Revealing the story behind the upcoming official announcement of the Chinese version of ChatGPT!

Li Guangman rated 1262 at freezing point

Recently, ChatGPT has been born out of the circle, almost everyone feels the heat brought by ChatGPT, our lives, society, economy and even social ethics will be affected by ChatGPT?

Some people say that ChatGPT will bring a new wave of industrial revolution. Some people ask, why is the United States leading the new wave of industrial revolution this time? Is China once again being left far behind by the United States? Which company will launch its first ChatGPT? It is reported that China has Baidu, 360, iFLYTEK, Ali and many other artificial intelligence companies to ChatGPT, Huawei also said that there has been a layout in this regard, so who will be the Chinese technology company at the forefront this time?

I think the answer will be revealed soon. On February 28, 2023, Baidu officially announced that Baidu plans to hold a press conference at its Beijing headquarters on March 16, with a theme revolving around Wen Xin. It has been reported that Wen Xin, which is about to complete the closed beta and is open to the public, will be the first Chinese version of ChatGPT, which will undoubtedly bring great expectations to everyone. If this judgment is accurate, China's ChatGPT will be only four months later than the United States' launch of ChatGPT, and the distance between China and the United States in artificial intelligence technology will be even closer.

Does this mean that China's first large-scale model, ChatGPT, is about to be unveiled to the public? Will the first Chinese version of ChatGPT be the long-dormant Baidu?

ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI in the United States, which immediately exploded out of the circle after its release on November 30, 2022, triggering a wave of ChatAGPT that caught everyone off guard. In just two months, the chat machine reached 100 million monthly active users, making it the fastest growing consumer app in history. 360 Chairman Zhou Hongyuan said that ChatGPT will bring a new industrial revolution, and suggested to build China's "Microsoft + OpenAI" combination to lead the research of large model technology.

With the tide of ChatGPT, in addition to marveling at the power of ChatGPT, people are also worried that ChatGPT may bring a huge crisis to mankind, and ChatGPT may bring some destructive power to mankind while bringing good news to mankind. Some Chinese are worried that ChatGPT in the United States will once again crush China's science and technology innovation enterprises and form an intergenerational lead that is difficult to catch up with China? Will China once again be left behind by the U.S. industrial innovation storm?

This concern is completely understandable, and at a time when the advantages of artificial intelligence technology are likely to change the global geopolitical pattern and change the situation of great power competition, we cannot overestimate the importance of ChatGPT. ChatGPT will greatly change the state of productivity development, will also greatly change the state of scientific and technological competition in various countries, and even form a huge intergenerational crushing gap in the military field, ChatGPT to our science and technology, military, industry, life modernization impact and impact is huge, is likely to be immeasurable, may have a revolutionary, subversive impact. When ChatGPT in the United States came out, everyone was completely justified in worrying about whether China would lag significantly behind the United States in this field, and whether there would be a Chinese version of ChatGPT in China.

It is precisely because of this that everyone will anxiously and even a little anxiously wait for China's ChatGPT and related industries to rise against the wind and compete with the ChatGPT industry in the United States, so that China's ChatGPT industry and the ChatGPT industry in the United States will lead the tide of industrial revolution and bring strong competitiveness to China's future. Perhaps this competition is not only related to the competition of the artificial intelligence industry, but also related to the national scientific and technological competition, and related to the rise and fall of the national fortune.

The words of Wen Xin (English name: ERNIE Bot), which is about to be officially announced, is likely to be the phoenix that suffered in the fire and was reborn in nirvana, and it is likely to be Baidu, the big bird that we were familiar with but seemed to fade out of everyone's sight, and soared back to the sky after reviving. China's version of ChatGPT, is Baidu's Wenxin worth looking forward to?

Most of us probably only know that Baidu is a search engine Internet company, and its main business is Baidu search and Baidu map. However, Baidu has been very similar to the phoenix in the fire written by Guo Moruo over the years, and has been accompanied by great hardship and even pain in the difficult transformation from an Internet company to the AI industry, and Baidu seems to have fallen behind from the camp of the original three Internet giants of BAT, and the expansion of business areas is far less crazy and ostentatious than Ali and Tengxun.

If it weren't for the Baidu search engine and Baidu map that we use every day, there may really be many people who don't know what Baidu has been doing all these years, and is Baidu already incorruptible? Coming soon?

