Detonating 'Artificial Intelligence' and Gathering the Momentum of Mass Entrepreneurship丨Science and Technology Park Tour④

Currently, Shanghai has formed a basic framework system for science and technology innovation centers, and its function as a source of scientific and technological innovation continues to improve. In Yangpu, the science and technology park exudes innovation vitality, stimulates entrepreneurial motivation, and has become a cradle of growth and fertile ground for the development of scientific and technological innovation enterprises. From now on, the Yangpu District Science and Technology Commission, in conjunction with the Yangpu District Integrated Media Center and the People's Daily Online Shanghai Channel, will launch a series of reports on the "People's City·Yangpu Practice Science and Technology Park Tour" to take you to listen to the stories of science and technology innovation enterprises and "home".

"We are creating a metaverse teacher who can have instant conversations."

One afternoon in May, in the conference room of Shanghai Yishiteng Education Technology Co., Ltd., the company’s founder and CEO Jiang Long pointed at a two-dimensional virtual character teaching a class and said, “This is the result of our cooperation with Tencent. . You can project 'her' in the classroom. Whenever a student asks a question in the course, 'she' will accurately analyze the question statement through big data operations, and quickly organize the language based on the results to give an answer."

Yishiteng Education Technology, founded by Jiang Long, is located in Changyang Chuanggu, Yangpu District, and is built by Shanghai Wujiaochang High-tech Industrial Park. Shanghai Wujiaochang High-tech Industrial Park was founded in 1996 and is one of the earliest science and technology parks established in Yangpu District. The park is guided by high-tech industries and vigorously promotes the construction of professional science and technology parks and science and technology projects. By integrating science and technology investment and financing, focusing on high-tech industries and supporting technology enterprises, it has formed a high-tech industrial park with industry focus, meticulous services and powerful functions. Changyang Chuanggu is one of its most representative investment vehicles.

"To achieve first-class scientific and technological innovation, you need your own ideals and ambitions, as well as the firm support from people around you." Jiang Long said, "Changyang Chuanggu has achieved this support."

When the industrial park “grows up with you”

Jiang Long remembers clearly that when he first settled in Changyang Chuanggu, Yishiteng Education Technology only rented one workstation with a monthly rent of 700 yuan.

It was the autumn of 2016. Jiang Long had just returned to China with a master's degree "apprentice". He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University, and is also a faculty member and doctoral supervisor in many universities. He is proficient in semantics and big data analysis... and almost combines the "character attributes" of all technology entrepreneurs. However, it was his first time to start a company. Without "soldiers", we can only recruit on-the-go. If we can't afford to rent a building, we will look around for a suitable campus.

When he was at a loss, Changyang Chuanggu threw an olive branch to him. "The Chuang Valley had just been built at that time. There were only two office buildings, and many others were factories and vacant land. But after I came here once, I decided that we would stay here." The early days of starting a business seemed like a blur to Jiang Long's eyes. Yesterday, "The park is in the growth stage. Compared with the mature CBD, it gives me a more intimate feeling. I want to slowly grow stronger with it."

After settling in Chuanggu, Jiang Long started researching with ease due to the preferential start-up capital. In 2017, Jiang Long used his passion to defeat more than 3,000 leading high-tech companies in Shanghai, entered the national semi-finals of the 6th China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and won the sixth place in the country. Under his leadership, the team developed Alfa Right, which uses world-class artificial intelligence, virtual reality and multi-modal big data underlying technology research and development capabilities to develop the artificial intelligence natural language required for machine reading and human-machine dialogue. It occupies the world's leading position in three specialized technologies: processing and semantic in-depth analysis, 3D graphics processing required for the metaverse, and in-depth analysis of educational big data required for smart education.

"Our advantage lies in high-quality underlying technology. We hope to use artificial intelligence to achieve the 'three steps', that is, let our intelligent models become 'teachers' assistants' and 'robot teachers', and finally open up a 'metaverse'" 's virtual classroom'." Jiang Long told reporters.

