51: Chapter 51 Industrial AI, Awakening!

The low hum of the air conditioner circled in the slightly crowded meeting room, yet it couldn't suppress the heavy atmosphere and a trace of imperceptible anxiety permeating the air.

Tang Zhuangshan followed several bleary-eyed colleagues in a single file. Just as his backside touched the cold chair, the blinding white light of the projector hit the screen with a "buzz," gradually focusing from a blurry blue light to illuminate the face of Department Supervisor Zhang Feng, which was stretched tighter than the screen itself.

"Is everyone here?"

Zhang Feng's voice wasn't loud, but it possessed an unquestionable penetration that instantly extinguished the last few whispers.

The red laser pointer in his hand was like a fuse ready to ignite a powder keg at any moment.

"I've called everyone here for an emergency,"

Zhang Feng got straight to the point, the red dot of the laser pointer stabbing precisely at the title on the screen.

"AI Tool Platform Strategic Update."

"Just one thing: the Panshi Industrial AI Analysis Platform we've used for three years is officially decommissioned as of today."

"Whoa..."

The meeting room instantly erupted like a boiling pot.

Although everyone had complained about that Rock thing in private.

It was like a stubborn old man with bad teeth; it had to be force-fed massive amounts of data, and its output results had to be manually trimmed and patched just to barely fit into the production line.

But it was a familiar face after all, an old partner everyone had struggled with and fine-tuned for countless days and nights.

Decommissioned just like that?

"Supervisor, what are we switching to? It's not CloseAI, is it?"

Old Zhou, sitting next to Tang Zhuangshan, pushed up the thick glasses on the bridge of his nose with an expression that said, "You've got to be kidding me."

"That thing is for drawing pictures and writing poetry. You're going to let it look at production line data?

It'll probably filter out qualified products as abstract art!

Besides, with that closed-source stuff, you have to look at foreigners' faces just to move a finger. How are we supposed to work with that?"

"Exactly, exactly!"

Several colleagues working on core algorithms chimed in, their faces filled with skepticism.

Zhang Feng didn't respond, merely giving a light click with the laser pointer.

The PPT flipped, and a brand-new, sleek, and sharp LOGO jumped out, with a striking line of bold text below it.

Qiming Intelligent Manufacturing Engine.

"It's not CloseAI."

Zhang Feng's voice was steady, yet it was like a stone thrown into a calm lake.

"It's enlightenment. A standard industrial AI tool platform that has just been released domestically."

"enlightenment?"

Below, there was another wave of confused and questioning murmurs.

"Is it open source?" someone asked the key question directly.

"It's not open source,"

Zhang Feng admitted frankly, but then shifted his tone.

"But its API interface richness is almost equivalent to open source. Most importantly..."

He looked around at everyone, emphasizing his words.

"The entire industry, from upstream to downstream, will use this as the standard and upgrade gradually.

Word in the industry is that the state is personally stepping in to set the rules and lay the tracks for our industrial AI."

Tang Zhuangshan's heart skipped a beat.

The state stepping in?

His mind instantly flashed to the overwhelming CloseAI news he'd scrolled through on his phone yesterday, and those heart-stabbing comments below like "Domestic AI is finished" and "The gap is widening."

This enlightenment... He subconsciously touched the phone in his pocket, feeling his fingertips grow a bit hot.

"So,"

Zhang Feng didn't give everyone much time to digest, pointing the laser pointer at the next line of instructions.

"The Rock project is frozen immediately. Everyone here, including algorithm, engineering, and testing—all projects in your hands are suspended!"

"What?!"

"Redo everything?!"

A sharp voice suddenly cut in; it was Xiao Zhao, sitting in the corner.

The young man usually had a bit of a cynical streak, and right now his face was flushed red.

"Supervisor! Those projects we have on hand are about to be accepted! The data models were all ground out bit by bit based on the Rock architecture!

Now we're switching platforms? What's the performance of this AI? What's the logic? We're completely in the dark; won't we have to start from zero?! Who's going to bear the time and labor costs? And..."

His voice lowered, carrying obvious distrust.

"Domestic AI? Heh, hard to say anything good about it."

The atmosphere in the meeting room instantly dropped to freezing point.

