Accelerating the development of new productive forces, CITIC Group's multi-domain AI achievements will be showcased at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference

CITIC Group Exhibition Area

On July 4, 2024, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence opened in Shanghai. CITIC Group, with the theme "Smart CITIC, Co-creating New Possibilities," appeared at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Hall with 21 of its subsidiaries, showcasing the cutting-edge practices and latest achievements of artificial intelligence and industrial development in the "Empowering Applications" themed area.

The CITIC Group exhibition area showcased its latest AI applications in areas such as comprehensive finance, global manufacturing, low-altitude economy, and agricultural breeding. The interactive bond large model, the first "Lighthouse Factory" sand table in the global special steel industry, electric unmanned passenger aerial vehicles, complex appearance defect detection robots, intelligent safety helmets, biological breeding liquid phase chips, humanoid and quadruped robots, domestic GPU chips, intelligent ultrasound machines, and other rich physical exhibits attracted a large number of visitors.

AI+ Comprehensive Finance Exhibition Area

In the field of AI+ comprehensive finance, CITIC Group actively implements the "Five Major Initiatives in Finance" to fully serve the real economy.

In terms of technology finance, CITIC Group leverages its advantages in comprehensive finance to build a technology finance service system with equity investment as the main focus and linkage of "equity, loan, bond, and insurance," providing comprehensive financial service solutions for high-quality development of scientific and technological innovation enterprises throughout the entire licensing, cycle, and scenario. The scale of equity investment management exceeds 300 billion yuan, the coverage rate of national "specialized, refined, new" enterprise services exceeds 70%, and the number of IPOs and financing scale of "specialized, refined, new" enterprises ranks first in the market, serving a large number of leading AI companies such as Yushu Technology, Xiangdixian, and Yizhun Intelligence.

Yushu Technology Quadruped Robot at the Comprehensive Finance Exhibition Area

In terms of digital finance, the construction of large financial models has reached an industry-leading level. CITIC Bank's independently developed Cangjie large model application platform achieves intensive management of heterogeneous GPU computing resources and unified deployment services for large-scale models in the hundreds of billions. Currently, based on this platform, various high-value applications such as customer service knowledge Q&A and audit report generation have been implemented. CITIC Securities' independently developed industry-first large model bond intelligent assistant, Bond Copilot, provides functions such as business opportunity mining, risk management, smart office, and project operation. In the process of business application, its comprehensive Q&A accuracy rate exceeds 95%, business opportunity lead adoption rate exceeds 60%, promoting a more than 30% increase in overall operational efficiency for business personnel The first "Lighthouse Factory" in the aluminum wheel industry, exhibited by CITIC Dicastal.

The first "Lighthouse Factory" in the special steel industry, sand table model.

In the field of AI+ global manufacturing, CITIC Group has successively created the world's first "Lighthouse Factory" in the aluminum wheel and special steel industries, accelerating the advancement of new industrialization. CITIC Dicastal has established a component "design-manufacturing-quality" technical system driven by "AI+ data + model" integration, combined with its independently developed digital lean smart manufacturing collaborative center, reducing product defect rate by 21%, shortening delivery time by 38%, improving energy efficiency by 39%, and widely promoting multiple AI applications in 29 manufacturing bases worldwide. The digital operation map created by CITIC Taifu Special Steel digitizes the entire production process, covering 26 sub-plants and over 100 key processes, enabling real-time data monitoring of production line status, changing the previous scheduling mode relying on video and phone commands, and improving overall coordination efficiency by 90%. The intelligent safety helmet exhibited by Nansteel Group can trigger alarms for workers crossing boundaries or falling, directly make video calls to experts for remote assistance when encountering difficulties, record equipment information through voice, and generate inspection reports. CITIC Holdings has developed the industry's first complex appearance defect detection robot, using deep integration technology of machine vision and automation equipment to efficiently and accurately detect external defects of complex metal castings for the first time in an "industrial-grade" manner.

