Science and technology are the primary productive forces.
People who master advanced scientific and technological tools are not only "promoted and raised", but also "one step ahead of others".
The AI big model is the most advanced technology tool that is popular all over the world.
"The emergence of intelligence brought by the big model is the basis for us to develop AI native applications." On October 17, Li Yanhong said at Baidu World 2023. On the same day, Li Yanhong delivered a speech on the theme of "Teach You to Do AI Native Applications by Hands", released version 4.0 of Wenxin Big Model, and brought more than ten AI native applications such as new search and new maps.
First, the AI big model, Wenxin 4.0
Li Yanhong is full of energy on the podium.
At the "2023 Baidu Yunzhi Conference" just past September 5, Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, pointed out in the award speech of Baidu "Wenxin Cup" Entrepreneurship Competition that "AI native application is the meaning of the existence of big models".
Li Yanhong said that the model itself does not directly generate value, and the application developed based on the basic big model is the meaning of the model. For entrepreneurs, "the big model is meaningless, and the application opportunities are greater". He analyzed that there are only Android and iOS operating systems in the mobile Internet era, but there are many particularly successful applications. Only by generating enough AI native applications on the basis of large models is a healthy ecological environment.
At today’s "Baidu World Congress" on October 17th, Li Yanhong officially released Baidu’s Wenxin Big Model 4.0 with the theme of "Teaching you how to make AI native applications by hands".
Li Yanhong explained the four core abilities of Wenxin Big Model: understanding, generation, logic and memory, and once again stressed:
"Without rich AI native applications built on the basic model, the basic model has no value."
At the Baidu World Congress alone, more than a dozen important AI upgrades of Baidu products were released in one breath, and nearly 50 immersive AI technology exhibitions were held at the venue.
Let’s walk into the venue of China AI Big Model 4.0 era.
Second, Wen Xin big model, application trust-mart.
Wenxin model is an industrial-level knowledge enhancement model independently developed by Baidu, which has formed a three-layer model technology system of foundation-task-industry, including basic models such as natural language processing, vision, cross-modal, task models such as dialogue, cross-language, search, information extraction, bio-computing field model, industry model and tool platform to support the application of large models.
The overall model effect, training efficiency, training performance and reasoning performance of Wenxin Big Model 4.0 have been greatly improved.
It is worth mentioning that Baidu released a number of products based on Wenxin model at this conference, such as: Baidu New Search.
"Search" is the first product reconstructed by Baidu through a large model.
Li Yanhong said that generative AI and search are a perfect match. Search, although still starting from that simple box, has surpassed and reconstructed the original search mode in the next step, which not only improves the search quality, but also breaks through the application scope of search and expands the product boundary. Such AI interactive search will lead the intergenerational transformation of the search industry.
There is also Baidu GBI (Generative Business Intelligence). Baidu GBI is the first generative business intelligence product in China.
Baidu GBI (Generative Business Intelligence) organically combines Wenxin Big Model with BI-like scenes, supports interactive dialogue through natural language, performs data query and analysis tasks, realizes "any table, any question", and establishes a new data analysis paradigm of "dialogue is insight" for corporate customers.
Traditional BI tools are difficult to find data, use tools and have limited index coverage. Both Excel and data analysis platform are designed for high-frequency (preset) scenes, so they cannot flexibly deal with various problems at any time. The analysis and insight of a complex problem often takes hours or days to complete. At the same time, these analyses are also a part of business decision-making. In the fierce and rapidly changing market, such a long decision-making cycle is usually unacceptable. The main contradiction is the contradiction between the high threshold of traditional BI and data-driven business requirements.
The emergence of AI large model technology has brought a brand-new "problem-solving idea" to these problems.
Baidu GBI allows users to "ask any one or more data tables with any questions and get a conclusion quickly".
At present, Baidu GBI has prefabricated three flexible access schemes for customers with different preparation levels.
? Quick experience, verification effect: For customers who expect quick experience effect, you can upload, query and analyze data directly on Baidu GBI page.
