There is no royal road to scientific and technological innovation, but China must and will achieve a breakthrough.
On the fiery AI (artificial intelligence) track, the unicorn's listing race finally came to fruition. On July 20th, Congyun Technology Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Congyun Technology") officially held a meeting on the Science and Technology Innovation Board.
Congyun Technology was established on 20 15. Founder Zhou Xi was born in China Academy of Sciences. The company was hatched by the artificial intelligence research team of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Up to now, it has become an artificial intelligence enterprise that provides efficient man-machine collaborative operating systems and industry solutions, and is committed to boosting the industrialization process of artificial intelligence and the intelligent transformation and upgrading of various industries.
According to the prospectus of Cloud Technology, from 2002 1 to1to June, the company's operating income increased by 105.70% compared with the same period of last year. In the last three years, the total revenue was nearly 26,543.8 billion yuan, and the revenue increased from 484 million yuan in 20 18 to 75 10/00000 yuan in 2020, and the number of customers increased from 324 to 1264.
In addition, two favorable data show that the asset-liability ratio of Congyun Technology is gradually decreasing, from 49.03% in 20 18 to 20.63% in 20 19, and further decreasing to 18. 12% in 2020, while the gross profit margin is from 20/8.
According to the prospectus, the fastest growth of cloud technology revenue is the man-machine collaborative operating system with high gross profit margin, and its revenue proportion has continuously increased from 6.4 1% in 20 18 to 3 1.50% in 2020.
Haitong international's research report pointed out that cloud technology can realize smart finance, smart governance, smart travel, smart business and other application scenarios based on man-machine collaborative operating system. Through close cooperation with key customers in the vertical field, the company constantly optimizes the algorithm of scene data, deepens the understanding of industry intelligence needs, and achieves high customer stickiness.
The State Council's New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan points out that by 2025, the scale of China's artificial intelligence core industry will exceed 400 billion yuan, driving the scale of related industries to exceed 5 trillion yuan. The huge market scale and stable industry growth will undoubtedly provide sufficient development space for the commercialization of cloud technology, and it is expected to continue to promote the stable growth of the company.
From research institute to cloud technology: how to better solve human-computer interaction
Zhou Xi graduated from University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor's degree and graduated from University of Illinois with a master's degree. He has worked in IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Microsoft Raymond Headquarters Research Institute and NEC California Research Institute.
20 1 1 With the support of many research institutions, Zhou Xi founded Chongqing Green Intelligent Technology Research Institute and Intelligent Multimedia Technology Research Center, focusing on theoretical and industrial application research in the fields of machine vision and pattern recognition. This experience laid the foundation for Zhou Xi to establish cloud technology.
On 20 15, Zhou Xi led the team to set up Congyun Technology. At the beginning of its establishment, Zhou Xi began to think about the relationship between human and machine intelligence, and how to better solve the problem of human-computer interaction. The original idea is that humans and machines must establish the same language system, and the mutual changes between humans and machines can become mentors. Finally, there is emotional projection between human and machine, and face recognition technology is the visual entrance of human-computer interaction at present. At the same time, Congyun Technology has also become the drafting and formulation unit of national standards for face recognition remote account opening, and participated in the formulation of national standards and industry standards for artificial intelligence.
As early as 20 18, Zhou Xi pointed out that from an AI platform enterprise to driving the whole industry and then establishing the whole ecology, it takes five steps: academic research, industry verification, commercial landing, industry platform and intelligent ecology. The ecology that the cloud wants to lay out from science and technology is that it can be closed-loop, practical, comprehensive and solve all-round problems.
Since its establishment six years ago, Congyun Technology has gradually established two key business departments. One is the man-machine cooperative operating system, which grasps the core entrance of artificial intelligence ecology through the comprehensive connection of business data, hardware equipment and software applications, and provides customers with information, digital and intelligent artificial intelligence services; The second is artificial intelligence solution, which is based on man-machine collaborative operating system, empowering smart finance, smart governance, smart travel, smart business and other application scenarios, and providing industry solutions with artificial intelligence technology as the core for a wide range of customer groups.
