BEIJING E-TOWN ADVANCING INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT TO ESTABLISH ITSELF AS AI TOWN

KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 (Bernama) -- The AI Town Innovation Conference of Beijing E-Town hosted by Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Management Committee, was recently held at the National Industrial Park for Information Technology Application and Innovation, releasing Beijing E-Town's development plan of building itself into an artificial intelligence (AI)-based town.

At the conference, a series of E-Town's top 10 AI applied scenarios and results were released; launching of Yizhi government affair large-model service platform; and the unveiling of Beijing AI Application Scenario Institute (BAIASI) and Beijing AI Native Industry Acceleration Platform (BAINIAP).

According to a statement, Beijing E-Town has focused on building itself into an AI town, advancing the deep integration of AI technology with the development of E-Town New Town as well as industrial upgrading and transformation.

It has made efforts to introduce technological innovation through scenario applications, establish city-level AI engineering test platforms, and better balance development with safety.

Beijing E-Town has nearly 100,000 business entities and has attracted 157 projects invested by 102 global 500 enterprises, covering a wide variety of industrial scenarios like biomedicine, automobile manufacturing, commercial space as well as intelligent manufacturing.

It has selected the first batch of AI benchmarking application scenarios, involving 10 fields such as medical and health care; transport & travel; car cockpit; humanoid robots; new retail; governmental services; and industrial design.

In particular, AI plus medical and health care scenarios are applied to support developing AI training centres for medical and health care whereby E-Town has partnered with authoritative institutions to build high-quality health data zones to promote disease diagnosis & treatment application.

Furthermore, the unveiling of BAIASI and BAINIAP has provided an underpinning for expediting the AI industry aggregation and the application of key industry scenarios. The development area would also offer all-round support to AI enterprises and talents, establishment of funds, and build a full-chain investment platform for businesses throughout the entire growth cycle.

With Yizhi, the city's first large-model service platform for government affairs, officially launched, this new-generation data infrastructure of Beijing E-Town adopts the new architecture of one portal, three centres and three engines, featuring multi-model management, knowledge base operation, and agent convergence, among others.

-- BERNAMA