AI is inclusive, vivo first

If you had to choose the most important invention of the last three years, ChatGPT would undoubtedly have the number of votes ahead.

Since November 30, 2022, ChatGPT has been online for 400 days, and from doubts to surprise to panic and excitement, no one will deny that the AI industrial revolution brought by large language models is the next 100 billion dollar opportunity.

Tungsten light bulb invention scene drawn by AI. *Source: bluelm

In 1831, Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, which led to the invention of the electric generator. Nearly half a century later, Thomas Edison invented the tungsten light bulb that could illuminate for a long time, and really promoted the widespread use of electricity in work and life.

If ChatGPT has opened up the application of AI technology, then the tungsten light bulb in the era of large language models is in the world

For vivo users, it may be in their own phones.

When we talk about ChatGPT, many people talk not about how to use AI to boost productivity, but about how to sign up for a new account.

Affected by the superposition of multiple factors, ChatGPT is not a tool at your fingertips, if it is specific to our daily life, especially on inseparable mobile phones, we will find that although the development trend of AI large models is gratifying, there are not many products that are really easy to use - the vast majority of large models belong to the wishlist queuing stage, you need to apply for a beta test to have a chance to use it, and when using, they may occupy your entire screen, and you will experience nothing after jumping between apps a few times.

This is also why the vivo blue heart model is worth paying attention to, this general model independently developed by vivo has been connected to its latest OriginOS 4, and the vivo X100 series, iQOO 12 series, iQOO neo series and S18 series released in the second half of the year have been implemented with this system, and equipped with the blue heart small V artificial intelligence assistant, which can be used right from start.

Compared to other large model applications, the Blue Heart V, which is rooted in the bottom layer of the system, has an interesting design - it can be called out by swiping on the edge of the mobile phone screen, and has a dedicated large model chat window, which takes up about one-third of the size of the screen. You can easily initiate a consultation with Xiao V in this window, whether it is Wensheng Wen, Wensheng Diagram or Tusheng Diagram can be competent, and you can also realize global **, file retrieval, and you can directly drag and drop files from Xiao V's chat box to WeChat, Word, which is very convenient to use.

The excellent performance of easy to use and accurate query relies on the high degree of completion behind the vivo blue heart model.

Considering that smartphones are the main product experience entrance and the use scenarios are complex, the Blue Heart model is not a lone operation at the beginning, but a large model matrix composed of models with five different parameters - covering the five parameter orders of 1 billion, 7 billion, 70 billion, 130 billion and 175 billion.

Among them, the billion-level model is a professional text model mainly built for device-side scenarios, with localized text summarization and summarization capabilitiesThe 7 billion model is a dual-purpose model built for mobile phones, with excellent language understanding and text creation capabilitiesThe 70 billion model and the model with more than 100 billion parameters are the main models for cloud services, and they are in the first echelon of Chinese large models in the October test results of C-Eval, CMMLU, Superclue and other lists.

At this stage, the model with two parameters of 1 billion and 7 billion has been implemented in a number of vivo mobile phones, supporting the deployment of Qualcomm and MTK dual-chip platforms, which are good choices for refining copywriting, generating** and even combing brain maps.

This is the result of a trade-off after considering the energy consumption, response speed and safety of the mobile phone, and the response speed is very fast for daily use. When chatting on WeChat, we often talk about some new knowledge points, at this time, it will be very convenient to draw up the blue heart small v to popularize science or make a brain map, and then with the opening of higher parameter large models, the blue heart small v also has more room for evolution.

Of course, vivo also knows that in the face of ever-changing industry trends, open source can help the blue heart model go further. At present, vivo has announced that it will open-source the 7 billion parameter blue heart model 7b, which uses 26 trillion tokens for training, mainly in Chinese and English corpus, is more suitable for use in Chinese scenarios. In the future, maybe we can use the blue heart model on many products other than vivo, and these valuable use cases will also promote the iteration of the blue heart model.

These are also the specific manifestations of the characteristics of vivo's blue heart large model - large and complete, strong algorithm, true security, self-evolution, and wide open source.

In order to allow more people to directly experience the blue heart model, at the beginning of the new year of 2024, vivo launched the online trial activities of the blue heart model in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing and other cities. This is also the first time that a manufacturer has done a large-scale AI experience activity for ordinary users, which also reflects vivo's confidence in the blue heart model.

Users can quickly draw New Year's wish cards, write New Year's greetings, and generate New Year's avatars through their mobile phones, all of which take a lot of time to spend a lot of time to celebrate the New Year, but the addition of AI makes this more efficient and fun. vivo uses an easy-to-understand way to directly bring the use scenarios of large models to users.

Vice President of Vivo, Vice President of OS Products, and President of Vivo AI Global Research Institute said:

We hold this event in the hope that many people can learn about the most advanced artificial intelligence technology and products, and use Lanxin V to help everyone have easier learning, more efficient work and a better life experience.

