On September 7, the 2023 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference was held in Bao’an, Shenzhen. This conference was sponsored by Tencent with the support of the People’s Government of Bao’an District, Shenzhen. The theme of the conference was "Accelerating Intelligent Change, Industrial Renewal". Many industry experts and leading figures in the industry gathered at the conference to discuss the new needs, new trends and new paths of digital intelligence integration in the era of big models.
Huang Min, member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and executive deputy mayor, addressed the conference and announced the opening of the conference. Meng Jinjin, member of the Standing Committee of the Baoan District Party Committee, deputy secretary of the Party Group of the District Government, and executive deputy district head, addressed the opening ceremony.
Zhu Bing, president of China Sinoma International Engineering joint stock company, Liang Zaizhong, director of SANY Group, Ma Bing, president of the process IT and quality operation department of Honor end point Co., Ltd., academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Provincial Laboratory (Zhuhai) Chen Dake, secretary of the party committee and chairperson of Shanxi Securities Hou Wei, deputy general manager of Shanghai International Airport joint stock company Pudong Airport Lin Jianhai, deputy general manager of COSCO Marine Technology joint stock company Lin Yiwen, chief digital intelligence officer of Mengniu Group Li Chengjie, scene methodology proponent and scene laboratory founder Wu Sheng and other industry experts and leading figures gathered at the conference. At the meeting, Lu Minfang, president of Mengniu Group, also made a wonderful appearance in the form of "digital doppelganger".
Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, CEO of Cloud and Smart Industry Group, Tang Daisheng, and the heads of Tencent’s industrial Internet businesses shared a panoramic view of the industrial Internet strategy, large-scale model technology, and industry best practices.
Tencent fully embraces the big model
At this conference, Tencent Hunyuan Model was officially unveiled and announced to be open to the outside world through Tencent Cloud. Tencent Hunyuan Model is a general language model developed by Tencent, with strong Chinese creation ability, logical reasoning ability in complex contexts, and reliable task execution ability.
"With big model generation technology as the core, artificial intelligence is becoming the key driving force for the next round of digital development, and it also brings new ideas to solve the pain points of the industry," said Tang Daisheng, senior executive vice-president of Tencent Group and CEO of the Cloud and Smart Industry Group. "Tencent Industrial Internet will continue to help the industry strengthen through intelligent enhancement, data enhancement and connection enhancement."
It is understood that Tencent’s hybrid model adheres to the independent innovation strategy in technology, starting from the first token training, and has mastered the full-link self-research technology from model algorithm to machine learning framework to AI infrastructure.
Jiang Jie, vice president of Tencent Group, said that Hunyuan Big Model is more focused on applying technology to practical scenarios and driving industry innovation. Hunyuan Big Model has served as the core engine, supporting more than 50 applications of the company, including Tencent conferences, Tencent documents, and Tencent advertising. Tencent has entered the era of "fully embracing the big model". In the future, Hunyuan will continue to iterate, learn for life, and continuously improve its technical capabilities.
"The big model is to serve the industry, the cloud is the best carrier, and the big model will create a new form of the next generation of Cloud as a Service." Qiu Yuepeng, vice president of Tencent Group, COO of Cloud and Smart Industry Business Group, and president of Tencent Cloud, said that high-efficiency cloud products and high-level AGI capabilities will accelerate enterprises’ innovation and creation in the cloud, and AI native applications and new interaction patterns will continue to emerge.
Qiu Yuepeng also said that the high level of intelligence brought by the big model will also redefine the tools and applications on the cloud. For example, Tencent security risk control big model, Tencent cloud AI code assistant, Tencent conference AI assistant and other products have brought better experience to users because of the blessing of the big model capabilities. At present, Tencent conference AI assistant has also officially opened trial applications.
Large models accelerate the industry into a new era of intelligence, and cutting-edge technologies represented by artificial intelligence are becoming an important driving force for promoting technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and productivity transition.
"Enterprises need to design intelligent upgrade paths from the whole situation, so as to connect all dimensions of the industrial chain, form a superposition effect, and promote business from high growth to high-quality development," said Li Qiang, vice-president of Tencent Group and president of government and enterprise business. At present, Tencent has accumulated rich practice and experience in R & D, production, marketing, service, management and other dimensions, accelerating intelligent upgrading in all walks of life.
Li Qiang mentioned that as cutting-edge technologies accelerate the upgrading of the entire industrial chain, whether it is from the field to the production line, or from the laboratory to the convenience store, large models will be everywhere.
"An efficiency revolution driven by the’big model ‘is taking place. Relying on years of experience in cultivating the industrial Internet, Tencent Cloud starts from the needs of industrial customers, based on the self-developed Tencent hybrid model, and supports the application of mainstream open-source models in the industry. Continuously upgrade MaaS capabilities from the three dimensions of technical base, platform capabilities and intelligent applications, help customers build exclusive big models and intelligent applications, and accelerate the implementation of the model industry." Wu Yunsheng, vice president of Tencent Cloud, head of Tencent Cloud Intelligence Business, and head of Youtu Lab, said.
Li Yutao, vice-president of Tencent Cloud, said: "Tencent Cloud provides enterprises with international full-scenario technical support with a complete product matrix, more than 20 years of technical strength, and experience in serving a large number of users. At present, it has escorted the international development of games, social entertainment, media, finance, education, industry and other industries."
Thousands of industries accelerate towards a new era of intelligence
At the summit, leading figures and technical experts from all walks of life also shared their own digital integration practices and latest thinking around cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other digital technologies.
