Xiaomi AI strategy works, Xiao Ai’s monthly active equipment breaks through 30 million

On August 15, Xiaomi officially announced that as of the end of July, Xiao Ai’s monthly active devices exceeded 30 million. Xiao Ai woke up more than 1 billion times in July this year, and the cumulative wake-up has exceeded 5 billion times. With Xiaomi’s strong AI strength and product quick landing ability, since its release in March last year, Xiao Ai has ushered in an outbreak period and has become the most active artificial intelligence voice interaction platform in China. Xiaomi’s strong AI strength has paid off.

Lei Jun, founder, chairperson and CEO of Xiaomi Group, said: "As early as October 2016, we realized that the entire era has transitioned from the Internet era to the mobile Internet era to the era of artificial intelligence. We judge that the development of artificial intelligence strategy Xiaomi has many advantages: the support of rice noodles, a large number of end points, and a long time emphasis on Cloud as a Service and big data. In the future, artificial intelligence will be the core strategy of Xiaomi, to fully empower Xiaomi’s intelligent hardware and internet services, and help the company have strong competitiveness and new growth points in the future development."

Xiao Ai students empower Xiaomi full range of products

Cui Baoqiu, vice president of Xiaomi artificial intelligence and cloud platform, has repeatedly mentioned the three major advantages of Xiaomi’s AI technology, namely the advantages of hardware products, the advantages of big data, and the advantages of the extensive and deep layout of the ecological chain. Some AI technologies currently launched by Xiaomi, such as automatic speech recognition, scene recognition of AI cameras, and intelligent beauty, have received unanimous praise from users. Not long ago, Xiaomi also open-sourced its own mobile end deep learning framework, Mobile AI Compute Engine (MACE). Industry developers can use MACE’s powerful artificial intelligence acceleration technology to get more interesting and powerful applications in AI photography, AI image processing, intelligent object recognition, intelligent interaction, machine translation, etc. Empower China’s artificial intelligence industry and promote the implementation and application of AI technology in the Chinese industry. In Xiaomi, AI technology has a large number of application scenarios, from automatic speech recognition, NLP (natural language processing), to vision, Knowledge Graph and other technologies, there is a broad space for development. AI is everywhere in Xiaomi. With Xiao Ai as the core, Xiaomi AI has fully empowered Xiaomi’s various series of products. Xiao Ai has supported hundreds of Xiaomi and Xiaomi ecological chain products such as Xiaomi mobile phones, Xiaomi TVs, Xiao Ai speakers, children’s watches, children’s story machines, translators, car rearview mirrors, smart watches, etc.

In March 2017, the world’s first artificial intelligence voice TV – Xiaomi TV 4A was released, and Xiao Ai was officially launched. As of the end of July 2018, Xiao Ai’s monthly active devices have exceeded 30 million, waking up more than 1 billion times per month, and the cumulative waking has exceeded 5 billion times. Xiao Ai can control TV, sweeping robots, rice cookers, desk lamps, air conditioners and other smart homes; you can listen to music, check the weather, translate, chat and other daily applications; Xiao Ai students in the mobile phone can also make calls, information search, open APP, navigation, voice setting schedule reminders and other exclusive applications. Xiao Ai students have become an indispensable part of life. As Xiao Ai students continue to develop their skills, they will also have thousands of skills such as ordering coffee, buying movie tickets, sending express deliveries, and ordering songs.

Xiao Ai’s capabilities have covered nearly 100 sub-fields such as content, tools, and interaction. Third-party developers can also easily develop voice skills and voice services in various application scenarios through the Xiao Ai open API, bringing more practical skills to Xiao Ai and making Xiao Ai richer and more interesting. At the same time, the platform also allows developers to access intelligent hardware devices. Xiaomi hopes to integrate the strengths of each company, let more developers access it, and work together to really make artificial intelligence services. In the future, Xiao Ai will be everywhere, omnipotent, and shadow.

Xiaomi rapidly advances AI technology and empowers China’s artificial intelligence industry

Whether it is ordinary users or industry insiders, Xiao Ai has won widespread praise for its good experience. At the China International Big Data Industry Expo in Guiyang in May this year, Xiao Ai won the "2018 Leading Science and Technology Achievement Award · Black Technology" and "2018 Leading Science and Technology Achievement Award · New Product" double awards, which have been recognized by authoritative fields. Xiao Ai’s widely praised students reflect Xiaomi’s powerful AI technology.

In recent years, with Xiaomi’s rich technical accumulation in the field of "CBA" (cloud computing – big data – artificial intelligence), Xiaomi’s AI technical strength is growing rapidly. Xiao Ai’s vigorous development is due to Xiaomi’s strong AI strength: first, voice technology, including Keyword Spotting, automatic speech recognition, Text To Speech; secondly, natural language processing, natural language understanding, and behind the search and recommendation, intelligent Q & A, chat, etc.; finally, Knowledge Graph, content acquisition and understanding, Xiao Ai students can answer various questions, it is from the mastery of various knowledge.

