"In the future, natural language will become the new general-purpose programming language, and as long as you can speak, you can become a developer and change the world with your creativity. On April 16, Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, delivered a keynote speech on "Everyone is a Developer" at the Create 2024 Baidu AI Developer Conference, pointing out that "AI is setting off a revolution in creativity, and developing applications in the future is as simple as shooting a short video, everyone is a developer, and everyone is a creator." ”
The three major development artifacts lower the threshold for the use of large models
Imagine if you could create your own AI assistant that can help you solve your worries and provide suggestions? In fact, such a scenario is not too far away, and at the Create 2024 Baidu AI Developer Conference, Robin Li turned this vision into reality.
Specifically, Baidu provides a powerful basic model series, which is the Wenxin large model series, and also provides tools to develop various applications based on large models. These include AgentBuilder, an agent development tool, AppBuilder, an AI-native application development tool, and ModelBuilder, a model customization tool of various sizes.
At the scene, Robin Li showed these tools to the audience one by one. First of all, it is the latest progress of Wenxin Yiyan and Wenxin model, he revealed that the number of users of Wenxin Yiyan has exceeded 200 million, the average daily API call volume has also exceeded 200 million, the number of customers served has reached 85,000, and the number of AI native applications developed by using the Qianfan platform has exceeded 190,000.
"In recent months, Wenxin's large model has achieved further significant improvements in general capabilities such as code generation, code interpretation, and code optimization, reaching the international leading level. He officially introduced the tool version of Wenxin large model 4.0, through the powerful Wenxin 4.0 dimensionality reduction cut out of the smaller size model, than directly take the open source to tune out the model, the effect is significantly better under the same size, under the same effect, the cost is significantly lower.
"People used to use open source and thought that open source was cheap, but in fact, in the large model scenario, open source is the most expensive. So the open source model will fall further and further behind. He used intuitive data as an analogy, compared with a year ago, the algorithm training efficiency of Wenxin's large model has increased to 5.1 times, the average weekly training efficiency has reached 98.8%, the inference performance has been improved by 105 times, and the cost of inference has been reduced to 1%. In other words, customers can now make 1 million calls for the same cost instead of 10,000 calls a day.
What are the three major AI development tools? The first is AgentBuilder, an agent development tool. Based on a powerful basic model, agents can be generated in batches and applied in a variety of scenarios.
AppBuilder is an AI-native application development tool. On AppBuilder, Baidu encapsulates and presets various components and frameworks required for the development of AI-native applications in advance, greatly reducing the development threshold. In just three steps, developers can develop an AI-native application in natural language, which can be easily published and integrated into a variety of business environments.
ModelBuilder is a tool that is more suitable for professional developers, which can customize models of any size according to the needs of developers, and further fine-tune the model according to the subdivision scenario, so as to achieve better results.
Is it possible for everyone to be a developer?
"Today, you can make an AI application without coding, and you can make an agent without programming. Robin Li said that with the empowerment of the basic large model series and the three AI development artifacts, in the future, natural language will become a new universal programming language, as long as you can speak, you can become a developer and change the world with your creativity.
So, is it possible for everyone to become a developer? After the press conference, the reporter tried AppBuilder, a tool that is known as "natural language can develop an application in three steps".
AppBuilder creates a page
First of all, enter "AppBuilder" in Baidu search, log in to Baidu account to open the development interface of AppBuilder, and name the application "Press Release Intelligent Assistant"; the second step is to describe the specific requirements in the role instructions, including calling the code interpreter, calculating the best combination within a fixed time, and output results; The third step is to add targeted "ability blessing" tools to the tool component, such as text correction enhancement, headlines, etc., to help with the calculation. At the same time, you can also add a "knowledge base" for creative content optimization. After these actions, a smart assistant is generated to write a press release.
The reporter tried to type in the request to write a press release for the Baidu Create AI developer conference, and after about a few seconds, the app generated a press release. During this trial period, the reporter found that there are relatively few tool components for application development to choose from, and the generated application has a similar ability to perform in the manuscript as Wenxin Yiyan.
Journalists create apps that "write" out press releases
However, AppBuilder is basically the same as described, and is "friendly" to developers with zero code capabilities, with almost no technical barriers.
At the conference, Robin Li also revealed that up to now, more than 30,000 agents have been created, more than 50,000 developers and tens of thousands of enterprises have settled in. "Our goal is to let everyone and every organization become the developer of the agent and create the most complete agent ecosystem in China. He said.
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