The field of artificial intelligence has already gathered many stars. As soon as Yisteng Education Technology entered the game, it was aiming to be at the forefront of the industry. This goal seemed unattainable, but Changyang Chuanggu never questioned it and fully supported it. Sometimes, when Jiang Long was drinking a cup of coffee in the park, the person in charge of Chuanggu would sit next to him, listen to him talk about his confusion, help organize his thoughts, make suggestions, or introduce some professionals.

"In terms of investment and financing, we also received a lot of help from the park. Because I have been developing abroad for a long time, I have never entered a capital market as large as China, and I have no experience in dealing with it." Jiang Long said, "But Chuanggu We have a very complete financial service system for science and technology innovation. We will first work with you to sort out the business logic, and then help you introduce investment in a targeted manner based on your needs, providing you with very practical help."

As a comprehensive science and technology park, Changyang Chuanggu’s services don’t stop there. In recent years, a full life cycle service system has been formed here. Depending on the development stage of the enterprise, Chuanggu provides services in human resources, financial management, project declaration, legal consultation, party building and team building to empower it. able. For example, for start-ups, with the Yangpu District Market Supervision Bureau and Taxation Bureau setting up new workstations here, companies or individuals can print business licenses on-site after submitting electronic materials on the platform.

These are called "nanny-style services" by Zhang Hong, general manager of Changyang Chuanggu. "The service methods are different for large enterprises and small enterprises. For many start-up companies, the services required are one-time, such as applying for licenses, social security, etc. We need to take the first step to help them do a good job and let them Focus on the company's own innovation work. When the company develops to the mid-term and has mature products, but social awareness is not high, we will provide extensive resource docking and application scenarios to make the park their experimental field. Finally, for stable development As a large enterprise, we have introduced the Cyber ​​Research Institute and established the Shanghai Data Security Collaborative Innovation Laboratory to provide consulting services related to network security and policy compliance."

Today, just 7 years have passed, and Yisiteng Education Technology’s technology research and development headquarters in Shanghai has reached more than 800 square meters. It also has two office bases in Beijing and Luoyang, Henan, and is connected with the National University Science and Technology Park of Luoyang Institute of Technology. Cooperate with multiple parks and universities to establish the Alpha Rui Artificial Intelligence Research Institute to explore the forefront of the field of artificial intelligence.

Changyang Chuanggu, which grew up with it, has also grown into a towering tree. As one of the first batch of landmark parks for mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases in China, it is the "heart" of the Da Chuang Valley functional area, one of the four major functional areas in Yangpu District. With the direction of "creating a world-class innovation valley", it has become a hub for attracting many well-known Internet A gathering place for entrepreneurial talents of enterprises.

With "artificial intelligence" trump card

Creating a “Campus” for mass entrepreneurship and innovation

The predecessor of Changyang Chuanggu was Donghua Cotton Mill built in 1920. In 2015, Yangpu adhered to the "three-district linkage", promoted mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and launched the renewal and transformation of Changyang Chuanggu. In just eight years, this old industrial factory has been transformed into an industrial park where technology companies are vying to settle, and has embarked on its own characteristic development path.

Artificial intelligence is a shining business card of Changyang Chuanggu. After the "Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Park" was listed in 2019, the construction of the AI+ park has been accelerated here. Walking into Changyang Chuanggu, wireless lawn mowing robots are accurately positioned and working automatically on the lawn; intelligent patrol robots provide all-weather security services and patrol back and forth; driverless buses shuttle white-collar workers to speed up travel within the park...

Many of these high-tech enabling products come from artificial intelligence companies in the park such as Yingche Technology, Yijian Technology, New Helium Brain, and Intelligent Cloud Technology. This is due to Chuanggu's four-in-one AI innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem of "innovation platform technology supporting innovative enterprise scenario applications", which has attracted nearly 200 leading mass entrepreneurship and innovation companies to settle in, and gathered a large number of students from world-renowned universities such as Tsinghua University and Princeton University. Entrepreneurial talent.

