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On May 9, 2023, after nearly two months of hard practice, Baidu once again held an event related to Wen Xin's words. This time, after 4 iterations and upgrades, Wenxin's ability to speak is more powerful, and one manifestation is that Baidu finally dares to demonstrate live again.
Live demonstration, there are too many unpredictable influencing factors, not to mention the performance of the product itself, but also at least include equipment failure, network delay, human input errors and other risks, as well as speaker silence, microphone out of power These factors should also be taken into account. At the event, sitting next to me were two media friends who had known each other for many years, and we both sweated for Baidu, "If something goes wrong again this time, it will inevitably be on the hot search again." ”
Fortunately, everything went in smoothly. The little brother who made the live demonstration and the keynote speaker cooperated with each other to accurately demonstrate the functions and scene integration capabilities of Baidu Wenxin and the "Wenxin Qianfan Model Platform" that is being tested internally.
The "Wenxin Qianfan Big Model Platform" mentioned here is the world's first one-stop enterprise-level large model production platform that Baidu Intelligent Cloud is promoting, which not only provides large model services including Wen Xin Yiyan and third-party large model services, but also provides a complete set of tool chains for large model development and application.
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Hou Zhenyu, Vice President of Baidu Group, and the relevant person in charge of Baidu Intelligent Cloud AI and Big Data Platform analyzed and interpreted Baidu's full-stack layout in the four layers of chips, frameworks, models and applications, and presented the management functions of Wenxin Qianfan visual development tool chain.
What they say is too professional for my readers to understand. Let me give you a brief example to illustrate the role of Wen Xin Qianfan.
I have seen "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon", in this novel, the Jiuyang Shengong is a world-beating divine skill, and it is also a basic model. This kung fu is as vast as a sea of smoke, and most martial arts sects do not know where to start.
Old man Jin Yong creatively proposed an operation plan: enterprises (schools) take the Jiuyang Shengong model as the core, add specific parameters according to their own needs, and "distill" out Shaolin Jiuyang Gong, Emei Jiuyang Gong, and Wudang Jiuyang Gong, corresponding to the three major schools of Shaolin, Wudang and Emei respectively.
Shaolin Jiuyang Gong mainly takes the road of fierceness and majesty, opening and closing, and excelling in kung fu from outside the family; Wudang Jiuyang Gong combines yin and yang, and often can defeat the enemy and win; Emei Jiuyang Gong adheres to the concept of "broad but not refined", although it cannot be compared with Shaolin and Wudang, but in the end, because the big model of Jiuyang Shengong is too powerful, it still overwhelms the three factions of Huashan, Kunlun, and Kuangzheng, and sits on the third chair of the Zhengdao sect.
In short, as a large model platform, enterprises (schools) can carry out innovation adapted to their own development and develop their own large models on this basis.
Similarly, for Wenxin, as a large model production platform, enterprises can develop their own exclusive large models based on any open source or closed source large model on Wenxin Qianfan.
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However, compared with the selfishness of the sect in "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon", which is unwilling to share core exercises with the outside world, today's era of big models is an open era. Enterprises like Baidu are willing to uphold an open and win-win mentality, take out the model, and let everyone use it together, so that the rivers and lakes of science and technology will be more prosperous.
I heard Baidu Yuan Foyu say that in the big ecology of Baidu Intelligent Cloud exploration big model, there are more than 300 "schools" such as Shaolin, Wudang, and Emei.
Of course, this is the tone of my statement, which according to the press release should read as follows:
Baidu Vice President Yuan Foyu recently revealed that Baidu Intelligent Cloud is exploring more scenarios and solutions to help enterprises better cope with the challenges of the digital era. It is reported that more than 300 industrial ecological partners have worked with Baidu Intelligent Cloud to explore the landing application scenarios of large models, which cover very core and valuable industries such as industry, finance, government affairs, operators, and education.
As a strategic partner of Baidu Intelligent Cloud, Yonyou is also exploring the implementation of intelligent assistant, intelligent knowledge retrieval, code generation, financial report analysis, and data report generation with Baidu Intelligent Cloud.
In this digital age, companies face more and more challenges, including how to improve productivity, how to better manage internal processes, how to respond to market changes, and so on. Through large-model technology and rich scenario applications, Baidu Intelligent Cloud provides enterprise customers with more comprehensive, efficient and intelligent solutions, helping them achieve better development in the digital era.
