Recently, Baidu took the lead in opening Wenxin Yiyan to the whole society, which means that users can use their mobile phones to download the "Wenxin Yiyan APP" in the app store or log in to the "Wenxin Yiyan official website" with a PC to experience Wenxin Yiyan.
After Baidu Wenxin's APP was announced to be open to the whole society, it quickly topped the free ranking of Apple's App Store within 12 hours, becoming the first Chinese AI native application to top the app store. It is understood that since the opening of Wenxin's words to the whole society in the early morning, a large number of users instantly poured in, which once caused queues to wait, and Baidu's official response to this was "traffic exceeding expectations".
According to data from Baidu's official platform, from 0:00 to 24:00 on August 31, in just 24 hours, Wen Xin replied to more than 33.42 million questions from netizens.
As we all know, Baidu search is the largest engine in China and the most important core product of Baidu. It is reported that after Wenxin's words were officially opened to the public, more than 300 million times of Baidu search were solved by the generative intelligent engine on the first day.
The official opening of Wen Xin marks a major technological breakthrough for domestic Internet companies, and also means that the form of generative AI and Baidu search integration will enter the daily life of Chinese users, so that every user can reach Baidu AI, not just the B-end market.
In fact, as early as March 16 this year, Wenxin Yiyan opened the invitation, as the first generative AI product released by the world's major manufacturers, Wenxin Yiyan's basic model Wenxin model was first released in China as early as 2019, and the upgraded Wenxin Model 3.5 also continued to rank first in more than ten authoritative evaluations at home and abroad.
At that time, Robin Li pointed out that generative AI represents a new technological paradigm and is a major opportunity that any enterprise cannot miss. Although "Wen Xin Yiyan" was not perfect in the closed beta stage, it was still released in strong market demand. The app is positioned as a general-purpose large model with expectations to compete with ChatGPT and GPT-4. "At present, Baidu is the first company in the world to benchmark ChatGPT products." This is his positioning and affirmation of his own products.
However, after 24 hours of a large number of visits and experiences, based on the feedback of many users, the comments have completely shown a polarization trend: although Wen Xin Yiyan has achieved good results in various evaluations, there are still many places that users complain about in the actual experience, and its AI intelligence does not seem to meet the expectations of some users. In particular, Wen Xin Yiyan has weak ability in data logic and code, and gives many wrong answers.
However, for the same question, if the user thinks that the Wen Xin's answer is inaccurate, he can click "Regenerate" at the bottom left, and currently supports up to 5 re-answers. Wen Xin Yiyan will provide a review option of "this answer is better, worse, and almost the same compared to the last answer" for users to evaluate and feedback different answers.
In fact, many professionals believe that from a technical point of view, artificial intelligence large models are "feeded" through a large amount of data, from the current technology manufacturers have launched products, it seems that training large models is not technically difficult, but the key is to rely on high-quality data. Opening to the public and allowing a large number of users to participate in use is the best way to improve the accuracy of large models.
Moreover, the underlying logic of Baidu Wenxin's technology is based on semantic retrieval technology + large language model, which can fully understand any problem of the user while conducting voice interaction, and can help provide an authoritative source according to the semantics of understanding and provide the user with the focus of answers. At the same time, Wen Xin Yiyan also supports making pictures or copywriting according to user intentions, which is an "all-round" AI assistant mode, which has rich application scenarios for the majority of users.
The broad market and good business seem to be the most direct "gains" brought to Baidu by Wen Xin's words: as of the close of US stocks on August 30, Baidu's stock price rose 3.11%, quoting $145.080 per share, with a total market value of $50.720 billion.
In fact, since the launch of Wenxin Yiyan for half a year, Baidu is building AI native applications with the Wenxin big model and Wenxin Yiyan, reconstructing the product line and bringing new growth momentum. According to its latest financial report, Baidu achieved revenue of 34.056 billion yuan in the second quarter, and the market expected 33.29 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15%. Baidu achieved an operating profit of 5.210 billion yuan in the second quarter, a year-on-year increase of 53%.
However, the competition in the market is still particularly fierce, in addition to a few large models that have passed the review, the "Tongyi Qianwen" developed by Ali has completed the filing work and is waiting for the official launch. As the first list of enterprises to pass the filing, "Tongyi Qianwen" is expected to be reviewed by the relevant management departments within a week.
Previously, on April 7, 2023, "Tongyi Qianwen" began to invite testing. Judging from the time, the launch speed of "Tongyi Qianwen" seems to be slightly faster than Wen Xin's words. However, the dual empowerment of Wen Xin's words combined with Baidu search is an advantage scenario that Ali does not have at all.
Wen Xin said that it is still unknown whether it can truly become the "first in China" in the future and achieve the goal of benchmarking ChatGPT, but it is still expected that more large models will come out, so as to break through more technical barriers and achieve the dominance in the field of generative AI.