Tencent big model, although late, but arrived!

After holding back for most of the year, it still came.

Source|AI Blue Media Exchange

ID:lanmeih001

Author|Ye Er

Editor|Wei Xiao

Unlike Baidu's Robin Li and Ali's Daniel Zhang who personally stood on the platform to release their own large model products, at the critical moment of the release of Tencent's mixed yuan large model today, Ma Huateng did not appear, but handed the stage to Tang Daosheng, CEO of Tencent Cloud and Smart Industry Business Group.

But that doesn't mean Ma doesn't value big models.

On the contrary, as early as the shareholders' meeting in May, Ma Huateng had already made it clear that the big model is an opportunity similar to the industrial revolution that has not been encountered in hundreds of years, and Tencent is bound to enter it.

As for why compared to other large manufacturers, Tencent was slower to launch large models, and Ma Huateng's explanation at that time was also very loud - there was no rush to finish it early and take out the semi-finished product for display.

The implication is that Tencent does not pursue competition, but more pursuit of product maturity.

Until today, four months later, the Tencent Mixed Yuan model was officially unveiled.

In terms of release progress, Tencent is belated, and it can even be said that it is the last to release large-model products among large factories.

For large models, Tencent is indeed not in a hurry to release early, so the question is, is the Tencent mixed element large model released at this time really ripe?

Application, start with Tencent

According to Tang Daosheng, the mixed element big model is a general large language model developed by Tencent Full-link, with a scale of more than 100 billion parameters and a pre-training corpus of more than 2 trillion tokens.

Tang Daosheng said that the mixed element large model has strong Chinese understanding and creation ability, logical reasoning ability, and reliable task execution ability, and has made obvious progress in solving the common "illusion" problem of large model.

However, these words are also similar to the Wen Xin Yiyan, iFLYTEK Xinghuo and other friendly products released a few months earlier. As a latecomer, the mixed element model is also well aware of this, and emphasizes the application side and the scene side at the press conference.

"We focus on parameters and evaluations, but we focus more on application and practicality."

How to achieve it, start with yourself.

It is understood that at present, the mixed element model has been connected to more than 50 businesses of Tencent, including Tencent Cloud, Tencent Advertising, Tencent Games, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Documents, WeChat Souyi and QQ Browser and other businesses and products, and has achieved good results.

For example, Tencent Meeting has built an AI assistant based on the hybrid model, which only needs simple natural language instructions to complete complex tasks such as conference information extraction and content analysis, and can also generate intelligent summary minutes after the meeting. According to actual measurements, the mixed element large model has achieved a high user adoption rate in many aspects such as instruction understanding, in-meeting Q&A, meeting summary, and meeting to-do items.

In terms of document processing, Tencent's hybrid model supports dozens of text creation scenarios, which have been applied in the intelligent assistant function launched by Tencent Docs. At the same time, the hybrid element can also generate standard format text with one click, proficient in hundreds of Excel formulas, support natural language generation functions, and generate charts based on table content, which are currently in the closed beta stage and will be opened to users after maturity.

It can be seen that for the mixed element large model, Tencent is still prepared.

Embrace and bet

At the same time, Tencent shouted the slogan of fully embracing the big model.

This is a clear strategic direction.

In addition to releasing mixed-element large models, in June this year, Tencent Cloud launched a Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) solution, providing one-stop industry large model services covering model pre-training, model fine tuning, and intelligent application development.

Recently, Tencent Cloud has also fully accessed more than 20 mainstream models such as Llama 2 and Bloom, and like Hybrid Element, it supports direct deployment calls. Customers can create their own exclusive industry models based on mixed elements or open source models according to actual needs.

These are on the product side, on the application side.

In terms of investment, Tencent has also made frequent moves.

According to incomplete statistics, since the beginning of this year, Tencent has made four shots in the field of large-model venture capital, namely Wang Xiaochuan's Baichuan Intelligence, artificial intelligence developer Shenyan Technology, general large-model start-up MiniMax and Wang Huiwen's light-years away.

Except for Lightyear, the other three are star companies in the field of large-model entrepreneurship today.

In particular, Baichuan Intelligent and MiniMax are among the first batch of 8 domestic large models that passed the record on August 31.

In other words, just investing, in the first batch of big models, Tencent invested in two. In addition, the self-developed hybrid element has also been approved one after another, and there are three directly.

In the field of large models, Tencent can be described as a heavy position.

Why, Tencent is so optimistic about major models.

At the end of last year, Ma Huateng was very anxious and very crisis. At the staff meeting at that time, Ma Huateng, who was mainly encouraged in previous years, became particularly "sharp" this time, and even said bluntly: "The video number is basically the hope of the whole audience (the whole company). ”

Tencent needs a new story.

If at the end of last year, Tencent bet its hopes on Channels. But after this year, as the era of big models gradually comes, Tencent naturally has to bet on it.

After all, Tencent has been transforming the industrial Internet for many years, and fully embracing the big model is also a strategic extension. Let's see if Tencent can tell the new story of the big model?

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