The 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference was successfully held in Shanghai. In the Tencent Forum, Tencent Research Institute, Tencent Youtu Lab, Tencent Security Management Department, Tencent Yunqi Industrial Ecological Platform and Tencent East headquarters jointly launched the "Light Youth Club", and officially announced the first group members of the club. Among them, Zhu Li, founder and CEO of Tencent AI accelerator enterprise student Guangjian Technology, and Xu Mingyan, founder and chairman of Hypross, were selected as the first members of the Youth club.
(First member of Light Youth Club)
Zhu Li, Heipross and Xu Mingyan from Guangjian Technology were selected into Tencent "Light Youth Club"
Today, digital technology represented by artificial intelligence and cloud computing has become an important engine to promote social and economic development and an important driving force for the strategy of "sustainable social value innovation". The development of artificial intelligence industry cannot be separated from the continuous creativity provided by scientific and technological talents.
In this conference, Tencent officially launched the "Light Youth Club", aiming to build a platform for innovative thinking and cross-border communication for young Chinese scientists around the world. In the future, it will focus on four major sectors, namely cross-border science salon, popular science open class, joint research and public AI developer competition, to consolidate the foundation and cornerstone for the growth of young talents.
The first batch of Tencent "Light Youth Club" has attracted 10 members from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other domestic and foreign universities, institutions and technology enterprises, covering the fields of computer, mathematics, physics, life science and so on. Among them, Zhu Li, founder and CEO of Guangjian Technology, the third-phase enterprise student of Tencent AI Accelerator, and Xu Mingyan, founder and chairman of Heipross, the fourth-phase enterprise student.
Light Kam Technology is committed to providing full-stack 3D vision solutions. Its founder and CEO, Zhu Li, obtained a PhD from University of California, Berkeley, has many years of scientific research experience in the field of nanophotonics, has published more than 30 scientific research papers, owns 6 patents, and was responsible for the design and mass production of the first generation of depth sensing products in well-known technology companies in Silicon Valley, and was elected in 2018 Forbes China "30 under 30", Fortune China's 40 Under 40 Business Elite 2019.
Zhu Li said: Light Kam technology aims to promote this era of machine vision from two-dimensional to three-dimensional upgrade. As the eyes of AI, Guangjian Technology hopes to enable technology and AI to perceive more complete data and serve the society with better technical experience and better data application.
Hypross is a national high-tech enterprise with the world's leading precision medicine and gene big data technology. Xu Mingyan, the founder and chairman of the board, is A biomedical doctor of the University of New Mexico, a visiting scholar of Harvard Medical School, a national entrepreneurial talent of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and a high-level overseas Peacock A-class talent of Shenzhen. He has more than 10 years of experience in gene sequencing technology and sequencing instrument research and development. He has participated in the research and development of a number of second-generation sequencers, invented a series of internationally leading gene sequencing technology, and has more than 100 invention patents at home and abroad.
Xu Mingyan said: Each person has 3 billion life codes, and its integration with AI can help people understand more about diseases, themselves and their lifestyle changes to health. I hope that in the Light Youth Club, we can explore the unknown of life together, use the power of AI to benefit human beings and provide more solutions for human health.
To help the development of AI industry, Tencent AI accelerator ecological advantages prominent
Tencent launched the Light program in 2019 and officially upgraded it to the Light 2.0 program in 2020. Tencent launched the "Light Youth Club" this year to provide a development platform for more young people who love AI, and facilitate the training of young scientific and technological talents and the cooperation and exchange of scientific research topics.
As one of the initiators of the Light program, Tencent AI Accelerator is an important part of Tencent's industrial ecology. It plays the role of industrial link and ecological synergy, and works with science and technology youth to promote the ecological cooperation of AI industry and promote the implementation of AI application in the industry.
At present, the AI accelerator has held four sessions, bringing together more than 130 top AI entrepreneurs selected from more than 4,000 applicants worldwide, covering many fields such as finance, education, security, industry, robotics, IoT, cloud computing and 5G. In the first three stages of the accelerator, students have conducted in-depth cooperation with Tencent to fully carry out business docking and produce 100+ industry solutions. Since the fourth phase of AI accelerator opened in March 2021, it has provided ecological support for student enterprises from the aspects of curriculum, technology, resources, ecology and brand, and jointly created industry solutions, so that AI can better land in the industry and build the industry ecology.
Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent and president of Cloud and wisdom industry business group, said at the conference that the greatest value of AI is to "serve people". We need to make AI a world-changing tool that every small and medium-sized enterprise and developer can use to bring more cross-border talents to bring AI to more industries and generate greater social value.
In the future, Tencent AI Accelerator will continue to give full play to its own advantages, provide rich technical, scene, academic and other resources, and create a soil for scientific research exchange and cooperation for young people in science and technology; At the same time, give full play to industrial ecological advantages, provide complete ecological support for industry-university-research cooperation, and help young scientific and technological talents fully unleash their abilities in the development of AI industry, inject new momentum into the digital economy, and promote sustainable social value innovation.
