Xu Bo, chief of Institute of Automation under Chinese Academy of Sciences unveils next-generation AI model, "Zidongtaichu" 2.0, in Shanghai, June 16, 2023. /Chinese Academy of Sciences 

The Chinese Academy of Sciences unveiled its next-generation AI model, the "Zidongtaichu" 2.0 version, at an artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai on Friday.

Different from its first version, which was mainly fed on traditional data materials such as voice, images and texts, the database for the new version of the model has expanded to include videos, signals and 3D point clouds, which enables the model to utilize different types of information and generate more accurate results.

The AI model is an algorithm that can recognize patterns and make predictions or decisions after it is trained based on a large data set.

This model shows wide potential to be applied to various industry scenarios such as healthcare, legal consultation, transporation and video searching and checking.

Integrated with the AI model, the MicroNeuro, a flexible robotic system for minimally invasive neurosurgery, can provide in-time deductive reasoning based on visual and tactile information during the surgery, helping doctors make decisions.

In legal services, the model can extract key information from the legal cases within a second to boost work efficiency, ease the pressure of a lack of legal professionals and cut costs.

AI technology has been a hot topic in the industry for years, as most applications in transportation, healthcare and security use its capability of image recognition.

The AI research company OpenAI's generative AI product ChatGPT – a tool that can provide human-like conversation and offer answers to all kinds of questions, launched at the end of last year – ignited a new wave of interest among researchers and AI enthusiasts as it pushes AI technology to a new height. Text-data-based AI models are in vogue.

More companies around the world have joined the arena. In China, several tech giants and speech recognition companies have joined the innovative research and development of this AI technology. Since March, Baidu deployed ERNIE Bot, Alibaba launched Tongyi Qianwen and iFLYTEK unveiled SparkDesk successively.