The Chinese railway construction sector is undergoing a revolution in knowledge transmission. The China Railway First Survey and Design Institute, which has a 70-year history, recently formed a deep collaboration with SenseTime to jointly launch the "National Railway Value Engineering Multimodal Large Model Application Platform," marking the first time traditional railway engineering design has embraced cutting-edge AI technology.

The China Railway First Survey and Design Institute was established in 1953 and has played an important role in China's railway construction, creating numerous landmark projects in both domestic and international railway engineering fields. However, with industry development and personnel turnover, traditional methods of knowledge transmission have faced serious challenges. Valuable engineering experience, technical accumulation, and design data have gradually been lost, and how to effectively preserve and transfer these core assets has become an urgent issue.

Facing this industry pain point, the First Survey and Design Institute chose to collaborate with SenseTime's "Big Device" team to develop this innovative AI application platform. The platform's breakthrough lies in being the first to introduce multimodal large model technology into the field of railway engineering design, capable of processing and understanding various types of engineering data, including text, drawings, tables, formulas, and more.

The platform's technical architecture is quite advanced. It integrates heterogeneous data originally scattered across different formats into a unified knowledge base system. Designers can quickly retrieve the information they need through natural language queries. Whether it's historical engineering cases, technical specifications, or design standards, they can be precisely located within seconds, significantly improving the efficiency of information retrieval.

More importantly, the platform features core functions such as intelligent Q&A, knowledge retrieval, and text auto-generation. When designers encounter technical problems, they can directly ask the system for professional advice based on historical experience and best practices. At the same time, the system can automatically generate technical documents and design explanations, significantly reducing the workload of manual writing and review.

SenseTime provided comprehensive technical support for this project, from underlying data services to algorithm model optimization, as well as upper-level application development, ensuring the system's stability and accuracy in real engineering environments. This deeply customized solution fully considers the professional characteristics and practical needs of railway engineering design.

Experts from the First Survey and Design Institute stated that this collaborative achievement not only solves the problem of knowledge transmission but also provides a replicable successful model for the digital transformation of the entire railway engineering design industry. With the support of AI technology, the new generation of designers can quickly master the valuable experience accumulated by their predecessors, avoid repetitive errors, and focus more on innovative design work.

With the successful application of the platform at the First Survey and Design Institute, this model is expected to be promoted to more railway survey and design units. This will not only improve the overall design efficiency and quality level of the industry but also inject new technological momentum into the high-quality development of China's railways.

In the broader trend of the deep integration of artificial intelligence and traditional engineering industries, the collaboration between the First Survey and Design Institute and SenseTime has set a precedent for the industry, providing valuable reference experiences for knowledge management and technology transmission in other infrastructure construction fields.