However, when Baidu officially announced that the Chinese version of ChatGPT, which they have developed for many years, was about to come out, we may all be shocked by the news. Chinese version of ChatAGP? Is it worth looking forward to?

In September 2022, Robin Li made a judgment at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Conference: the development of artificial intelligence has "changed directionally at the technical level and commercial application level". On February 17, 2023, Baidu Intelligent Cloud announced at the 2023 AI+ Industrial Internet Summit Forum that Wen Xin Yiyan will provide external services through Baidu Intelligent Cloud, taking the lead in landing in industries and scenarios related to content and information. Shen Ke, executive vice president of Baidu Group and president of Baidu Intelligent Cloud Business Group, said that Wen Xin's words are based on Baidu's intelligent cloud technology to create a large model, which will fundamentally change the rules of the game in the cloud market, and cloud services will leap from the digital era to the intelligent era. On February 22, 2023, Robin Li announced plans to integrate a number of mainstream businesses with Wen Xin to help Baidu increase user stickiness.

In fact, Baidu has been deeply engaged in the field of search engines and artificial intelligence for more than 20 years, based on search engines, evolved artificial intelligence technologies such as speech, images, knowledge graphs, natural language processing, etc., and has a full-stack layout in the underlying chip, deep learning framework, large model and topmost search four-layer architecture of artificial intelligence, and Wen Xin Yiyan technology is located in the model layer, coupled with Baidu as China's largest search engine over the years accumulated massive knowledge big data, has long been in deep learning, The field of intelligent interaction has far more powerful artificial intelligence research and development capabilities than other Chinese technology companies. Therefore, Baidu's soaring in the ChatGPT field may be the inevitable result of their silent dormancy for many years, but they have always insisted on innovation in the field of artificial intelligence.

According to incomplete statistics, at present, more than 100 radio, television, film and television media organizations in China have announced their access to Baidu's "Wen Xin Yiyan", including Hubei Radio and Television Media News Center, Henan Radio and Television Elephant News, Guizhou Radio and Television Station, The Paper under Shanghai Poster Industry Group, Sichuan Daily Newspaper Group's Cover News, Huace Film and Television and other media and institutions have launched in-depth cooperation with Wen Xin Yiyan. Before ChatGPT came out, Baidu began to cultivate deeply, and now Wenxin's words may just be the beginning of its bloom.

Is Wen Xin's words worth looking forward to? In fact, after these years of transmutation, Baidu is no longer the search engine Internet company we remember, but an artificial intelligence technology company that has been deeply transformed and empowered, with super innovation capabilities, Baidu's business tentacles have long extended to all aspects of our society, economy, industry, and life, when Baidu accumulates and soars again, perhaps we will really be shocked by the newborn Baidu.

In August 2022, I had the honor to participate in the real-time test of Baidu's "Radish Run" unmanned autonomous vehicle in Wuhan Zhuankou Economic Development Zone, and when we rode a driverless "Radish Run" taxi in real time on the busy and trafficked roads in Wuhan Economic Development Zone, we were first worried, then surprised, and then shocked. Baidu really shocked us this time, driverless taxi operation has really appeared in our lives. Now "Radish Run" has been tested in more and more cities, the real running area is also expanding, and driverless rental services are becoming more and more deeply integrated into our lives. I think this is not only a technological innovation and development, but also a lifestyle change, "turnip run" is coming, how is its technology? Is it safe and reliable?

Baidu began to deploy autonomous driving in 2013 and has been deeply engaged in this field for ten years. In 2017, Baidu launched the world's first automatic enhancement open platform Apollo, Baidu Apollo has grown into the world's most active autonomous driving open platform, with more than 210 global ecological partners, bringing together more than 80,000 global developer letters, Baidu autonomous driving China patent applications more than 4,000, ranking first in China, "Radish Run" has been in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Changsha, More than 100 Chinese cities, including Wuhan, have opened manned test operation services, with a test degree of more than 30 million kilometers, and have begun commercial charging operation services in Beijing, Wuhan, Chongqing and other cities.

Apollo is a new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platform in autonomous driving countries, which is listed as one of the four "leaders" in the field of autonomous driving in the global research and ranking of global research institutions, and the only Chinese enterprise in the leadership camp.

