On August 28, the first H•I³ AI Discovery Summit 2024, co-hosted by iSoftStone, Knowledge City Group, and the Global Computing Consortium (GCC), was grandly held in Guangzhou Huangpu. With the theme of "Co-Building the Future Intelligent World", iSoftStone announced the establishment of its AI Computing Headquarters in Guangzhou Huangpu and unveiled several flagship full-stack intelligent products at the summit. The establishment of isoftStone's AI Computing Headquarters is a joint effort with upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain, promoting the emergence of cutting-edge technologies and innovative achievements in AI computing, accelerating industrial upgrading, and creating a concentrated embodiment of entrepreneurial and innovative frontiers in Huangpu. It also represents a specific measure for iSoftStone to integrate into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area economic circle, contributing to the development of Huangpu's digital economy.

Representatives from the Chinese Academy of Sciences National Astronomical Observatories, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China Telecom, China mobiles, China Unicom, Shenzhen Airport Express Center, Mingyang Smart Energy, Huawei Cloud, Baidu AI Cloud, BIRENTECH, GDS Holdings, Amway, Intel, Samsung Communications Research Institute, IDC, and many other clients and partners witnessed the establishment ceremony of iSoftStone's Intelligent Computing Headquarters and the release of the full-stack intelligent products. Together, they jointly envisioned a grand blueprint for the future intelligent world.

01 Insights from the Frontier: AI Accelerating the Development of New Quality Productive Forces

In recent years, AI technologies have permeated countless industries, becoming an essential engine for new quality productive forces. With the accelerated transition to intelligence, AI applications and wide use are becoming more universal, and their role in driving socio-economic development is gradually increasing. Therefore, developing industries related to data, computing power, and algorithms, and enhancing the growth of new infrastructure represented by intelligent computing, is crucial to maintaining industrial competitiveness.

Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District, as important engines of technological innovation in Guangzhou, have attracted numerous high-end talents, research institutions, and innovative enterprises. Hong Hui, Director of the Bureau of Science and Technology Innovation in Guangzhou Development Zone, stated that in recent years, the district has focused on digital transformation and AI-based new infrastructure, vigorously promoting the development of emerging industries such as the digital economy and artificial intelligence, and introducing key enterprises like iSoftStone. Today, the launch of iSoftStone's AI Computing Headquarters in the Guangzhou Development Zone will provide significant support for building a digital economy industrial ecosystem across the region.

Hong Hui, Director of the Bureau of Science and Technology Innovation in Guangzhou Development Zone

Beyond improving production efficiency, personalized services, and optimized decision-making, AI is increasingly driving technological innovation and scientific research, marking a significant shift in research paradigms. Zhao Yuliang, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief scientist at CaNano, noted in his speech that AI is widely applicable in the medical field, such as in nanomedicine, medical imaging recognition, drug development, chronic disease management, and biological exploration. In addition, AI's application in scientific research, such as AlphaFold2's breakthrough in protein structure analysis, demonstrates the immense potential of AI for science.

Zhao Yuliang, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chief scientist at CaNano

As AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) emerges, AI technology is moving from 0 to 1 and then from 1 to 10, suggesting numerous possibilities for industrial development. Wu Lianfeng, Vice President and Chief Analyst of IDC China, shared strategies for enterprises to create value through generative AI. He emphasized that generative AI has become a new engine driving digital transformation. To maximize the value of generative AI, enterprises need to adhere to five key principles: appropriate cognition, clear scenarioses, reference cases, adequate budgets, and suitable partners. These strategies can help enterprises better utilize generative AI technology to optimize business processes, customer interactions, and management decisions.

Wu Lianfeng, Vice President and Chief Analyst of IDC China

Miao Fuyou, CTO of the Global Computing Consortium Secretariat, pointed out that with the surge in data and the development of deep learning technology, we have entered an era of data-driven intelligent computing. Diverse and peer-to-peer computing architectures will become mainstream in the computing industry, requiring new industrial organizations to integrate partners and reconstruct the new computing industry ecosystem. The Global Computing Consortium will promote the development of the computing industry from the perspectives of architectural consensus, standards systems, and industrial ecosystems.

Miao Fuyou, CTO of the Global Computing Consortium Secretariat

02 AI Computing Launched: Building a Grounded Intelligent Computing Industry

Computing power, as a core resource supporting the development of the digital economy, is crucial for cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Doubling down on the AI computing industry showcases iSoftStone's determination to deepen its presence in the AI field. At the opening ceremony for iSoftStone's AI Computing Headquarters, leaders and guests including Hong Hui (Director of the Bureau of Science and Technology Innovation in Guangzhou Development Zone), Liu Tianwen (Chairman and CEO of iSoftStone), Wei Junqiang (Assistant General Manager of Knowledge City (Guangzhou) Investment Group Co., Ltd. and Chairman of Knowledge City (Guangzhou) Industrial Investment Group Co., Ltd.), Wu Jun (Chairman of isoft zhisuan Technology (Guangdong) Group Co., Ltd), Li Jianbo (Assistant General Manager of Guangzhou Industry Investment Holding Group), and Teng Feng (Vice President of GDS Holdings) jointly inaugurated the headquarters.

Opening Ceremony of iSoftStone's AI Computing Headquarters

In the future, iSoftStone will build on its full-stack capabilities and collaborate with upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain to jointly promote a win-win digital business ecosystem centered in Huangpu.

03 Flagship Releases: Full-Stack Intelligent Products Unveiled

At this summit, iSoftStone showcased a series of full-stack software and hardware products. Liu Huifu, CTO of iSoftStone, introduced the company's intelligent transformation strategy and achievements. He stated that iSoftStone has clarified its strategic direction of "comprehensive intelligent transformation to become a leader in AI innovative products and technical services", focusing on building autonomous and controllable infrastructure and creating new intelligent technology platforms. The five new products launched at this event—Tianyuan AI Computing Services Platform, Ascend Workstation, Tianhe Multimodal Database, Information Technology Application Innovation AI PC, and HarmonyOS AI PC/Intelligent Interactive Tablet—represent the company's latest achievements in the areas of greening, computing power, autonomy, and intelligence. These products will further accelerate the company's transformation towards intelligence, autonomy, and sustainability.

Liu Huifu, CTO of iSoftStone

Liu Yi, Co-President of isoft zhisuan Technology (Guangdong) Group Co., Ltd, highlighted the DenovoX Tianyuan AI Computing Services Platform (hereinafter referred to as the "Tianyuan AI Computing Services Platform"). She stated that iSoftStone AI Computing is built on the concepts of computing power mutual assistance, computing power equality, and computing power accessibility. Leveraging iSoftStone's experience in AI transformation and real-world scenarioses from clients across various industries, the Tianyuan AI Computing Services Platform aims to solve practical problems in application scenarioses. The platform adopts a cloud-native elastic architecture, achieving high optimization and flexible scheduling of computing power resources. It can simultaneously provide comprehensive services including IDC bare metal, self-owned computing power, invested computing power, Model as a Service (MaaS), and Function as a Service (FaaS), laying a solid foundation for collaboration with ecosystem partners and clients to explore the vast potential of artificial intelligence.

Liu Yi, Co-President of iSoftStone AI Computing Technology (Guangdong) Group Co., Ltd.

In this era full of hope and challenges, the first H•I³ AI Discovery Summit concluded successfully. Let us take this summit as an opportunity to uphold the belief in co-creating the future intelligent world, continuously explore the limitless possibilities of artificial intelligence, and actively promote its deep application in various fields, contributing more to societal progress and human welfare.