2018 World AI Industry Development Blue Book 2018 World AI Industry Development Blue Book Preface 3 As the driving force of a new round of technology Committed to taking the lead in China’s reform In-depth Report on the and opening-up and innovative developments, Development of the World AI and industrial revolution, artificial intelligence Industry, 2018 (AI) is wielding a profound impact on the world Shanghai has been working closely with economy, social progress and people’s daily life. related national ministries and commissions to Overview and Description Therefore, the 2018 World AI Conference will be jointly organize the 2018 World AI Conference. held in Shanghai from September 17 to 19 this year, Hosting this event becomes a priority in the Industrial Development jointly by the National Development and Reform process of Shanghai constructing the “five Environment Commission (NDRC), the Ministry of Science and centers” - international and economic center, Technology (MST), the Ministry of Industry and finance center, trade center, shipping center Technical Environment Information Technology (MIIT), the Cyberspace and technical innovation center, and building Administration of China (CAC), the Chinese the “four brands” of Shanghai - services, World AI Enterprises Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Chinese Academy manufacturing, shopping and culture. Also, of Engineering (CAE) and the Shanghai Municipal it is the practical measure to foster the reform World Investment and People’s Government, with the approval of the State and opening-up and optimize the business Financing Council, in order to accelerate the development environment in Shanghai. This meeting of a new generation of AI, complying with the provides the opportunity for Shanghai to Industrial Development development rules and grasping the future trends. accelerate industrial innovation and the It is organized as a mobilization conference to extensive application of AI and take efforts 40 make people join in planning for AI technologies to build national “AI highland”, looking to Hype Cycle for Artificial and industrial developments. It also works as become the innovation source of AI, the Intelligence, 2018 an important measure to promote the deep application demonstration zone, and the integration of the Internet, big data and AI with the industrial and talents clusters. real economy. As an important achievement of the conference, Themed “A NEW ERA EMPOWERED BY ARTIFICIAL this Blue Book is released by China Academy of INTELLIGENCE”, this conference is featuring Information and Communications Technology “Globalization, Sophistication, Specialization and (CAICT) and featuring research from Gartner, Marketization”. It boasts of being the world’s top the world’s leading information technology AI platform for cooperation and communication, research and advisory company. With the where get together the most influential scientists, opportunity of this conference, the Blue Book entrepreneurs and investors from the AI industry all is expected to open a window for Chinese AI around the world, as well as related government enterprises to communicate with global AI leaders and city administrators who will deliver giants. And it makes a comprehensive and in- speeches and engage in various high-level depth analysis of the developments of global dialogues surrounding the leading-edge AI industry and the trends of technologies technologies, industrial trends and hot issues in routes. Hopefully, the practitioners and the current AI field. This meeting is expected to researchers who are working on AI and other share authoritative opinions and consensus, and readers who are interested in AI could get exhibit new technologies, products, applications many inspirations from this report and use it and ideas, in an effort to bring out the “Chinese as a reference to learn about AI. Solutions” and the “Global Wisdom” in order to The Organizing Committee of WAIC address the common challenges facing human beings and build a better life for people. 2018 World AI Industry Development Blue Book is published by CAICT. Editorial supplied by CAICT is independent of Gartner analysis. All Gartner research is © 2018 by Gartner, Inc. All rights reserved. All Gartner materials are used with Gartner’s permission. The use or publication of Gartner research does not indicate Gartner’s endorsement of CAICT’s products and/or strategies. Reproduction or distribution of this publication in any form without prior written permission is forbidden. The information contained herein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. Gartner disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such information. Gartner shall have no liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in the information contained herein or for interpretations thereof. The opinions expressed herein are subject to change without notice. Although Gartner research may include a discussion of related legal issues, Gartner does not provide legal advice or services and its research should not be construed or used as such. Gartner is a public company, and its shareholders may include firms and funds that have financial interests in entities covered in Gartner research. Gartner’s Board of Directors may include senior managers of these firms or funds. Gartner research is produced independently by its research organization without input or influence from these firms, funds or their managers. For further information on the independence and integrity of Gartner research, see “Guiding Principles on Independence and Objectivity” on its website. 2 3 Research from CAICT In-depth Report on the Development of the World AI Industry, 2018 1 Overview and Description and technologies, the developments of the products (visual products, voice terminals, 1.1 Report Overview global AI enterprises, as well as the industrial robots, intelligent cars, drones). applications in AI fields, which helps to reflect This Blue Book will share the research results the situations of the current developments in 2) The Map of Industrial Distribution and practical experiences in the field of AI industry more clearly. This section has mapped out the distribution, AI, comprehensively analyzing the current scale and name of the main enterprises in the trend of the industrial developments and 1.2 Report Description country where the AI industry is leading the technologies in the world’s AI industrial world, as well as in various Chinese provinces powers, and elaborating on the technological The world AI industry map includes the and cities. research, industrial inputs, application following sections: (1) the map of industrial services in the AI field, in order to provide chain (2) the map of industry distribution 3) Industrial Research Institutions and Policy basic information and guidance for the (3) the industry research institution and This section has mapped out the developments of AI technology and industry. supporting policy. mainstream AI industrial research This Blue Book has been compiled by institutions and alliances in China and a group of editors together, by sorting 1) The Map of Industrial Chain across the world, and the industrial policy out the AI technologies and the artificial The section of AI industrial chain falls into documents. intelligence developments in industry and three layers: basic supporting layer, software application, and analyzing the technology algorithm layer and industry application layer. The structure of this report is divided fads, enterprise conditions, industrial into five parts: 1) industrial development applications and future trend of artificial The map of basic layer depicts the typical environment 2) technical environment 3) intelligence, based on thorough and enterprises engaged in the basic industry in The situations of world AI enterprise 4) extensive investigation in the developments the world. It is drawn in three dimensions: The situations of world investment and of the world AI industries, in accordance with computing hardware (cloud training, cloud financial 5) The situations of industrial the research data and relevant materials inference, device inference, intelligent chips, developments provided by authoritative departments. intelligent sensors) computing system technology (cloud computing, big data, 5G 1) Industrial Development Environment This report mainly discusses on the world communication and Internet of Things) and This part has comprehensively elaborated AI industry map, which is jointly formulated data (data acquisition, labeling and analysis). on the foundation and environment of the by the Research Institute of Information and AI industrial developments , discussing Industrialization and the Data Research The map of software algorithm layer the development progress of the artificial Center of CAICT. This map has systematically describes the typical players working on intelligence, the AI related policies in various analyzed and drawn the world AI industry the software algorithm industry across countries all around the word, and the from the underlying technology to the vertical the world mainly on the level of algorithm conditions of AI developments. application, from the industrial structure to theory (machine learning algorithm, brain- the industrial distribution, from the research like algorithm, and knowledge graph), 2) Technical Environment institutions to the government policy, development platform (basic open source This part has derived the current technical reviewing the trend