These are the two companies that have gone the farthest in the field of large-scale models in China, and it is the first time that they have publicly discussed AI large-scale models. **
As we all know, in the AI market in 2023, the large language model has become a passport for high-end bureaus.
Baidu and HKUST Xunfei, as leading companies in the domestic AI field for many years, have received a high degree of attention from the industry after releasing their own large-scale models "Wenxin Yiyan" and "Xunfei Spark".
But for the two companies, the tracks are highly overlapping, the scenes are very similar, and the technology is the top of the industry.
** is unlikely. **
Like two speeding trains, Xunfei and Baidu are running on very close tracks, staring at each other.
On May 24, the friction happened.
Barrel
The cause of the quarrel was a small composition.
In the field of large models, there are many entrants, and rumors are flying everywhere. In the past period of time, there have been many rumors about HKUST Xunfei in the market. Unknown sources have revealed that Xunfei "is suspected of collecting a large amount of user privacy data and using it for artificial intelligence research".
Coincidentally, the small essay was generated by **someone using Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan model.
The picture comes from the Internet
According to the pictures and related reports, the generation instruction of this article clearly requires writing "significant risk".
The content generated by the large model is naturally mostly unfavorable to iFLYTEK, such as: "XFLYTEK may have illegally obtained the user's personal information through its voice recognition service and used it for research", "seriously violated the user's privacy rights, sparking public outcry and resistance”…
The article was widely disseminated and discussed on the Internet, triggering heated discussions in the market. Perhaps affected by these rumors, HKUST Xunfei’s stock price plunged in the afternoon of May 24, with an intraday drop of more than 9%. At the close of the day, Xunfei’s stock price was 56.57 yuan per share, down 4.26%.
Then, regarding the series of incidents that happened before, the relevant person in charge of iFlytek responded to the reporter of the "Science and Technology Board Daily":** "The stock price drop was caused by a generative AI writing a false essay, and the rumor risk is false news." **
Xunfei believes that this small essay was deliberately fabricated and disseminated by someone using Baidu Wenxin Yiyan, which has seriously affected and damaged the reputation and stock price of HKUST Xunfei.
In response to investors, HKUST Xunfei stated that using large models to fabricate false information is an illegal act and will be punished by law. There is currently a criminal case. "For institutions or individuals who maliciously smear, fabricate false information, and damage our company's reputation, the company will use legal weapons to protect the interests of the company and investors."
"The stock price drop was caused by a generative AI writing a false essay" -** the stock price fell, Baidu did it.
If we directly blame Wen Xin Yiyan, Baidu will naturally be dissatisfied. On the evening of the 24th, Baidu Wenxin Yiyan Zhang Wenquan, head of the market, posted a post in Moments ** saying "focus on business" and "don't touch porcelain", and emphasized that "we will also take legal measures." **
The picture comes from the Internet
In a word, don't blame the road if you can't do it.
As of press time, there is no further public information from Xunfei, and a related person's reply to AI Blue Media is also "Let's take the investigation results first."
On related issues, AI Blue Media also had conversations with Xunfei Xinghuo, Wenxin Yiyan and ChatGPT respectively.
Xinghuo said that iFLYTEK's response showed the company's high level of responsibility and professionalism.
Wen Xinyiyan believes that there is no evidence and investigation for the allegations made by iFLYTEK.
ChatGPT, which has nothing to do with itself, generated a large paragraph of text describing the incident, and pointed out at the end that ** "should respect and learn from each other". **
Scramble
What is more worthy of discussion than the quarrel may be the competition between the two major manufacturers behind it.
**Baidu and HKUST Xunfei, the two leading domestic language model companies, are also the most concerned players in the industry. The two hold large-scale model products that are competing with each other, and sooner or later there will be friction in the business field. **
From a technical point of view, both Baidu and HKUST Xunfei are leading companies in the domestic AI field, with strong technical strength and R&D teams.
Xunfei announced the seven dimensions of the large model evaluation system at the Spark large model conference, namely text generation, language understanding, knowledge question and answer, logical reasoning, mathematical ability, programming ability and multimodality, and applied the large model to Speech recognition, speech synthesis, digital human and other fields, ** use its leading position in the field of speech technology to deeply cultivate natural language understanding and interaction. **
Baidu also mentioned that Wenxin Yiyan has many abilities such as literary creation, commercial copywriting, mathematical calculation, Chinese understanding, multi-modal generation, etc., and large models are superimposed in fields such as search engines, smart applets, and smart writing. **Maybe Can become a new traffic entrance. **
HKUST Xunfei has unique voice technology advantages and dedicated industry verticals, and can enhance customer value by providing more specialized and customized AI solutions; Baidu has a huge user base and a wide range of industry partners, and can provide More diverse and high-quality AI services to increase revenue streams.
