On December 27, Baidu create2021 (Baidu AI Developer Conference) was held in the first meta universe product “xirang”, which is the first time that Chinese Internet enterprises held a press conference on the meta universe platform. In addition to participating in mobile app, PC computer and VR head display, the audience can also participate in the conference through arm cloud mobile phone. There is no need to download the client, that is, click to watch.
Xirang took the lead in realizing the interaction of 100000 people on the same screen and the restoration of “10000 concert level” real sound effect in China. There is no doubt that this is a milestone press conference. So, what are the highlights of this unique press conference?
1, Baidu launched the digital human platform – Baidu Intelligent Cloud Xi Ling, digital people can be 24 hours without stopping to provide users with intimate service, Robin Li’s digital man debut.
2, Baidu has become the world’s largest automated driving service provider. Robin Li announced the next stop of “radish fast run”: we hope to extend the service to 65 city in 2025 and extend the service to 100 city in 2030.
3. The latest progress of Baidu AI technology and business: the flying oar of Baidu deep learning platform has gathered 4.06 million developers, served more than 157000 enterprises and institutions, and created 476000 models;
4. Jidu’s first car Siasun Robot&Automation Co.Ltd(300024) will be unveiled in 2022 and mass produced in 2023;
5, Robin Li and the famous astrogeochemist and geochemist, the first chief scientist of China’s lunar exploration project and Ouyang Ziyuan, academician of China Academy of Sciences, carried out a “Moon” dialogue across the space and time. Ouyang Ziyuan said that China’s deep space exploration has made great achievements. In the future, the establishment of a lunar scientific research station, the realization of manned lunar landing, and going to Mars and more distant deep space will be the next step of China’s aerospace. AI will be deeply integrated with aerospace and play a great role. Robin Li believes that AI brain with self-learning ability can help build moon base, unmanned scientific exploration and resource development and utilization. I also hope our unmanned car can drive to the moon.
6, Robin Li introduced the AIR (AIRoad) intelligent road system: through the “God perspective”, the total amount of objects in real time collaborative perception, the intersection pass rate increased to 99%, to achieve real-time and extensive touch up warning of road total risk events, cooperate with active operation management, effectively reduce 90% traffic accidents.
7, Robin Li said: if all the intersections in a city are intelligent and city level regional information control optimization, it can enhance the 15%-30% traffic efficiency. Within 10 years, the problem of congestion can be basically solved.
Greek soil is officially open to developers
At the press conference, the reporter of Securities Daily also entered the Xitu platform for experience through VR equipment.
“Magnificent and sci-fi” is the reporter’s first impression of entering this virtual world. In a sci-fi City, the architectural forms are different and have a sense of future. Looking up to the distance, there are continuous peaks. Looking up at the starry sky, there is a huge blue planet, quite a “contrast beauty”.
Through the supporting rocker of VR, the reporter can walk freely in the Greek soil world, explore the unknown world, find friends in the “Greek soil” world and interact. In the virtual world, the reporter not only walked into the Feng Tang art exhibition in xirang, appreciated the calligraphy and painting works suspended in the air, but also boarded the 300 storey viewing platform, looked at the city from a high place, and enjoyed the rows of skyscrapers and the scenery in the distance. Everything is beautiful, everything is novel.
Yu Baicheng, President of zero one research institute, said in an interview with the Securities Daily that the official launch of Baidu “xirang” means that Baidu has officially entered the meta universe and launched the platform application in a leading way. “Xi soil” is the prototype of a meta universe, and its application scenarios include education, exhibition, marketing, training, etc. Metauniverse is a system engineering integrating a variety of technologies and scene ecology. Therefore, the Internet factory with rich relevant resources is one of the main players of metauniverse.
However, it must be emphasized that the current Greek soil version is still a negative number (- version 6.0), and there are many imperfections. For example, there are rough modeling details in the test version, and continuous wearing of VR glasses will produce dizziness.
“It (Greek soil) still has huge growth space from the goal we envision.” Ma Jie, vice president of Baidu, said that vision, hearing and interaction are the three major technical problems hindering the development of meta universe. The way to solve the problem of meta universe needs to break through a series of technical bottlenecks and the support of strong basic technical capabilities. These key technologies include: secure, autonomous and intelligent cloud computing technology; Continuous innovation in artificial intelligence, arm cloud, edge computing, intelligent video, VR and AR; The construction of content ecology and huge market foundation.
Although metauniverse is still in the primary development stage, if enterprises do not follow up now, they may fall behind in the future. Zheng Lei, chief economist of Baoxin finance, told the Securities Daily that the advantage of China’s Internet giants is that they have a deep accumulation of consumer networking and a huge customer base. They can quickly cut into the consumer end applications of the meta universe, such as online games, online virtual performances, business exhibitions and experience activities. The disadvantage is that there is still a lack of independent core technology in the six supporting technologies of metauniverse, so it is difficult to make truly creative products. At present, it seems that interactive technology and game technology are easy to start, and there is a certain industrial foundation and technology accumulation in China.
Wang Pengbo, a senior analyst of Broadcom analysis, told the Securities Daily that compared with roblox, the “first stock of the yuan universe”, Baidu’s xirang open platform is more grand and covers a wider range. It is understood that Baidu’s goal is to become the infrastructure platform of the meta universe and provide AI, cloud computing and other technical engines for Xitu and other meta universe products. In fact, during this Baidu create conference, the “Greek soil open platform” was officially opened to the majority of developers.
Technology changes the world. As Robin Li said, the threshold of technology application is decreasing, and creators will usher in the golden age of artificial intelligence for 10 years. With the tide of technology surging forward, we have come to the era of man-machine symbiosis.
(Securities Daily)
