June 12,2025

AIR Research | DrugCLIP: An AI-Driven Ultra-High-Throughput Virtual Screening Engine Ushering in a New Era of Innovative Drug Discovery in the Post-AlphaFold Age

On June 6th, DrugCLIP (//www.drugclip.com), an AI-driven ultra-high-throughput virtual drug screening platform developed by the "Joint Research Center for Health Computing" of the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), was officially launched at the "Taihu Dialogue: AI for Science" forum. The platform was ...

June 09,2025

Congratulations! AIR Dean Ya-Qin Zhang Awarded the China Friendship Award

Ya-Qin Zhang, Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chair Professor of Intelligent Science at Tsinghua University, and Dean of the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), has been honored with the Chinese Government Friendship Award.Established in 1991, the Chinese Government Friendship Award is the highest accolade bestowed by the Chinese government to foreign experts wh...

June 07,2025

AIR News Alert | 2025 "Taihu Dialogue: AI for Science" Event Successfully Held in Binhu

In the midsummer month, a wave of innovation surges forth. On June 6th, the "2025 Taihu Dialogue: AI for Science" event was held in Binhu. During the event, the nation's first "DrugCLIP: An AI-Driven Ultra-High-Throughput Virtual Drug Screening Platform" was officially launched, and a batch of cooperation projects in the field of artificial intelligence were signed collectively. On-site, expert...

June 06,2025

Ya-Qin Zhang: Random Thoughts on AI (2025)

On June 6th, Ya-Qin Zhang, Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, and Dean of the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), delivered a speech titled "Some Perspectives on the Development of Artificial Intelligence" at the "Taihu Dialogue: AI for Science" forum.READ MORE: //mp.weixin.qq.com/s/AHfD2mbZED41-1cvcQCAZ

May 28,2025

Global leaders in intelligent driving gather in Shanghai to jointly map out the blueprint for autonomous driving's future - The 2025 "Autonomy and Beyond" high-end closed-door seminar was successfully held

On April 24, 2025, the "Autonomy and Beyond: The Future of Intelligent Driving" high-end closed-door seminar, jointly hosted by the Intelligent Industry Research Institute (AIR) of Tsinghua University and the World Economic Forum, was successfully held at the Sofitel Shanghai Hongqiao. Zhang Yaqin, CAE Member and Director of AIR, attended the event and delivered a keynote speech.READ MORE: http...

April 09,2025

Ya-Qin Zhang: Thriving in the Age of AI

Recently, Academician Ya-Qin Zhang from the Tsinghua University Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (AIR) attended the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship Award Ceremony and High Table Dinner, and delivered a keynote speech titled "Thriving in the Age of AI". He pointed out that artificial intelligence is the most transformative force in our era, and shared his latest judgment on the world...

March 30,2025

Ya-Qin Zhang: Embracing the "ChatGPT Moment" for Autonomous Driving

On March 29th, the China EV 100 Forum 2025 was held in Beijing. Academician Ya-Qin Zhang from the Tsinghua University Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) attended the forum and delivered a keynote speech titled "Some Perspectives on Autonomous Driving". He stated that autonomous driving will become the largest embodied intelligent application in the next five years and is expected to usher...

March 28,2025

"The Emergence of Intelligence: Transformations and Reflections in the AI Era" by Zhang Yaqin

Zhang Yaqin, Dean of the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University, has unveiled his latest work, "The Emergence of Intelligence: Transformations and Reflections in the AI Era." At present, humanity is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, with artificial intelligence (AI) reshaping the world in unprecedented ways. In this book, Zhang Yaqin presents his latest i...

February 01,2025

Tsinghua AIR and Shuimu Molecule Jointly Open-Source the DeepSeek-Version Multimodal Biomedical Large Model BioMedGPT-R1

On February 20, 2025, the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University and Beijing Shuimu Molecule Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shuimu Molecule) collaboratively launched an upgraded version of the open-source multimodal biomedical foundation large model, BioMedGPT-R1. Previously, in 2023, the two parties jointly released BioMedGPT, an open-source, comme...

January 23,2025

Congratulations! Professor Feng Zhao from Tsinghua AIR Elected as ACM Fellow

On January 22nd, 2025 (local time in the United States), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced the results of its 2024 election. Professor Feng Zhao, Chief Scientist at the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) of Tsinghua University, has been elected as an ACM Fellow in recognition of his contributions to the theories and practices of networked embedded sensing and the Int...

October 25,2024

Dialogue with Professor Martin E. Hellman

On October 24, 2024, the 6th session of the "Dialogue with Masters" series was successfully held at the Turing Auditorium of the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University. The event featured a distinguished guest, Martin E. Hellman, a recipient of the Turing Award, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and an emeritus professor of electrical engineering at Stanf...

October 24,2024

AIR established the Joint Research Center for Scalable Large Model Intelligence Technology with ByteDance

Recently, a founding ceremony for the "Scalable Large Model Intelligence Technology Joint Research Center (SIA Lab)" was held at the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University. The SIA Lab focuses on pre-trained large language model technologies, aiming to develop more general and scalable intelligent systems that enhance the performance of AI technologies in the internet d...