Accelerating the construction of AI ecosystem, Intel AI Top 100 Innovation Incentive Program welcomes new partners

Intel recently announced the list of innovative teams for the third phase of the Intel AI Top 100 Innovation Incentive Program. After layers of screening and strict control, 16 outstanding innovation teams stood out from more than 300 teams, with projects covering finance, industrial manufacturing, medical care, transportation, construction, agriculture and other fields. With the participation of many partners, the Intel AI Top 100 Innovation Incentive Program will continue to bring together the power of ecology, technology and industry, relying on Intel's cloud-to-end technology advantages and full-stack platform to further expand Intel's artificial intelligence innovation ecology, penetrate into various industries and scenarios, deeply promote the technological development and breakthroughs of artificial intelligence, accelerate the implementation of intelligent applications, and ultimately help the intelligent transformation of the industry.

Li Desheng, managing director of Intel China's Strategic Cooperation and Innovation Business Unit, said: "Intel is not only a technology company with innovative genes, but also a company that continuously promotes the development of the industry ecosystem. The Intel AI Top 100 Innovation Incentive Program relies on Intel's leading cloud, network, edge, software and hardware products and technologies, and combines the innovation capabilities of many partners to provide comprehensive acceleration services for the artificial intelligence ecosystem and industry development, empowering outstanding innovation teams, thereby accelerating the application and implementation of artificial intelligence in different industries and scenarios."

Three newcomers, jointly drawing an intelligent future

The new 16 innovation teams were selected from more than 300 high-quality candidate teams and supported by Intel's cross-departmental support. They each have their own characteristics in the fields of technology and application.

Higher performance potential, exploring cutting-edge applications

For technology companies, performance improvement is crucial. Only performance improvement can promote technological innovation, enhance product competitiveness, and have the opportunity to achieve breakthroughs in practical applications. This is also a key point of development for innovative companies that are in urgent need of technical support. Intel combines the characteristics of various innovation teams to provide a diverse portfolio of software and hardware products and computing integration platforms, such as Core, Xeon, FPGA, Movidius VPU, OpenVINO toolkit, etc., to meet the different workload requirements from cloud to edge to device, and help innovative companies improve and break through in performance, thereby enabling each team to explore cutting-edge technology fields and cover richer and wider application scenarios, such as:

Frontier technology areas:

As AI is increasingly used, data security becomes more important. Shanghai Fushu Technology Co., Ltd. focuses on the research and development of leading technologies such as federated learning, multi-party secure computing, and trusted data services. In terms of data security and management, it realizes "data does not leave the house, data is available but not visible", and creates a secure data circulation ecosystem.

Image recognition is one of the important application areas of AI. Shanghai Hehe Information Technology Development Co., Ltd. focuses on the research and development of optical character recognition, handwriting recognition, image processing and automatic image enhancement technology, and is a world-leading provider of scene text recognition and image processing technology services.

More application areas:

Robots are the epitome of the application of transformative technologies such as AI, and have begun to be widely used in all walks of life. Dajie Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. has been deeply engaged in the core technologies of control systems, intelligent algorithms and human-machine interaction of construction robots to meet the needs of large-scale customization and flexible production in the construction industry. It is a new exploration and attempt to implement robots in the construction field.

This year's epidemic has made everyone pay more attention to the important role of AI and other technologies in the fight against the epidemic and in the field of medical health. Ningbo Jiangfeng Bioinformatics Technology Co., Ltd. is engaged in the development and production of digital pathology information systems, using digital pathology information-assisted diagnosis systems to replace the current traditional working mode and promote the development of smart medical care.

Support new infrastructure and promote digital upgrading of traditional industries

Intelligent "new infrastructure" will give rise to broader and deeper intelligent changes, and turning point technologies such as "AIx 5Gx Intelligent Edge" will accelerate breakthroughs and integration and become the new infrastructure of the intelligent world. Intel provides innovative teams with a comprehensive data-centric product portfolio, and uses the advantages of software and hardware collaborative innovation to accelerate the implementation of intelligent applications, support new infrastructure, and promote the upgrading of traditional industries. For example:

Supporting new infrastructure:

Intelligent technology is reshaping smart transportation and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the transportation industry. Beijing ZhuoShi ZhiTong Technology Co., Ltd. provides computer vision and big data technology applications and solutions, focusing on the application of AI video image recognition and big data technology in transportation and safety-related scenarios, and promoting the development of smart transportation.

Intelligent and Internet-based battery swapping services are undoubtedly an innovation in the field of smart energy. Zhejiang Wuda Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise that focuses on the research and development of intelligent industrial robots and robot vision. It has launched new energy smart battery swap station applications to help build smart energy infrastructure.

Promote the upgrading of traditional industries:

Smart agriculture is the next development opportunity through the integration of technology and agriculture, which will achieve more sustainable and resource-efficient agricultural production. Beijing Kebai Hongye Technology Co., Ltd. focuses on the research and development of intelligent, high-performance, low-cost agricultural-specific Internet of Things systems and agricultural big data processing application technologies, reducing agricultural production risks and management costs.

Precision farming technology has the potential to fundamentally improve the efficiency of animal husbandry production, making traditional animal husbandry production more efficient and profitable. Beijing Xiaolong Qianxing Technology Co., Ltd. uses AI technology to achieve real-time, accurate intelligent collection, analysis and decision-making of large-scale production data in the front line of breeding, realizing intelligent breeding.

Technological innovation is helping more traditional manufacturing plants achieve digital upgrades and promoting the digital and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry. Beijing Huakong Zhijia Technology Co., Ltd. uses voiceprint recognition to monitor the health and safety of industrial equipment and create a smarter industry.

Open ecosystem, more innovative applications

Intel AI Top 100 Innovation Incentive Program is an important part and practice of Intel's artificial intelligence innovation ecosystem. The program was established in 2018 with the theme of "Inspiring Top 100 Innovations and Accelerating a 100-Billion-Dollar Industry". The goal is to accelerate 100 outstanding AI innovation teams in three years. So far, 45 artificial intelligence innovation companies have joined. In terms of application, the selected companies cover more than 20 artificial intelligence application fields, including smart cities, smart factories, smart medical care, smart retail, smart education and smart finance; in terms of technology, it includes deep learning algorithms, natural language processing, 3D vision and IoT sensors, etc.

The AI ​​Top 100 Innovation Incentive Program provides innovative teams with all-round acceleration and cooperation, including PoC test equipment or prototypes, technical guidance and training, market promotion, ecological resources, and industry customer docking. Through the accelerated growth of the first two phases, many innovative teams have achieved breakthroughs in many aspects.

With the in-depth support of Intel’s cross-departmental and software-hardware collaboration, the product reasoning performance of the innovation team in the first two phases has increased by an average of more than 6 times [1] , greatly improving the competitiveness of the company’s overall solution. For example:

Xiansheng Intelligence, a leading AI education company, has significantly improved recognition computing efficiency based on Intel products and technologies, allowing Xiansheng Intelligence to improve its speech recognition performance by 40 times without losing recognition accuracy [2] . This has greatly accelerated the implementation of AI education scenarios and promoted the development of smart education.

As a global solution provider for smart ports, Xijing Technology has built Orwell, a cloud-based integrated AI acceleration hardware platform based on Intel FPGA A10 and its own AI chip. While maintaining the same accuracy, it reduces power consumption to about one-tenth [3] , effectively meeting the requirements of wide temperature range and low power consumption in industrial scenarios.

At the same time, with Intel's broad and open ecological advantages, more than 50 AI projects have been implemented and promoted, such as: