China's Race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology

[AndrewJin]

Fear-mongering.

China is a developing country, US is a superpower that sails and shows boots on each sqm of the planet earth (except independent states and their waters).

The US has early comer's advantage. The US has the best brains that it collect all over the world (except less and less from China).

Besides, the US has so many secret programs that even Google exec does not know of.

Very soon they will even dethrone China from the supercomputer throne.

And they have RSS CEOs

 

[TaiShang]

And they have RSS CEOs

In that case, it is near to impossible to eclipse the US.

US-India partnership that is now blossoming is like Batman and wonder woman. Nobody can eclipse the duo.

 

[Beast]

I have fear for AI too. When it's too powerful, skynets analogy may happen.

Who will unleash the beast? China or US?

 

[onebyone]

Gil Press , CONTRIBUTOR
I write about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, speaks at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing on April 27, 2017. (GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)

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.Chinese researchers’ contributions to the best 100 AI journals/conferences rose as a percent of total papers from 23.2% in 2006 to 42.8% in 2015 and as a percent of cited papers from 25.5% to 55.8%.

.Face++, a Chinese face recognition startup (and one of Sinovation’s investments), recently won first place in 3 computer vision challenges, ahead of teams from Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and CMU.

.The AAAI postponed its 2017 annual meeting by a week when it found out the planned date coincided with the Chinese New Year. A nearly equal number of accepted papers came from researchers based in China and the U.S.
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Lee featured prominently in the story Buderi and Huang told about establishing Microsoft’s research lab in China. “In talking to Lee,” they wrote, “his sense of familial duty and respect for his mother and father are inescapable.” Lee’s father, Li Tien-Min, a legislator in the governing Kuomintang administration when Mao came to power in 1949, had to flee to Taiwan. “My father always felt China had not realized its potential,” Lee told Buderi and Huang.

Today, China is realizing its potential to become a leader in many fields, including artificial intelligence.

 

[cirr]

AI chip startup sets 1 bln target

2017-11-07 08:53

China Daily Editor: Mo Hong'e

Cambricon Technologies Co, a Chinese artificial intelligence chip startup backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said on Monday that it aims to have one billion devices using its semiconductor intellectual properties in three years.

The move is part of China's broad push to build world-class AI processor companies that can rival Intel Corp, Qualcomm Inc and Nvidia Corp in future.

Chen Tianshi, CEO of Cambricon, which is valued at $1 billion, said: "We aim to account for 30 percent of China's high-performance AI chip market in three years. The goal is within our reach."

Founded by Chen, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology, the Beijing-based startup developed Cambricon-1A, the world's first commercial chip for deep learning applications, last year.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's Kirin 970 chip, which was developed to power its latest flagship smartphone Mate 10, has used Cambricon's intellectual property. Cambricon's technologies have also been used in servers developed by State-owned Sugon Information Industry Co Ltd to deliver faster computing and better reasoning capabilities.

"We will focus on both in-device AI and cloud AI. But we won't make chips for consumer electronic devices ourselves. We will sell our intellectual properties to hardware makers so that they can better integrate AI into their in-house chips," Chen said.

According to Chen, the company will scramble to build an ecosystem where its AI chip technologies can be used in the fields of smartphones, robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles and other consumer electronics.

In August, Cambricon announced it had raised $100 million in series A funding, led by SDIC Chuangye Investment Management, a subsidiary of China's State Development and Investment Corp.

Other prominent investors included e-commerce giant Alibaba, computer manufacturer Lenovo Group Ltd, and the investment arm of the CAS.

On Monday, the company also launched three new AI chip intellectual properties to enable low-power-consumption image recognition applications, self-driving and other scenarios.

According to Chen, the new chips unveiled are far better than the traditional general purpose processors in boosting image and speech recognition. The chips also boast higher integration density, making them ideal for many devices.

Sun Ninghui, director of the Institute of Computing Technology at CAS, said "Cambricon is playing a pioneering role in the global AI semiconductor sector. More efforts are needed to partner with industrial chain partners, so that China is likely to lead the development of AI in the world."

In July, China unveiled a national plan to build a 1 trillion yuan ($152.5 billion) AI core industry by 2030, and said developing homegrown AI processors is an important part of the ambitious goal.

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/11-07/279859.shtml

 

[Han Patriot]

They were laughing at us when we started our domestic microprocessor endeavor. Look how far it has gone.

 

[Han Patriot]

Our nation shall rise from the ashes and reclaim her rightful place on earth. . LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!!

 

[cirr]

They were laughing at us when we started our domestic microprocessor endeavor. Look how far it has gone.

This firm is definitely going places.

 

[qwerrty]

This firm is definitely going places.

looks like they want to be ARM in ai chip

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

looks like they want to be ARM in ai chip

Though unlikely. ARM designs CPU cores, which are far more valuable, and has near monopoly.

Comparatively, Cambricon designs NPUs, which is just a nice way of saying ASIC.

AND, Cambricon has pretty intense competition from many startups, both inside and outside China, AND major semiconductor companies, all of whom are coming up with their own implementations of NPUs/BPUs.

 

[JSCh]

AI chip startup sets 1b target
By Ma Si | China Daily | Updated: 2017-11-07 07:47

Cambricon Technologies Co, a Chinese artificial intelligence chip startup backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said on Monday that it aims to have one billion devices using its semiconductor intellectual properties in three years.

The move is part of China's broad push to build world-class AI processor companies that can rival Intel Corp, Qualcomm Inc and Nvidia Corp in future.

Chen Tianshi, CEO of Cambricon, which is valued at $1 billion, said: "We aim to account for 30 percent of China's high-performance AI chip market in three years. The goal is within our reach."

Founded by Chen, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology, the Beijing-based startup developed Cambricon-1A, the world's first commercial chip for deep learning applications, last year.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's Kirin 970 chip, which was developed to power its latest flagship smartphone Mate 10, has used Cambricon's intellectual property. Cambricon's technologies have also been used in servers developed by State-owned Sugon Information Industry Co Ltd to deliver faster computing and better reasoning capabilities.

"We will focus on both in-device AI and cloud AI. But we won't make chips for consumer electronic devices ourselves. We will sell our intellectual properties to hardware makers so that they can better integrate AI into their in-house chips," Chen said.

According to Chen, the company will scramble to build an ecosystem where its AI chip technologies can be used in the fields of smartphones, robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles and other consumer electronics.

In August, Cambricon announced it had raised $100 million in series A funding, led by SDIC Chuangye Investment Management, a subsidiary of China's State Development and Investment Corp.

Other prominent investors included e-commerce giant Alibaba, computer manufacturer Lenovo Group Ltd, and the investment arm of the CAS.

On Monday, the company also launched three new AI chip intellectual properties to enable low-power-consumption image recognition applications, self-driving and other scenarios.

According to Chen, the new chips unveiled are far better than the traditional general purpose processors in boosting image and speech recognition. The chips also boast higher integration density, making them ideal for many devices.

Sun Ninghui, director of the Institute of Computing Technology at CAS, said "Cambricon is playing a pioneering role in the global AI semiconductor sector. More efforts are needed to partner with industrial chain partners, so that China is likely to lead the development of AI in the world."

In July, China unveiled a national plan to build a 1 trillion yuan ($152.5 billion) AI core industry by 2030, and said developing homegrown AI processors is an important part of the ambitious goal.

 

[onebyone]

Tencent set up an AI research lab in Seattle in May, led by former Microsoft scientist Yu Dong. It also hired more than 50 AI researchers, backed by about 200 engineers, on the mainland.

http://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprise...cent-initiatives-will-help-china-aggressively

 

[Han Patriot]

Though unlikely. ARM designs CPU cores, which are far more valuable, and has near monopoly.

Comparatively, Cambricon designs NPUs, which is just a nice way of saying ASIC.

AND, Cambricon has pretty intense competition from many startups, both inside and outside China, AND major semiconductor companies, all of whom are coming up with their own implementations of NPUs/BPUs.

calm down buss, no need to put down everything cynically. Let's see what happens in the future. Well, my advise to my fellow comrade, no need to brag, let time proof our worth.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Yankees are used to be leaders and bully around, this time CHINA would teach them how to behavior yourself when you USA are no more no.1 in AI !

 

[AndrewJin]

No, india is leading in AI.
Check how many Bongululu AI startups in USA!