On October 24, 2023, at the iFLYTEK Global 1024 Developer Festival, Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK, made a promise that the iFLYTEK Xinghuo large model is expected to benchmark GPT-4 in the first half of 2024. On June 27, this promise was fulfilled, and the iFLYTEK Xinghuo large model V4.0 was officially released, with seven core competencies fully benchmarking GPT-4Turbo and achieving overall transcendence in text generation, language understanding, knowledge question and answer, logical reasoning, and mathematical ability.
It is understood that in May last year, iFLYTEK launched the iFLYTEK Spark model. The model can continue to evolve from massive data and large-scale knowledge, and realize the whole process from proposing, planning to solving the problem, and has gone through several iterations in more than a year. At present, among the 12 mainstream test sets of large models at home and abroad, iFLYTEK Xinghuo V4.0 ranks first in 8 test sets, comprehensively leading other large models in China, and is known as the most powerful model in China.
Liu Qingfeng said at the iFLYTEK Xinghuo V4.0 press conference: With the rapid development of general artificial intelligence, more and more users have begun to enjoy the dividends brought by large models.
He said that large models can not only write poems and paintings, but also play a real role in changing industry and changing the paradigm of scientific research. At present, the synthetic scientific innovation carried out by iFLYTEK and the University of Science and Technology of China, and the large-scale model-enabled nuclear fusion promoted in cooperation with the Energy Research Institute of Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, are all examples of the Spark model changing the scientific research model.
Previously, the team of iFLYTEK and Professor Liu Haiyan of the School of Life Sciences of USTC collaborated to use the protein backbone design algorithm SCUBA-D based on the conditional diffusion model in the large model to generate proteins that do not exist in nature from scratch. This resulting protein has been shown to have a binding affinity equal to, if not better than, that of natural proteins in areas where medicine is particularly needed. The most important thing is that after using the Xinghuo model, the design success rate has increased from 0.1% to 64%, an increase of 640 times, and the design that originally took 6 months to do is now completed in 1 day. This is no longer a simple scientific validation stage, and 48 proteins have been successfully designed and are now in mass production.
At the same time, he took Dong Yifan, a reporter from Anhui Daily, Mr. Guo Liang from Hubei, and Yang Yong, an elderly man from Chongqing, as examples, to talk about the empowerment of individual users in text generation, intelligent hearing aids and law. Liu Qingfeng said: "These things are really happening around each of us, and they may be related to each of us or a relative in each family in the future. ”
According to public information, the iFLYTEK Xinghuo APP has been downloaded 131 million times on Android since it was officially opened to the public in September last year. Among all the large model-related apps downloaded on Android, the number of downloads of the iFLYTEK Xinghuo APP ranks first in the tool category.
While the large model not only brings dividends to users, it also has a greater impact on the performance growth of iFLYTEK. On the C-side, iFLYTEK Xinghuo has been achieving "self-evolution". From the earliest intelligent voice assistants, intelligent recommendations, etc., to help users improve their lives and work efficiency, to today's new application scenarios such as iFLYTEK Xinghuo + medical and iFLYTEK Xinghuo + education, creating AI health assistants for each resident and helping the digital and intelligent transformation of education, iFLYTEK Xinghuo is opening a new way of AI work and life in the era of general artificial intelligence.
Liu Qingfeng revealed that after the blessing of the Spark model, this year's "618 promotion", the sales volume of iFLYTEK intelligent hardware increased by 70% year-on-year, and the average monthly use exceeded 40 million.
In addition to the significant increase in sales on the C-side, the large model of iFLYTEK has also been more and more used on the B-side. Liu Qingfeng introduced that since its release on May 6 last year, the Xunfei Xinghuo model is becoming the choice of leading enterprises in many fields such as China Energy Group, PetroChina, China Mobile, Chinese People's Insurance Company, Pacific Insurance, Bank of Communications, Haier Group, and Midea Group.
In addition to joining hands with leaders in various industries, iFLYTEK Xinghuo empowers the company's business to "blossom in multiple points". Since the official release of the Xinghuo model, it has gradually formed industrial landing results in various business tracks of companies such as education, medical care, platform and consumer, smart city, and operators.
Taking the automotive field as an example, with the blessing of the large model, the intelligent cockpit of Xinghuo Automobile has been newly upgraded, which not only has the "free interaction" of multiple languages and dialects, but also has multi-emotional and multi-modal super-anthropomorphic interaction, which makes the interaction between people and vehicles more warm.
At present, iFLYTEK's voice interaction products rank first in the domestic market share, and are widely exported to all over the world. The Xinghuo model is a highly intelligent interactive experience for many models of FAW, Chery, GAC, JAC, Great Wall and other car companies.