The two companies also face the challenges of computing power and data, and both have "independent and controllable technology" and "determination to saturate investment."
The next step is commercialization—both companies are facing a common problem, which is how to commercialize their large-scale model products and achieve profitability. The current strategy is similar, that is, to build large model capabilities into its existing mature products in order to monetize them.
However, their respective opportunities and challenges are not the same. **
For a long time, Baidu's publicity for search engines and AI has been "Baidu understands Chinese better". At the 2017 Baidu World Conference, Robin Li said in his speech, "In the past we talked about 'Baidu understands Chinese better', but today we talk about 'Baidu understands you better'"; at the 7th World Intelligence Conference in 2023, Robin Li said in his speech, "Baidu's mission has always been to use technology to make the complex world simpler."
After all, it is the most in-depth player in the Chinese search field and the domestic AI field. It has been the industry leader for many years, so that **Baidu has the confidence to move forward steadily in the field of large language models of the Chinese system. **
Relatively speaking, HKUST Xunfei’s actions are somewhat radical.
Liu Qingfeng, CEO of iFlytek, also delivered a speech at the 7th World Intelligence Conference. The speech was almost entirely centered on the large model of Xunfei Xunhuo, and emphasized that "the language understanding ability of Xunfei Xunhuo is not only far ahead in China, but we It is only one step away from ChatGPT", "We will surpass (ChatGPT) before October this year".
Obviously, Xunfei is not willing to stay behind for a long time in the Chinese large-scale model field, which is still in its infancy. Compared with the chasers, Liu Qingfeng hopes that his team can take the lead as soon as possible. **
Baidu and HKUST iFlytek have their own advantages and similarities in terms of technical strength, application scenarios, and commercialization prospects. They will naturally gradually move towards direct competition on the stage.
There will be another quarrel over the large model.
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HKUST Xunfei on Baidu: Two hurricane AI model trains collided
Source: AI Lanmeihui (ID: lanmeih001)
Author: Yi Qi Editor: Wei Xiao
These are the two companies that have gone the farthest in the field of large-scale models in China, and it is the first time that they have publicly discussed AI large-scale models. **
As we all know, in the AI market in 2023, the large language model has become a passport for high-end bureaus.
Baidu and HKUST Xunfei, as leading companies in the domestic AI field for many years, have received a high degree of attention from the industry after releasing their own large-scale models "Wenxin Yiyan" and "Xunfei Spark".
But for the two companies, the tracks are highly overlapping, the scenes are very similar, and the technology is the top of the industry.
** is unlikely. **
Like two speeding trains, Xunfei and Baidu are running on very close tracks, staring at each other.
On May 24, the friction happened.
Barrel
The cause of the quarrel was a small composition.
In the field of large models, there are many entrants, and rumors are flying everywhere. In the past period of time, there have been many rumors about HKUST Xunfei in the market. Unknown sources have revealed that Xunfei "is suspected of collecting a large amount of user privacy data and using it for artificial intelligence research".
Coincidentally, the small essay was generated by **someone using Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan model.
According to the pictures and related reports, the generation instruction of this article clearly requires writing "significant risk".
The content generated by the large model is naturally mostly unfavorable to iFLYTEK, such as: "XFLYTEK may have illegally obtained the user's personal information through its voice recognition service and used it for research", "seriously violated the user's privacy rights, sparking public outcry and resistance”…
The article was widely disseminated and discussed on the Internet, triggering heated discussions in the market. Perhaps affected by these rumors, HKUST Xunfei’s stock price plunged in the afternoon of May 24, with an intraday drop of more than 9%. At the close of the day, Xunfei’s stock price was 56.57 yuan per share, down 4.26%.
Then, regarding the series of incidents that happened before, the relevant person in charge of iFlytek responded to the reporter of the "Science and Technology Board Daily":** "The stock price drop was caused by a generative AI writing a false essay, and the rumor risk is false news." **
Xunfei believes that this small essay was deliberately fabricated and disseminated by someone using Baidu Wenxin Yiyan, which has seriously affected and damaged the reputation and stock price of HKUST Xunfei.
