A major event focusing on the integration of AI and the smart hardware industry, "Smart Innovation Trendy Play・AI Ushers in a New Era," a special session on building an AI+ smart hardware ecosystem, was recently held grandly at the Shenzhen Bay Science and Technology Eco-park. The event was jointly organized by the Party Committee of the Shenzhen High-tech Industrial Park, the Nanshan District Industry and Information Technology Bureau, and other units, and co-organized by the Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, aiming to establish an efficient collaborative communication platform for the AI and smart hardware industries through policy empowerment, technology demonstrations, and ecosystem matchmaking. Among the many participating companies, Shenzhen Tencent Ronghai Technology Co., Ltd. became the focal point of the event with its self-developed "Xiao Zhi AI Multimodal Real-time Interaction System," showcasing an innovative model of empowering the industrial ecosystem chain with domestically developed open-source technology.
Policy Navigation: AI + Smart Hardware Becomes a New Engine for Regional Development In the inaugural year of the national "15th Five-Year Plan," comprehensively deepening the "Artificial Intelligence +" initiative and promoting the deep integration of the digital economy with the real economy have become crucial directions of national strategy. As a core hub for technological innovation in China, Shenzhen's Nanshan District, leveraging its full-chain innovation ecosystem of "basic research + technological攻关 + achievement industrialization +科技金融 + talent support," has taken the lead in deploying the deep integration of AI with high-end manufacturing, life sciences, and health, and other industries. According to official data, the value-added and output value of the AI and smart hardware industries in Nanshan District account for over 60% and 70% of the city's total, respectively, establishing it as a benchmark region in China for AI technology implementation and commercialization. At the event site, Nanshan District held an awarding ceremony for 84 newly added national-level "Little Giant" specialized and sophisticated enterprises in 2025 and inaugurated a "Little Giant Home," building a service system covering the entire lifecycle of enterprises. This series of measures fully demonstrates the high-level attention and strong support from policymakers for the AI and smart hardware industry, also creating an extremely favorable development environment for innovative companies like Tencent Ronghai. In the specially designated smart hardware product exhibition area at the conference, nearly 50 companies collectively showcased achievements across the entire industry chain, including AI core components, smart solutions, and innovative trendy play hardware, comprehensively presenting the latest trends in the integrated development of AI and smart hardware. Among them, Tencent Ronghai集中 showcased several smart hardware products integrated with its self-developed, domestically produced open-source AI interaction system, attracting numerous attendees to stop and experience them. Currently, artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from cloud-based algorithms to terminal hardware, and "smart hardware" equipped with generative AI capabilities has become a new trillion-yuan industry赛道 following smartphones. Shenzhen, as a global center for consumer electronics manufacturing and export, is facing a critical window for industrial upgrade. However, Shenzhen also confronts a core矛盾 between the rapid iteration of AI technology and the long development cycles of traditional hardware. Against this backdrop,科创 enterprises like Tencent Ronghai shoulder the important mission of breaking through technological bottlenecks and driving industrial升级.
Technology攻坚: Xiao Zhi AI Empowers Smart Hardware Ecosystem Upgrade At this "AI + Smart Hardware Ecosystem" conference, the immense potential demonstrated by Tencent Ronghai's Xiao Zhi AI Multimodal Real-time Interaction System in terms of commercial implementation highly aligned with the conference's focused areas and directions. Public information indicates that Tencent Ronghai, as a new-generation科创 enterprise with self-developed technology as its core competitiveness, has successively launched large models for vertical domains such as Openbuddy, Tens AI, and Xiao Zhi AI since 2023 through self-research and joint攻关. By the end of 2024, its subsidiary, New Wisdom Future, focusing on key technological breakthroughs, successfully overcame technical challenges in the field of artificial intelligence, including multimodal perception and real-time decision-making, innovatively研发 the Xiao Zhi AI Multimodal Real-time Interaction System, achieving a key leap from "tool empowerment" by large AI models to "emotional resonance." Unlike traditional AI focused on logical reasoning, this system features its unique self-developed emotional algorithm. The self-developed real-time interaction engine compresses response latency to the millisecond level, supporting seamless cross-device collaboration; the deep learning-based anthropomorphic emotional model can accurately simulate human emotional expression, achieving natural emotional resonance with users; the cross-modal memory system constructs a立体 of user behavior and preferences,结合 long-term context analysis to proactively predict needs. These three core technologies构建 a full-scenario intelligent interaction system for the "AI brain," bringing全新的 interaction experiences and development possibilities to the smart hardware industry. It is worth mentioning that through an "open-source协议 + standardized module" model, Tencent Ronghai has created an industrial-grade digital foundation with the "Xiao Zhi AI Interaction System" as the key, building a bridge connecting general large models with traditional hardware for industries such as smart toys, mid-to-high-end home appliances, and smart wearables. Currently, Xiao Zhi AI has empowered nearly 130 small and medium-sized enterprises in their transformation, with 76% located in the Greater Bay Area. Within just 7 months,接入 devices exceeded 1 million units, with active devices averaging 48 minutes of daily use time, and daily large model token calls reaching 27 billion, topping the global GitHub Trending chart. Even more noteworthy is that the open-source model of Xiao Zhi AI has significantly enhanced industrial efficiency. The product verification cycle for enterprises接入 the system has been shortened from 3-6 months to 1-2 months, R&D efficiency has increased by 70%, and computing power costs have been reduced by 80%. After integrating AI, industries like smart toys, mid-to-high-end home appliances, and smart wearables have seen product prices increase by 30%-100%, and order volumes have grown against the trend by 50%-300%, achieving simultaneous growth in both volume and price. Furthermore, emerging fields such as智慧养老服务, embodied robots, and in-vehicle intelligence have also shown strong willingness to transform, indicating broad market space. The "Smart Innovation Trendy Play・AI Ushers in a New Era" event is not only a vivid practice of Shenzhen's "Starting a Business with the Party" party-building brand but also a集中 showcase of the collaborative innovation between the AI and smart hardware industries. Under the dual effects of policy guidance and technological drive, a representative from Tencent Ronghai stated that the company will continue to deepen the construction of the AI open-source ecosystem in the future, helping more traditional hardware enterprises cross the threshold of "AI-ification," jointly building a new trillion-yuan industrial ecosystem for "AI+," and propelling Shenzhen to new heights in the field of AI and smart hardware industries.
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