The 2025 Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation and Development Conference: Focusing on Large Models, Leading the Upgrading of Industrial Intelligence

The 2025 Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation and Development Conference: Focusing on Large Models, Leading the Upgrading of Industrial IntelligenceOn February 28, 2025, the third Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation and Development Conference was grandly held at the National Convention Center Phase II. Themed "Artificial Intelligence: Empowering Industries, Leading the Future," the conference brought together heavyweight guests from government, industry, academia, and investment circles to discuss the latest technological breakthroughs, industry development trends, and future directions in the field of artificial intelligence

The 2025 Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation and Development Conference: Focusing on Large Models, Leading the Upgrading of Industrial Intelligence

On February 28, 2025, the third Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation and Development Conference was grandly held at the National Convention Center Phase II. Themed "Artificial Intelligence: Empowering Industries, Leading the Future," the conference brought together heavyweight guests from government, industry, academia, and investment circles to discuss the latest technological breakthroughs, industry development trends, and future directions in the field of artificial intelligence.

The unprecedentedly large conference adopted a "1+9" model, comprising a main forum and nine sub-forums. It featured opening ceremonies, keynote speeches, panel discussions, signing ceremonies, and exhibitions, providing a platform for in-depth exchange and collaboration among participants.

At the opening ceremony, several industry leaders delivered inspiring speeches, offering their perspectives on the future of the AI industry. Mr. Zhang Xiwei, Huawei's Vice President and President of the Computing Product Line, noted that the Beijing Ascend AI Computing Center, with the support of various sectors in Beijing, has transitioned from "building well" to "using well," widely serving the city's national economy and people's livelihood sectors and strongly driving the vigorous development of the AI industry. He highlighted Ascend AI's latest advancements in large AI models, emphasizing that the development of large AI models is entering a new phase where "technological breakthroughs" are paralleled with "technological breakthroughs + engineering innovation," significantly accelerating the process of industry intelligence. Ascend, deeply cultivating AI basic software and hardware, continuously upgrades its basic software and hardware architecture, deeply opens software capabilities such as CANN, MindSpore, and MindIE, improving usability and compatibility with mainstream industry ecosystems. In model training, Ascend uses computing node and system engineering innovations to help customers develop large models more efficiently; in inference, Ascend has created an open, easy-to-use, and leading inference system, enhancing the flexibility and economic efficiency of enterprise AI deployment. To accelerate the application of AI across various industries, Ascend AI, together with its ecosystem partners, has created integrated AI solutions to help customers achieve out-of-the-box usability. Currently, more than 40 partners have released DeepSeek integrated machine solutions based on Ascend, successfully deployed in multiple industry scenarios. In the future, Ascend AI will continue to consolidate its computing infrastructure in Beijing, work with ecosystem partners to build Beijing's AI industry ecosystem, actively respond to Beijing's 2024-2025 "Artificial Intelligence +" action plan, accelerate the process of industry intelligence, and extend from the intelligent base to the computing excellence incubation center, jointly building an AI industry talent system, comprehensively assisting Beijing in building a global digital economy benchmark city.

Mr. Liu Qingfeng, founder and chairman of iFlytek, used the recently-attention-grabbing DeepSeek as a starting point to explain its significance. He believes that DeepSeek not only achieves high-performance large models at low cost but also inspires confidence and consensus in China's independent innovation, bringing together government, enterprises, research institutions, and application fields. Mr. Liu also discussed the development direction of general large models, emphasizing that China needs to focus on computing resources and continuously improve the underlying capabilities of large models. He introduced iFlytek's positive contributions to improving the underlying capabilities of general large models, including the release of a series of innovative large models. He also stressed the importance of application scenario landing, using integrated software and hardware toolchains to promote the application of large models in complex fields such as medicine and education. Mr. Liu specifically pointed out the broad application prospects of large models in the medical field, highlighting iFlytek's significant progress in medical large models, where the inference capabilities have surpassed some attending physicians, with plans to launch an upgraded version in March this year to further enhance model performance. He also emphasized the need to address the "hallucination" problem in medical large model applications to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the model.

Mr. Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Group, stated in his speech that the emergence of DeepSeek not only verified his previous predictions about the development trend of large models but also led a leap in AI technology with disruptive innovation. He detailed DeepSeek's breakthroughs in technical paradigms, user experience, model capabilities, business models, and open-source strategies, emphasizing China's rapid development and huge potential in the AI field. Mr. Zhou believes that with the widespread application of DeepSeek, China is expected to become the first country to achieve an AI industrial revolution, setting a new benchmark for global AI industry development.

Mr. Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of Baichuan Intelligent, discussed the possibility of future human-computer symbiosis, starting from the key period of the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He believes that AI technology is in a period of rapid development, and large models have broad application prospects in multiple fields such as medicine, education, and finance. Mr. Wang particularly emphasized the medical field as an important application scenario for large models and introduced Baichuan Intelligent's exploration and practice in medical AI. He predicted that humans and machines will achieve symbiosis in the future, creating a better future together. He also called on industry colleagues to work together to promote the continuous progress of AI technology and the continuous expansion of application scenarios.

During the conference, Mentougou District officially launched the "Jingxi Zhigu Model Optimization Workshop." Seizing opportunities with keen insight, the workshop comprehensively deploys seven key elements: computing power, data, large models, application scenarios, AI professionals, algorithm registration service centers, and data asset trading centers. It builds three platforms: "aggregation of entrepreneurial talents, service industry innovation, and support for cutting-edge technology," providing guarantees, injecting vitality, and perfecting the ecosystem for large model development, tackling the "last-mile" problem of basic and vertical large model development and application. By deeply integrating large model technology with industry scenarios, it precisely empowers various industries, helping them improve efficiency, optimize services, and innovate models, promoting high-quality economic and social development in the region.

Nine sub-forums conducted in-depth discussions on popular AI application tracks, including education, transportation, culture and tourism consumption, computing and audio-visual, finance and security, meteorology, medicine, edge inference, and internet industry applications. They invited upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain and relevant government agencies to participate, promoting the coordinated development of the entire industry chain.

The "AI + Edge Inference" sub-forum, themed "Intelligent Without Boundaries, Reasoning Without Limits," invited over 400 guests from government, universities, research institutes, and technology companies to share and discuss the current situation, trends, and prospects of AI edge technology and applications, witnessing the joint release of a collection of innovative solutions combining full-stack Ascend edge inference products and DeepSeek by 22 companies. Participants believed that the DeepSeek phenomenon will bring more efficient training platforms, more universal inference engines, and a wider range of customized terminals. Through open source and the development of industrial ecosystems, it will accelerate the development of edge-side intelligent entities and the landing of more industry scenarios.

The "AI + Internet Industry Application" sub-forum, themed "AI+, Co-creating New Industry Value," brought together industry pioneers to discuss large model technological innovations and scenario-based application landing, in-depth analysis of AI's restructuring logic for Internet sub-sectors, and promoting the commercialization of new technologies in the Internet industry.

The conference featured four exhibition areas, attracting 56 leading AI companies, an unprecedented scale. The AI full-scenario application exhibition area covered government affairs, finance, education, medicine, culture and entertainment, and manufacturing, showcasing how AI technology empowers various industries and explores the infinite possibilities of intelligent transformation. This conference was not only an AI event but also a full-scenario AI "exhibition," providing strong impetus for promoting the innovative development of the AI industry in Beijing and even China. The successful holding of the conference marks the steady progress of China's AI industry toward greater maturity and prosperity. Through the joint efforts of all parties, China is expected to make greater breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence in the next few years, contributing more to the development of the global AI industry.

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