Zhu Bing, president of Sinoma International Engineering joint stock company, said: "In terms of digital practice, China Building Materials Equipment Group cooperates with Tencent and other leading companies in the industry to jointly create an end-to-end digital transformation benchmark in the manufacturing industry. In terms of equipment manufacturing, as the core focus of the equipment group, with the help of digitalization and intelligent technology, the equipment group has built 31 intelligent manufacturing units in its subordinate factories, and 21 units have realized unmanned processing, reducing processing costs by more than 13 million yuan per year. At this stage, research work is also being carried out on mobile flexible quality inspection robots, intelligent machine spraying systems, etc., to further improve the level of intelligent manufacturing."
Liang Zaizhong, director of SANY Group, said: "Based on SANY’s digital exploration in the above production factors and Client Server fields, it has opened up an iterative closed loop from customer feedback to production research and development. Combined with the practice of production intelligence, SANY has promoted the birth of two unique lighthouse factories in the global construction machinery industry. Since 2019, 40 lighthouse factories have been built one after another, and 2 have passed the Davos Forum lighthouse factory certification."
Ma Bing, President of the Process IT and Quality Operations Department of Honor End Point Co., Ltd., shared the challenges and reflections faced by Honor’s three-year digital construction process: digitally-driven organizational construction; globalization deployment; long-term evolution architecture strategy and IT implementation strategy; digital capability openness and ecological sharing. Honor will adhere to the ultimate productivism, continue to invest in product research and development innovation, establish human-centered product solutions, and improve consumer experience. Facing the future, we will continue to use digital platforms and AI empowered ecological chains with an open mind to work together with ecological partners for common development.
Chen Dake, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Guangdong Provincial Laboratory of Marine Science and Engineering (Zhuhai), said: "Although digital twin technology has been widely used in aviation, ships, city management and other fields, its application in the marine field is still in its infancy. To this end, the Southern Ocean Laboratory and Tencent have joined hands to successfully build the world’s first marine digital twin engine DTO. Based on this marine digital twin engine, we have successfully achieved high-fidelity restoration and real-time mapping of a large number of marine phenomena and marine disasters such as typhoons and storm surges. In the future, the two sides will further focus on the core tasks of the laboratory, expand the application scenarios of marine digital twin engines, and carry out in-depth cooperative research in other related fields."
Hou Wei, party secretary and chairperson of Shanxi Securities, said: "New technologies and new paradigms are reshaping all walks of life. We neither overestimate the short-term effect nor underestimate the long-term value. For us, only by accelerating learning, actively practicing and cultivating the resilience of enterprises can a small and medium-sized brokerage company win a place for itself in the future development and create a new situation of differentiated and high-quality development of the company."
Lin Jianhai, deputy general manager of Pudong Airport, a joint stock company at Shanghai International Airport, said: "In the process of intelligent transformation, Pudong Airport has applied digital twin, low-code and other technologies in operation support, security assurance, dispatch support and service support system. Pudong Airport and Tencent have built a video analysis project of aircraft-around operation support nodes, covering 19 support nodes in 290 aircraft positions at the airport. Through AI video technology, it can help flight ground security and realize the integrated, collaborative and efficient operation of smart airports."
Lin Yiwen, deputy general manager of COSCO Shipping Technology joint stock company, said: "In the process of promoting digital construction, there is nothing without security. This is the key consideration for us in choosing partners for the ecological construction of digital underlying capabilities. The new paradigm of" digital security immunity "proposed by Tencent Security has built a methodology from macro to micro. There are strong products to build technical defense; there are also full-cycle civil air defense based on expert consultation, project management and control, situation analysis, etc.; and rely on Tencent Security’s threat intelligence capabilities to achieve joint prevention and control, covering preparation, rehearsal, actual combat full-cycle risk discovery, security reinforcement, monitoring response and traceability countermeasure capabilities to ensure the security of our data, systems and business. In the recent hail of bullets, Tencent Security and COSCO Shipping were unscathed, once again proving that immunity is our best armor. "
From a drop of milk to the health of the whole family, Mengniu’s digital intelligence starts from the side. At the meeting, Li Chengjie, chief digital intelligence officer of Mengniu Group, said that Mengniu’s digital intelligence strategy 3.0, through the "double flywheel" of the supply side and the consumer side driven by AI, is a full link from intelligent research and development, smart ranching, and full digital intelligence factories to agile contract performance, smart marketing, and consumer services. Among them, Mengniu and Tencent have jointly launched the industry’s first nutrition and health field model, MENGNIU. GPT, and jointly created the AI nutritionist "Mengmeng" to provide more warm and intelligent nutrition and health services for hundreds of millions of consumer families.
Ecology is a decisive factor in the development of the Industrial Internet. Since Tencent embraced the Industrial Internet, Ecological Moments have continued to grow. During this conference, Tencent Cloud joint partners officially released 32 industry joint solutions to continue to promote the prosperity and stability of the industrial ecosystem and the new era of win-win industrial intelligence.
In addition, this conference also joined hands with Tencent Charity to help public welfare with digital, and to transmit the power of "good" with technology. Together with Tencent Music Entertainment Group and Tencent Music Public Welfare, we invited the all-round cross-border strength singer Xue Kaiqi and the new generation of original musicians Wang Jingwen to serve as the love communication officer of the 99 Public Welfare Day and sing the "good" movement together.
Xu Yingdan, Vice President of Marketing of Tencent Cloud and Smart Industry Business Group, and Chen Yan, founder of Tencent Technology Public Welfare, were present to share the Tencent Technology Public Welfare Digital Toolbox and insights on public welfare. The "Digital Toolbox" launched by Tencent Technology Public Welfare selects Tencent’s self-developed, public welfare industry manufacturers and Tencent Qianfan’s excellent ecological products, and provides public welfare organizations with a variety of digital rights and digital development consulting support, including cloud resources, office tools, SaaS software, etc., to help social welfare organizations break through the three barriers of "capital, technology and talent" and carry out efficient digital transformation and upgrading.