On May 24th, the 7th Digital China Summit with the theme "Unlocking the Value of Data Elements, Developing New Quality Productivity" and the 4th China International Digital Products Expo opened in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Many authoritative experts, scholars, representatives of leading companies in the digital economy, and other industry elites attended the event. Alibaba's Metaverse was invited to participate, focusing on showcasing its achievements in the fields of entertainment, cultural tourism, cultural relics, and other areas in the metaverse and artificial intelligence, engaging in discussions with the attendees.
In recent years, with the continuous strengthening of top-level design and the frequent introduction of national favorable policies, including the new productive forces such as the metaverse, have become powerful engines for the development of China's digital economy. To promote the sustainable high-quality development of digital infrastructure, ensure the steady improvement of the country's position in global technological competition, and build a fully autonomous and controllable Chinese-style metaverse system, has become a necessary measure. As a leading domestic metaverse cloud operating system and metaverse application service platform for the new generation of the Internet, Ali Metaverse actively responds to national policies, always adhering to technology-driven innovation, and has launched the "AIGC Space Intelligent Creation Platform" and domain-specific intelligent body solutions. Through multi-level layout, Metaverse has cooperated with multiple domestic chip manufacturers to jointly promote the autonomous and controllable metaverse industry ecosystem. At this summit, Metaverse signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Fuzhou Survey Institute's wholly-owned company, BBT, and Fuzhou Metaverse Association to promote the coordinated development of the industry.
Building the cloud operating system "Metaverse OS" for the new generation of the Internet, Metaverse accelerates into the fast lane of industrial development.
"Science and technology are the country's strategic tools." The world is currently experiencing unprecedented changes, and technological innovation has become a key variable in reshaping the global economic landscape. With the rapid development of technologies such as China's large-scale models in artificial intelligence, this year's government work report for the first time proposed accelerating the independent research and development of technologies and applications such as big data and artificial intelligence, launching the "AI+" action, and creating a digitally competitive industrial cluster. Therefore, to seize the opportunities of the times, lead the new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation centered on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc., it is necessary to achieve technological self-reliance, enhance end-to-end independent research and development capabilities, and comprehensively grasp the initiative in technological development.
In 2021, the concept of the metaverse demonstrated strong explosive power, opening up a new imagination for the next generation of the Internet. As the metaverse transitions from concept to actual industrial implementation, the domestic metaverse industry is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. The application of the Chinese metaverse industry is gradually making progress in various fields such as gaming, social networking, culture and tourism, industry, healthcare, and showing a trend of expanding into multiple industries.
Unlike the isolated nature of mobile internet apps, the new generation of the Internet's metaverse applications will exhibit characteristics such as interconnection, free navigation, no need for downloading or installation, cross-device and cross-platform compatibility. Through in-depth exploration and practice in the metaverse field, the transformation and upgrade of computing platforms and user experience platforms have brought about a wealth of industrial opportunities for basic software, system software, and industry software, with the emergence of cloud-stream architecture. Cloud-stream architecture has advantages such as on-demand usage, centralized deployment, "unnoticed" upgrades of hardware and core chips, and intensive utilization of old resources, making it the inevitable architecture for the new generation of Internet operating systems. As a leading domestic metaverse operating system service provider, Ali Metaverse has always adhered to technological research and innovation since its establishment. With years of business accumulation, it has developed a metaverse research and operation integrated platform based on cloud-stream architecture. In terms of technology, it has achieved multiple core capabilities such as multi-platform containerization, multi-terminal coverage, cloud-edge collaborative elastic scheduling, weak network optimization, and developer tools. Currently, Ali Metaverse has served over a hundred large clients, with a total user runtime of nearly 300 million hours.
The industry, technology, and application ecosystem are undergoing a comprehensive upgrade, with Yuanjing driving the full-chain autonomous and controllable metaverse.
At a crucial stage of China's digital transformation, innovative technology serves as the core engine propelling economic development and the "autonomous and controllable" strategy. As a representative form of the "next-generation internet" and an aggregator of innovative technologies, the metaverse's core technology being autonomous and controllable is of paramount importance. To achieve the scaled development of the metaverse, not only stable and reliable operational foundations and a thriving industrial ecosystem are needed, but also autonomous and controllable core technologies across all links of the industrial chain.
Operating systems play a crucial role in connecting the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, serving as not only a bridge between hardware and software but also a link between various segments of the industrial chain. The cloud-native operating system, which aligns with the characteristics of the new generation internet, is a key support for realizing a more open, convenient, fair, and prosperous metaverse application ecosystem. Yuanjing is committed to creating an autonomous and controllable cloud-native operating system tailored for the new generation internet, leveraging "Yuanjing OS" as the entry point to drive the ecological closed-loop of GPU hardware, tool software, and industry applications, thereby facilitating the autonomous and controllable development and ecological prosperity of the full-chain metaverse industry.
The connection between operating systems and chips is close, as the OS needs to collaborate with hardware to achieve high-performance computing, storage, and network transmission. Both rely on developers to provide services to consumers. Therefore, the autonomy and controllability of chips are inseparable from that of the operating system. In this regard, Yuanjing maintains close cooperation with GPU chip suppliers, collaborating with leading domestic GPU providers such as ChipCore Technology, Hanbo Semiconductor, Moore Threads, and Muxi, engaging in end-to-end linkage of product technology requirements and deep customization of functional features with chip IP companies and rendering engine providers. This effort aims to build an efficient, cloud-native new generation internet metaverse application system platform, enabling capabilities such as image rendering, AI computation and content generation, digital interactive experiences, and the fusion of multiple dimensions in the metaverse, collectively driving innovation and progress in hardware technology.
For downstream application software, the cloud-native operating system has established a public service platform and AIGC Space Intelligence Creation Platform tailored for the metaverse application ecosystem. These platforms can rapidly respond to application scenarios, meet complex requirements such as high concurrency and large data volumes, and provide self-developed cloud-native development tools and 3D real-time interactive content AIGC tools, offering robust guarantees for a new metaverse application ecosystem that is fully cloud-based, high-performance, highly scalable, low-threshold, and widely compatible.
In terms of the metaverse application ecosystem, Yuanjing provides content ecosystem construction capabilities, collaborating with partners to create content ecosystems and drive high-quality content output. In August last year, Yuanjing, in collaboration with the Talent Exchange Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the People's Government of Bishan District in Chongqing, and Guoxin Lanqiao, jointly organized the metaverse "Ideas+" digital content creation competition, encouraging the use of innovative technologies such as AIGC to assist in design and creation. Through innovative forms of collaboration between industry, academia, and research, this initiative aims to promote the prosperous development of the metaverse application content developer ecosystem.
Furthermore, Yuanjing has introduced self-developed vertical industry intelligent body solutions, customizing domain models for different industries and collaborating with industry clients to create domain-specific AI digital intelligences. These AI industry intelligences serve as a new intelligent communication gateway between enterprises and users, providing diversified services to users.
In the future, Ali Yuanjing will continue to lead metaverse technological innovation, driving the convergence innovation of "metaverse+" with fully autonomous and controllable metaverse services. This will help reshape industrial models, unleash economic potential, provide opportunities for industrial transformation and upgrading, and position the metaverse as a distinctive "technological business card" for China. Seizing new opportunities in digital economic development, it will establish new advantages in national digital economic competition, seizing the strategic high ground for future development in the era of the metaverse.
