Mr. Sun Dong, Director of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Bureau: More than 12,000 government officials are using the local large-scale language model "Hong Kong Language Pass" internally.

"Hong Kong 01" held a corporate artificial intelligence upgrade and transformation exchange day today (May 7th). In his speech, the Director of the Hong Kong Innovation Technology and Industry Bureau, Sun Dong, pointed out that artificial intelligence is the core of cultivating new and high-quality productivity, and the government has been working hard to build an artificial intelligence ecosystem. The Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Research Center previously launched the first local large-scale language model "Cantonese Communication", which is currently being used by over 12,000 government employees internally; and the mobile version "Cantonese Chat" will also be released to the public in the second half of this year. Sun Dong mentioned that this year's "Financial Budget" further proposed to make artificial intelligence a key industry in Hong Kong. The authorities have been comprehensively building the artificial intelligence ecosystem and strengthening the application of digitalization and intelligence through various policies, digital infrastructure, computing power supply, technology development, talent and funding. In addition, the SAR Government is also committed to building the infrastructure of the artificial intelligence industry, laying a more solid foundation for Hong Kong's future development. The first phase of the Cyberport Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Center facilities was put into service at the end of last year, supporting the strong computing power demand locally and enhancing Hong Kong's research and development capabilities in various scientific and application fields. This year's "Financial Budget" has also set aside 1 billion Hong Kong dollars to establish the Hong Kong Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, further promoting the research and application of artificial intelligence in Hong Kong. In order to promote the development of the artificial intelligence ecosystem in Hong Kong and encourage the industry to make good use of the computing resources of the Cyberport Supercomputing Center, the SAR Government has launched a three-year, 3 billion Hong Kong dollar artificial intelligence funding program to support local schools, research institutions, and enterprises to use the computing power of the Cyberport Supercomputing Center to empower technological innovation and industrial development. Since the launch of the program in October of last year, multiple projects have been approved, with research areas including promoting local large language models, new materials, synthetic biology, and medical large models. These projects have been gradually implemented to promote research breakthroughs.