Large-scale model entrepreneurship, the "safest" person is coming!
Wu HanqingAfter the former chief security scientist of Alibaba Cloud and a P10 researcher left Alibaba in May this year, he is now exposed to be engaged in AI entrepreneurship.
Qubit learned that he had founded a company in Hangzhou calledkmindThe company has completed a round of financing in the middle of the year.
The founding team of kmind can be called a big cow and star-studded, Wu Hanqing is just one of the representatives, and it is reported that there is also a doctoral supervisor from a laboratory of Westlake University to join, and he is also a co-creator of the company.
Moreover, Wu Hanqing plays the role of CEO in KMIND, and there is another master in the technical line who serves as CTO.
Qubit exclusively learned that what the man who once "gave Jack Ma peace of mind" is going to do now is related to a novel concept:
Personal AI computers
In May this year, when Wu Hanqing's status was shown as "resignation" within Ali, the news had already spread.
However, according to the rumors at the time, Wu Hanqing left Ali this time and wanted to start a business in the AI short ** track. At that time, there was ** to ask Wu Hanqing himself and Ali for verification, but no response was received.
Now that everything is clear, what Wu Hanqing wants to do in entrepreneurship is indeed related to the large model that continues to be popular, but what he does is a "personal AI computer".
Searching the Chinese Internet, there are few results related to this term, it is neither the consensus in the industry, nor has anyone come forward to define it for the time being.
So a personal AI computer, what exactly is it?
After inquiring about the qubits, he sketched a general outline for everyone, which can probably outline what Wu Hanqing and his entrepreneurial team want to do.
First of all, let's briefly understand the big picture
Before the advent of personal computers, mainframe computers were monopolized by large corporationsIn the Internet era, data has been controlled by Internet giants, and a monopoly has once again been formed.
Wu Hanqing wants to make a personal AI computer, mainly based on this background to do two things.
On the one hand, it is about the miniaturization of mainframe computers
According to the multi-party mining of qubits, the KMNID team is trying to miniaturize the large-scale computer, and in the process, use the large model as the CPU of the computer.
On the other hand, they still want toBreak the monopoly of data by giantsto put data at the service of individuals.
This goal has been partially achieved by cloud computing – computing equity has made computing services accessible to all, but this has not completely broken the status quo of data monopoly.
In Kmind's eyes, to change this situation, it is necessary to rely on AI.
At the same time, KMIND is said to solve the problems that exist with large models (including but not limited to hallucinations).
With a general idea of what the startup team is going to do, let's go back to the founders themselves.
Born in 1985Wu Hanqing, known as "Brother Dao" in the rivers and lakes
In addition to the nickname "Brother Dao" used in Ali, he also has many well-known code names, such as "Ali's Patron Saint", some people call him "China's young generation of top hackers", or he also has an affectionate code name "Xiao Hei".
As for the veil on this man, let's take a look at it little by little.
In 2000, Wu Hanqing, a native of Hunan, enteredXi'an Jiaotong University Junior Class, chose to major in computer science, and is a high-spirited genius boy in the eyes of the outside world.
A year later, at the age of 16, he founded the most influential information security organization in China's security circlesPhantom Brigade
This forum has gathered and nurtured a large number of white hat hackers. Finally, in 2003, Phantom was attacked by DDOS one after another, and was unable to fight back due to lack of funds, so it had to be closed.
In 2005, 20-year-old Wu Hanqing graduated from university and joined Alibaba to participate in security construction.
In the preface to the book "White Hats Talk about Web Security" written by himself, Wu Hanqing shared his interview experience:
During the interview, my supervisor asked me to demonstrate my abilities, so I remotely shut down one of the routing devices of an operator on Alibaba's intranet, causing Alibaba's internal network to be disrupted.Coincidentally, Ali established the "Ali S.H.I.E.L.D." (that is, the security department of Alibaba Group) in this year.
Next, Wu Hanqing's work is closely related to Alibaba's risk defense capabilities, including but not limited toDesigned the early application security system of Alibaba B2B and Alipay
Three years later, he has become the leader of the security technology team and the youngest technical expert in Alibaba Group.
In 2009, Wu Hanqing was then the CTO of AlibabaWang JianIn the photo, he became a member of the Alibaba Cloud start-up team and participated in the security design of the entire "Feitian" system.
However, in the seventh year of joining Alibaba and the third year of Alibaba Cloud's establishment, Wu Hanqing proposed to resign.
In September 2012, he joined a startup company called "Security Treasure" (which provides security protection services for users based on the SaaS model) as co-vice president.
However, this entrepreneurial journey did not last particularly long. Two years later, the safety treasure was sold to He Ali.
The founder, Ma Jie, went with a large army (now Ma Jie has joined the domestic AI large model company Zero One Everything).Wu Hanqing returned to Alibaba Cloud with a small team——In September 2014, Wu Qinghan returned to become the person in charge of "Cloud Shield", mainly maintaining cloud security, such as cloud platform and cloud network.
In the second year of his return, Alibaba Cloud had the largest DDoS attack since its establishment, the "901 Incident", which was also the largest DDoS attack in the history of the global Internet at that time, with a peak traffic of 453 per second8GB, up to 500 million attacks.
The 30-year-old Wu Hanqing led the team to resist the attack and became famous.
Gradually, some people called him "the most powerful hacker in China".
I have to say,With the development of computers and the Internet, there is always no shortage of hackersBerners-Lee, Peter Costain, and Richard Stallman were all hackers, and Jobs was rumored to have been born as a hacker in the early days.
In 2017, the 32-year-old Wu Hanqing was selected by the MIT Technology Review as one of the 2017 Global 35 Under 35 Young Science and Technology Innovation Talents (TR35).
Google's founder, Page, Meta's founder Zuckerberg, Linus Tovarz, the father of Linux, and Apple's design director Jonave Ethan have all been on the list.
But it's a bit funny, because of Wu Hanqing's strong technology in the field of security, some rumors are getting more and more outrageous, so that he himself has to go down and clarify a wave.
In 2020, Wu Hanqing posted a Weibo, refuting rumors and speaking out to the outside world:
In recent years, he has been doing artificial intelligence, no more done safe. ”
So, when the 38-year-old Wu Hanqing chose to run away from Alibaba Cloud again to start a business, he bowed to the current AI 20 era, it is not so abrupt and surprising.
And there are clues to be found under the iceberg
Chapter 12 of his other monograph, Computing, published this year, touches on ChatGPT-related topics, as well as the existing problems with large models, in which he mentions a simple "general task framework" and AI networks.
Perhaps, this is the idea of Wu Hanqing and his entrepreneurial team to make a personal AI computer
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