In short, Baidu Intelligent Cloud is constantly exploring more scenarios and solutions to help enterprises better cope with the challenges of the digital era. Through cooperation with industry ecosystem partners, Baidu Intelligent Cloud is building its own ecosystem to provide more comprehensive and professional services and support for enterprise customers. It is believed that in the near future, Baidu Intelligent Cloud will become an important partner for the digital transformation of enterprise customers.
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Just now we mentioned Yonyou, Wen Xin Qianfan is to Yonyou, just like Jiuyang Shengong is to Shaolin and Wudang.
With Baidu's Wenxin big model, Yonyou does not need to spend a lot of money to develop its own large model, and Baidu cooperates, the two sides have superior resources, and the office automation service can be quickly implemented.
At the event site, Lv Jianwei, vice president of Yonyou Network and president of Yonyou Research Institute, took the stage to share. In Yonyou's view, it pays more attention to Baidu's capabilities in several aspects, and hopes to explore and improve the following capabilities with all parties:
1. The ability of the model, especially the ability to express structured text data.
2. Platform capability, (flying paddle) localization is independent and controllable, and the use is assured.
3. Support from the open source community and more tuning services.
Tian Ran, assistant president of Kingsoft Office, also shared the cooperation between WPS and Baidu.
Tian Ran said that they observed that the model released by Baidu 3.16 was indeed not perfect, but later Baidu quickly iteratively upgraded with a weekly frequency, and saw that Baidu was making rapid progress. Now Kingsoft Office and Baidu Big Model have cooperated, and the respective advantages of both parties are combined, and the service landing can be applied to more scenarios.
Wen Xin Qianfan has certain advantages in security compliance, model depth, iteration speed, inference performance and other aspects, and has made progress in the joint development of multimodal generation scenarios such as intent understanding, PPT outline generation, model writing, generation of to-do lists, and Wen Sheng diagrams.
Note: Kingsoft Office did not make its own large model, but cooperated with the general large model. The division of labor and cooperation in the industry can better carry out services.
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Well, according to the sharing of Xin Zhou, general manager of Baidu Intelligent Cloud AI and Big Data Platform, we will summarize the following characteristics of the Xinqian Fan model when it is used, generally speaking, there are the following three aspects.
1. Easy to use for fools. Some companies purchase software, employees do not use it actively, and eventually end up eating soil. This is because these software are not user-friendly and do not significantly improve work efficiency. The Baidu Wenxin Qianfan model is mainly simple and easy to use, providing a visual development tool chain and providing data closed-loop management functions of data generation, annotation, and reflow. Customers can initiate model fine-tuning with a small amount of data, and can obtain their own large models in as soon as a few minutes.
2. Flexible deployment of public and private. Wenxin Qianfan model platform provides two delivery modes: public cloud services and private deployment. In terms of public cloud deployment, three services will be provided: inference (directly calling the inference ability of large models), fine-tuning (efficiently training large models in specific industries through high-quality and fine-standard business data), and hosting (publishing models on Baidu Intelligent Cloud to achieve more stable and efficient operation), greatly lowering the threshold for enterprises to deploy large models. In terms of private cloud deployment, even the corresponding hardware infrastructure is also provided, giving customers the experience of moving in with their bags.
3. It is safer and helps enterprises to build compliance.
Written at the end: What Xin Zhou is talking about is the competitiveness of Wen Xin Qianfan at the "art" level. So what is Wen Xin Qianfan's real competitiveness at the "Dao" level? The answer is simple: the four-layer framework with self-developed technology cooperates with each other to promote the continuous evolution of the large model, and the more you use it, the better!
This point is also the subtlety of the Jiuyang Divine Skill. What are the characteristics of Jiuyang Shengong? Anyone who has read the original work of Jin Yong's "Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon" knows that this exercise is the same as Baidu Wenxin's words, "the more you use it, the stronger" and "the more training value, the more you can play out".
The original text is clearly written: (Zhang Wuji) is not tired under his feet, and the Jiuyang Divine Skill that has been accumulated for several years is brought into play bit by bit, [the more he exerts his strength, the more energetic he is] ... His Jiuyang Divine Skill was originally [inexhaustible, getting stronger and stronger].