AI World 2017 AI Academy Awards ceremony held at the National Convention Center of China on Monday evening. The final award list of the Top10 AI Figures of the Year, Top10 AI superstar enterprises, Top10 AI Innovative Enterprises, Top10 AI innovative products and Top10 AI venture capital institutions will be officially released.
2017 saw a surge in artificial intelligence, with heroes and star products emerging one after another. Under the guidance of The State Council’s “Next Generation AI Development Plan” and the joint efforts of industry, academia and research people, China’s AI development is on a fast track, ushering in a new ecology in the intelligent + era.
In September 2017, AI WORLD 2017 launched the “AI Oscars” Top 10 selection campaign, which has aroused strong response from the industry. The winners were selected by more than 300 new intelligence experts and 300,000 readers. In the vote count, the weight of the expert vote is 55 percent, the weight of the reader vote is 45 percent. After candidate nomination, experts vote, readers vote, statistics, experts comment, evaluate the list of AI Oscar winners.
Yang Jing, founder and CEO of New Intelligence, said in her speech, “Thank you very much for joining us again in AI World 2017, such a grand annual celebration of ARTIFICIAL intelligence. Many thanks to the 300 experts who voted in the AI Academy Awards and 300,000 Singapore Smart Dollars subscribers who voted in the five categories. We look forward to creating a new AI ecosystem in the future. Let’s realize such a beautiful vision together.
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Top 10 AI People of the Year
In order to recognize Chinese AI leaders who have made significant contributions to AI in China and even the WORLD in the past year, in September 2017, the AI WORLD 2017 WORLD Artificial Intelligence Conference launched the “AI Oscar” person of the Year selection, with more than 300 new Smart Tank experts and 300,000 readers voting together. Ten heroes were selected (in alphabetical order) : Chen Tianshi, Hu Yu, Hua Xiansheng, Huang Renxun, Huang Xuedong, Li Feifei, Ma Huateng, Lu Qi, Wu Enda, Zhou Zhihua.
Wang Feiyue, vice president of the Chinese Association of Automation, and He Baohong, deputy secretary general of the China Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, presented awards to the winners. Yu Hu, executive President of IFLYtek and President of Consumer Business Group, delivered an acceptance speech on behalf of the winners.
Hu Yu shared his view of artificial intelligence, “Artificial intelligence is different in the eyes of different people, like Von Neumann, Turing, Minsky, what do they think artificial intelligence is? Is how real life produces intelligence, and the first thing to ask is whether a computer is a life, and they think about it from that point of view. And Geoffery Hinton and Michael Jordan and Yann Lecun and Bengio, they have all these mathematical algorithms in their heads, and this is the kind of thing that describes beauty mathematically.”
“All of you present here are from the research community, from the scientific community, from the engineering community, from the industry, from the investment community and from the government. Today we are gathered to talk about ARTIFICIAL intelligence, and It is China that holds a certain advantage in artificial intelligence. However, is our dominant position really solid, our original innovation and application, can really hold the lead in the world? This cannot be done without the efforts of all. Every year, Shinjiwon awards outstanding companies, which is a recognition of what we are doing.”
Top 10 AI star companies
In 2017, ARTIFICIAL intelligence entered the “first year of application”, and giant enterprises with strong strength and rich resources are undoubtedly the leaders and backbone of this industrial transformation and upgrading. Google, Alibaba, Baidu, IFlytek, Nvidia, Huawei, JD.com, Facebook, Apple and Toutiao are the Top 10 companies selected as the “AI Oscars”.
Top 10 AI star companies
While All in AI technology giants are making a comprehensive layout, startups are constantly expanding their space for survival and development with their unique innovation advantages, and writing the picture of “AI with new vientiane, Chinese intelligence +”. The Top 10 new star companies in the “AI Oscar” are:
Cambrian technology, bitcontinent, horizon technology, megsight technology Face++, cloud zhisheng, ROOBO, yu potential technology, assistant lai also, shang tang technology, go out to ask.
Zhan ketuan, CEO of bitmain, and sun jian, chief scientist of megvii Face++ and founder of megvii research institute, delivered their acceptance speeches as representatives of AI new star companies.
