Dec 24, 2020| JD Technology

JD Cloud & AI partners with Beijing Life on Industry Digitalization

Martin Li

by Martin Li

JD Cloud & AI will partner with insurance company Beijing Life to advance digitalization in the insurance industry, based on a cooperation agreement signed by the two parties.

JD Cloud & AI will partner with insurance company Beijing Life to advance digitalization in the insurance industry

The cooperation will regard cloud services, AI, Internet of Things and community health services.

JD Cloud & AI will provide safe and reliable basic cloud services including the public, private and hybrid cloud, helping Beijing Life build its fundamental cloud computing platform.

The application of AI technologies is expected to digitalize the insurance company’s whole business chain.

In addition, JD will use its supply chain to help Beijing Life upgrade its community health service business.

(bjllihao3@jd.com)

Sep 8, 2022| JD Technology

JD Cloud Aims to Accelerate Industrial AI

Doris Liu

by Doris Liu

“Only by integrating AI into the whole process of the industrial chain in a large-scale and systematic way to create industrial AI can a more leading industrial competitiveness be formed,” said Cao Peng, Senior Vice President of JD.com and Chairman of JD.com’s Technology Committee.

Cao made the remarks at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2022 in Shanghai, which was held September 1-3. He emphasized that JD Cloud’s Industrial AI capability is speeding up digital transformation of the upstream and downstream industries through accelerating their co-existence and opening-up by the integration of technology with the real economy.

JD’s AI technology was born within the company’s own businesses, with its industrial AI having been nurtured in the digitally intelligent supply chain. In the complex business scenarios of retail, logistics, services and more, JD.com has extensively applied AI to achieve an overall automation upgrade, cost reduction, efficiency and experience optimization.

For instance, as AI capability is applied along the supply chain, JD Retail is able to make precise predictions, make decisions intelligently and collaborate effectively among its 10 million self-operated SKUs under the scenario of uncertain supply and demand.

Furthermore, the procurement automation rate has reached 85 percent and the inventory turnover has been reduced to about 30 days, boosting the operation efficiency of supply chain to a world leading level.

In terms of JD Logistics, more than 400 autonomous delivery vehicles in over 25 cities across China have become a strong complement to JD’s last mile delivery. The automated ground vehicle (AGV) system called Dilang (Ground Wolf), which was developed in house, perfectly collaborates with employees in JD’s Asia No. 1 intelligent industrial parks, improving sorting efficiency by over three times.

As to services, the AI-generated marketing text function of the Yanxi (言犀) AI application platform currently covers more than 3,000 categories and subcategories, with a manual pass rate of 95 percent. The intelligent customer service system based on Yanxi’s AI capability can automatically answer 90 percent of inquiries.

The future industrial competition will not be based in one single business, but will be about overall industrial efficiency. JD Cloud also proposed the concept of the Industrial Metaverse this year, aiming to realize a full-chain integration of digital intelligence in the future.

JD.com, a supply chain-based technology and service provider, has been devoted to the knitting together and fusion of three networks, including a transaction network that covers around-the-clock omni-channel shopping scenarios, a warehousing and distribution network that serves nationwide and extends globally, and a service network that is enabled by intelligent technologies. It will join hands with partners across a variety of industries to bolster the development of the real economy.

(liujun215@jd.com)

Jul 21, 2022| JD Technology, US

JD Joins Hands with Intel to Further Enhance Digital Intelligence

Doris Liu

by Doris Liu

JD Cloud announced the launch of a virtualization engine, Jing Gang 2.0 (京刚2.0), during its annual cloud summit last week, among an array of other tech products to better unleash the capabilities of a digitally intelligent supply chain. Behind the scenes is JD’s resolution of pushing digital intelligence and its seamless collaboration with partners such as Intel, the world’s leading chipmaker, to implement the technologies into practice.

As the industry-leading software and hardware integrated virtualization engine, Jing Gang 2.0 offloads the virtualization to a dedicated hardware for acceleration, boosting storage performance by 10 times when integrated with the unified storage platform Yun Hai (云海, meaning “Cloud Sea”).

Supporting the prime performance of Jing Gang 2.0 is the bare metal cloud host jointly developed by JD and Intel. Based on Intel FPGA and Xeon processors, JD Cloud has developed its own smartNIC to secure a safe and efficient computing environment. Intel Memory Failure Prediction and recovery system, which was collaboratively developed and deployed by both companies, has also improved the reliability and stability of the cloud infrastructure by nearly 40 percent.

Furthermore, the two parties released an overall solution of cold-plate liquid cooling for both the data center level and microprocessor level at the Cloud Summit, promoting the development of the environment and liquid cooling technology with a long-term pursuit of more sustainable green datacenters.

JD Cloud is now working with Intel to further establish a secure and reliable computing environment based on Intel Software Guard Extensions of the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor.

“Together with our partners, we are driving the application of intelligent technologies to deepen the digital transformation in a wide range of professions and industries,” said Yali Liang, Intel’s vice president in the Sales, Marketing and Communications Group, in her speech at the summit.

As strategic partners, Intel and JD have been working together for 13 years on retail, datacenter businesses and more. The two sides have carried out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation around cloud computing, artificial intelligence, green and low-carbon datacenters and other areas, aiming at driving innovations and leveraging cloud capabilities to benefit businesses all over the world.

(liujun215@jd.com)