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.

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 first 23 key AI laboratories have been established in the city.

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 produced a number of world-leading original achievements including Emu, the world's first multimodal native large-scale model.

Beijing has been enhancing its original innovation capacity and implementing disruptive technology roadmaps. As the birthplace of the world's first fully optical AI chip, it has proactively deployed the country's first 64-GPU supernode computing server, with 132 large-scale models registered and launched, 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 Beijing. By 2024, 8,620P of computational power had been added, and the cumulative intelligent computational power exceeded 33,000P. The city has built China's first pilot zone for basic data regulation, released the Chinese Corpuses of Internet CCI 4.0, and launched the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Data Operation Platform, bringing together more than 180 general and industry 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, proactively map cutting-edge cross-fields such as embodied intelligence and AI-powered life sciences and healthcare, accelerate 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, promote the utilization of large-scale model products, accelerate AI's deep empowerment in the real economy, and realize citywide AI development.

(Source: The Beijing News)