In response to investors, HKUST Xunfei stated that using large models to fabricate false information is an illegal act and will be punished by law. There is currently a criminal case. "For institutions or individuals who maliciously smear, fabricate false information, and damage our company's reputation, the company will use legal weapons to protect the interests of the company and investors."
"The stock price drop was caused by a generative AI writing a false essay" -** the stock price fell, Baidu did it.
If we directly blame Wen Xin Yiyan, Baidu will naturally be dissatisfied. On the evening of the 24th, Baidu Wenxin Yiyan Zhang Wenquan, head of the market, posted a post in Moments ** saying "focus on business" and "don't touch porcelain", and emphasized that "we will also take legal measures." **
In a word, don't blame the road if you can't do it.
As of press time, there is no further public information from Xunfei, and a related person's reply to AI Blue Media is also "Let's take the investigation results first."
On related issues, AI Blue Media also had conversations with Xunfei Xinghuo, Wenxin Yiyan and ChatGPT respectively.
Xinghuo said that iFLYTEK's response showed the company's high level of responsibility and professionalism.
Scramble
What is more worthy of discussion than the quarrel may be the competition between the two major manufacturers behind it.
**Baidu and HKUST Xunfei, the two leading domestic language model companies, are also the most concerned players in the industry. The two hold large-scale model products that are competing with each other, and sooner or later there will be friction in the business field. **
From a technical point of view, both Baidu and HKUST Xunfei are leading companies in the domestic AI field, with strong technical strength and R&D teams.
Xunfei announced the seven dimensions of the large model evaluation system at the Spark large model conference, namely text generation, language understanding, knowledge question and answer, logical reasoning, mathematical ability, programming ability and multimodality, and applied the large model to Speech recognition, speech synthesis, digital human and other fields, ** use its leading position in the field of speech technology to deeply cultivate natural language understanding and interaction. **
Baidu also mentioned that Wenxin Yiyan has many abilities such as literary creation, commercial copywriting, mathematical calculation, Chinese understanding, multi-modal generation, etc., and large models are superimposed in fields such as search engines, smart applets, and smart writing. **Maybe Can become a new traffic entrance. **
HKUST Xunfei has unique voice technology advantages and dedicated industry verticals, and can enhance customer value by providing more specialized and customized AI solutions; Baidu has a huge user base and a wide range of industry partners, and can provide More diverse and high-quality AI services to increase revenue streams.
The two companies also face the challenges of computing power and data, and both have "independent and controllable technology" and "determination to saturate investment."
The next step is commercialization—both companies are facing a common problem, which is how to commercialize their large-scale model products and achieve profitability. The current strategy is similar, that is, to build large model capabilities into its existing mature products in order to monetize them.
However, their respective opportunities and challenges are not the same. **
For a long time, Baidu's publicity for search engines and AI has been "Baidu understands Chinese better". At the 2017 Baidu World Conference, Robin Li said in his speech, "In the past we talked about 'Baidu understands Chinese better', but today we talk about 'Baidu understands you better'"; at the 7th World Intelligence Conference in 2023, Robin Li said in his speech, "Baidu's mission has always been to use technology to make the complex world simpler."
After all, it is the most in-depth player in the Chinese search field and the domestic AI field. It has been the industry leader for many years, so that **Baidu has the confidence to move forward steadily in the field of large language models of the Chinese system. **
Relatively speaking, HKUST Xunfei’s actions are somewhat radical.
Liu Qingfeng, CEO of iFlytek, also delivered a speech at the 7th World Intelligence Conference. The speech was almost entirely centered on the large model of Xunfei Xunhuo, and emphasized that "the language understanding ability of Xunfei Xunhuo is not only far ahead in China, but we It is only one step away from ChatGPT", "We will surpass (ChatGPT) before October this year".
Obviously, Xunfei is not willing to stay behind for a long time in the Chinese large-scale model field, which is still in its infancy. Compared with the chasers, Liu Qingfeng hopes that his team can take the lead as soon as possible. **
Baidu and HKUST iFlytek have their own advantages and similarities in terms of technical strength, application scenarios, and commercialization prospects. They will naturally gradually move towards direct competition on the stage.
There will be another quarrel over the large model.