Shanghai Innovation Institute marks first anniversary with AI innovations

The Shanghai Innovation Institute celebrated its first anniversary by showcasing cutting-edge artificial intelligence achievements at its inaugural TechFest held from Sept 11 to 13, highlighting the institute's novel approach to nurturing top-class AI talent.

Since its establishment last September in Shanghai's Xuhui district, the institute has pioneered an innovative doctoral education model and formed partnerships with 31 universities nationwide to create a dynamic talent pipeline.

The event unveiled several major technological breakthroughs. Liu Pengfei's team introduced cognitive active data processing technology that converts raw data into high-quality input for advanced AI systems. Their AI superintelligence research system can discover over 100 new network architectures in just two days, compared to the average 2,000 hours needed by human experts to discover one.

Other breakthrough innovations include the world's first scalable whole-process interpretation framework for large language models by Qiu Xipeng's team, while Cai Panpan's ORoboSoul project enables robots to truly understand the world. Zhou Aimin's team introduced a pioneering interactive creativity evaluation system for AI, transforming talent assessment methods.

Dai Guohao's team achieved breakthroughs in digital-biological intelligence interaction, addressing the "impossible triangle" of power consumption, memory, and intelligence in smart terminals. Zhang Weinan's team developed the Holos system, integrating hundreds of public network agents for various academic tasks.