On April 21, 2023, co-sponsored by the Zhongguancun Ultra-Internet New Infrastructure Industry Innovation Alliance and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Big Data Research Institute, and undertaken by 21Vianet and Internet Technology The Ultra-Internet New Computing Power Industry and the 3rd China IDC Industry DISCOVERY Conference” was held in Beijing, with more than a dozen heavyweight guests, including academicians, scholars, star entrepreneurs, and industry leaders, discussing with more than 500 participants New computing power and new trends in AI.
AI computing power is an important starting point for "counting from east to west"
It has been more than a year since China's "Digital from East to Count from West" project was officially launched, and the global digital economy is also developing at an unprecedented speed. At the beginning of 2023, the popularity of generative AI has accelerated a new round of global technological paradigm changes brought about by large models, high computing power and massive data.
Zheng Weimin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out in his speech that AI computing power is an important part of computing power infrastructure, and it is the key task of the new infrastructure and the national "East Counting West Counting" project. It is estimated that by 2025, the total amount of AI computing power in my country will exceed 1800EFlops, and AI computing power will account for more than 85% of the total computing power. This means that computing power will usher in an era of rapid expansion.
Zheng Weimin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
In the process of building a national network of computing power and forming a game of east-west coordination, the city's computing power network is an important entry point. At the same time, the computing power required in the AI era is no longer traditional computing power, but "smart computing power" and new computing power.
At the conference site, Chen Sheng, chairman of the Zhongguancun Ultra-Internet New Infrastructure Industry Innovation Alliance, systematically elaborated on the "Ultra-Internet New Computing Power" blueprint, which not only fits the "Building Digital China" strategy, but also brings new ideas to the development of the industry. The so-called ultra-internet new computing power is a distributed computing power with the characteristics of universal benefit that is constructed and operated by everyone participating, everyone building, everyone operating, and everyone owning on the chain-network integrated new information infrastructure. network. Based on the vision of "City as a Computer" (City as a Computer), the new computing power of the hyper-internet will not only weave a computing power network on the big chessboard of "counting in the east and computing in the west", but will also drive computing power chips, AI Development of technology, communication networks, green energy and other related high-end industrial clusters.
Chen Sheng, Chairman of the Zhongguancun Ultra-Internet New Infrastructure Industry Innovation Alliance
Dou Dejing, partner and director of Boston Consulting Group, chief data scientist in China, and adjunct professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, said that although there are still shortcomings in technology implementation, he is still optimistic about the market size and wide application of generative AI.
What is exciting is that the new computing power of the hyper-internet can achieve technological breakthroughs. From a technical point of view, the ultra-interconnected new computing power uses a series of open architectures, standards and protocols to effectively integrate and dispatch computing power resources with different geographic distribution and property rights, which can provide new generation artificial intelligence application scenarios and large model training tasks. Provide abundant computing power supply.
Hyper-Internet's new computing power focuses on AI computing power clusters
In the context of the million-fold increase in computing power demand for AI, especially large models, the existing computing power supply model will undergo major changes. At the meeting, Zhang Jianzhong, founder and CEO of Moore Thread, pointed out that the superposition of the dual outlets of "big model + metaverse" has accelerated the explosive growth of computing power. Luo Jinhai, CEO of Quantum School, believes that computing power is a low-entropy body, an ordered arrangement of particles, and a standardized quantum field. From the perspective of the development stage of computing power, 2140 will be the year of the limit of computing power.
It is worth noting that the new computing power of Ultra-Internet focuses on AI computing power clusters, serves AI large models, and takes cooperation and co-construction as the concept and approach to create an AI computing power cluster network with rapid growth capabilities. At the same time, the new computing power economic model of the hyper-internet operates in accordance with the use right, income right, and ownership certification model, and builds a collaborative sharing economic production relationship, which effectively stimulates the investment of social capital, thereby achieving a sufficient supply of computing power on the supply side.
The opinion of Zou Chuanwei, the chief economist of Wanxiang Blockchain, has verified the forward-looking of the new computing power of the hyper-internet to a certain extent. Zou Chuanwei believes that distributed business solutions have many advantages: for example, providing fair and sustainable incentive mechanisms for builders, operators and maintainers of distributed computing networks; developing new financial mechanisms for network infrastructure construction.
In order to further promote the development of the country's new generation of digital infrastructure and deepen the implementation of new super-internet computing power, at this conference, 21Vianet signed a strategic cooperation agreement with industrial chain ecological partners based on its own advantages in data centers for nearly 30 years . 21Vianet and Huawei Digital Energy use the data center as the carrier to reach strategic cooperation in data center infrastructure, source network load storage, and data center low-carbon construction. Based on the vision of the industrial metaverse, 21Vianet and Zhongjiang Digital Construction have carried out in-depth cooperation in the implementation of joint solutions for smart parks and smart building scenarios, jointly developed a series of intelligent products, and reached a strategic cooperation. 21Vianet and Lenovo's new computing power plan to leverage their respective advantages to jointly build an "intelligent computing power center" in the field of computing power.
"AI+Cloud Computing" Helps Deepen the Development of Technology and Industry
All three things—data, algorithms, and computing power will reshape thousands of industries, and the industrial ecological map and technological paradigm will face profound changes. Wei Qing, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft China, pointed out that in the era of disappearing certainty, the biggest ideological problem is to think that the problem of uncertainty can be solved according to the deterministic method.
Wei Qing, CTO of Microsoft China
Indeed, as more and more cloud computing companies begin to embrace artificial intelligence, the "AI+cloud computing" model helps deepen the development of technology and industry.
Wu Jian, CEO of Internet Technology, said that with the rapid development of Web3.0 technology and the explosive application scenarios of large models, the infrastructure will usher in a new round of reconstruction, and the future cloud computing will be decentralized and computing-oriented Scheduling and co-creation of co-creation infrastructure.
Wu Jian, CEO of Internet Technology
If the "ultra-interconnected new computing power" is the grand blueprint of the future digital economy era, then from a more micro level, with the intelligent innovation and digital transformation of all walks of life, it also poses higher and more complex requirements for enterprise IT support. requirements. At the conference site, Internet Technology released a global managed cloud service solution. This solution can well complement the advantages of public cloud and private cloud, and cooperate with multiple cloud vendors to meet the needs of users to use the cloud conveniently without losing security and controllability; at the same time, it unlocks a new model of one-stop IT services for enterprises , to truly realize the global hosting service under the hybrid IT architecture.
Driven by new technologies and models such as AIGC large model and Metaverse, computing power has become the core competitiveness of the intelligent era. The Three Lives and All Things come to fruition. The 3rd China IDC Industry DISCOVERY Conference is gathering forces from all parties to promote the development of the industry, jointly build a new infrastructure for ultra-interconnected computing power, and play an active role in creating a new generation of digital economic complex.