“The ‘All-Powerful AI National Team,’ why is it China Mobile?”
When it comes to China Mobile, what do most people think of first?
If nothing unexpected happens, China Mobile, which runs through the lives of most Chinese people, is most well-known for being a telecommunications operator.
However, the truth is, this is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the true nature of China Mobile.
China Mobile has already become a technology company deeply involved in the field of technology, playing an increasingly important role in areas such as AI, 5G, 6G, computing power networks, and so on.
The 2024 China Mobile Global Partner Conference just concluded yesterday at Poly World Trade Center in Guangzhou, allowing many people to have a very intuitive understanding of another aspect of China Mobile.
This annual event, themed "Wisdom Illuminates a New Era, Creating Together in the AI+ Era," showcases China Mobile's AI capabilities, which have become a focal point integrated into the latest solutions and products across various industries. These AI capabilities are now present in various scenarios of daily work and life.
And these directly subvert people's traditional understanding of China Mobile.
In the era of artificial intelligence, China Mobile is not just a technology company; more precisely, it is also becoming an "all-around AI national team" that meets new demands in various aspects such as industry, market, and users.
Today, data has become a new factor of production, computing power has become a new basic energy source, and artificial intelligence has become a new production tool.
Against this background of the era, China Mobile positioning itself as a "world-class information service technology innovation company" has grand ambitions: it aims to be both a builder of infrastructure, a supplier of products, and an enabler of the industry.
Using this conference as an example, China Mobile and its numerous partners showcased their latest solutions in AI large-scale models, computing power network, 5G-A, 6G, integrated air-space-ground systems, quantum computing, low-altitude economy, and other areas, presenting a comprehensive display of the latest application outcomes in various fields such as AI combined with modern industry, agriculture, government affairs, and daily life.
The key point is that this is not like the past simple empowerment, but a shift from "+AI" to "AI+".
The conference focused on showcasing various classic scenarios of life, entertainment, and work enhanced by "AI+".
In terms of personal application experience, when encountering issues such as insufficient memory or performance, users can utilize China Mobile's "Cloud Computer" to enable ordinary devices to smoothly play "Black Myth: Wukong"; if you want to better understand the game results, player information, and data, MiGu Video's "AI Watching" makes it easy.
In the field of home services, China Mobile's fourth largest customer brand, "Mobile Love Home," has upgraded traditional passive wake-up calls to proactive services to meet the multifunctional needs of digitization, including video, fitness, games, health care, education, safety, and more. For example, a camera based on the Mobile Home Cloud platform and core technologies like AGIoT can provide services such as home monitoring, childcare, elderly care, pet care, and other scenario applications. If any new dynamics or abnormalities are detected in the home, automatic notifications will be sent to the mobile phone, providing a sense of security.
In terms of enterprise collaboration and industry innovation, China Mobile's "AI+" power is equally strong.
In response to the new productive forces of low-altitude economy, China Mobile has created N scalable application solutions to facilitate the networking, digitalization, and intelligent development of the low-altitude industry. At the conference, they directly showcased ten typical low-altitude networking applications, including low-altitude logistics, medical emergency rescue, low-altitude travel, and low-altitude agricultural technology. For example, their unmanned cargo drones rely on the 5G-A low-altitude logistics route sense network, the Hubble series of unmanned drone communication terminals, Beidou high-precision positioning, etc., to accurately, safely, and automatically complete delivery tasks with multiple frequencies.
These seemingly distant technologies and products are mostly within reach, and some are even being widely used. For example, as mentioned earlier, the "Mobile Love Home" app has a monthly active user base of 41 million.
Moreover, all of this will continue to develop rapidly. Compared to the optimization empowerment of individual links by "AI+", "AI+" is reconstructing existing business models to create entirely new forms of business, making the momentum incomparable.
As China Mobile Chairman Yang Jie said at the main forum of the conference, "As an important engine for the development of new productive forces, 'AI+' will further drive the close interaction between technological innovation and industrial innovation, continuously giving rise to new industries, new formats, and new models."
At the convention, the crowds were packed, with some booths forming long lines. People took turns experiencing eVTOL flying vehicles, VR immersive views of the magnificent Tang Dynasty capital of Chang'an, and more, effectively experiencing new products and features firsthand.
Innovative and cool things always come with eye-catching effects.
但新奇、酷炫只是表象的结果，更值得探索的是“AI+”更内核的实用价值：“AI+”，是在为人们的数智化未来铺路。
Translation: However, novelty and coolness are just superficial results. What is more worth exploring is the core practical value of "AI+": "AI+" is paving the way for the intellectualized future of people.
Yang Jie clearly stated at the main forum of the conference that the economy and society have shifted from "Internet+" and "5G+" to "AI+", entering a new era of "AI+". China Mobile will go all-in on "AI+", vigorously implement the "AI+" action plan, focus on promoting upgrades to "AI+" facilities, applications of "AI+" in various scenarios, technological innovations in "AI+", and building ecosystem through "AI+".
Regarding why "AI+" is worth going "All in," and how it can pave the way for the future of intelligence transformation, it mainly lies in two aspects.
On one hand, bring about a revolution in new experiences.
Regarding "Moving Love Home," this time it released a new brand logo, new entrance, new products, new services, and a new ecosystem, a "Five New" brand upgrade plan to achieve a comprehensive brand renewal, and awarded Guo Jingjing the honorary title of "Moving Love Home Ambassador." In the collaborative partnership, China Mobile chose Guo Jingjing, and from another perspective, it can also be said that Guo Jingjing chose China Mobile.