It is understood that in just 8 years, Xiaomi has become the world’s fourth largest smartphone manufacturer, built the world’s largest consumer IoT platform, connecting more than 100 million smart devices. With the rapid implementation of AI technology, more and more smart devices will have Xiao Ai’s figure.

Xiao Ai has become a new growth pole for Xiaomi’s mobile Internet business

Traffic is king in the mobile Internet era. Hardware, internet service, and new retail are Xiaomi’s original "triathlon" business model. As an Internet company, Xiaomi has the advantage of low-cost traffic acquisition through well-priced and touching products. At present, Xiaomi MIUI has more than 300 million users and monthly active users exceed 900 million, becoming the main source of Xiaomi Internet revenue. Xiao Ai’s monthly active devices exceed 30 million, growing Xiaomi’s mobile Internet business as a new growth pole, and the future imagination is unlimited.

At present, the global artificial intelligence industry is in the ascendant, and the accumulation of technology and product practice are still on the eve of the outbreak. Whether it is a rookie in the industry or a large enterprise, they are all racing. As an emerging Internet company, Xiaomi takes user experience as the king, promotes technological innovation and landing with products, and relies on hundreds of millions of users and leading business models. It is bound to become an innovative practice representative of China’s artificial intelligence industry and promote the development of artificial intelligence industry.

Focusing on Chinese Movies | Peng Yuyan’s "Emergency Rescue" Releases Popular Science Short Film


1905 movie network news On December 2, coinciding with the National Traffic Safety Day, the film released a short popular science film with the theme of the national unified water distress call "12395", aiming to popularize the knowledge of maritime rescue to the public. As the first work on maritime rescue in a Chinese-language film, "Emergency Rescue" directed by Lin Chaoxian and starring Peng Yuyan has earlier announced that it will be raised to December 18.


So, before we look forward to the official release of Peng Yuyan’s new work, let’s take a look at the new trends in Chinese movies!

"Emergency Rescue" Exposes Popular Science Short Film

"Emergency Rescue" is based on a real maritime rescue incident, telling the story of ace secret service member Gao Qian (Peng Yuyan) and good brother Zhao Cheng (Wang Yanlin) and other rescuers who face the challenge of a major disaster and perform a thrilling maritime rescue mission together. In the newly released short film, whether it is Lin Chaoxian, Peng Yuyan, who is opening champagne under the water, or Wang Yanlin, who is enduring the cold in a pool of ice water, they are all "spoof" as objects in urgent need of rescue. The maritime rescue team finally used a fun and humorous way to popularize the maritime rescue hotline 12395 to the audience.


Click to watch the short popular science video of "Emergency Rescue"

Along with the popular science short film, there are also four thematic stills. In this group of stills, the rescue people at sea are caught in the flames and smoke, but they still move forward bravely. The high-risk working environment in the fire and the fighting spirit that never retreats show the heroic and fearless image of the Chinese superhero rescue people at sea.


Expose the "Guardian" version of the relationship poster


Directed by Guo Jingming, starring Zhao Youting, Deng Lun, Wang Ziwen, Chunxia, and Wang Duo, it is adapted from the oriental fantasy blockbuster "Qing Yaji" of the Japanese writer Nightpillow Tapir’s world-class IP "Onmyoji". The film exposes the "guardian" version of the relationship poster. The whole group of posters is paved with ink and wash scrolls, and the four great divine beasts of China are hidden in the background, which not only enriches the visual style of "Qing Yaji", but also brings new imagination space. With the appearance of this poster, a collision of good and evil full of love and hate entanglements also officially kicked off.


"Haruya Ji" tells the story of Onmyoji Seimei (played by Zhao Youting) and the samurai Boya (played by Deng Lun) who met unexpectedly due to exorcism. The difference in personality and the disparity in life experience make them frequently fight each other. After going through disasters, the two gradually build trust and eventually make a life-giving contract with each other. At present, the film has been set for a national release on December 25.


Release Ending Song MV 


Produced by Jiang Zhiqiang, the fantasy film "Red Fox Scholar" starring Chen Linong and Li Xian is adapted from the novel "Spring River Flower Moon Night", which tells the story of the fox demon Bai Shisan (played by Li Xian) who originally wanted to kill the scholar Prince Jin (played by Chen Linong) but accidentally became friends with Prince Jin. Recently, the film exposed the MV of the ending song "Young and Innocent" sung by Chen Linong. In the play, Chen Linong and Li Xian go to the exam together; while the MV outside the play records the tears of the two during the roadshow.