In 2022, Baidu also released the sixth generation of mass-produced unmanned vehicles - Apollo RT6, which not only has the driverless ability of complex roads in scene cities, but also costs only 250,000 yuan, technological breakthroughs to achieve one-tenth of the cost of the industry, and has stronger L4 autonomous driving capabilities than the previous generation model.

It can be seen that in today's era of profound changes in global artificial intelligence technology and deep integration into human production and life, Baidu is not only deeply involved, but also leading the trend of this change.

In fact, Baidu is not only one of the global leaders in the field of autonomous driving, the absolute first in China, but also has extensive breakthroughs in more fields. For example, intelligent transportation linked to unmanned autonomous driving technology, that is, the world's first full-stack intelligent transportation solution with vehicle-road integration, is another major innovation direction launched by Baidu, they combine autonomous driving, vehicle-road coordination and intelligent transportation to promote intelligent infrastructure, intelligent transportation equipment and convenient travel services, and have been implemented in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan and other more than 20 cities and provinces of expressways. We can expect that a great transformation of intelligent transportation led by innovative companies such as Baidu has begun to enter our lives and have begun to change our society.

Supporting Wenxin's words and unmanned autonomous driving and intelligent transportation is the more basic Baidu Intelligent Cloud. Baidu Cloud is one of China's "Four Clouds", ranking first in the market share for five consecutive times in China's AI public cloud services, truly becoming the largest public cloud in China's AI services. Relying on its strong Baidu cloud computing capabilities, Baidu has become one of the leaders of China's industrial intelligence, and has deeply participated in intelligent technology innovation and solution solutions in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, smart energy, smart finance, smart city, smart medical care, and smart media.

In order to carry out a full-stack layout and be independently controllable in the entire industry chain, Baidu has also developed a high-end chip of Kunlun Core with all-AI algorithm, self-developed architecture, large-scale deployment, 7nm advanced process, Baidu Honghu chip for far-field voice interaction, and China's first self-developed, feature-rich, open source and open industrial-level deep learning platform.

In 2021, Baidu's R&D investment accounted for more than 20% of revenue, and in 2020, the intensity of R&D investment ranked first among the top 500 private enterprises, and the number of patents in Chinese intelligence in 2021 was 13,007, ranking first in the number of patent applications for Chinese intelligence for four consecutive years.

If we deeply understand Baidu's in-depth cultivation in the field of artificial intelligence over the years, know their high-intensity R&D investment in the field of artificial intelligence over the years, and the full-stack layout in the four aspects of the underlying chip, deep learning framework, large model and search, we can find out why Baidu was the first to launch the Chinese version of ChatGPT.

Over the years, we have inadvertently changed our lives through artificial intelligence technology innovation, the underlying chip, smart life, deep learning, and with its decades of accumulated knowledge and big data reserves in China's largest search engine, we have reason to believe that Wenxin will become the first Chinese version of ChatGPT, which is worth looking forward to. And we have reason to believe that China's AI innovation companies can shoulder the great responsibility of fierce competition with ChatGPT with the United States in the ChatGPT field, and believe that these companies can compete for China in the competition of this new industrial revolution.

Of course, we should be aware that China lags behind the United States in the field of artificial intelligence as a whole, which is mainly reflected in China's basic theoretical research and algorithms of artificial intelligence still lagging behind the United States, in the production of high-end chips affecting artificial intelligence computing power is still stuck by the United States, in terms of capital investment is still lagging behind the United States, high-end talent reserves are not as good as the United States, these aspects have a certain gap with the United States, this gap needs to be solved by artificial intelligence enterprises, but also needs the state to introduce relevant policy support. and provide strong financial support. Due to China's institutional advantages of concentrating on big things, having broad market advantages, coupled with the in-depth research and development and full-stack layout of companies like Baidu in the field of artificial intelligence over the years, it is entirely possible for China to emerge in the fierce competition with the United States in the ChatGPT field.

Wen Xin's words are coming, the Chinese version of ChatGPT is coming, and I believe that more Chinese companies will launch their ChatGPT into the track. In the competition that determines whether China can achieve a dominant position and priority track in the industrial revolution of ChatGPT, China's artificial intelligence manufacturers will not just be spectators on the sidelines, but will be the most important racers in the middle track.