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On November 19, 2019, the MI Developer Conference was held in Beijing, which was the second developer conference held by Xiaomi after the MIDC developer conference last year. This conference is just the beginning of 5G commercial launch, so it has a different meaning.
Lei Jun: 5G+AI+IoT=next generation super Internet
Lei Jun, the founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, made a speech at the beginning of the conference.
Lei Jun said that this year is the first year of 5G commercial use, and the connection between 5G and AI+loT will lead to the next generation of super Internet. Since the year before last, the mobile phone market began to shrink. Last year and this year, the decline has accelerated. However, the 5G switch tide will greatly boost the mobile phone market. As a result, Lei Jun believes that next year will be the first year for the 5G market to take off, and Xiaomi will release at least 10 5G mobile phones next year.
Speaking of AIoT, Lei Jun released a report card: at present, more than 2200 products have been connected to Xiaomi's IoT platform, with 196 million devices (as of the second quarter of 2019), up 69.5% year on year. Among them, 3 million users have more than 5 Xiaomi IoT users, with a year-on-year growth of 78.7%. Lei Jun said that this is a very important indicator.
Lei Jun said that Xiaomi has also become the world's leading consumer level IoT platform.
Lei Jun also stressed that the competition of the next generation IoT is not the competition of quantity, but the liberation of people; The super Internet will also become a part of people's life; Xiaomi will also work with partners to promote the progress of AIoT industry.
The first centralized appearance of Xiaomi's core technology
Then, Cui Baoqiu, Vice President of Xiaomi Group and Chairman of the Technical Committee, gave a speech entitled "Jointly Explore the Future of Technology". His speech today was divided into three parts. He first talked about the technological progress in the past period, which was the first centralized appearance of Xiaomi's core technology.
He first talked about MIX Alpha. Cui Baoqiu said that there are three technologies behind MIX Alpha:
Screen fit technology. Cui Baoqiu said that this is a breakthrough from 0 to 1, including materials, manufacturing technology and other aspects;
Antenna technology. He said that it combined Xiaomi's technology accumulation in 5G and spatial layout, and really achieved "exploration is impossible";
Breakthroughs in multi screen display and intelligent control, including multi screen interaction, intelligent screen recognition and intelligent anti false touch.
Secondly, Cui Baoqiu talked about Xiaomi CC9 Pro with a 100 million pixel sensor, which won the first place in the DXO score. Cui Baoqiu said that for such a hardware, it is not enough to only have ultra-high pixels, but also needs to be improved in many other aspects. Xiaomi has also made many levels of algorithm optimization in multi frame and background virtualization, so that it can achieve such results.
Then we talked about the accelerated landing of Auto ML. Cui Baoqiu said that the Xiaomi Auto ML model has outperformed its peers in terms of ImageNet dataset performance. At present, Auto ML has landed on the Xiaomi camera, which has also helped Xiaomi win the first place in DXO.
MACE 0.12.0、PEGASUS 1.12、 Xiaoai Classmate 3.0 Release
Then Cui Baoqiu talked about the Xiaomi mobile terminal deep learning framework MACE. It was opened in June 2018, and has been widely praised since then; At present, it has been called more than 50 million times.
On site, Cui Baoqiu released the upgraded MACE 0.12.0, which can support more heterogeneous computing operators, degrade cross device performance loss, add Kaldi voice recognition operator support, and add CMake support.
Cui Baoqiu said that MACE will release more functions in the future. Among them, MACE Kit is about to open source, and will support more microcontrollers in the future to fully support the ultra-low power reasoning scenarios of mobile phones and IoT devices.
Speaking of NLP technology, Cui Baoqiu officially released MiNLP 1.2 after announcing that the number of MiNLP platform calls of Xiaomi exceeded 6 billion every day. MiNLP 1.2 obviously has many function points, the most important of which is to expand from lexical analysis to syntactic and semantic analysis.
At the same time, Cui Baoqiu also announced that Pegasus version 1.12 was online, which is now available for download in GitHub.
At the scene, Cui Baoqiu announced that Xiaoai Classmate 3.0 was officially launched, and users could upgrade it with their mouths open. Xiaoai Classmate 3.0 is the first voice assistant to realize natural continuous dialogue on smart phones. At the same time, it will have a more natural and sweet female voice, and a new male version.
Three qualitative changes from IoT to AIoT
Cui Baoqiu said that at present, scientific and technological development is at the intersection of three times.