Click to watch the ending song "Young and Innocent" MV of "Red Fox Scholar" 


It is worth mentioning that the behind-the-scenes lineup of "Red Fox Scholar" is quite bright. The soundtrack master Hisashi Rang created the original score for the film, Hu Ba’s father Xu Chengyi participated in the production of the group demon animation, and Wang Jiawei’s royal art director Qiu Weiming participated in the design of the fantasy scenery in the film. Currently, the film is scheduled for release on December 4.


The vegetable delivery man in Wuhan stayed at home by car for 14 days and slept for four or five hours every day.

The vegetable delivery man increased his birthday. Zhongqingbao Zhongqingwang reporter Yan Xueqing/photo

  Ma Zengchen has lived in his van delivering vegetables for 14 days.

  After the city was closed, the delivery man took Dai Yue as the star to deliver food to the residents. He only slept for four or five hours every day and often ate only one meal a day.

  He obviously lost weight. On March 2, he weighed himself, 18 Jin less than a month ago.

  Ma Zengchen, 38, is a vegetable delivery man at Wuhan Station, an online fresh-keeping platform. Under the COVID-19 epidemic, the city of Wuhan was closed on January 23rd, and closed management of all residential quarters began on February 11th. The enterprise he serves is one of the online shopping platforms recommended by the Municipal Bureau of Commerce to residents. He suddenly became one of the "people’s livelihood security workers" in this city.

  On average, Ma Zengchen sends fresh vegetables and meat to 60-80 families every day. The service scope of the vegetable delivery staff is wide, and the working radius can reach twenty or thirty kilometers. Today, the number of orders sent is about three times that of usual, and it is normal to be busy until 10 pm.

  Ma Zengchen is a foreigner and rented in Miaoshan Community, Jiangxia District, Wuhan. There is an iron gate to the north of the main entrance of the community, which was closed during the epidemic. When he comes back at night, he usually stops here, and the object Wang Jiangyan will wait for the "joint" on the other side of the fence.

  Through the fence, she handed him hot rice and talked for a while. In order to save the car battery, Wang Jiangyan has to take his mobile phone home to charge it. Sometimes, Ma Zengchen doesn’t even want to eat, but just wants to sleep.

  They originally planned to go back to their hometown to register for marriage in the Spring Festival of 2020. The tickets were all bought and Wuhan was closed.

  The hospital is overcrowded and there are few people in the street. They are a little scared, too. Wang Jiangyan remembers that she once advised Ma Zengchen: "Why don’t we quit? Who do you think is so desperate on the street?"

  Ma Zengchen didn’t answer the phone. They have children to support and debts to pay. In December last year, they opened a "Happy Lemon" tea shop in Miaoshan community. "When this happens (referring to COVID-19), ‘ Turn off ’ The ". Wang Jiangyan sliced the lemon in the "Happy Lemon" stock, and in the evening, prepared a bucket of hot water floating with lemon slices for Ma Zengchen.

  In the first few days after the community was closed, Ma Zengchen was able to enter and leave the community with proof.

  There are three electronic certificates in his mobile phone. Two copies are certificates from Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Commerce, which prove that Ma Zengchen’s company is an "important livelihood security enterprise" and its employees are "livelihood security workers", who undertake the supply tasks of "daily necessities and protective articles" and need to give priority to the procurement of materials, road traffic and commuting.

  The other is the "Certificate of New Type Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention Vehicle", which has Ma Zengchen’s ID number and license plate number, and is stamped with the official seal of Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Commerce and his company.

  In other different communities, Ma Zengchen’s colleagues have been able to pass the temperature test every day with these certificates. On March 3, one of them confirmed this to the reporter.

  But on February 18th, these certificates failed at the gate of Miaoshan Community. Ma Zengchen said that after he returned from delivering vegetables, the staff of the community "seal control management post" asked him for a paper version of the certificate. When he ran back to the company to print it, the other party also said that "the printed one is a black stamp, and it needs a red stamp".

  Later, the company specially issued him an "employee certificate" to prove that Ma Zengchen participated in the "people’s livelihood and medical material distribution work".

  Wang Jiangyan remembers that a community worker later said that Ma Zengchen had left the community for more than 24 hours at this time. If he went home, he needed to be isolated at home for 14 days.

  A staff member of the Miaoshan Development Zone Management Committee Office confirmed this statement to the reporter: Ma Zengchen had two choices at that time — — Either go home and isolate, or don’t go into the community. The staff member did not explain the basis of this move.

  "Isolation for 14 days, that how line? We still have to earn money to support our families. " Wang Jiangyan said. They have calculated that the elderly, children, store rent, car loans, mortgages, even if they don’t eat or drink, the monthly expenses will be more than 10,000 yuan.

  From February 18th, Ma Zengchen took the car as his home.

