A leading Chinese high-tech company, SUPCON, released a new industrial AI model for manufacturing process automation on Thursday, amid a growing trend of AI products in the country targeting the entire industrial process, from design to production, operation, and services.
Based in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, SUPON developed the Time-series Pre-trained Transformer 2 (TPT 2) for process industries, including the manufacturing of steel, non-ferrous metals, chemicals, and building materials.
The model establishes an AI algorithm based on industrial time-series data and is a credible model that conforms to the first principles of the process industry, according to the company.
The model can analyze data and make optimizations automatically. It can detect abnormal trends in equipment and generate solutions to ensure the safe and stable operation of automated processing lines.
"We can use the data from the past week or the past month to predict whether the equipment will have problems in the future. Previously, we relied on experts to do this part of the work, but today we can use AI tools to handle the entire process," said Chu Jian, founder of SUPCON Technology Company.
Experts said SUPCON's model of TPT 2 is an epitome of China's advances in large-scale AI models.
China has established a comprehensive AI industrial system covering foundational infrastructure and sector-specific applications. It is home to over 5,100 AI companies, accounting for roughly 15 percent of the global total.
"China has seen rapid progress in large-scale models since 2024. We have seen notable progress in the models' basic capabilities, reasoning capabilities, as well as the understanding and generation capabilities of multimodal models," said Yu Xiaohui, president of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.
China's SUPCON releases new AI model for industrial process automation
