Suzhou Institute of Artificial Intelligence (Suzhou Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) was established in November 2024, jointly built by the university and Suzhou Municipal Government. As a new-type college of the university, it is constructed through a laboratory model. Guided by the basic principles of "product-driven, service-driven, and contribution-driven," and aiming at major original innovations, the institute takes market demands and industrial applications as its orientation, focuses on core products and key technologies, adheres to frontier research, technological R&D, and achievement transformation, actively cultivates and develops new productive forces, and vigorously constructs an integrated platform for government, industry, academia, research, and application. It drives forward in a dual-wheel mode with the Hillhouse Institute of Artificial Intelligence, collaborating in a differentiated manner, mutually empowers and coordinates with the School of Smart Governance, achieves high-level collaborative development with the artificial intelligence industry in Suzhou and the Yangtze River Delta, builds a highland for smart governance, and comprehensively serves major national strategies.