Xiaoice "no longer installed": the large model was recorded, the clone was officially released, and some people have earned millions a year

Jin Lei from Au Fei Temple

量子位 | 公众号 QbitAI

凭着AI，月入10万、年入100万，你敢想？

Don't believe it, several influencers with millions of followers have already done it.

For example, Hanzo Forest, she uses AI to open it like this:

Not only does his appearance and voice be the same as a real person, but he is also the kind that can reply to messages and make video calls and chats in seconds.

And this is another Hanzo forest created by the Xiaoice clones in this world.

In fact, examples of making money by AI like Hanzo Forest have existed for a long time, after all, such as Spanish AI Internet celebrity Aitana Lopez, was exposed to a monthly income of 80,000.

But here with the Xiaoice clones, there are simply not too many such examples.

It has been confirmed that the millions of fans who use clones to achieve "lying to win" with a monthly income of 100,000 also include Meiya, Maymay, etc.

Perhaps at this time, many friends who pay attention to Xiaoice will ask questions - hasn't Xiaoice launched the "Clone Project" before?

That's right, but this time it's very different.

Because Xiaoice officially announced:

Successfully obtained the domestic filing of "Xiaoice Large Model".

The quiet period ended, and a series of test products were released to the general public.

And the Xiaoice clone is one of the series of "official releases" this time.

After any creator is authenticated, he or she can clone himself and release it to fans through Xiaoice framework technology, and the data collection can be completed in as fast as 3 minutes.

As we have just seen, the released clones are consistent with the creator's personality, memories, knowledge, voice, and appearance, and can freely converse, generate photos and videos, and form a group life.

But the clone is also different from your real-world counterpart in that it can also communicate fluently in English and Chinese, and all of them have the ability to sing songs.

It's proper to stack layers of buffs on top of me.

So how many people have already turned on Xiaoice clones?

It is understood that during the previous test period alone, more than 800,000 creators in the Xiaoice X Eva APP have been attracted to clone themselves and release them to fans' private domains.

Among these creators, there are more than 1,000 clones of big V Internet celebrities with more than 500,000 fans on the whole network, and the total number of fans of the creators themselves on the whole network exceeds 700 million, making it the world's largest AI C2C private domain platform for the time being.

With the official release of the Xiaoice clone, a series of test conditions will be gradually released under the premise of safety, including providing creators with more training categories and configurable skills to further increase their clone income.

Not only that, now I can find Xiaoice clones in Taobao and Tmall~

So in addition to Xiaoice clones like Hanzo Forest, what are the other products in this series of "turning positives"?

Let's move on.

X Studio 4.0 was officially released, and AI singer Luo Tianyi announced that he would settle in

Relying on the Xiaoice model, the second official product launched this time is X Studio 4.0.

X Studio is jointly launched by Xiaoice and NetEase Cloud Music, which belongs to a specialized branch of Xiaoice framework technology, and the main focus is to create emotional AI singer clones.

This technology is not only accessible to everyone, but also for professionals, and it also opens up functions such as parameter tuning, which can make musical compositions more detailed.

With the release of X Studio 4.0, this platform has also ushered in a heavyweight guest - virtual singer Luo Tianyi.

As we just mentioned, thousands of big V Xiaoice clones all have the ability to sing, so X Studio has formed the world's largest AI singer camp.

is not only the advantage in quantity, but with the release of version 4.0, the sound quality of their singing has also reached a new height.

Covers a variety of voice types including pop, jazz, rap, rock, and ethnic.

And driven by the Xiaoice model, each AI singer can interact with fans in seconds in the comment area, with a complete ability beyond singing.

In addition, X Studio has also confirmed that it will continue the "free for creators" policy.

This policy covers new features that will be launched soon, such as generating music videos, as well as all new AI artists coming soon, such as China Tripod (a member of Japan's first virtual idol Kizuna AI Tripod Project), etc.

Up to now, more than 10,000 original works have been released by creators on X Studio, and some of their works have reached the golden single level, and have been played more than 600 million times on the Douyin platform.

Xiaoice digital staff upgrade

Xiaoice's digital employees can be said to be a classic and circle-breaking product, which is a clone mainly for B-end enterprise customers.

Including "Cui Xiaopan", the annual outstanding employee of Vanke Group, and the virtual anchors of the Daily Economic News "N Xiaohei" and "N Xiaobai", etc., are also the ones that have been frequently searched.

Xiaoice Digital employees have also far outperformed their peers in more than ten industries where they have previously worked, and the repurchase rate of customers has reached more than 80%.

For example, the "Merchants Ruying" digital employee platform developed by Xiaoice for China Merchants Group has won the highest index rating (outstanding level) of digital people of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.

With the completion of the filing of this large model, Xiaoice announced that it will officially upgrade its digital employee products from now on.

