ΧThe 5th World Wide Web Conference was held in Wuzhen, China. Xiaomi's platform for artificial intelligence (AI) in smart homes has been selected as "the world's top Internet technology".
Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of the group, stated that "AI + IoT" is the future of the market and one of Xiaomi's core strategies, adding:
"Today's artificial intelligence + IoT (Internet of Things) technology has been widely used, from TV to small light bulbs, alarm clocks, and many other gadgets can be controlled with AI."
The Artificial Intelligence Open Platform is an open innovation platform that provides intelligent scripts, software and hardware services for users. According to the profit report for the second quarter, Xiaomi has invested or opened more than 220 eco-chain companies, 100 of which focus on the development of intelligent hardware and consumer goods. The artificial intelligence platform is located on more than 115 million smart IoT devices - it's the world's largest IoT platform for consumers!
Lei Jun said that over the past two years, Xiaomi has invested heavily in artificial intelligence. The company now has a team of engineers with more than 1.000 employees specializing in cloud services, acoustics, speech, natural language processing, computer vision, deep learning, data processing and other fields.
He pointed out that the company has begun to integrate AI in its mobile phones with photos where we see AI blurring and AI scene recognition. Of course there is also the Xiao Ai assistant which also supports smart home appliances. Finally, the founder of the innovative company stated that in the future, the artificial intelligence platform will connect businesses and consumers more closely, in order to reduce the time it takes for the former to enter the smart home industry.
