According to the website of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, starting from August 22nd, the zone will begin to apply for computing power coupons for the first half of 2025, with the application period until September 12th. The reporter noticed that not only Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, but also many places have been increasing their support for the ecological development of the artificial intelligence industry since the beginning of this year. Among them, the distribution of reward and subsidy mechanisms such as computing power vouchers and corpus vouchers is one of the important measures. For example, on August 21st, the "Several Policies for Chengdu to Build a New High for the Development of Artificial Intelligence Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the "Several Policies") were released and will be implemented from September 18th. Among them, it is clear to "optimize the supply of computing power", encourage the universal supply of high-quality computing power, and issue no more than 100 million yuan of computing power coupons annually to support computing power service institutions to provide high-quality computing power services to computing power demanders. At the same time, the "Several Policies" explicitly "encourage the use of models" and encourage enterprises to widely apply artificial intelligence big models. For enterprises that use models through API (application programming interface) calls, cloud deployment, and other methods, a subsidy of up to 1 million yuan will be given, not exceeding 30% of the annual model usage fee. For example, on August 9th, the "Several Policy Measures to Support the Ecological Development of the Artificial Intelligence Industry in Henan Province" (hereinafter referred to as the "Policy Measures") were released, which clearly stated the need to "strengthen computing power supply services" and proposed the establishment of a computing power platform operation settlement sharing mechanism with computing power vouchers as the core, with a total annual distribution of computing power vouchers not exceeding 50 million yuan. For example, on July 28th, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology released the "Several Measures to Further Expand the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Shanghai", which clearly stated "reducing the cost of intelligent computing power", "expanding the application of artificial intelligence big models", "supporting the procurement of high-quality language materials", etc., and correspondingly proposed to issue 600 million yuan of computing power vouchers, 300 million yuan of model vouchers, and 100 million yuan of language material vouchers. The introduction of reward and subsidy mechanisms such as computing power coupons and corpus coupons in various regions is a necessary measure to address the key pain points in the development of the artificial intelligence industry. ”Zhu Keli, the founding director of the National Research Institute for New Economy, stated in an interview with reporters that the core costs of such industries are concentrated in computing power, data, and model training, and small and medium-sized enterprises are often excluded due to high costs. Computing vouchers can directly lower the threshold for enterprises to use intelligent computing power, allowing start-up teams to also access top computing resources; Corpus vouchers solve the problem of data acquisition - high-quality corpora are the "food" for training large models, and policies support enterprises to purchase high-quality corpora to avoid model "malnutrition" caused by data shortages. The artificial intelligence industry has the characteristics of high investment and long cycle, especially in terms of high costs in computing power, data, and model training. Computing vouchers can significantly reduce the research and development costs of enterprises, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in cutting-edge technology exploration and solve the dilemma of 'not being able to afford'. ”Song Xiangqing, Vice President of the China Society of Business Economics, told reporters that the introduction of various reward and subsidy mechanisms such as computing power coupons and corpus coupons in various regions is of great urgency and necessity for promoting the development of the artificial intelligence industry. It is not only conducive to breaking through the core bottleneck of industrial development, reducing the threshold for technological research and development, activating innovation momentum, but also conducive to optimizing resource allocation, improving factor utilization, accelerating technology landing, and cultivating a more advanced and adapted industrial ecology. In addition to incentive mechanisms such as computing power coupons and corpus coupons, reporters have noticed that policies in various regions have also proposed support measures for the artificial intelligence industry from a financial perspective. For example, the aforementioned "Policy Measures" issued by Henan Province propose to "carry out diversified investment and financing services", establish a total scale of 3 billion yuan artificial intelligence industry fund, strengthen patient capital, explore support mechanisms such as investment subsidy linkage and investment loan linkage, and meet the financing needs of artificial intelligence enterprises at different stages of their life cycle. Relying on mechanisms such as financial reception rooms and small and micro enterprise financing docking, guide and organize financial institutions to provide distinctive, specialized, and normalized financial products and services for artificial intelligence enterprises. For example, the "Several Policies" launched by Chengdu strengthen financial support and reward enterprises that receive angel investment, venture capital, and private equity investment. Zhu Keli believes that improving the investment and financing ecosystem is one of the directions to efficiently support the artificial intelligence industry ecosystem. Artificial intelligence industry funds should pay more attention to "early investment in small investments in hard technology", while exploring innovative models such as "computing power conversion" and "data investment" to turn resources into capital. (New Society)