After this upgrade, digital employees have fully completed the four-in-one product architecture of Cloud+Edge and Present+interaction based on the Xiaoice model, accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises.

The new product digital interactive business card was officially launched and gradually rolled out, providing real-time intelligent interaction capabilities for each customer's clone avatar, supporting online self-service construction, WeChat mini program distribution, and interactive data statistics.

Same as the C-end clone, B-end customers can customize the dialogue style, knowledge reserve, business capabilities, interaction goals and other elements, so as to achieve 7x24 hours product sales promotion and customer lead collection.

At the same time, in response to the needs of e-commerce going overseas, Xiaoice's digital employee live broadcast solution has expanded the capabilities of dozens of small languages such as Vietnamese and Thai, as well as multi-regional dialects, as well as dual virtual human live broadcast and hybrid e-commerce live broadcast modules.

There are many more official releases and upgrades

The virtual assistant "summon Xiaoice" function, with the blessing of the Xiaoice model, has also been upgraded accordingly.

Prior to this, in the process of cooperating with Xiao Ai, OPPO, etc., Xiaoice has been able to provide services through virtual assistants, and also launched interesting gameplay such as singing songs together.

And now, Xiaoice officially announced that it will gradually start the large-scale model switch of the "summoning Xiaoice" skill on the third-party platform.

Not only can it achieve deep emotional bonds, but it also has the characteristics of low cost, high security level and stable concurrency.

It is understood that the new features will be updated with the Xiaoice clone, and on a monthly basis, innovative interactive gameplay will be continuously introduced.

In addition, Xiaoice Japan also has new moves.

Xiaoice's large model has won the top of many professional lists overseas. Among them, the open-source language model of Xiaoice's Japanese branch (Rinna) has significantly higher downloads and quality scores than peers.

According to the ranking released by Hugging Face, the world's largest open-source model community, Xiaoice has won many tops among all open-source language models in Japan.

In addition, half of the top ten language models in Stability AI's latest evaluation report are released by Xiaoice.

Xiaoice said it will further announce its overseas results and plans for 2024 in the near future.

What does it mean to be officially released?

The official release of many products this time, on the surface, the most intuitive feeling is that Xiaoice began to "deliver" the large model.

But behind the release action, there should be more precipitation and accumulation.

And this kind of long-term experience and testing may be the current pain point in the era of large models - commercialization.

Prior to this, Xiaoice has already implemented self-developed large-scale model products with different parameter scales and uses. At the beginning of 2023, Xiaoice made a judgment: hybrid model is the main form of future landing, and the larger the parameter scale, the better. The Xiaoice model was developed according to this judgment.

Xiaoice cloning is a representative application.

Judging from the fact that many Internet celebrity big V have achieved "lying and earning" through cloning, the Xiaoice model reveals a signal of a new paradigm of commercialization.

So what is the new paradigm for the commercialization of this large model?

Judging from the release of past generations of Xiaoice, the "unchanged in change" when technology and product iteration are updated is Xiaoice's business model, that is, the pursuit has always been to "create people".

In the process of communicating with Li Di, CEO of Xiaoice, he summarized this "creation of people" into three categories:

"Digital employees" for B-end enterprise customers, C-end users to create their own clones, and interact with well-known clones.

This is completely different from the past business model of API calling, because in Li Di's view, similar API calls cannot reflect the value of creativity brought by generative AI.

A better way to do this may be whether we can give it the corresponding value as we do to a creative person.

Just like the benefits that Xiaoice clones currently bring to creators, it is far beyond the way to call APIs, and it has been commercially proven.

Therefore, Li Di believes that:

The new business model needed in the future is Revenue Share, that is, the AI system can directly receive the return of the terminal derivatives from the final terminal derivatives it creates.

This means that our large model can't just provide API calls, but needs to do a lot of work end-to-end.

Another commercial practice of Xiaoice can also confirm this.

In February last year, Xiaoice and Netflix jointly launched the first commercial animated short film "Dog and Boy" generated by artificial intelligence in Japan.

In this animated short film, Xiaoice provides not only the function of generation, but also does a lot of work to make the entire generation of the end-to-end video animation as a work, making Xiaoice its co-producer.

So originally such an animated short film Xiaoice can get a return of about 20 US dollars per month, but in fact, in this three-minute animated short film, Xiaoice has received a value return of more than one million yuan.

In fact, in terms of commercialization, Xiaoice is continuing the commercial exploration that has been carried out before the large model paradigm, upgrading and helping these existing commercial products through the large model, accelerating and improving its development. Rather than looking for new business models alone for the big model.

It can be said that this is what makes the Xiaoice model different.

One More Thing

With the official debut of the Xiaoice model and products, we also found an interesting detail.

Xiaoice's image has changed from the cartoon style of the past to a real person.

Is that what you're looking forward to?