In 2024, there were more than 2,400 artificial intelligence (AI) enterprises in Beijing, with the core AI industries worth nearly CNY 350 billion, accounting for half of China's total. This marked that Beijing became the "Top AI City" of the country.

In terms of the AI sector, Beijing is home to 21 national key laboratories and more than 40 percent of the country's top talented minds. Focusing on large-scale models, embodied intelligence and more, the city has established its first batch of 23 municipal-level key AI laboratories.

Beijing is committed to a layout of diversified technology roadmaps, and has established four new AI R&D institutions including the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence and the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, it has yielded a number of world-leading original achievements including Emu, the world's first native multimodal large-scale model.

Beijing has been enhancing its original innovation capabilities and implementing disruptive technology roadmaps. It has developed the world's first fully optical AI chip, proactively deployed the country's first 64-GPU supernode computing server, and launched 132 registered large-scale models, thereby securing its top spot nationwide.

Beijing has improved the allocation of factors of production and issued an implementation plan for the construction of computing infrastructure in the capital city. By 2024, 8,620P of computational power had been added, and the cumulative intelligent computational power had exceeded 33,000P. The city has built China's first pilot zone for basic data regulation, released the Chinese Corpora Internet (CCI) 4.0, and launched the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Data Operation Platform, bringing together more than 180 general and industrial data sets and a total data volume of more than 2,000 terabytes.

Moving forward, Beijing will accelerate the construction of a globally prominent hub for AI innovation and relevant industries, pioneer advancements in cutting-edge interdisciplinary fields such as embodied intelligence and AI-powered life sciences and healthcare, step up the cultivation of disruptive technologies such as optical computing chips and brain-inspired intelligence, and explore new paths for the development of general AI. Beijing will continue promoting the integrated development of data and applications, facilitate the utilization of large-scale model products, deepen AI’s empowerment of the real economy. All these efforts will advance Beijing's citywide AI development.

(Source: The Beijing News)