vice President of GDS, jointly launched the headquarters.

In the future, based on its full-stack capabilities, iSoftStone will work with upstream and downstream partners across the industrial chain to jointly promote a win-win digital business ecosystem centered on Huangpu.

Major Releases: Full-Stack Intelligent Products Unveiled Together

At this summit, iSoftStone presented a series of full-stack software and hardware products. Liu Huifu, Chief Technology Officer of iSoftStone, introduced the company’s intelligent transformation strategy and achievements to the guests. He stated that iSoftStone has clarified its strategic direction of “comprehensive intelligent transformation and becoming a leader in artificial intelligence innovation products and technical services,” and is committed to building independently controllable infrastructure and creating a new intelligent technology platform.

The five new products released this time, including the DenovoX Tianyuan Intelligent Computing Service Platform, Ascend Workstation, Tianhe Multimodal Database, Xinchuang AI PC, and HarmonyOS AI PC / intelligent interactive tablet, are the company’s latest achievements in green development, computing power, independence, and intelligence. They will further accelerate the company’s transformation toward intelligence, autonomy, and green development.

Liu Yi, Co-President of iSoftStone Intelligent Computing Technology (Guangdong) Group Co., Ltd., focused on introducing the DenovoX Tianyuan Intelligent Computing Service Platform, hereinafter referred to as the “Tianyuan Intelligent Computing Service Platform.” She stated that iSoftStone Intelligent Computing, guided by the concepts of computing power mutual assistance, computing power equality, and inclusive computing power, combines iSoftStone’s own AI transformation experience with practical cases from customers across industries. Starting from solving practical scenario problems, it has built the Tianyuan Intelligent Computing Service Platform.

The platform adopts a cloud-native elastic architecture, enabling highly optimized and flexible scheduling of computing resources. It can provide comprehensive services including IDC bare metal, self-owned computing power, investment computing power, Model as a Service, and Function as a Service. By building a strong foundation and gathering forces, iSoftStone will work with ecosystem partners and customers to move toward the vast future of artificial intelligence.

In this intelligent era full of hope and challenges, the first H•I³ AI Discovery Summit successfully concluded. Taking this summit as an opportunity, let us uphold the belief of co-building the future intelligent world, continuously explore the infinite possibilities of artificial intelligence, actively promote its in-depth application across various fields, and contribute more to social progress and human well-being.