The 11th Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award Ceremony was held in Beijing, and Pan Yunhe and Kunyun Technology won awards

The award ceremony of “Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award”, China’s top prize for intelligent science and technology, was held in Beijing on the morning of July 16. Zhang Yuzhuo, secretary of the Party Leadership Group, vice chairman and first secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, Zhao Bing, member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the Counsellor’s Office of the State Council, Li Shushen, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and academician of the CAS Member, Wu Manqing, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and academician of the CAE Member, counselor of the State Council Dai Qionghai, President of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence and CAE Member, Li Deyi, Honorary President of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence and CAE Member, Wang Endong, Vice President of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence and CAE Member, He You, Honorary Vice President of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence and CAE Member, Wu Cheng, Director of the National CIMS Center and CAE Member, foreign academician of the European Academy of Sciences Jiang Tianzai, Director of the Brain Science Special Committee of the Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society, Ren Fuji, Academician of the Japanese Academy of Engineering and Honorary Vice President of the Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society, Niu Dongxiao, Academician of the Eurasian Academy of Sciences and Deputy Director of the Academic Committee of the North China Electric Power University, Cao Jinde, Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Academician of the European Academy of Sciences, and Chief Professor of Southeast University, attended the award ceremony.https://store.stoneitech.com/
66 achievements of this Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award have stood out through formal review, letter review, preliminary review and final review. Among them, Pan Yunhe, member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, leader of the National New Generation AI Strategic Advisory Committee, and academician of the CAE Member, won the highest achievement award. Chen Junlong, academician of the European Academy of Sciences, chair professor of South China University of Technology, and dean of the School of Computer Science, won the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Artificial Intelligence, Hou Zengguang of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and others completed projects such as “intelligent human-computer interaction control methods for rehabilitation robots”, which won the first prize of the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award, and Han Junwei of Northwestern Polytechnical University and others completed the “high-altitude UAV precise observation technology”, which won the first prize of the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Technology Invention Award, Kunyun Technology won the first prize of the Artificial Intelligence Special Award (Chip Project) for its “AI Reasoning Chip Development and Application Based on Customized Data Stream Technology”. In addition, there are awards such as the Artificial Intelligence Technology Progress Award and the Outstanding Youth Award. Dr. Niu Xinyu, founder and CEO of Kunyun Technology, was invited to attend the award ceremony.
Dr. Niu Xinyu, founder and CEO of Kunyun Technology, received the award
Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award is sponsored by the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence. It is supported by Wu Wenjun, a pioneer and leader of China’s intelligent science research, the winner of the first National Highest Science and Technology Award, an academician of the CAS Member, and the honorary chairman of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence. It is the first award named “artificial intelligence” in Chinese history, and is qualified to nominate and recommend the National Science and Technology Award, It is honored as “the highest award for intelligent science and technology in China”.
The first prize of the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Special Award chip project was won by the artificial intelligence chip company Kunyun Technology. Its award-winning project is “AI inference chip development and application based on customized data stream technology”, marking a new breakthrough in China’s key technology of tackling the “bottleneck” in the AI chip field. This project is based on Kunyun Technology’s research and development foundation in the artificial intelligence data stream architecture, focusing on the broader AI inference computing power demand in the future, carrying out research and development of AI inference chip CAISA and corresponding development tool chains, leading international technological innovation in the field of artificial intelligence chips.
Unlike traditional instruction set architectures, which rely on instructions such as read, move, and write back to complete each data operation, the data flow architecture CAISA developed by Kunyun Technology relies on data flow order to complete target computing, which can eliminate a large number of idle computing units caused by instructions, break through the “Von Neumann bottleneck” caused by poor instruction handling and storage time, significantly improve chip utilization, and reduce unit computing cost.
The CAISA data stream architecture simplifies the computing process from the underlying design, and the chip utilization rate can reach 95.4%. The computational power and cost performance ratio is significantly ahead of similar AI chip products. Compared with the edge flagship products of international mainstream chip manufacturers, the measured performance is up to 4.12 times higher.
Comparison of the performance of Starsky X3 accelerator card equipped with a CAISA chip and an accelerator equipped with a GPU chip
Relying on the achievements of this project, Kunyun Technology has launched high-performance, low latency, and cost-effective artificial intelligence computing acceleration platforms such as the StarCraft X3 accelerator card, the StarCraft X6A edge station, and the StarCraft X9 accelerator card. It has also combined practical application scenarios to create intelligent safety supervision solutions that integrate computing power, algorithms, and platforms, achieving large-scale implementation in fields such as smart chemicals, smart gas stations, smart construction sites, and smart oil fields, and has cooperated with Intel, Inspur, Dell Feiteng, China Southern Power Grid, China Unicom, Sinopec and other industry leaders have reached strategic cooperation to meet the needs of artificial intelligence computing in different scenarios.
About Wu Wenjun’s Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award
The “Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award”, sponsored by the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence, is the only one in the field of intelligent science and technology in China named after Mr. Wu Wenjun, a people’s scientist, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, a pioneer and leader of intelligent science research in China, a winner of the first National Highest Science and Technology Award, an academician of the CAS Member, and an honorary chairman of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence, The Science and Technology Award established by relying on social forces (GKZSZZ No. 0218) has the qualification to nominate and recommend the National Science and Technology Award, and is known as the “China’s Highest Award for Intelligent Science and Technology” and “Pearl in the Crown of Artificial Intelligence”. It aims to reward units or individuals who have made important discoveries in intelligent scientific research, focused on achieving original innovation and breakthroughs, or conquered key core technologies in the field of artificial intelligence, promoted significant progress in scientific and technological progress, and created significant economic, social, or ecological and environmental benefits. To date, the “Wu Wenjun Award for Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology” has successfully held ten reviews and commendations, providing strong support for vigorously promoting the spirit of scientists, stimulating the emergence of innovative talents, enhancing the endogenous impetus for scientific and technological innovation, promoting the transformation and integration of artificial intelligence and traditional industries, and promoting high-quality economic and social development. It has enjoyed a high reputation in the field of intelligent science and technology in China.
About Kunyun Technology
Kunyun Technology is jointly founded by an international authority in the field of customized computing chips, academician Wayne Luk, Academician Lu Yongqing of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Dr. Niu Xinyu, and Dr. Cai Quanxiong. With customized data stream technology as the core, it provides a next-generation human intelligent computing platform with high performance, low latency, and high cost performance. For vertical fields such as smart safety supervision, smart city, smart energy, and intelligent manufacturing, Kunyun provides solutions that integrate computing power, algorithms, and platforms to accelerate the implementation of artificial intelligence technology.
Relying on the technical accumulation of the main creative team for nearly 30 years, its independently developed CAISA architecture can achieve a chip utilization rate of up to 95.4% while supporting deep learning general algorithms. The measured computational power is far superior to that of instruction set chips with equivalent peak performance. As a leading technology provider in the industry, Kunyun has participated in the formulation of a number of artificial intelligence industry standards, and has received industry recognition such as the “SAIL Award, the highest award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference”, “China’s Top Ten Innovative Enterprises in Artificial Intelligence of the Year”, “China’s IC Unicorn of the Year”, and “China’s IC Design Artificial Intelligence Chip Company TOP 10”.