? Complete access, independent display: customers have their own front-end interface of the system, and the underlying capabilities related to the number of applications are all provided by Baidu GBI, thus achieving end-to-end integration and unified result presentation.
? Tool collaboration and ability enhancement: If the customer already has a perfect database and BI tool construction, he only needs to enhance the ability of "table inquiry", and can only access Baidu GBI’s intelligent number inquiry module to improve the effect and user experience, and the functions of data source access and presentation are still realized in the customer’s original system.
Among them, Baidu’s new library is indispensable. The new Baidu Library is a product that Baidu has reconstructed relatively thoroughly at present.
Baidu Library has 1 billion high-quality documents. Based on the understanding of these contents, it can write truly practical and clear manuscripts, which will neither be pure fiction nor general empty talk. Li Yanhong pointed out that, based on the four capabilities of Wenxin Big Model, it is no exaggeration to say that Baidu Library fundamentally changed its life and completed the evolution from "content tool" to "productivity tool".
For example, the function of "document generating PPT" is more complicated in understanding and deconstructing the key points, writing logic and content style of the article, and the difficulty is far beyond "generating PPT in one sentence"; "Wensheng Chart" charts data-based content and quickly forms analytical insight; Professional charts can be generated intelligently in PPT, which supports online editing and flexible modification; Long articles with ten thousand words can be summarized with one click, and personalized questions and answers can be conducted based on the article, so as to fully understand and learn the content of the article, and the functions of intelligent abbreviation, continuation and expansion can break through technical difficulties, allowing users to realize "intelligent creation" at will.
In just over a month, the new function of Baidu Library AI has been widely welcomed and praised by users, with the cumulative number of users exceeding 10 million and the cumulative number of uses being nearly 100 million. Accumulated PPT is over 2 million, and generated content is over 20 million.
Also, Baidu released the spiritual realm plug-in platform.
? Spiritual Matrix is a plug-in development platform for all kinds of developers, and it is the first plug-in development platform in China to realize the whole process automation.
The spirit realm plug-in platform faces three kinds of objects:
? Developers with development ability: provide a complete set of technical solutions.
? Developers with rich data: provide code-free solutions for visual layout, suitable for developers with limited development ability but data.
? Developers with ideas: provide plug-in creation methods for prompt debugging, and it only takes 5-10 minutes to complete development.
Li Yanhong said that the plug-in is a special AI native application, and it is also the lowest threshold and the easiest to use.
At present, 27,000 developers have applied to settle in the Lingjing plug-in platform for one month, covering 20+ fields, including legal consultation, resume generation, brain mapping, oral practice, contract review and so on. Individual developers account for over 30%.
As a support, Baidu released the "Star Start Plan" to provide developers with a huge flow pool, tens of millions of computing power support, billions of funds and complete ecological resources.
At the same time, Baidu AI Cloud Qian Fan Big Model Platform is the world’s first one-stop enterprise-level big model production platform launched by Baidu AI Cloud. The successful practical experience of building AI native applications is summarized into tools and methodologies, which are deposited on the world’s first one-stop big model service platform "Qian Fan" to help entrepreneurs and enterprises build their own AI native applications with low cost and high efficiency. Qian Fan not only provides big model services based on ERNIE Bot or third-party open source big models, but also provides a full set of tool chains and development environment to help enterprises develop their own exclusive big models.
There are 41 data sets and 226 sets of high-quality Prompt templates preset on Qian Fan platform, and 42 domestic and foreign mainstream large models are managed, providing Chinese enhancement, performance enhancement and context enhancement. For example, foreign big models such as Llama2, which used to have a good dialogue effect in English, are just as good in Chinese now.
As a result, Qian Fan platform has greatly lowered the threshold for enterprises to use, train and reason the big model. Enterprises can quickly optimize the model effect for their own business scenarios. In the past, it took customers at least a week to verify the effect of a large model. Now, based on a one-stop tool chain, it takes only one day to run through a model and see the effect.
By the beginning of September, there were nearly tens of thousands of monthly enterprises on the platform of Baidu AI Cloud Qian Fan, covering more than 400 scenes in manufacturing, energy, transportation and other industries.