After 6 years, a team of 1,000 people, and continuous investment, innovation, and breakthroughs, we have the Blue Heart Model with the No. 1 comprehensive score, and we hope to achieve AI inclusiveness, truly help more people, and jointly promote the progress of life and society.

If you are not in these cities and do not have a vivo phone, you can also** Lanxin Qianxun APP - this is an AI assistant developed by vivo based on the blue heart model. Compared with the Blue Heart Small V, although it lacks some of the ability to call globally by the system, you can also experience various practical functions such as Wensheng text and Wensheng diagram of the Blue Heart model, which supports both iOS and Android, and is completely free and ad-free.

Based on the application of AI technology, vivo is also more than just using large language models as personal assistants.

Thanks to the Blue Heart model, OriginOS 4 has been updated with Vivo See and Vivo Reading two accessibility capabilities for the visually impaired

Among them, vivo see is a visual aid product that supports environmental description, object search and shooting assistance, and the image recognition and comprehension ability of the blue heart model can help users identify information in a variety of scenarios and give intuitive descriptions, which is very helpful for the daily life of the visually impaired.

For many visually impaired users, it is an important way to understand the world, and with the support of large model capabilities, a person can also enjoy the fun of learning.

In vivo's view, good products must be inclusive, and even in the AI era, we can still find the company's consistent human touch in vivo's product concept and design.

Since entering the smartphone market in 2011, vivo has been a long-distance runner in the mobile phone industry.

This company, which has its duty rooted in its cultural genes, will be the first to run when it encounters a track with long slopes and thick snow.

In fact, it only took 60 days for the vivo Blue Heart model to be deployed on eight mobile phones in four series, and with the upgrade of OriginOS 4 to more products, it is also a unique speed in the world.

Obviously, AI is that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and vivo foresaw it five years ago.

At the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, around the vice president of vivo, the vice president of OS products, and the president of the vivo AI global research institute, the mobile phone industry will usher in a change in two years, and will become a self-learning, self-indexing, and self-recommending smart terminal - at that time, after the AI-powered mobile phone became the image phone, vivo was another track to bet on.

Just two months before the conference, vivo announced that it would invest in the establishment of vivo AI global research institutes in Shenzhen, Beijing, Hangzhou, Nanjing and San Diego, USA, to conduct innovative research on basic science and disruptive technologies in the field of artificial intelligence, and is the first mobile phone manufacturer in China to establish an AI global research institute.

Also in the same year, OpenAI published a paper titled "Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-training", in which it introduced the transformer-based generative pre-trained transformer system (GPT) for short.

At that time, Vivo would not have imagined that five years later, GPT would become the cornerstone of a trillion-dollar industry, but at that time, Vivo had realized the essence of artificial intelligence - that is, a decisive change in the way information is interacted. Surrounding has been mentioned in the speech:

It is a pyramid, simply put, artificial intelligence is through data + algorithms, to get new data, and most importantly, to accurately identify the scene, the services that consumers need, accurately, on time, on demand, this process is artificial intelligence.

Although the evolution of smartphones has only just begun, after five years of accumulation, vivo has already run a long way on the track of artificial intelligence. There are four capabilities that AI technology needs to accumulate most - data, manpower, algorithms, and computing power.

In terms of data, vivo established the Graph Research Institute in 2018 and has accumulated more than 2,800TB of data through a professional team to build a knowledge graph

In terms of human resources, vivo has maintained a professional AI team of 1,000 people since 2017, of which more than 600 people focus on the development of large models

At the algorithm level, vivo has published more than 70 articles related to artificial intelligence**, many of which can already be used on vivo mobile phones

At the level of computing power, vivo has reserved a computing power system that can train hundreds of billions of large models, and has a first-mover advantage in the field of Chinese large models.

At this time last year, Shen Wei, the founder of vivo, delivered a speech at the last annual meeting. These eight words can also be said to be a true portrayal of vivo as a company. Today, we see that the advantages and capabilities in vivo mobile phones are essentially the cause of the company's efforts for more than a decade - the design is like this, the image is like this, and the same is true of AI.

Ten years ago, taking pictures was still a high-threshold technical job, you needed to buy a lens to choose the body, but also to learn the lighting to understand the composition, shoot well, and the later stage was also a big project. But now, you can use the vivo X100 Pro to shoot cameras that are not inferior to the quality of the camera**, a mobile phone with multiple focal length lenses, and after pressing the shutter, you can have beautiful color shadows and bokeh effects without software post-production - in a sense, this is also a kind of technology inclusive.

There are hundreds of millions of people around the world, who may have chosen to use vivo's products because of product design, imaging or performance, and they are vivo's companions in the smartphone era. In the future, it will also be the beneficiary of this company in the era of AI inclusion.

Because we all know that this company believes in long-termism, their best time is not in the present, but in the future.