In November 2018, the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission and Haidian District launched the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) to provide support for scientists making strides in the “unexploited field” of cutting-edge AI technology, challenging the most fundamental and the most crucial problems, and making  transformative and disruptive breakthroughs.

Since its establishment three years ago, the BAAI has assisted in publishing more than 1,470 papers in world-class international academic exchange meetings and journals, filing applications for 78 Chinese patents, obtaining 44 invention patent grants, and registering 24 software copyrights in accumulative total. The BAAI has had successive groundbreaking achievements in artificial intelligence, developing some of the world’s first major technological inventions in the field.  The academy's major works include “Wudao”, China's first homegrown super-large-scale artificial intelligence model with trillion-scale parameters, the first accelerated training of neural network based on PCM, and the world’s first AI security platform for reliable algorithms. These accomplishments in AI also reflect that now it is an opportune time for the promotion of Beijing's advanced blueprint in original AI innovation.    

Attaching equal importance to AI research and engineering, the BAAI has now established a research team with more than 260 members including 94 part-time “BAAI scholars”, and a full-time research and engineering team comprising more than 160 people. This will contribute significantly to the national AI strategic technology backbone strength.

The fledgling BAAI has set itself clear long-term goals: to become one of the top three AI research institutions in the world within its first decade of existence, to earn more than three research accomplishments with huge international influence and significant industrial value, and to entrench Beijing as a leading global AI innovation hub by 2028 and ensure it is ranked among the top three international AI cities with comprehensive innovation.

(Note:Content source is from Beijing Daily.)