Using the large model as the CPU, the entrepreneurial project of the former chief security scientist of Alibaba Cloud was exposed
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Large-scale model entrepreneurship, the "safest" person is coming!
Wu Hanqing, former chief security scientist of Alibaba Cloud and P10 researcher, is now exposed to be involved in AI entrepreneurship after leaving Alibaba in May this year.
Qubit learned that he had set up a company called KMind in Hangzhou, which had already completed a round of funding by mid-year.
The founding team of KMind can be called a gathering of big bulls and stars, Wu Hanqing is just one of the representatives, and it is reported that there is also a doctoral supervisor from a laboratory of Westlake University to join, and the company is also a co-creator.
Moreover, Wu Hanqing plays the role of CEO in KMind, and another master controls the technical line as CTO.
Qubit exclusively learned that what this man who once "made Jack Ma feel at ease" is now going to be related to a novel concept:
Personal AI Computers.
What is a Personal AI Computer?
In May this year, when Wu Hanqing's status was shown as "resignation" within Ali, the news had already spread.
However, according to the rumors at the time, Wu Hanqing left Ali this time and wanted to start a business in the AI short video track. At that time, some media asked Wu Hanqing himself and Ali for verification, but they did not receive a response.
Now that everything is clear, what Wu Hanqing wants to do in entrepreneurship is indeed related to the large model that continues to be popular, but what he does is a "personal AI computer".
Searching the Chinese Internet, there are few results related to this term, it is neither the consensus in the industry, nor has anyone come forward to define it for the time being.
So a personal AI computer, what exactly is it?
After inquiring about the qubits, he sketched a general outline for everyone, which can probably outline what Wu Hanqing and his entrepreneurial team want to do.
First of all, a brief understanding of the background -
Before the advent of personal computers, large-scale computers were monopolized by large enterprises, but in the Internet era, data was controlled by Internet giants, and once again formed a monopoly.
Wu Hanqing wants to make a personal AI computer, mainly based on this background to do two things.
On the one hand, it is about the miniaturization of mainframe computers.
According to the multi-party mining of qubits, the KMnid team is trying to miniaturize the mainframe computer, and in the process, use the large model as the CPU of the computer.
On the other hand, they also want to break the monopoly of data by giants and make data work for individuals.
This goal has been partially achieved by cloud computing – computing equity has made computing services accessible to all, but this has not completely broken the status quo of data monopoly.
In KMind's eyes, to change this situation, it has to rely on AI.
At the same time, KMind is said to solve the problems that exist with large models (including but not limited to hallucinations).
Who is Wu Hanqing?
With a general idea of what the startup team is going to do, let's go back to the founders themselves.
Wu Hanqing, who was born in 1985, is known as "Brother Dao" in the rivers and lakes.
In addition to the nickname "Brother Dao" used in Ali, he also has many well-known code names, such as "Ali's Patron Saint", some people call him "China's young generation of top hackers", or he also has an affectionate code name "Xiao Hei".
As for the veil on this man, let's take a look at it little by little.
In 2000, Wu Hanqing, a native of Hunan, entered the junior class of Xi'an Jiaotong University and chose to major in computer science, and was a high-spirited genius boy in the eyes of the outside world.
A year later, at the age of 16, he founded the Phantom Brigade, an influential information security organization in China's security circles.
This forum has gathered and nurtured a large number of white hat hackers. Finally, in 2003, the Phantom was attacked by DDoS one after another, and due to a lack of funds, it was unable to fight back and had to be closed.
In 2005, 20-year-old Wu Hanqing graduated from university and joined Alibaba to participate in security construction.
In the preface to the book "White Hat Talks about Web Security" written by himself, Wu Hanqing shared his interview experience:
During the interview, my supervisor asked me to demonstrate my abilities, so I remotely shut down one of the routing devices of an operator on Alibaba's intranet, causing Alibaba's internal network to be disrupted.
Coincidentally, Ali established the "Ali S.H.I.E.L.D." (that is, the security department of Alibaba Group) in this year.
Next, Wu Hanqing's work is closely related to Alibaba's risk defense capabilities, including but not limited to designing Alibaba's B2B, Taobao, and Alipay's early application security systems.
Three years later, he has become the leader of the security technology team and the youngest technical expert in Alibaba Group.
In 2009, Wu Hanqing was selected by Wang Jianxiang, then CTO of Alibaba, and became a member of the Alibaba Cloud start-up team, participating in the security design of the entire "Feitian" system.
However, in the seventh year of joining Alibaba and the third year of Alibaba Cloud's establishment, Wu Hanqing proposed to resign.
In September 2012, he joined a start-up company called "Security Treasure" (which provides users with security protection services based on the SaaS model) as co-vice president.
However, this entrepreneurial journey did not last particularly long. Two years later, Anbao was sold to Baidu and Alibaba.
The founder Ma Jie went to Baidu with a large army (now Ma Jie has joined the domestic AI large model company 010,000 things), and Wu Hanqing returned to Alibaba Cloud with a small team - in September 2014, Wu Qinghan returned and became the person in charge of "Cloud Shield", mainly maintaining cloud platform, cloud network and other cloud security.
In the second year of his return, Alibaba Cloud had the largest DDoS attack since its establishment, the "901 Incident", which was also the largest DDoS attack in the history of the global Internet at that time, with a peak traffic of 453.8 Gb/s and 500 million attacks.
The 30-year-old Wu Hanqing led the team to resist the attack and became famous.
Gradually, some people called him "the most powerful hacker in China".
I have to say that with the development of computers and the Internet, there is always no shortage of hackers, Berners-Lee, Peter Costain, and Richard Stallman are all hackers, and Jobs is rumored to have been born as a hacker in the early days.
In 2017, 32-year-old Wu Hanqing was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of the 2017 Global 35 Under 35 Young Science and Technology Innovation Talents (TR35).
Google founder Paige, Meta founder Zuckerberg, Linus Tovalz, the father of Linux, and Apple design director Jonif Ethan have all been on the list.
But it's a bit funny, because of Wu Hanqing's strong technology in the field of security, some rumors are getting more and more outrageous, so that he himself has to go down and clarify a wave.
In 2020, Wu Hanqing posted a Weibo, refuting rumors and speaking out:
"In recent years, I have been doing artificial intelligence, and I have not done security. ”
Therefore, when the 38-year-old Wu Hanqing chose to start a business from Alibaba Cloud again and bow down to the current AI 2.0 era, it was not so abrupt and surprising.
And there are clues to be found under the iceberg -
Chapter 12 of his other monograph, Computing, published this year, touches on ChatGPT-related topics, as well as the existing problems with large models, in which he mentions a simple "general task framework" and AI networks.
Perhaps, this is the source of the idea that Wu Hanqing and his entrepreneurial team want to make a personal AI computer?
This was once called "China's most powerful hacker", and I wonder what impact the personal AI computer he is going to do this time will have on the entire Internet, and will it bring the current Internet into the 3.0 era?