The XJTLU-Baidu Artificial Intelligence Innovation Alliance is the first alliance of its kind in China that builds on frontier technologies and seamlessly integrates AI chips, deep-learning frameworks, algorithm models, and commercial applications.

Talent development: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University–PaddlePaddle AI Industrial Academy

The Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University-PaddlePaddle AI Industrial Academy is China’s first “AI Large-Scale Model” education system.

With the aim of cultivating high-level and versatile AI talents, it focuses on the guiding principles of “student-oriented, industry-focused, and integration of education and industry” to create the first AI Large-Scale Model education system.

Technical research: Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan Large-Scale Model Platform (Suzhou) Innovation Center

The center is China’s first “Large-Scale Model Industry, Academia, and Research Innovation Center”.

• It is dedicated to core technology research in cloud intelligence, integrating Baidu’s core advantages in AI, cloud computing, and big data domains. The center aims to promote industrial digital transformation, drive innovation in core technologies, and achieve technological breakthroughs.
• It is also involved in establishing large data platform infrastructures for energy, healthcare, and government sectors. It will nurture and attract a group of versatile AI talents to achieve significant theoretical breakthroughs in areas such as multi-modal data theory, digital twin model construction, and AI drug development.

Ecosystem: XJTLU-Baidu Industrial Empowerment Center

• Centred around key high-value industries in China, Suzhou, and Suzhou Industrial Park, the centre’s systematic ecosystem will empower and optimise industrial structures, lead the entire industry chain towards strengthening and supplementing weak links, and achieve broad and quantifiable AI industry ecosystem benefits.
• The Centre’s focus areas are intelligent carbon reduction, biomedicine, and smart cities.
• The Centre, in its initial phase,is China’s first Smart Carbon Empowerment Centre.