  The company requires the food delivery man to arrive at the warehouse at 3 am every day, and he will arrive one and a half hours in advance — — It’s too late to pick up the goods until other colleagues run out of scanning guns. At about 6 o’clock in the morning, he began to deliver vegetables to downtown Wuhan.

  Ma Zengchen said that novices usually send "one line" a day. He started this job in July 2019 and will send two or three lines every day. Sometimes, in order to earn more money, I will apply for an extra line. There are about 20 customers on each line, which takes half a day.

  For him, the ideal situation is that all customers can be in a community, but this is "too difficult to meet." There are four or five households in a community, which will save a lot of time. He is "very grateful".

  He came home later and later. The dinner prepared by Wang Jiangyan is Ma Zengchen’s only dinner in a day. A big bowl can’t be stuffed in the gap of the iron fence in the community, so it can only be handed from the bottom, and he eats it in the cold wind. Occasionally, he will soak a bucket of instant noodles in the company. On the way, he couldn’t find hot water to eat instant noodles.

  He is seriously short of sleep. On the evening of February 29th, when the reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network met Ma Zengchen, he had just finished 20.5 hours’ work. When the reporter talked to Wang Jiangyan, he put the driver’s seat down and lay on the back of the chair, and soon there was a snoring.

  He takes the time to catch up on sleep, sleeping in the car with clothes and a blanket every day.

  There is only one blanket. "I am very embarrassed to say it. There is only a thin quilt at home." Wang Jiangyan said that she used to go back to her hometown in winter, and she didn’t prepare thick quilts in Wuhan. Now she wants to buy them and there is nowhere to buy them.

  The latest lowest temperature at night in Wuhan is 5℃. Ma Zengchen sometimes wakes up with cold. He will start the car, have a meeting with the air conditioner for heating, and then turn it off. "It will be dangerous to turn on the air conditioner for a long time."

  Fortunately, he has been doing manual work and has a strong body. He has never caught a cold.

  Every three or four days, when there are few people in the company after work at night, Ma Zengchen will pick up some hot water in the bathroom with a face to scrub his body. He tries to go to the toilet in the company, and sometimes he is really in a hurry at night, so he goes to the nearby Woods to solve it — — A helpless move in an extraordinary period.

  Ma Zengchen said that this bitterness is nothing, and the most troublesome thing is to video chat with parents.

  Parents miss them very much and video chat with them almost every morning before 9: 00, telling them not to go out.

  In order to avoid letting parents find themselves out delivering vegetables, Ma Zengchen sometimes finds a corner and sometimes talks to the old man in the toilet. Once, when his father saw that he was in the car, he had to explain that "the car didn’t move for a long time and came out for a walk."

  Ma Zengchen came to Wuhan when he was 17 years old. Before he became a vegetable delivery man, he made a living by distributing fruits on a tricycle. He had a fruit business with his friends and lost money. In 2018, he gritted his teeth and bought this Jinbei van.

  The car payment is more than 63,000 yuan. Wang Jiangyan overdrawn more than ten credit cards and paid a down payment for the "flower garden" line, and she has to pay back a car loan of 1,430 yuan every month.

  Ma Zengchen especially cherishes this car. Usually, as long as nothing happens, he will wash the car body with a hose. "What can I say about a car? If you cherish it, it will work hard for you."

  Now, this car has become his temporary shelter.

  Sun Yong, secretary of Miaoshan New Village Branch, told reporters that Ma Zengchen had stayed outside for such a long time, and he didn’t know the specific reasons and had never encountered a similar situation. He also said that there is no rule that residents should be isolated at home for 14 days after leaving the community for 24 hours. He thought that Ma Zengchen was selling vegetables outside every day.

  On the evening of March 2, a staff member of the village Committee proposed two solutions: if Ma Zengchen needs to return to his place of residence, he needs a physical examination, excludes COVID-19, and then stays at home for 14 days; If the isolation for 14 days affects his work, the village will send him two quilts.

  Ma Zengchen said that it is normal to enter the warehouse through two doors and take temperature twice every day, and there is a registration record. "How can I send food to the public if it is abnormal?"

  After the whole city of Wuhan pressed the pause button, Ma Zengchen met most volunteers, courier brothers, take-away riders and vegetable delivery people like him.

  He felt that during the special period, the business volume increased sharply, and there were fewer demanding customers. Occasionally, there are cases of inconsistent orders and omissions in sorting, and no one has ever embarrassed him. Almost all customers have shown extraordinary generosity, "at this time, everyone can understand."

  Because of the "non-contact" delivery of vegetables, Ma Zengchen will hear many "thank you" on the phone after sending the vegetables to the designated place. He has been working in Wuhan for 21 years, and he has never felt so "needed and respected" like this month, which makes him "very energetic" in his work.

  Only at night, lying in the car outside the iron fence, will he feel like a stranger.