Recently, 5g and AI have attracted much attention in both the international and domestic markets. Ma Huateng, known as the "Internet prophet", even more openly said that "an AI + 5g era of full intelligence is coming."

In the view of many people in the industry, compared with the demographic dividend discussed in the past, "5g + AI" may be a bigger innovation dividend.

Although there are individual voices in the public opinion field, such as "is the role of 5g exaggerated, is artificial intelligence artificial or intelligent?" However, it is undeniable that both 5g and AI are in full swing in terms of industrial investment and national strategy and planning. In the first quarter of 2019, the speed of related industries is impressive. As Gao Wen, a professor at Peking University and academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, said, "instead of discussing optimism or pessimism now, we should seize the opportunity to work first."

Although 5g and AI are two kinds of technologies, they complement each other, which is the consensus of the industry.

5g can help more AI applications, while AI can make 5g network more flexible and efficient for people to use. Chen Wenqi, chairman and CEO of Weisheng group, said that most of the current AI applications are in the H-end, most companies do not make good use of data, and the large-scale commercial use of 5g is expected to solve this problem. Obviously, 5g and AI are on the same path.

Some experts believe that 5g, as an information infrastructure, is the driving force, while AI is the catalyst“ 5g + AI "can not only give play to the effect of" 1 + 1 > 2 ", but also promote each other, which will form a multiplication effect and bring disruptive innovation opportunities. For example, at the beginning of April, China completed the first AI + 5g operation, and completed the "heart filling" operation 400 kilometers away, opening up unlimited imagination space for smart medicine, which is just the beginning.

2019 is recognized as the year of 5g and AI landing in the industry.

5g is hot this year. Although no operator license has been issued, the three operators have set up test networks in many cities in China; Artificial intelligence is also popular. In the view of the industry, the combination of "5g + AI" may open a communication revolution, bringing about a new reshuffle of the entire Internet industry and even the real economy. Finance, education, transportation, health and retail will all be intelligent.

Of course, there are also individual opinions that domestic enterprises are more likely to guide public opinion to do marketing for the sake of hot spots. The power of capital is greater than that of R & D, and the fear of gimmicks is more than substance. In fact, as a key element of 5g and artificial intelligence, chip has attracted much attention because it is an important indicator of market development.

Take artificial intelligence chip as an example. According to incomplete statistics, more than 20 domestic enterprises have invested in the research and development of AI chip. Cambrian, aridamo academy, Huawei Hisilicon, etc. have also successively expressed that they will speed up the mass production of AI chips and put them into use. The capital market also moves frequently, such as the recent AI chip company princincinci has completed tens of millions of yuan a round of financing; Horizon, an AI chip company focusing on edge computing, raised $600 million, with a valuation of more than $3 billion.

There is no doubt that at this stage, the demographic dividend is disappearing, but the innovation dividend is still there, and there is still great potential, and "5g + AI" may usher in innovation.