Announces ten trends that will shape industries in years to comeAlibaba DAMO Academy , the global research initiative by Alibaba Group, has shared its annual forecasting of the leading technology trends that could shape many industries in the years ahead.
Other rising trends in DAMO’s forecast include pre-trained multimodal foundation models, chiplets, processing in memory, hardware-software integrated cloud computing architecture, predictable fabric based on edge-cloud synergy, computational imaging, as well as large-scale urban digital twins. “The innovation driven by the advancement of technologies and their industry-specific application has become an irreversible trend,” Zhang said.
DAMO said the two engines are perfect complements to each other, and when used in tandem, can improve the speed and quality of decision making. However, in the future, this technology is expected to be widely used in a variety of scenarios to support dynamic, comprehensive and real-time resource allocation, such as real-time electricity dispatching, optimisation of port throughput, assignment of airport stands, and improvement of manufacturing processes.