Zhang Feng's expression also darkened. He didn't immediately refute Xiao Zhao, but instead used the laser pointer to heavily click open the next PPT slide.

A clear data comparison chart dominated the entire screen.

On the left was the Qiming Intelligent Manufacturing Engine, and on the right, the current benchmark product in the international industrial AI field was clearly labeled.

"Titan Industrial Brain."

Rows of cold and powerful parameters were listed there.

Inference speed increased by 23%, multi-modal data processing capability increased by 18%, anomaly detection accuracy in specific industrial scenarios increased by 15%, model generalization capability increased...

In the comprehensive performance evaluation, a striking red arrow pointed straight up, with a note next to it.

Overall performance leading by approximately 15%, comprehensive deployment cost reduced by 40%.

15%!

Tang Zhuangshan sucked in a breath of cold air, his eyes fixed on that percentage.

This wasn't a laboratory benchmark; this was a real-world industrial scenario comparison!

15% better than the world-leading Titan?

This was practically a plot from a science fiction novel!

He subconsciously looked around. Old Zhou, who had been full of doubt just a moment ago, now had his mouth slightly agape, his glasses nearly sliding to the tip of his nose.

Several algorithm leads leaned closer to the screen, their fingers unconsciously scratching at the table as if calculating the possibility of those data points.

"Performance-wise, it's no worse than foreign ones."

Zhang Feng's voice carried a sense of triumph. He paused deliberately, his gaze sweeping over Xiao Zhao and every shocked face.

"In fact, it's stronger. As for the cost..."

A very faint curve seemed to appear at the corner of his mouth.

"A national-level platform, cost advantages—you understand."

The meeting room was silent, leaving only the hum of the projector fan and the suppressed breathing of the crowd.

The massive contrast shocked everyone's perception.

The domestic AI that they felt was "hard to say anything good about" just moments ago had suddenly appeared in a posture that crushed international giants. This feeling... was too surreal.

Xiao Zhao opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to say something more, but looking at the naked and highly persuasive data comparison on the screen, he finally only muttered a sentence so quiet it was almost inaudible.

"...Who knows if the specs are inflated."

But this murmur seemed pale and weak in the face of the ironclad data.

Zhang Feng stopped looking at him, his gaze scanning the room like a torch, carrying an unquestionable decisiveness.

"Performance, standards, and cost—those above have already considered everything for us. Now is not the time to discuss whether to do it, but how to do it well!"

He clicked on the final PPT slide, which showed the download link for the API interface documentation and a list of group tasks.

"Meeting adjourned! Group leaders, come to me to collect the 'enlightenment' API keys and integration documents. Engineer Tang,"

Zhang Feng specifically called Tang Zhuangshan's name.

"The Precision Bearing Production Line Optimization Project your group is responsible for is a key migration target this time. The data standards must be completely consistent with the previous Rock output results—this is a hard requirement! Within three days, I want to see a preliminary feasibility report."

"Understood, Supervisor."

Tang Zhuangshan responded immediately, but his heart was churning with stormy waves.

Data standards must be consistent?

This requirement seemed simple, but in reality, it was incredibly harsh.

It meant that enlightenment not only had to crush in performance, but its underlying logic and output paradigms also had to be highly compatible with or even surpass the old platform to seamlessly connect with the massive industrial data streams and process control logic they had accumulated.

He stood up and walked out with the crowd, his fingertips unconsciously stroking the API key USB drive he had received. Beneath the cold metal casing, it felt as though some power to change the era was hidden.

The discussions of his colleagues buzzed in his ears—some were excited, some worried, and some like Xiao Zhao remained skeptical.

Tang Zhuangshan looked back at the simple enlightenment LOGO on the screen, then thought about the noisy comments on his phone yesterday badmouthing domestic AI. An indescribable feeling welled up in his heart.

The storm was truly coming.

And it was starting from this small meeting room of theirs, from this tiny USB drive in their hands.

This feeling was a hundred times more shocking than when he had scrolled through the news about CloseAI yesterday.

He had a faint premonition that the production line he was on, and even the AI applications in the entire manufacturing industry, would be dragged into an unprecedented fast lane dominated by local forces by this engine named enlightenment.