Jenktuan first thanked the AI event organized by New Intelligence, and said he was honored to receive the AI New Star enterprise award. In his acceptance speech, Jenktuan said the first is focus, the second is excellence, and the third is global architecture. “Since 2016 to enter this industry, we have been very strong on artificial intelligence, deep learning algorithms in various fields and applications, we will be more focus, focus in the field, to study in depth the underlying hardware design for the entire industry to provide the best cost-effective, can effect comparing the best hardware support, boost the development of artificial intelligence.”
“There are a lot of companies in China that have the best minds in the world in ai,” said Jenktuan. The Chinese are smart, hardworking, have enough advantages in big data algorithms and application scenarios, and the talent in the global landscape. As long as we keep our feet on the ground, we will be able to make a well-known company.”
Sun Jian said that he was very happy that the new Wisdom yuan held this conference so successfully. The success of the conference also represents the rapid and steady development of emerging artificial intelligence start-ups in the past year. The selected AI star companies include those making chips, algorithms, applications, software products and hardware products. The past year has really felt the improvement of our computer industry, computing power is real, including bitland, Cambrian, etc. I believe it will play an even more important role in this general direction.
“Today we in the Vision Panel also discussed the development of artificial intelligence in the past year,” Sun Jian said: “for artificial intelligence, we all have winter and spring talk, my own idea is that the bubble of artificial intelligence has not come, we hope to welcome tomorrow’s bubble. Thank you.”
Top 10 AI venture capital institutions
The power of capital has enabled AI to extend rapidly from the laboratory to the industry, driving emerging technologies to unlock business value in application scenarios. To this end, The New Zhiyuan AI World 2017 World Artificial Intelligence Conference specially holds the SELECTION of AI venture capital institutions. With unique vision and rich industry resources, they help start-ups develop better and build a stronger AI start-up market in China.
New Zhiyuan “AI Oscar” venture capital Top10 are: Ali Capital, Sequoia Capital, Tencent Investment, Baidu Capital, Mingshi Capital, IDG Capital, Hillhouse Zhicheng ARTIFICIAL Intelligence Industry Fund, Zhenfund, Lanchi Venture Capital, Jingdong Finance.
Sequoia capital plan yue and IDG capital Niu Kuiguang as the award representative speech. Ji Yue said that AI entrepreneurship has reached the most golden season and the most golden time. Many Chinese enterprises in THE field of AI have the opportunity to become not only the leading companies in China, but also the leading companies in the world. “I stand here on behalf of venture capital institutions. As the provider of ammunition, we hope to have the opportunity to cooperate with all of you here and contribute our own strength to make China’s AI entrepreneurship bigger and stronger.”
“People tend to underestimate the long-term impact of AI, overestimate the short-term impact,” Niu said. “We’re probably overestimating now, but we’re also underestimating in the long run.” “From today’s point of view, I have great confidence in the application of AI in China, because we have too many people and too much data mobility.” “With such a good market environment and our intelligence and enthusiasm, I believe there will be many better companies,” niu said.
Top10 innovative AI products
AI ultimately arrives at users in the form of products, through which AI technology can affect human life. In order to recognize the innovation of AI technology in products in 2017, AI World 2017 held the selection of AI innovative products. The Top10 innovative products selected by AI World are: Apollo (Apollo), DuerOS, Baidu Knowledge Atlas, Didi Brain, Xinfexixiao translation and translation machine, Yunzhisheng AI Core, Tencent Miying, Ali unmanned convenience store, Yu Shi Panda car, Ding Dong speaker.
Mr. Huang wei, CEO of yunzhisheng, delivered an acceptance speech on behalf of the Top10 winners of AI innovative products.
Huang wei said he was very happy that Yun Zhisheng received such a prestigious award. Although AI is very hot, the product innovation of AI and the commercial landing of AI have always been a pain point. “Only by running faster, constantly iterating technology and products, and constantly satisfying user needs with better experience, can we make the whole industry go further and avoid entering the third cold winter.” Huang Wei said: “All our practitioners, whether engaged in scientific research or entrepreneurship, large or small companies, as colleagues in the industry, I believe they will do their best to do our work well and drive the industry to move forward faster. Finally, I would like to thank Shinjiwon for giving us this opportunity. Thank you.”
The original post was published on November 9, 2017
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