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If there is one word to describe the socio-economic changes in 2023, it must be "technology". The release of high-tech products such as ChatGPT, Baidu Wenxin, and Apple's MR headset has brought a carnival about technology and unlimited imagination for the future.
However, a question has gradually begun to attract attention: how will similar artificial intelligence products cut into real user scenarios, and what business value can be brought to monetize?
Many companies are trying to find answers to this question. For example, iFLYTEK officially launched the iFLYTEK Spark Cognitive Model on May 6, and simultaneously released the application results of four major industries: education, office, automotive, and digital employees. After January, iFLYTEK upgraded the Xinghuo cognitive big model to V1.5 on June 9 to further promote the application of the large model in education, medical care, industry, office and other fields. How does iFLYTEK cut into real user application scenarios?
01 Spark "Re-evolution"
On June 9, at the 24th anniversary celebration of iFLYTEK, iFLYTEK Spark Cognitive Model V1.5 was officially released. This is only a month after the release of the Xunfei Spark model on May 6.
At this conference, Xinghuo Cognitive Big Model V1.5 officially demonstrated its three major upgrades in comprehensive capabilities such as open-ended knowledge question and answer, logical reasoning and mathematical ability, and multi-round dialogue ability.
"What is the essay question of the 2023 National College Entrance Examination A Paper, and analyze the meaning it conveys."
"The college entrance examination has just ended, and the child is about to start a new beginning, please write a warm letter to your child."
Even if Zhang San encountered a legal dispute and wanted to ask the big model to help write a complaint, iFLYTEK Xinghuo Cognitive Big Model V1.5 can cope with it easily.
Many people may wonder: what is the difference between content generated by large models and direct search? This is a great test for the language understanding ability of large models.
Wu Xiaoru, President of iFLYTEK, said that language understanding is the most important ability for big models to become human assistants in the future. By combining the language understanding ability and summary expression ability of the large model with the class search plug-in, the Spark big model effectively solves the industry problems such as the difficulty of updating new knowledge and the easy "Zhang Guan Li Dai" of fact Q&A, and realizes the 24% improvement of knowledge Q&A ability compared with the original.
In addition to open-ended knowledge quizzes, with the blessing of long-chain thinking reasoning and mathematical logical reasoning ability, "iFLYTEK Spark" has also ushered in upgrades in logic and mathematical ability.
"Farmers need to cross the river with wolves, sheep and vegetables, only farmers can row, and the boat is relatively small, farmers can only bring one thing across the river at a time. If the farmer is not there, the sheep will steal the vegetables and the wolves will eat the sheep. Please devise a way for farmers to safely bring everything across the river. ”
"There are three people in one boat, but there are two fathers and two sons. What's going on, please? ”
Whether it is logical reasoning problems or mathematical problems, Spark can comprehensively apply various mathematical methods to give answers under rigorous reasoning. For polynomial arithmetic problems that are difficult to input by voice or typing, you can also use iFLYTEK's "Math Problem Solving Assistant" to solve the problem by taking pictures to recognize the problem.
In addition, the upgrade of multi-round dialogue capabilities can also allow "iFLYTEK Spark" to complete specific complex tasks and talk to the examiner through simulated interview scenarios.
In fact, since the release of the Spark Cognitive Big Model on May 6, it has continuously received attention and recognition from all walks of life. On May 30, iFLYTEK was awarded the deputy leader unit of the Large Model Working Group under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and participated in the construction of the large model standard system 2.0 of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology. At the same time, the "General Artificial Intelligence Large Model Evaluation System" led by iFLYTEK has been highly recognized by the industry.
iFLYTEK Spark enabling products have also won the favor of the majority of users. The activation of iFLYTEK AI learning machine series increased by 214% year-on-year, the activation of iFLYTEK intelligent office series increased by 176% year-on-year, the new users of iFLYTEK heard website increased by 205% year-on-year, and all categories of hardware products achieved the "6•18" promotion.
02 AI landing, how to explore application scenarios?
The development of artificial intelligence has brought mankind unique novel experiences and unlimited imagination for the future. According to statistics, at present, domestic companies including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, ByteDance, Netease, Xiaomi, iFLYTEK and other well-known enterprises, as well as a number of bigwig startups and research institutes such as Wang Huiwen and Lee Kaifu are exploring large model related products.
But technology is not a fairy tale, nor is it a carnival of capital. AI manufacturers need to find a profit model that suits them as soon as possible, open up new application scenarios, and land in different industries in order to promote the development of the AI industry. This puts forward high requirements for the data source, algorithm, computing power, and hardware equipment of the enterprise.
At present, iFLYTEK has done more well in this field. Following its release in May, iFLYTEK Xinghuo Cognitive Big Model V1.5 has further broadened the empowerment of "N" industry fields. At present, iFLYTEK has released new achievements in the fields of learning, office, medical care, and industry.