In order to promote the development of enterprises, Changyang Chuanggu has increasingly become a bridge for communication between enterprises. "Going up and down the stairs are the upstream and downstream, and the industrial park is the industrial chain." A "tropical rainforest" ecosystem is being built here, allowing companies to find industry insiders and partners as quickly as possible, regardless of vertical or horizontal orientation.

"We found that many companies particularly need some cross-industry support. How to provide such channels? We organize companies with common needs and carry out various salons, tea parties, and lunch parties, so that everyone can meet in a relaxed environment exchanges with China." Zhang Hong told reporters, "We have also cooperated with the Shanghai Information Service Industry Association before, and through their resources, we invited big names in various industries to share their entrepreneurial experience, hoping to bring some enlightenment to everyone."

In February this year, the Da Chuang Valley Branch of the Yangpu District General Chamber of Commerce was established in Changyang Chuang Valley, calling on innovative entrepreneurs to display their style, collide with ideas, exchange and cooperate in the park, further convey the message of open development to enterprises, and promote the overall pursuit of The direction of multi-field cooperation is headed by the development of the digital economy.

It is through these activities that Shanghai Kuaibu New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. in the park completed resource docking, and the "Optical Storage, Charging and Inspection" integrated intelligent super fast charging station that it participated in the co-construction was successfully launched in Changyang Chuanggu Parking Lot. , created a new version 2.0 "Optical Storage Charging and Inspection" demonstration station, formed a complete AI supercharging network system, and promoted the realization of "the open scene of the park attracts enterprises, the enterprises contribute results to the implementation of the project, and the results are displayed to serve the society."

Technology companies are developing rapidly, how can they retain talents? Changyang Chuanggu has always been thinking about new forms of innovation and entrepreneurship. Through multiple methods such as revitalizing carriers, industrial transformation, vacating cages and replacing birds, supporting optimization, and business services, it explores changes and opportunities in the future industry, leading precise planning, precise actions, and precise Serve.

The construction of high-quality park environment is another entry point for Chuanggu to “rob people”. In recent years, Changyang Chuanggu has launched the "Campus" concept with the slogan "Borderless, Living, and Creativity Together" and built four centers: "Enterprise Center", "Entrepreneurship Center", "Sports Center" and "Vitality Center". In the future, there will be more The "art center" is established. Trendy events such as the "Changyang Leshi" "Beyond the Art" Food Festival and the 5th PodFest China Chinese Podcast Conference are held in full swing here. The gates of the park are open and the lawns are open, inviting countless park workers and surrounding residents to feel the vitality of the Valley, creating a new accessible and approachable social place for Internet celebrities.

"In June, we will also cooperate with Dunhuang Cultural Tourism Group to hold a tour of award-winning films from the Dunhuang Animation Film Festival, introducing high-quality animation films into the park, hoping to enhance the artistic atmosphere and humanistic atmosphere of the park." Zhang Hong said that white-collar workers in the park The happiness with surrounding residents is gradually improving.

Introducing technological innovation through urban renewal and driving community revitalization, the former old factory has now undergone a magnificent transformation. The Wujiaochang High-tech Industrial Park to which it belongs is also racing on the high-tech industrial park track. Currently, there are nearly 2,000 companies of various types settled in Wujiaochang High-tech Industrial Park, including well-known companies such as Xiaohongshu, Ford Motor, Kuaibu New Energy, and Meishi Beauty Selections.

By 2025, Wujiaochang High-tech Industrial Park plans to introduce and cultivate more than 30 leading online new economy companies and more than 3,000 online new economic innovative companies, bringing the industry scale to more than 300 billion yuan. At the same time, a four-zone ecological park including a "pioneer zone", a "carrying zone", a "test zone" and a "gathering zone" will be built here, injecting more new momentum into Yangpu District's "three-zone linkage and three-city integration".

Source: Shanghai Yangpu

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