In addition, nearly 50 immersive AI technology exhibitions were arranged at the venue of the Baidu World Congress in Shougang Park.
What makes me feel interesting is naturally the intelligent hardware that can interact on the spot. Here are a few examples:
[Add a girlfriend machine]
Drama-chasing artifact: a 27-inch super-large flat plate that can stand, sit and watch, and push and run at any time.
Fitness artifact: equipped with a small degree of AI fitness function, it has a wealth of somatosensory games and fitness courses, and can also score AI recognition actions.
[Qinghe learning mobile phone]
It integrates multiple functions, such as mobile phone, dictionary pen, telephone watch, translator, listening treasure, word card, etc., deeply integrates ERNIE Bot model, and provides full-link counseling such as interactive AI topic presentation, multi-disciplinary AI homework assistant AI oral practice, and AI precision.
I guess the school won’t let students take it even if they are killed, hahaha ~
[Small Smart Screen X9]
A new generation of small smart screen, equipped with a horizontal rotating pan/tilt, with a panoramic horizontal field of view of 360 and a super wide-angle field of view of 120; Support infrared night vision function, can automatically turn on/off infrared fill light according to the intensity of ambient light, and can realize 24-hour full-time and all-round home care.
Third, Baidu AI, pride of chinese
Artificial intelligence is an important driving force to lead the new round of global scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and it is of great significance to promote social development.
Artificial intelligence can greatly improve production efficiency, help improve the quality and efficiency of social services and improve people’s lives.
In manufacturing, agriculture, service and other industries, we will create more value for the society by optimizing processes, accurate forecasting and automatic decision-making.
In addition, the development of artificial intelligence will also help promote technological innovation and industrial upgrading.
The application of artificial intelligence technology needs corresponding technical support, such as big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, etc. The development of these technologies can in turn promote the progress of artificial intelligence technology, thus forming a virtuous circle and promoting technological innovation and industrial upgrading.
Finally, artificial intelligence can promote sustainable development.
Artificial intelligence can help human beings manage and utilize resources better, conduct production and life in an environmentally friendly way and achieve sustainable development.
At present, various countries have introduced relevant policies and measures to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence industry, trying to gain the upper hand in the global scientific and technological competition, and the world’s top enterprises are also racing against time.
The US government has put forward the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative, which plans to invest billions of dollars in artificial intelligence research and development and encourage private enterprises to participate. In addition, the United States has established a number of artificial intelligence research centers and alliances to strengthen the development of this field.
The British government has announced that it will invest hundreds of millions of pounds in the field of artificial intelligence and establish a number of artificial intelligence research institutes and centers to strengthen the development of this field.
The German government put forward the "Artificial Intelligence Innovation Plan", which aims to strengthen research and development and innovation in the field of artificial intelligence. The German government also plans to invest billions of euros to support innovative projects and start-ups in the field of artificial intelligence.
China government has listed artificial intelligence as a national strategy. China is also actively promoting international cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence, aiming to play a leading role in the global field of artificial intelligence.
And how will China’s artificial intelligence route develop?
Li Yanhong said, "The big model technology continues to evolve, and a large number of AI native applications will continue to emerge, eventually reshaping the industrial form and competitive landscape."
The big model and the AI native application, just like the operating system and App in the mobile Internet era, complement each other.
Baidu has made breakthroughs in these two aspects, taking the lead in making achievements, which not only opens up unlimited growth space for Baidu in the AI era, but also leads and enlightens China AI. At the moment when the global AI model is evolving iteratively against time, it has increased the core competitiveness for the AI industry in China.
As the leader of AI industry in China, the release of Wenxin Big Model 4.0 not only represents the stage peak of AI technology in China, but also reflects the pride of independent AI technology capability in China, and helps the new development of generative AI industry in China.
Author: Zhang Dongwei (senior Internet person, marketing expert, college student employment and entrepreneurship tutor)
This article first appeared on WeChat WeChat official account: Zhang Dongwei. The content of the article belongs to the author’s personal opinion and does not represent Hexun.com’s position. Investors should operate accordingly, at their own risk.