AI+ agricultural breeding exhibition area.

In the field of AI+ agricultural breeding, Huazhi Biology under CITIC Agriculture has independently developed a liquid-phase breeding chip, with testing costs and data quality leading the industry, offering higher cost performance compared to the foreign monopoly of solid-phase chips. It has collaborated with top domestic research institutes and enterprises to develop over 100 chips covering more than 50 species, suitable for different breeding scenarios, widely applicable in germplasm resources and variety identification evaluation, important trait gene discovery and identification, molecular design breeding, etc. The company has also designed and developed the world's first intelligent blood analyzer for poultry disease resistance breeding based on AI detection algorithms, which can accurately detect and identify poultry blood cells with just "a drop of blood" from poultry, with identification efficiency more than 10 times higher than the human eye, empowering early precise selection of poultry disease resistance traits.

CITIC's leading large-scale model "Kua Fu" in the publishing industry In the field of AI+ cultural publishing, CITIC Publishing has independently developed the leading large-scale model "Kua Fu", and has expanded multiple featured applications based on this platform. It can empower topic evaluation, text translation, material production, marketing promotion, and other publishing processes. It has now built 122 AI assistant applications for 17 types of book publishing scenarios, covering text creation, editing, proofreading, marketing graphics generation, and other application scenarios, increasing illustration production efficiency by 7-8 times and video production efficiency by 2-3 times.

AI+ Low-altitude Economy Exhibition Area

CITIC Heavy Industries Smart Mine Exhibition

In addition, CITIC Group has made remarkable achievements in areas such as AI+ low-altitude economy, AI+ mining equipment, AI+ computing power network, and AI+ urban operations. CITIC Hai directly collaborates with ecological partners to promote low-altitude airspace route surveillance, comprehensive airport information construction, and explore the "helicopter + eVTOL" intermodal service model; participate in the construction of the Qianhai-Shekou low-altitude economic pilot zone, helping to create a "sky, land, sea" full-coverage low-altitude economic industry system. CITIC Heavy Industries comprehensively uses artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data, and other technologies to create a smart mine full-process solution, greatly promoting the automation and unmanned operation of mining production. CITIC Guoan's lithium extraction technology from salt lakes has reached a global leading level, making positive contributions to ensuring the stability of the national new energy industry chain. CITIC Digital Technology focuses on the national "Eastern Numbers, Western Calculations" strategy, building a national "Six Horizontal and Five Vertical" new computing power network system, and based on this, has constructed a computing power scheduling platform. CITIC International Telecom provides smart "cloud, network, security" integrated solutions for more than 40,000 enterprises along the Belt and Road. CITIC Environment has built a series of benchmark projects such as the CITIC Design AI platform, CITIC Smart Water Cloud platform, CITIC Smart Transportation 4S Collaborative Cloud platform, and the Smart City CIM platform to serve smart city construction. CITIC Taifu Real Estate incorporates artificial intelligence technology and healthy living concepts into product details. CITIC Wutong Port has created a digital asset system integrating "logistics, risk control, assets, funds" to provide industrial customers with one-stop digital supply chain comprehensive services.

AI+ Computing Power Network Exhibition Area

AI+ Computing Power Network Exhibition Area

AI+ Urban Operations Exhibition Area

During the exhibition, the "Encounter CITIC · Discover New Possibilities" event also attracted a large number of visitors to "check-in". Here, visitors can experience a variety of star products and services from CITIC's new consumer sector on the spot, such as experiencing NFC card reading, interacting with the digital person Kevin Kelly, tasting coffee from "McCoffee" XiaoHuangChe, leisure food from DaChangXing, red wine from CITIC Noya, collecting cultural and creative products from CITIC and Ye, and having the opportunity to receive exclusive benefits and mysterious gifts from CITIC Publishing, DaChangXing, and McDonald's, experiencing the rich scenes and intimate services of "Diverse CITIC"