Ma Yun relies on money in the AI ​​field to open the way _ Tencent Baidu can live?

There is one thing, the battalion commander can't understand.

Alibaba, a 1.5 billion investor who broke out a few days ago, did not know what to think about Face++?

The battalion commander can't help but wonder if the Alipay brushing business that was originally won by Face++ will change its flag. Ali is a big man, CV track, two leaders are included in the majesty, is there any investment logic behind Ali?

Another thing, Ali actually invested in five chip companies, Hangzhou Zhongtianwei, Barefoot Networks, Cambrian, Nenergy, Shenjian, is this the rhythm of the Chinese core?

In recent days, there has been another news, Baidu announced that it will invest more than 10 AI startups in 2018.

Since BAT is all around the investment AI, the battalion commander sorts out the relevant content today and hopes to help you.

Throughout BAT's “big hand” in the capital field, whether it is Ali Investment Technology Technology RMB 1.5 billion, it has become the single highest financing amount in the AI ​​field so far; or Baidu’s arrogance has proposed to invest in more than 10 AI startup companies in 2018. I am eager to "the fire of the stars can poke the original"; or Tencent will come to the fore, and increase the weight of the three-investment intelligent robot enterprise... Why?

Of course, in addition to the most common reasons: by investing in startups to make up the short board and supporting the entire strategic layout, there is another reason – AI companies need them.

Many start-ups in the AI ​​field have become the most urgent thing after many rounds of high-funded financing. Compared with the capital injection at the financial level, these companies are more eager for the injection of various resources from the giants to promote the commercialization process. .

As in the previous "Tsinghua Theory", Shang Tang Technology Tang Xiaoou complained that the startup company "started to stand in the team" very early, and Tencent's head Ma Huateng said in response, "We are also very helpless." That being said, half-pushing half of it also reveals that your startup and BAT are in harmony with each other.

Let's take a look at what AI startups BAT loves over the years. Look at Baidu first.

Recently, Baidu has greatly adjusted the current commercial interface charging mode for face recognition, and analyzed the new charging mode (changed to the QPS monthly charging mode, giving free allocation of 2QPS and 5QPS to each interface of developers and certified companies every day, exceeding Will enter the monthly fee mode) is equivalent to free for SMEs.

Represented by face recognition technology, Baidu is promoting AI blessing. It is reported that it plans to invest in more than 10 AI startup companies in 2018. In the future, it hopes to create the most complete AI technology through a series of ecological empowerment methods such as “燎原计划”. Ecology.

In fact, as early as September 2016, Baidu had set up an organization specializing in investment in AI projects, named Baidu Venture Capital (BV). Li Yanhong personally served as chairman and participated in the evaluation and judgment of important projects. Baidu venture capital can be established. It is seen as a continuation of a comprehensive turn to the artificial intelligence strategy.

According to incomplete statistics, Baidu Ventures has invested in more than 30 projects so far, including virtual modeling technology company 8i, FPGA acceleration technology company Falcon, drone flight control and map platform Airmap, smart retail store solution provider YI Tunnel And many companies including smart education company work boxes.

In recent years, Baidu’s investment in artificial intelligence has increased year by year, and R&D costs account for about 15% of total revenue. On some key technologies, Baidu Capital has also begun to exert its strength. M&A mergers and acquisitions, holdings of shares, preliminary statistics Baidu has acquired companies such as Kitt.ai (Intelligent Voice), Raven Technology (Intelligent Operating System), Zest Finance (Finance Technology), and xPercepTIon (Image Processing) to enrich the overall technical strength.

In February of this year, Baidu wholly acquired Raven Technology, and its CEO Lu Wei became the “leader” of Baidu's intelligent hardware business unit. So far, Baidu's specialized intelligent hardware department achieved a breakthrough from “0 to 1”.

After the acquisition of Raven Technology, Baidu COO Lu Qi said that the addition of Raven Technology is one of Baidu's important contributions to the future development of AI, in order to give full play to the advantages of Baidu's intelligent interactive platform and to build the core competitiveness of software and hardware integration. There's important meaning. Just nine months after the Ravens joined Baidu, at Baidu World Congress 2017, Baidu’s first hardware product, “A Smart and Beautiful Smart Speaker”, has been added to the ranks of domestic smart speakers.

We are thinking more. Baidu actually lacks a "real" product for many years. Aside from the specific evaluation data, Raven H's appearance has indeed achieved certain results, so that Baidu is not only in the wave of AI competition. Propaganda technology, there are products to fight.

In addition, the acquisition of Raven Technology has indeed realized the integration of Baidu's internal departmental resources, timely catering to the original intention of intelligent interaction technology, and preparing for the development strategy of the future hardware and software of the AI ​​field "both hands and hard work".

Also this year, a news about Baidu's investment, "Zhongke Huiyan received nearly 100 million Pre-B round of financing, Baidu Apollo fund led investment" is also in the industry "a stone provokes a thousand waves."

It is understood that Zhongke Huiyan is mainly engaged in the research and development and manufacturing of automatic driving systems and related products. There are outstanding achievements in technical patents and software copyrights such as stereo vision measurement, adaptive calibration, binocular visual calibration, low-light video enhancement, software real-time anti-shake.

That's right, this is a company that develops autonomous driving technology!

For this round of financing, Zhongke Huiyan founder and CEO Jiang An said that the financing will be the production and production of the first generation and second generation ADAS products of Zhongke Huiyan, the custom development of the pre-installation project and the development of the autopilot visual perception system, the development of three generations of ASIC chips, etc. Funding and strategic resources are supported.

Baidu’s investment objective is obviously easier to understand. From July, Li Yanhong took the unmanned car to participate in the developer conference and received a ticket to the Baidu World Congress in November at the "end of July 2018, the first to launch an unmanned mass production car" rhetoric, Baidu has always intended to drive the unmanned in the end".

Coupled with Baidu's smart car open platform - Apollo (Apollo) has more than 6,000 developers in use, more than 100 partners apply for access to Apollo's open data. Apollo has become an active open system, so Baidu's investment in the driverless sector will only become bigger and bigger. After all, this is one of the "two wings" of Baidu's AI strategy.

Speaking of Baidu's AI strategy, in addition to driverless, it is intelligent voice interaction. Therefore, it is not difficult for us to understand Baidu as one of the capitalists to invest in the original intention of the company.

As a technology innovation company focusing on acoustic frontier technology and artificial intelligence interaction, Asus Technology is excellent in both far-field voice interactive technology solutions from hardware and software to cloud services, and Turnkey products from chip modules and PCBA to industrial design. Soft and hard fusion technologies such as acoustic communication, microphone array, far-field voice wake-up and recognition, end-to-end deep learning, etc. occupy a relatively important position in the intelligent voice interaction industry chain. It is said that Baidu and Shengzhi Technology will also develop relevant kits for the voice interactive platform, which shows the effect of this investment technology blessing.

After the battalion manager's combing, in general, Baidu's investment in the AI ​​field is triggered by “frontier technology”, which will focus on the future and build the ecosystem as the main goal, and at the same time combine its own business development and two core technologies. Continue to extend the investment landscape.

After talking about Baidu’s “careful thinking” about AI investment, let’s take a look at Ali’s father, who has been performing in the capital market.

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