Despite being “interfered†by Broadcom and Apple, Qualcomm’s investment projects in emerging areas have not slowed down. On November 15, Qualcomm announced venture capital investments in nine Chinese companies, including artificial intelligence company Shangtang Technology and smart shared bicycle company Mobike.
QuinnLi, vice president of Qualcomm and global managing director of Qualcomm Ventures, said: "Qualcomm is accelerating the layout of 5G technology on the terminal side and improving the AI ​​computing performance of the chip. Qualcomm strategic investor Tang Technology will help its more investment in AI research and development. The cooperation between the two parties will create an integrated solution to reduce the cost of deploying AI technology for terminal equipment manufacturers such as mobile phones, shorten the development cycle, and promote the rapid upgrade of the entire terminal equipment industry."
Dr. Xu Li, co-founder and CEO of Shangtang Technology, said that with the integration of resources, the advantages of Shangtang Technology's original AI technology on Qualcomm's technology chip platform will be fully utilized, so that more terminal equipment will benefit from AI technology. To accelerate the development of intelligent ecological environment.
For Mobye's investment, Shen Jin, managing director of Qualcomm Ventures, said in an interview with the First Financial Technology and Innovation Conference that artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things will be the hottest areas in cutting-edge technology. He believes that artificial intelligence has a wide application in the IoT field. Prior to this, Qualcomm and Moby and China Mobile have jointly tested multi-mode technology.
In the previous cooperation, Qualcomm applied the LTE-IoT modem for IoT applications to the Mobike bicycle smart lock. Through the connection and satellite positioning and navigation functions, users can find the bicycle more accurately, speed up the unlocking, and continue. Monitor bicycle status.
In addition, among the nine companies, there are wireless connectivity market provider Creative Communications, end-to-end artificial intelligence solutions provider, energy-resistant, unattended convenience store operator zero element, innovative education solutions provider Meco Technology, AI and VR/AR technology content provider fantasy technology, "all immersive" English learning environment provider Aileqi, and agricultural big data and intelligent services company Okemei.
According to Qualcomm, all of the capital injections came from Qualcomm’s $150 million China Strategic Investment Fund announced in 2014.
AI spawns more vertical applicationsFrom "mobile Internet" to "Internet education, Internet medical care", and now to the "frontier technology" on the slogan, Qualcomm is also looking for opportunities that are more suitable for itself.
Shen Jin told reporters that computers and mobile phones have such a large scale. In fact, many core technologies are scaled, miniaturized and low-cost, so that they can be used by today's drones and VR. These technologies are now extended. To the cutting-edge technology, there are five aspects: VR/AR, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, robots and drones.
“The numbers are here. In the next five years, there will be 8.5 billion smartphones going to the city. This year, this year is actually the first year of artificial intelligence on smartphones. R11S uses Qualcomm’s artificial intelligence technology, such as Image processing, including face recognition, many flagship high-end phones will have artificial intelligence from this year. These capabilities will first be reflected in the photo camera processing, and then in the ability of your intelligent human assistant, Help you manage memory, manage your clerk, of course, you can manage the surrounding smart home through your mobile phone." Shen Jin said.
In a sense, the performance of smart devices in the past depends largely on the computing power of the chip, but today, smart phones, cameras, robots, IoT and other devices need to process massive amounts of data in real time, and the application of AI algorithms in terminals is also It will become a new driving force to promote the intelligent development of terminal equipment.
Shang Tang said that the synergy of “algorithm + chip†is redefining the intelligent ecology of the terminal, and Shang Tang is the largest supplier of artificial intelligence algorithms in China. From this logical point of view, Qualcomm's investment is focused on the algorithmic capabilities of Shangtang and its future explosiveness in the vertical field. Qualcomm has the ability to collaborate with these investors.
For example, among the companies that have been invested, one company, Okemei, has established the nation's largest farm management network and provides intelligent industry services based on big data for industrial management organizations.
Previously, Qualcomm also invested in a similar company in Israel. The entrepreneurial project is to apply artificial intelligence technology to more than a dozen farmers in the world. “At present, the company has collected data on more than 5,000 farms because of such a large The amount of data has attracted many buyers, including fresh e-commerce and supermarket buyers. Many agricultural resources are also on the platform of this company. Now there are more than 10 billion transactions on this platform. With the data platform, the company can quickly advance its development in artificial intelligence.†Shen Jin said that there are plenty of opportunities in vertical markets such as agriculture and security.
Chinese and American experience cannot be copied blindlySince 2015, Qualcomm has expanded its investment focus to cutting-edge technology, focusing on investments in artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, VR/AR, and robotics.
Qualcomm currently manages nearly 40 portfolio companies in China. When talking about what kind of investment object to choose as the target, Shen Jin told reporters that Qualcomm will invest in companies and fields that can be seen clearly.
"We are more focused. Many VCs can't focus so much. Because of the focus, we are more flexible in the round. Although 70% is the A round, there are some investments in the Pre-A round, in the B round, C. There are also some investments in the round. Moreover, Qualcomm will invest in companies and areas that we can see clearly as the upstream of the industry chain,†Shen Jin said.
Shen Jin believes that most venture capitalists focus on the one that is closer to the consumer, such as games, or application stores, which are at the lower end of the industry chain, and the Qualcomm insight at the upstream end. It is relatively clear.
"Everyone said that this year is VR winter, no one dares to vote for VR. Suddenly the industry has entered the winter of the cool summer, the change is really fast, but we are still optimistic, mainly because of technical needs. There are some breakthroughs that require a closed process of closed doors. This is not to say that the industry is not working or the direction is wrong. We will also invest in VR companies, which is a kind of reverse operation." Shen Jin also stressed that investment is not like stocks It needs to be based on judgments about the industry and investment choices based on all information.
For companies with high valuations, Shen Jin stressed that he will pay attention to companies that have no potential and can grow into unicorns after 5 or 7 years. "Maybe some companies are now unicorn-rated, but it depends on whether it will become a ten-fold, hundred-fold unicorn company in the future."
In addition, for Chinese and American artificial intelligence, Shen Jin thinks that there is a big difference. He said that in the field of artificial intelligence, China rarely refers to the United States. First of all, the basic principles of artificial intelligence are clear to everyone; secondly, artificial intelligence has more application scenarios in China. For example, the following two application scenarios are relatively weak in the United States: the first is security, security is the main source of income for Chinese companies such as Shang Tang and Face++, but installing cameras in the United States is troublesome. The second is Internet finance. The development of China's offline financial institutions is relatively weak, and as soon as Internet finance emerges, users need to “paint their faces†– that is, complete identity authentication to ensure that people use their own ID cards, the second source of income for these companies. It is online identity authentication.
If we talk about income, the two application scenarios in China have surpassed the United States. The third application scenario is mobile phones, and the United States has Apple, but many of its things are not open to the public. Shen Jin told reporters that China can provide a better environment for the application of these startups in mobile phones. The application of IoT is also the same. In particular, there are many intelligent hardware companies in Shenzhen. The functions of their products are mainly connected, whether it is Wi. -Fi is also a 3G, 4G connection, all added artificial intelligence technology.
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