"The upgrade of 'Five New' brings about a brand-new experience revolution, allowing people to glimpse into the future of AI home living patterns."
Using "New Entrance" as an example, with the help of the "Mobile Home" app, users can achieve full-terminal management, full-network management, full-business management, and full-member management. At the same time, combined with China Mobile's "Lingxi" smart body, it is equivalent to having a tailor-made exclusive AI intelligent assistant. In areas such as home entertainment, home control, health consultation, and educational interaction, it better meets the preferences and needs of all family members.
This also means that with just a smartphone, users can control cutting-edge home scenarios such as AI home life, AI health management, AI learning space, AI security protection, and more.
For example, at the conference, four types of household service robots were showcased as "new products": quadruped robots, wheeled robots, wheel-arm robots, and biped robots. They can serve as AI cute pets, achieve multimodal interaction, move nimbly and agilely to navigate all terrains, and function as smart home assistants to provide comprehensive conversational models and home control services.
Zhang Dong, Deputy General Manager of China Mobile, also mentioned that China Mobile will work together with partners in the industry chain to jointly build a smart home service ecosystem and service system of "a line + a network + a home," tailored to provide exclusive services for 1 billion individual customers and 270 million household customers, achieving smart, warm, and safe homes.
At home and outside, easily meeting diverse needs, this brand-new experience is likely to become a necessity for everyone in the future.
At the same time, the power of "AI+" lies in its significant advancement of productivity.
At the conference, a booth by China Mobile showcased a digital management platform for smart park created by implementing "AI+". Through a large screen display, people can understand various details of personnel, services, equipment, space, energy consumption, and security in the park. On one hand, they can stay informed about the latest conditions in the park in real time, and on the other hand, there are timely alerts for abnormal situations at different levels to prevent accidents and reduce disruptions to operations.
Standardize, digitize, modularize, and visualize all services, operations, and management affairs of the park. In this way, it is convenient for the park management to improve the level and efficiency of management and services, attract businesses to settle in, and also make it easier for resident companies to operate with peace of mind.
In addition to these, there are also examples of productivity upgrades driven by "AI+" in fields such as government affairs, logistics, warehousing, shopping, and office work presented at the conference.
The fundamental transformation brought by "AI+" determines that China Mobile has great opportunities in the fields of to C, to B, and to G.
It is not difficult to see that nowadays, China Mobile is not just a telecommunications operator, but also a leader in many industries. The title of "omnipotent AI national team" is well-deserved.
The premise of being "all-powerful" lies in the industries, markets, and users collectively choosing China Mobile, giving it the opportunity to prove itself and show its capabilities.
In my opinion, the reason for making such a choice lies mainly in the fact that digital transformation and construction are not a one-day job, so we must choose strong, stable, and dynamic partners who can continue to innovate, allowing us to progress together.
These are the characteristics of China Mobile.
China Mobile has always attached importance to technology, often even being ahead of the curve in its deployment.
Five years ago, China officially launched 5G commercially, and China Mobile initiated the "5G+" plan, which has now yielded abundant results. Data shows that China Mobile has over 2.3 million 5G base stations, over 330 cities with commercial 5G coverage, over 780 million users on 5G plans, and over 40,000 cases of 5G+ industry applications.
Furthermore, as early as 10 years ago, China Mobile started laying out the independent research and development of artificial intelligence technology and products. The artificial intelligence platform developed by the "Jiutian" AI team it established has shaped a comprehensive system composed of basic large models and industry large models, benefiting from China Mobile's unique advantages in data, computing power, and platform.
The latest research and development achievement of the Nine Sky series general large model, the "Nine Sky Intelligent and Multimodal Large Model," was also released at this conference. Its key technical indicators such as speech synthesis technology, multitask language understanding ability, etc., have reached the industry-leading level. At the same time, based on the Nine Sky series general large models, China Mobile has delved into industries such as finance, transportation, energy, manufacturing, etc., independently developing more than 30 industry large models across multiple domains.
In the crucial aspect of computing power in the "AI+" era, leveraging China Mobile's comprehensive computing network infrastructure, China Mobile completed the construction of the world's largest single smart computing center in April this year and put it into operation. By the end of 2023, China Mobile had already completed the domestic adaptation of computing power for large models, providing sufficient computing power supply for the research and development of large model applications.
Over the past few years, amidst the unclear commercialization of AI technology, China Mobile still resolutely entered the field and increased its investments, hence piecing together its new identity as the "versatile AI national team" we see today.
Years of technical accumulation and an enduring innovative spirit have led people to choose China Mobile.
The choice behind this is actually based on the emphasis on hardcore technology and more certain development opportunities.
The so-called determinacy lies in the fact that technological innovations can be implemented and replicated, bringing higher quality productivity, which should also be the greatest significance of technological innovation.
As mentioned earlier, in the thriving low-altitude economy, China Mobile and its partners have jointly created scalable solutions for multiple applications. In the home service market, data shows that the ecosystem partners of "Mobile Love Home" are as many as 600+, with over 550 million IoT connections in households. In terms of personal daily experiences, China Mobile's "Cloud Computer," "AI Viewing," "AI+ Office," and other services are also making efforts.
From the overall industry and market to individual users, China Mobile's AI capabilities are continuously being implemented and promoted, becoming a common choice for all parties.
From this point of view, it can be said that China Mobile is indeed worthy of being called the "all-around AI national team" at present.
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