On December 13, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced the establishment of an "artificial intelligence (AI) standardization technology committee" comprising executives from tech giants Baidu, Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent Holdings and Huawei Technologies.

The committee will be responsible for “setting and revising” standards for various AI vertical markets, including evaluation and testing, datasets, large language models (LLMs), and application development management.

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Visitors visit the World Wisdom Congress exhibition in Tianjin, China on May 20. Photo: Xinhua

The committee has 41 members, including Baidu AI ecosystem CEO Ma Yanjun, Alibaba's cloud unit's vice president of standardization operations Judy Zhu Hongru, Tencent vice president Jiang Jie, and Huawei standardization department director You Fang.

The committee also includes experts from AI giant SenseTime, voice recognition leader iFlyTek, fintech company Alibaba Ant Group, chip designer Moore Threads and automaker Changan Automobile.

Experts and intellectuals from China Unicom, China Telecom and China Mobile, as well as from Peking University and Tsinghua University, are also members of the committee.

The establishment of the AI ​​standards committee marks a milestone after MIIT, along with three other government agencies, announced plans to establish at least 50 sets of AI standards by 2026 in July.

It is part of an ambitious three-year plan unveiled in May to lead work on setting AI standards and boosting China's national computing power.

In August, the Beijing municipal government established the AI ​​Standardization Academy, with the aim of establishing rules and standards for AI products and their applications in the robotics industry.

China and domestic companies are also actively promoting AI standards in the global community.

In September, Ant, Tencent and Baidu teamed up with US tech giants Microsoft, Google and Meta Platforms to launch the world's first international standard for LLM security for the supply chain.

(According to SCMP)