Track Hyper | Exploring the Future of Intelligent Business: Equal Rights for Individual AI Assistants

Author: Zhou Yuan/Wall Street News

Future Intelligence has taken another big step forward in terms of intelligence.

On May 15, FutureAI released a new generation of iFLYTEK conference headsets "iFLYBUDS Pro 2, iFLYBUDS 2" and "viaim Kit 2", bringing users new software and hardware upgrades.

This is a vertically segmented scenario intelligent terminal based on the underlying technical logic of "GAI" based on the product and functional framework of "traditional TWS sound quality and noise cancelling earphones" launched by Future Intelligence. At the objective level, it has played a role in enriching the ecology of China's AI industry.

Behind these new GAI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) products, the business thinking of Future Intelligence is based on such a foundation -

Hu Yu, co-founder of iFLYTEK and chairman of Future Intelligence, said, "Our goal is to realize the user's office assistant function in specific scenarios in the form of 'AI + hardware' products through the integration of software and hardware (deep integration), and achieve the ultimate experience."

Judging from the functions of the new iFLYTEK conference headset released this time, Wall Street has noticed that Future Intelligence, like different types of terminal companies such as Lenovo Group, OPPO, and Honor, has iteratively formed its business thinking into - using office conference headsets as the carrier to provide C-end users with personal assistants with GAI capabilities.

This is similar to Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, who called AI PCs a "digital twin" for individual users.

How can this business goal be achieved, both technically and commercially?

Contain: Focus on the vertical segmentation scenario

ChatGPT has been around for about a year and a half and 18 months.

In the secondary market, the enthusiasm for the GAI technology at the bottom of ChatGPT has also changed from initial confusion to high enthusiasm, and then fell into a trough, and then made a comeback, and Russia once again entered a relatively calm state, which can be described as a big ups and downs.

In contrast, the attitudes and actions of the industry at home and abroad are relatively flat. Compared with the secondary market, the industry is more long-term.

"From 0 to 1, China is indeed inferior to the United States. However, from 1 to 100, China's innovation ability is proud of the world. The CTO of a GAI technology company exclaimed when he talked to Wall Street.

From Internet technology to mobile Internet, the history of the development path of native technology and application manufacturing industry confirms this person's view - PC, Internet, functional and smart phones, AI and other native technologies all originated in the United States, and as a major country in technology application, China's exploration of the commercial application of original technology can often be "far ahead".

Generally speaking, the comparative advantage of the United States is technological innovation, and China's innovative application and manufacturing on this basis.

In terms of technology and application industrialization, similar to the United States, China's GAI industrialization path can be roughly divided into two categories: platform-level giants mainly provide general large models, while technology innovation companies focus on exploring the software and hardware solution needs of vertical subdivision scenarios; The difference between the two is that the United States has the dominance of software and hardware GAI technology: there are hardware companies such as NVIDIA and AMD that provide super computing power, and OpenAI, a leader in the exploration of AI-based cutting-edge technologies.

Future Intelligence, an AI startup from Hefei, China, is a representative of this industrial path: an office conference headset dedicated to the development of an intelligent terminal that presents the results of the commercialization of a ChatGPT-like platform, and is also an ecosystem for realizing business value, providing vertical scenario data and training iterations.

Ma Xiao, CEO of Future Intelligence, said, "Current experience shows that in the future, the more vertical the AI technology, the greater the value. Therefore, the technical direction of technological innovation does not have to pursue infinite diffusion, it is more valuable to be able to collect and deeply cultivate the vertical domain.

New products such as iFLYBUDS Pro 2, a new generation of iFLYTEK conference headset released by Future Intelligence, are the latest proof of Vision's continuous work in vertical segmentation scenarios.

"In the field of AIGC, service tools in vertical scenarios are more practical than pan-intelligent tools." Ma Xiao said, "In the field of vertical office meetings, Future Intelligence has formed the Matthew effect of data and created a very practical AI conference assistant. ”

Ma Xiao's expression contains three meanings.

First of all, Ma Xiao once again emphasized the technical logic and industrial value of future smart office conference headsets.

The possible evolution path of Chinese-style ChatGPT is that several large manufacturers like Baidu, Tencent or Alibaba are responsible for building the platform; On these platforms, there should be "a large number of fine-tuning models based on vertical fields to do vertical field services on Chinese-style ChatGPT."

Based on the subdivided office meeting scenarios, the long-term office conference headset category of Future Intelligence solves a variety of problems such as office scene recording, recording, text conversion or language translation, with the aim of helping meeting participants improve office efficiency.

