Ant Group has released the 2024 Technology Ecosystem White Paper, which comprehensively demonstrates the fruitful results in technology research and development over the past year. The white paper data is as of the end of November 2024, covering five aspects including patents, open source, standards, papers, and industry-university-research cooperation. It demonstrates Ant Group’s determination to continue investing in and making technological breakthroughs in areas such as artificial intelligence, as well as its efforts to build a prosperous technology ecosystem. . Many of the data in the white paper are eye-catching, demonstrating Ant Group’s leading position in technological innovation and international cooperation.
Ant Group released the 2024 Technology Ecosystem White Paper on its official technology Weibo. The data of this white paper is updated as of the end of November 2024, covering five aspects: patents, open source, standards, papers, and industry, academia, and research. Data shows that in the past year, Ant Group has continued to increase investment in technology research and development, especially in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), and continues to expand the breadth and depth of the technology ecosystem.
As of the end of November 2024, Ant Group's global patent applications totaled 34,576, of which invention patents accounted for 97%. The proportion of foreign patent applications is 35%. Among the patents applied for, more than 10% of important patents have been deployed internationally, involving the United States, Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and other countries and regions.
In terms of open source, Ant Group has open sourced 2,187 code repositories and more than 100 leading open source projects. In particular, the AI native data intelligent application development framework DB-GPT, which was open sourced in May 2023, has received nearly 140,000 community stars. Many companies have integrated it into production systems, and its application scenarios involve finance, government affairs, the Internet, etc. fields. At the same time, Ant Group has also established 86 international standards and 192 national standards, among which standards in the fields of security and trustworthiness, risk control and compliance, and artificial intelligence account for the highest proportion.
In terms of cooperation with universities and research institutions, Ant Group launched the "Ant InTech Technology Award" to encourage young scholars to conduct innovative research in the computer field. In terms of paper publication, from January to November 2024, Ant Group published more than 300 papers at top international conferences, 12% of which were papers shared on-site, with the highest proportion involving the AI field, accounting for 46% of the total.
Highlights:
Ant Group has a total of 34,576 global patent applications, with invention patents accounting for 97%.
2,187 code repositories have been open sourced, and more than 100 leading open source projects are very popular.
Cooperated with universities to publish 130 projects, and launched the "Ant InTech Technology Award" to support young scholars.
All in all, Ant Group’s 2024 Technology Ecosystem White Paper demonstrates its remarkable achievements in technological innovation, open source sharing, and industry-university-research cooperation, as well as its positive contributions in promoting technological development and building an open ecosystem. In the future, I believe that Ant Group will continue to lead technological innovation and contribute to global technological progress.