In 2016, with AlphaGo defeating Li Shishi as the symbol, human beings entered the era of artificial intelligence; With the arrival of the spring of AI era, AI will last for a long time on the premise of correct and rational expectations. At the same time, since 2016, Xiaomi has judged the arrival of the IoT era, which has developed to today. In addition, 2019 is the first year of 5G commercialization - he believes that in this unique intersection period, Xiaomi has unique advantages, and China has unique advantages.
Therefore, Cui Baoqiu said that from IoT to AIoT, there will be a huge qualitative change, which is divided into three levels:
GUI to VUI. V refers to Voice+visual, that is, from graphical interface to voice interface and image interface.
Individual to whole. Let different devices be connected to form an organic linkage relationship and intelligent collaboration of multiple devices.
From interconnection to human centered intelligent service. People centered, not mobile phone centered.
He stressed that what Xiaomi wants to build is an omnipresent and omnipotent intelligent system.
Cui Baoqiu also believes that in the process of building, Xiaomi will inevitably face some challenges, that is, to break through the technical critical point. He said that the mission of Xiaomi Technical Committee is to build core technology around its core mission. From a technical perspective, Xiaomi will adopt the following three strategies:
Deeply cultivate and empower: we should take the lead in technology and cover all business departments.
Open source sharing: embracing open source is Xiaomi's engineering culture, and this concept is also rooted in Xiaomi's technicians; Xiaomi not only stands on the shoulder of the giant, but also points out the direction for the giant. In 2018, Xiaomi's contribution to HBase accounted for 23%, and this year, it has accounted for 33%. With the blessing of open source, Xiaomi has also successfully attracted Daniel Povey. At the same time, Cui Baoqiu said that Xiaomi will ensure that Kaldi is 100% open source.
Open and win-win: Not long ago, the Ministry of Science and Technology awarded Xiaomi "a new generation of open innovation platform for artificial intelligence in smart home countries", precisely because of Xiaomi's core concept of open source and openness.
At last, Cui Baoqiu ended his speech with one sentence: technology to build a business and create a new era of intelligence.
Xiaomi Smart Real Estate Solution Release
Fan Dian, Chairman of Xiaomi AIoT Strategy Committee and General Manager of Xiaomi IoT Platform, took the stage to introduce Xiaomi's situation in the IoT field. First of all, in terms of IoT strategy, Xiaomi will adopt the strategy of 1+4+X. Among them, 1 represents mobile phones, 4 refers to laptops, televisions, routers, smart speakers and other devices, and X refers to more devices. He said that from the current data, Xiaomi is the world's largest consumer level IoT platform.
At the scene, Fan Dian also released a piece of data. As of the third quarter of 2019, Xiaomi IoT had served 55.99 million households, more than 10% of which were globally, and more than 100 million smart scenes were executed every day, excluding mobile phones. Of course, he also emphasized again that Xiaomi was awarded the National New Generation AI Open Innovation Platform in the field of smart home.
Fan Dian said that Xiaomi has achieved full coverage of intelligent categories in IoT, which can be said to be "all intelligent products you want are available on the platform", but more importantly, Xiaomi's IoT has taken the lead in dozens of categories, including TV, wearables, purifiers, intelligent door locks, Xiaoai speakers, etc., which is also Xiaomi's advantage.
At the scene, Fan Dian released Xiaomi's smart real estate solutions.
Specifically, the core products of this solution are Xiaoai speakers, televisions and routers, including four major IoT categories of door locks, electrician lighting, temperature control and sensors, which can access more than 2000 kinds of Mijia products, as well as customized packages for customers. Xiaomi will cooperate with Greenland Group and other developers to provide 5000 sets of rooms with Xiaomi solution within the year.
At the same time, Xiaomi also unveiled the IoT enterprise suite. Different from the C-end solution, the enterprise suite has a special B-end account, which can provide centralized control, data statistics, and customized services.
On site, Fan Dian announced the Xiaomi BLE Mesh module, which costs 6 yuan; The price of Zigbee 3.0 module is 10.5 yuan; The price of WiFi+Bluetooth dual-mode module is 9.5 yuan.
Finally, Fan Dian also announced that Xiaomi IoT platform has been connected to the earthquake warning system of Chengdu High tech Disaster Reduction Research Institute, so that Xiaomi IoT users can better prevent earthquakes.
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