Secondly, with the target users - urban white-collar workers, government officials, lawyers, journalists, foreign trade practitioners, multinational company management and brokerage analysts and other groups, the high-frequency application of these headsets is actually equivalent to the formation of specific semantic tags of multiple occupations in vertical fields and the refinement of parameters, so it has the ability to build a large-scale massive office data (library).

The value of data is unmatched.

"From the first-principles perspective of a large model, a large model needs three elements: computing power, algorithms and data." Wang Song, CTO of Future Intelligence, said, "Among them, data is the key. ”

Ma Xiao elaborated: "What we do is a vertical scene. If we insist on cultivating the scene, then we can collect and sort out a lot of data in this scenario. Our headphones are not full-time all-rounders, we just need to be better than others in this scene. ”

Become a more natural AI personal assistant

Compared with the iFLYBUDS Nano series of office conference headsets launched by Future Intelligence in 2023, the "iFLYBUDS Pro 2, iFLYBUDS 2 and Kit 2" launched this time have also iterated on the technology and business thinking behind them.

Behind the functional surface of any end product, there are changes in technical logic and consideration of business value.

The choice of technology should be based on a combination of various factors such as cost, breadth and depth of problem solving or meeting needs, stage of technology development, supply chain technical capabilities, different business strategies and goals, etc. These factors are combined to form a commercial product that can be seen or perceived by B-end or C-end users.

So, what are the three new products brought by Future Intelligence, what are the iterations of technical and business thinking? What is the incremental value to C-end users?

This involves the third meaning of Ma Xiao's expression: "We have created a very practical AI conference assistant". Obviously, the core iteration is the "AI meeting (personal) assistant". At the same time, this iteration also follows the three core guiding elements of future intelligence in product development: more natural, more efficient, and more reliable.

To understand the original point of this new iteration of technology, we can start from the value thinking of the future intelligent CPO Liuda on the office conference headset they developed.

In general, Liu Da believes that the greatest value created by Future Intelligence in the process of promoting GAI technology to improve the production efficiency of C-end users is first of all to realize the equalization of high-quality and high-value services at high prices through the technology platform.

For example, there are not many people who can afford a personal secretary or assistant now, only a small part, but with the development of GAI technology, through the form of tools (smart terminals), everyone can have an intelligent AI assistant or AI secretary with real wisdom to help the C-end solve various work and even life problems, which is called equal rights.

The office conference headset launched by Future Intelligence has a perceptible entrance of GAI technology called "viaim AI". The ability of this entrance will become the standard configuration of all smart headphone categories in the future. Therefore, in the future, a wide range of intelligent headphones will constitute a technical platform, which can objectively achieve the equalization of high-quality and high-value services at high prices.

"This is the way forward (smart) in the future. What we need to do is to make the product eventually become the user's assistant, like a real assistant, with five senses and six views, can see, hear, perceive, and finally complete the user's 'account' work. "This is also a business model that we will continue to explore." ”

A personal secretary or assistant has a wide range of tasks to complete. In addition to common meeting recordings, meeting summaries, work schedules, etc., the current high-frequency and strong needs - such as the real-time translation function provided by some mobile phones, and the future smart office conference headset also has this function.

Different from the text translation of mobile phones, the translation application of the future intelligent iFLYTEK conference headset follows the principle of "more natural". The value of this for C-end users is obvious: it has real-time translation (simultaneous interpretation) capabilities - Chinese A speaks Chinese, and French B can see French; At the same time, B speaks French, and A can hear Chinese through headphones.

At the same time, the viaim AI of the iFLYTEK conference headset has been upgraded with the "Ask Me Anything" function this time, bringing more effective and accurate interaction: in the viaim AI interface, viaim AI can quickly reply to questions based on the recorded information for language/text input questions, which is convenient for users to query meeting information, which further improves user efficiency and can effectively solve user problems.

This is the platform-level technical application capability of the new earphones launched by Future Intelligence.

More efficient, mainly involving the one-click achievement of the summary of the main points of the long recording file, as well as the one-click acquisition of the core points; More reliable is the security of the user's personal data: that is, Catefirst, the future intelligence will use the training data and the user's personal data to make a technical separation.

For the application of the user's personal data, in terms of externalities, Future Intelligence leaves the decision to the user. If the user authorizes it, it can be used for concrete optimization of the application experience, and vice versa.

For example, if the user authorizes it, such as ticking a box, it is equivalent to training the headset; If there is a cross, it is also training, which is equivalent to telling the headphones that the results are not accurate; If you don't tick or cross it, the user has no problem with the app and may not be interested.

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