For example, iFLYTEK upgraded the AI speaking assistant released on May 6 to the Spark Language App. With the blessing of the large model, the Spark Language Companion App can conduct open-ended dialogue, situational communication, sparring like a speaking teacher, and perform real-time oral error correction. Users can also use video conversations to communicate face-to-face with virtual human teachers and practice speaking in an immersive way. In addition, the Spark App also supports text, voice and image translation in 9 languages, which is a good helper for users to learn foreign languages.
In the office field, iFLYTEK released the industry's first conference room intelligent terminal equipped with a large model - iFLYTEK Hearing Smart Screen. It can realize dynamic meeting records, automatic organization and output of meeting content, and generate various types of meeting copy with one click, helping users work efficiently.
In the medical field, at present, 250 million patients are discharged from the mainland every year, and only 1.88 million doctors at or above the intermediate level, and the vast majority of patients are "discharged from the hospital". Based on iterative optimization of large model technology, iFLYTEK Medical comprehensively upgraded its post-diagnosis rehabilitation management platform, extending professional post-diagnosis management and rehabilitation guidance to outside the hospital.
The service capabilities of these post-diagnosis rehabilitation management platforms will be automatically analyzed according to the patient's health profile, and the platform can intelligently generate personalized rehabilitation plans for patients, including key focus, medication guidance, rehabilitation exercises, discharge follow-up, health knowledge, patient consultation, etc., and urge patients to implement the plan.
Up to now, iFLYTEK's post-diagnosis rehabilitation management platform has carried out close cooperation with Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Sichuan West China Hospital, Wuhan Tongji Hospital, Anhui Provincial Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Zaozhuang Municipal Hospital and other hospitals in post-diagnosis rehabilitation management, covering the main diseases of more than 20 departments.
In the industrial field, Xinghuo cognitive large model combined with the development status of the industrial industry to launch industrial AI - "Antelope Machine Movement". Small and medium-sized enterprises freely publish their needs on the Antelope platform, and Antelope gives professional suggestions and strategies for the needs of enterprises, intelligent matching solutions, service providers, experts and other resources.
In addition, the Xinghuo cognitive big model can also build an enterprise knowledge brain on the internal knowledge base and industrial knowledge base, and accurately locate problems in all aspects of R&D, production, service and marketing to obtain effective solutions.
03 Independent research and development technology breakthrough, why iFLYTEK?
From the release of the Spark cognitive large model on May 6 to the upgrade to V1.5 on June 9, according to the key milestones of the development of the large model previously announced by iFLYTEK, this year's "1024" will be benchmarked against ChatGPT: Chinese surpassed, English equivalent. This also makes iFLYTEK the only company in China that currently gives a clear time for the development of large models.
Why was iFLYTEK able to set such clear goals? In the view of Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK, this is not only because the company has good technology accumulation and a well-formed team, but also each key module is completely independently developed, and the software and hardware platforms are all run on domestic reliable platforms. With the joint efforts of strategic partners such as Huawei, Cambrian, and Dawning, iFLYTEK has a complete innovation system, which is the key to iFLYTEK moving forward steadily and giving a clear time node.
After the link of scene landing is opened, the future industrial development of Xinghuo Cognitive Big Model is also full of hope. Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK, revealed that there are currently more than 4 million developers on the iFLYTEK artificial intelligence open platform. At the same time, he announced that the Spark cognitive big model development interface will be opened, the seven dimensional capabilities and more than 200 small assistant corresponding capabilities will be fully opened to developers, and multi-terminal access will be supported for rapid integration, private deployment will be supported, and the ecosystem will be built with the majority of developers.
Supporting the continuous progress of iFLYTEK Xinghuo is the "1+3+1" innovation system, specifically relying on the self-developed safe and controllable large model training base, through massive data and knowledge construction, multilingual and multi-task unified training, and reinforcement learning based on user data, to build a high-performance large model inference platform that integrates software and hardware.
On the road of artificial intelligence, it is not difficult to pay tribute to and catch up with OpenAI, and it is difficult to do independent innovation at the source. It is reported that the National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence undertaken by iFLYTEK has been deployed in many fields such as brain-like intelligence, neural network large models, and game intelligence, exploring more potential paths and cutting-edge cross-research opportunities.
The innovation and development of science and technology ultimately rely on talents. Discovering and cultivating college students to become leading talents in China's general artificial intelligence era is related to the future development of Chinese intelligence. iFLYTEK also announced that it will join hands with the first batch of 22 national key universities including Peking University, Tsinghua University, and China University of Science and Technology to launch the Spark Model Scene Innovation Competition and launch the iFLYTEK University AI Spark Camp to cultivate leading talents in the era of general artificial intelligence for the future of the industry.
The development of any industry and industry is not achieved overnight, only by following the corresponding industrial logic and scientific research development law, with both short-term ambition and long-term perseverance, can we truly win in the long-distance run, truly solve the needs of society, and contribute to a better world. It is believed that iFLYTEK, which continues to focus on technological breakthroughs and scenario applications, will be able to allow the industry to enjoy more AI dividends on an autonomous and controllable platform and build a bright future of close cooperation between man and machine.
Author | Zhang Yu
Source | Quest Finance (ID: teccj6)