Shenzhen will launch a dedicated artificial intelligence data platform for one-person companies (OPCs) on Friday — part of the city's push to boost the new entrepreneurial model.
The new data infrastructure will offer cloud computing resources, AI model services and data API services to OPCs in an effort to lower the cost of innovation.
Through a unified platform, developers and companies can access computing power, call mainstream large language models, and use standardized data interfaces to build, test and deploy AI applications more efficiently.
GBAnexus, a government-backed big data center that operates the platform, said that computing resources will be available at 50 to 80 percent of prevailing market prices, helping reduce operating costs for OPCs and early-stage entrepreneurs.
A key feature of the platform is its access to more than 40 billion processed data records. Li Dongyang, director of operations of GBAnexus, said the datasets were built over four years through an investment of 420 million yuan ($62 million) and the work of more than 400 professionals, including researchers and data engineers.
Rather than providing raw data, the big data center has cleaned, structured and standardized the information into AI-ready datasets that can be directly used in AI applications, he said.
“The database will continue to expand in response to industry demand, with around 3 million new records to be added daily,” he added.
Li said the platform will also be open to entrepreneurs from Hong Kong and Macao who establish businesses on the Chinese mainland, supporting broader innovation collaboration across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The launch comes as Shenzhen accelerates the development of its AI entrepreneurship ecosystem. In January, the city released the “Action Plan for Building a Leading Artificial Intelligence OPC Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (2026–2027)”, which aims to establish more than 10 OPC communities with each covering a floor area of no less than 10,000 square meters, incubate 1,000 AI startup companies, and attract 10,000 AI professionals by 2027.
Chen Yanshan contributed to this story.
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