Plx32-ip-sie Last year AI was a negative label. The combined loss of SenseTime and other AI tigers exceeds 50 billion yuan, which frightens many investors. This year, with the launch of ChatGPT, AI companies bottomed out. A boss told the reporter of Southern Finance All Media that financing was tight last year, but this year investors are lining up to give money, and in the commercialization of the landing, there are a lot of definite direction.

At present, in the commercial application of AI, the most mature is machine vision which acts as “eyes”. Our brains are wired to get 75% of our information from sight. In reality, the combination of machine vision and industrial scene is higher. Recently, the popularity of AI in industrial quality control applications is increasing.

At present, industrial AI quality inspection can solve the two major pain points in the production and manufacturing of 3C consumer electronics, automobiles and parts. One is the difficulty in recruiting quality inspection workers. Usually, quality inspection workers’ eyes should be directly exposed to strong light for more than 10 hours a day, which is easy to cause workers’ eyesight to decline rapidly; The other is that manual inspection cannot guarantee stable output day after day. If it encounters tens of thousands of semiconductor wafers at every turn, it will bring great loss to the factory.

Plx32-ip-sie The above pain points let a number of companies see a blue sea urgently to explore. In the panel industry, 80 percent of quality inspectors can be replaced by AI, Jiang Yuan, senior architect of Gechuang Dongzhi AI, said in an interview. Huang Qiang, product director of Tencent Cloud Industry AI, said that Tencent sees a 100-billion-level rigid demand market in AI quality inspection. “There are nearly 3 million people involved in the manual testing of 3C electronic products alone. If the annual cost of employing a person is 80,000 yuan, it will be a market of 240 billion yuan.”

According to IDC, it is estimated that the overall market of industrial AI quality inspection in China will reach $958 million (about 6.2 billion yuan) in 2025, with a CAGR of 28.5% in 2021-2025. At present, 100 billion market is far away, industrial AI quality inspection market is still several times the space, which makes more companies eager to try, accelerate into the battlefield.

In this year’s increasingly fierce market competition, IDC believes that industrial AI quality inspection market will continue to be fragmented. Currently, the market is dominated by cloud service providers, AI quality inspection innovation enterprises and machine vision software enterprises. And industrial Internet platform service providers, machine vision inspection equipment manufacturers, integrated AI enterprises, industrial control automation enterprises, communication operators are increasing investment to enter the market. An “inner coil” between machines is unfolding at an accelerating rate.