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Robin Li: Big models are about to change the world
Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, delivered a speech entitled "Big Model Changes the World" at the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum. He said that we are at a new starting point, which is a new era of artificial intelligence with big models as the core, big models have changed artificial intelligence, and big models are about to change the world. He pointed out that the big model has successfully compressed human cognition of the entire world, allowing us to see the path to achieve general artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is once again the focus of human innovation, and more and more people are acknowledging that the fourth industrial revolution is coming, and this revolution is marked by artificial intelligence.
Robin Li believes that in the future, all applications will be developed based on large models, and each industry should have its own large model. The big model will be deeply integrated into the real economy, empowering thousands of industries and helping China's economy create the next golden 30 years.
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Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng:
The development of large models has brought the dawn of general artificial intelligence
From May 25 to 30, the Zhongguancun Forum, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the China Association for Science and Technology, and the Beijing Municipal Government, was held in Beijing, where scientists and entrepreneurs from more than 80 countries and regions gathered in Zhongguancun to discuss the trend of scientific and technological innovation around cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, and clean energy. Wang Haifeng, Chief Technology Officer of Baidu, attended the Artificial Intelligence Big Model Development Forum, with the title of "Wen Xin One Word, Reading Breaks Trillions", expounded the big language model technology and industrial model, demonstrated Wen Xin Yiyan's ability in knowledge Q&A, writing manuscripts, writing poems, generating videos, reasoning calculations, and intelligent summarization in work scenarios, looking forward to the deep integration of the big model with the real economy to accelerate industrial upgrading and economic growth.
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Embrace AI across the board, Baidu's mobile ecosystem
To build "Personal AI" for a billion users
On May 25, the 2023 Vientiane Baidu Mobile Ecology Conference was held in Guangzhou. At the meeting, He Junjie, Senior Vice President of Baidu Group and General Manager of Baidu Mobile Ecosystem Business Group (MEG), delivered a keynote speech on "AI Reconstructing the Future", proposing for the first time to reconstruct Baidu's mobile ecology with AI native thinking, comprehensively "refresh" the user experience of Baidu search, Baidu APP, Baidu Wenku, Baidu e-commerce and other products and services, and promote the triple transformation of human-computer interaction, content production, marketing and commerce.
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First batch! Become a big model partner in Beijing!
On May 19, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, the Zhongguancun Administrative Committee of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and the Municipal Development and Reform Commission jointly launched the "Beijing General Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Partnership Program". Baidu Intelligent Cloud became the first model partner.
Model partners are solution service providers serving government affairs, industry, medical care, transportation, finance, education, cultural tourism and other industries, through the traction of typical industry scenarios, develop industry models on the basis of general large models, land industry applications and provide daily services, open up the last mile of model as a service, and feed back the iteration of general large model technology with industry models.
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The intelligent cockpit enters the era of large models,
Voice remote control interaction is about to become a thing of the past
On May 23, Baidu's Apollo automotive intelligent business demonstrated the exploration results of a new generation of AI intelligent cabin based on the Wenxin big model. It is reported that this is the first domestic large-scale model application in the automotive industry to explore the results, and is expected to promote mass production in the future. Baidu Apollo innovatively demonstrated that based on the exploration of Wenxin big model capabilities, the smart cabin will have a number of capabilities such as conversational interaction, logical reasoning, strategic planning and knowledge Q&A in travel scenarios, and also demonstrated the ultimate experience of covering the multi-tone zone of the whole car, millisecond-level response, and wake-up-free full-time interaction under the current command-based interaction of the intelligent cabin.
These forward-looking achievements have made industry users truly feel that the conversational interactive revolution based on the big language model is coming! Each car will be equipped with an AI all-round assistant that understands users better to better meet the needs of every driver and passenger.
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50 times better inference performance,
Large model application scenarios accelerate expansion
Since March 27, Baidu Intelligent Cloud Wenxin Big Model Technology Exchange Conference has been carried out for customers and partners across the country, and the fourth session landed in Shenzhen on May 23. With the in-depth development of large model technology, new paradigms, new performances and new scenarios for AI R&D and application have been born. With the support of Wenxin Qianfan's large model platform, through the end-to-end optimization of the four-layer architecture, the reasoning performance of Wenxin Yiyan in high-frequency scenarios has been further improved by 5 times compared with the previous month. This means that since the internal test, the reasoning performance of Wen Xin Yiyan in high-frequency scenarios has been improved by 50 times.
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Brands and influencers go to the new wave of AIGC,
Baidu Content Marketing Exclusive Furnace Meeting was successfully held
On May 25, the 2023 Vientiane Baidu Mobile Ecology Conference was officially held in Guangzhou. Baidu's mobile ecosystem is comprehensively "refreshing" the user experience of Baidu search, Baidu APP, Baidu library, Baidu e-commerce and other products and services, promoting the triple transformation of human-computer interaction, content production, marketing and commerce.
In this context, Baidu Star Selection held a brand exclusive fireside meeting in Guangzhou with the theme of "100 Imaginations in the New Era of Content Marketing", inviting brand representatives from automobiles, education, real estate, fashion, finance and other fields, representative creators of platforms such as Freeroad FREEROAD, Home Editor Allen, Dr. Xiangzi, and relevant responsible persons of Baidu platform to jointly study hot topics such as the new trend of Baidu influencer marketing and the development trend of AIGC in content marketing. Inject new impetus into the brand's business growth.
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Baidu Map was released
Baidu Private Network Map (DuGIS) 6.0
Recently, the 12th WGDC2023 Global Geographic Information Developers Conference was successfully held in Beijing, as the most influential event in the field of aerospace information, its annual conference results and innovative ideas have brought far-reaching impact to the industry, and are known as "the vane of science and technology and industrial innovation" by the industry. Liao Gong, product architect of Baidu Private Network Map, delivered a speech at the "Map Ecology Innovation Summit" and officially released the newly upgraded Baidu Private Network Map (DuGIS) 6.0 to help the real economy transform and upgrade with the help of digital technology.
"As a privatized map platform with spatiotemporal data + model + API services, Baidu Private Network Map hopes that the new products released this time can play a more important value in the digital intelligence era. In the future, Baidu Map will further deepen industry cooperation to meet the needs of government and enterprise map business scenarios in thousands of industries, and jointly draw the future in this digital intelligence era." Liao said.
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