Among them, the smart finance field in artificial intelligence solutions has covered more than 400 financial institutions, including six state-owned banks, and the smart governance field has served various application scenarios such as politics, law, schools and scenic spots in 30 provincial administrative regions across the country. The smart travel field has been deployed in hundreds of civil hub airports including nine of China's top ten airports, and the smart city field has built "digital base" benchmark projects in Guangzhou, Sichuan and Hunan.
According to the prospectus, according to the current on-hand orders and the cautious forecast of future business, Congyun Technology expects the operating income scale in the next five years (202 1 ~2025) to be 1.20 1 billion yuan, 1.9 1 billion yuan and 25% respectively.
According to the report "In-depth Observation on the Development of Artificial Intelligence" released by China ICT Institute, in 2020, the scale of global artificial intelligence industry will be about US$ 654.38+056.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 654.38+02%; Among them, the scale of China's artificial intelligence industry is about 3 10 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 15%. It is estimated that the scale of domestic AI core industry is expected to reach 654.38+0573 billion yuan in 2022, with a compound growth rate of 58%, and the industry is expected to continue to grow rapidly.
Obviously, artificial intelligence has matured from basic support, technology-driven to scene application in recent years. The industry generally believes that the field of artificial intelligence is expected to develop rapidly this year, driven by policy dividends and industrial maturity.
Seize the highland of man-machine collaborative operating system, and have broad business prospects.
Why has man-machine cooperative operating system become the key direction of cloud basic technology? Cloud pointed out from the aspect of science and technology that the so-called man-machine cooperation refers to the process that human beings communicate with machines through vision, hearing, voice and action, and integrate human intelligence and machine intelligence to complete specific tasks. Cloud slave man-machine cooperative operating system, abbreviated as CWOS(Cloudwalk Operating System), is the underlying software system running on general operating system or cloud operating system, which provides man-machine cooperative computing capability, algorithm, data management capability and application interface.
Simply put, in the field of ToC consumption, the operating systems of three foreign-funded enterprises, Microsoft Windows, Apple iOS and Google Android, occupy the global market. The AI field is oriented to ToB business, and the AI industry operating system has higher and stronger professional characteristics and requirements. Therefore, for companies that are deeply involved in the industry operating system track, it has sustained growth vitality and broad business space.
CCID Consultant pointed out that with the in-depth development of artificial intelligence, the artificial intelligence operating system is the foundation of AI ecological brain and capability output, and will occupy the core value of the entrance in the construction of AI ecological system, with considerable commercial value and market space. With the continuous investment of cloud technology in man-machine collaborative operating system, the software capability will be further highlighted, which will help to enhance the competitiveness of products and increase the added value of products, thus further accelerating the pace of commercialization.
In this process, artificial intelligence enterprises with excellent closed-loop technology and industry experience will gain broad development space. In this context, the AI industry will also experience three waves of development trends. The first wave is single-point technology based on face recognition and speech recognition, the second wave is closed-loop and AI engineering based on multi-point technology, and the third wave is based on platform ecology.
In 2020, the first man-machine collaborative operating system independently developed by Cloud Technology appeared in world internet conference. It can be compatible with the traditional operating system and AI operating system, and the hardware and software are decoupled respectively, occupying the technological opportunity of the second wave of development. Facing the future, Congyun Technology will focus on the core artificial intelligence landing strategy of human-computer cooperation and empower the ecological development of the whole industry chain.
According to cloud technology, "sustainable human-computer interaction, reliable human-computer integration, and ultimately predictable human-computer innovation" are the mainstream direction and goal of the development of artificial intelligence industry. The purpose of the development of intelligent technology is to better assist human beings, not to replace them.
Speaking of competition, according to Cloud Technology, since IBIS (Integrated Biometric Platform), the company has been committed to occupying the entrance of the industry, deepening the industry through an extensible and reproducible business model, occupying the entrance of finance, security, travel and commerce, and currently occupying the second and third waves through the operating system. Entrance, and create an open third-party ecosystem through the operating system. Therefore, the man-machine cooperative operating system has broad prospects.
It is worth mentioning that as early as 2065438+March 2009, the relevant national conference pointed out that "building an intelligent economic form with data-driven, man-machine collaboration, cross-border integration and innovative analysis." Man-machine cooperation is becoming an important development direction of artificial intelligence. As the first planner, cloud technology is expected to take the lead in seizing the AI market dividend.