At the China International Digital and Software Services Fair in July 2023, AMiner and Zhipu Research released an analysis report on the top 500 global artificial intelligence innovation cities based on the ranking of the world's most innovative cities in artificial intelligence in 2023 .
The report pointed out that under the development trend of artificial intelligence innovation, the research on innovative intelligence in China and the United States has shown a strong trend. The United States leads the world in both the number and influence of artificial intelligence innovation cities, while China is second only to the United States .
Among the top 500 artificial intelligence innovation cities in the world, China has 42 cities, ranking second in the number of cities. Among the top 100 global artificial intelligence innovation cities, there are 19 Chinese cities, namely: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Taipei, Wuhan, Hefei, Shenyang, Chengdu, Tianjin, Harbin, Changsha, Hsinchu, Dalian and Jinan. It is worth noting that Beijing and Shanghai, as China's super first-tier cities, have entered the top ten in the world in their artificial intelligence innovation index. Among them, Beijing's artificial intelligence innovation index ranks second in the world.
The following extracts several key points from the report.
Geographic distribution of global artificial intelligence innovation cities
The rapid development of artificial intelligence has set off a wave in the development of global science and technology. Among them, the European region represented by Germany, the United Kingdom, and France; the Asian region represented by China, Japan, and South Korea; the North American region represented by the United States and Canada are the three major distribution areas of global artificial intelligence innovation cities.
[Table 1: Distribution of countries with the number of cities above 4 in the top 500 artificial intelligence innovation cities in the world]
The top 500 cities in the world for artificial intelligence innovation are distributed in 57 countries, and 27 countries have four or more cities. Among them, 143 cities in the United States were shortlisted for the top 500 list, accounting for 28.6% of the total number of cities. At the same time, data shows that the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States ranks first in the selection of the world's most innovative cities in artificial intelligence. In the list of the top 100 global artificial intelligence innovation cities, there are 33 cities in the United States and 19 cities in China. It can be found that the United States is still the concentration of artificial intelligence innovation cities in the world.
[Table 2: Top 100 cities in the world for AI innovation]
Among the top 500 artificial intelligence innovation cities in the world, China has 42 cities, ranking second in the number of cities. Among the top 100 global artificial intelligence innovation cities, there are 19 Chinese cities, namely: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Xi'an, Guangzhou, Taipei, Wuhan, Hefei, Shenyang, Chengdu, Tianjin, Harbin, Changsha, Hsinchu, Dalian and Jinan, among which Beijing ranks second in the world.
Beijing leads China's AI development
The Global AI City Innovation Index is an important indicator reflecting the level of AI innovation in cities. The innovative city indicator model includes four first-level indicators: papers, scholars, institutions and international cooperation.
Through the analysis of innovation indicators, Beijing's innovation index ranks among the top ten in the world and ranks second in the world. In terms of scores in the four dimensions of papers, scholars, institutions and international cooperation, Beijing ranks first in China. The comprehensive scores of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Nanjing have entered the top 20 in the world, and their performance is also very impressive.
[Table 3: Proportion of scholars in the top 20 cities in the Global AI Scholar Index]
[Table 4: Top 20 cities in the global artificial intelligence international cooperation index]
Global hot research is CV, machine learning
Study the subfield distribution of the collected 191,237 papers on artificial intelligence worldwide. A total of 20 sub-fields are included, and the fields with the most papers are computer vision, machine learning, robotics, classic AI, speech recognition, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and the Internet of Things, all with more than 10,000 papers.
Although there are different languages on the Internet saying that computer vision is "dead", it can be seen from the papers published by global artificial intelligence that the papers in the direction of computer vision are still the most, with 24,075 papers, accounting for 12.59%.
Among them, the large model, as a recent hot research field, does not account for much of the overall paper volume, but it also accounts for 11% in the field of natural language processing.
[Table 5: Global Research Distribution of Artificial Intelligence Subfields]
Differences in artificial intelligence research between China and the United States
China and the United States, as the two major powers in artificial intelligence research, show large differences in the number of papers and the distribution of research in subfields. At present, the United States is still in the leading position in global artificial intelligence research, and the number of related papers is twice that of China. The United States focuses on machine learning, computer vision, robotics, etc., while China focuses on computer vision, classic AI, and the Internet of Things; especially the Internet of Things, the number of papers is about twice that of the United States.
[Table 6: The number of research papers in artificial intelligence subfields in China and the United States (unit: papers)]
Based on the AMiner scientific and technological intelligence big data platform, this report analyzes all publications of top journals and conferences in the field of artificial intelligence from 2013 to 2022. Through the calculation formula of computer algorithm, analyze from the four dimensions of paper index, scholar index, institution index and international cooperation index, calculate the city's innovation index according to the weight, and draw the analysis report of the top 500 global artificial intelligence innovation cities.