The investment community often refers to startups that are less than 10 years old but have not yet gone public with a valuation of more than $1 billion as unicorns. In the perception of most people, such a company will definitely have a large organizational structure, but in the era of AI, it seems that this is not the case. 
Some time ago, Midjourney, the leader in the field of AI painting, brought a big shock to the capital market. Under the premise of not accepting outside investment, the company, which was founded less than three years ago, has accumulated more than 15 million registered users worldwide and has an annual revenue of more than 200 million US dollars (about 14.).300 million yuan), and the invested company gave a valuation of 10 billion US dollars. Unlike the Horned Beast Company, the king of AI painting, Midjourney, which has a miraculous development speed, has only 11 regular employees behind it - in addition to financial and legal affairs that require experience, there are only 8 R&D engineers, and even 4 undergraduates, who will graduate in June 2024. 
Midjourney is not alone, and there are many other such lightweight AI companies. Pika Labs, a generative AI startup, raised $55 million (nearly 400 million yuan) in funding within six months of its founding, valuing the company at more than $200 million, and is founded by a team of only four full-time members. Jasper, a unicorn AI marketing company, also started from a "grass platform" with only 3 people, relying on GPT-3 to automatically generate creative marketing content, and in just 18 months, it was promoted from a penny to a unicorn. At home and abroad, there are not too many AI start-ups that raise tens of millions of dollars at every turn and are valued at a few small targets. 
In the age of AI, the way the world works seems to be starting to change. The role of AI model, the hottest cutting-edge technology in the global technology field, is to replace and subvert. In the rapid iteration of technology, it is "creating wealth" at a rapid speed, and it has also unwittingly deprived many startups of their "way to live". For example, the impact of OpenAI's launch of SORA. I believe that as long as you pay attention to AI dynamics, you have been swiped by the news of this Wensheng ** model. While we were attracted by the one-minute hi-fi generated by Sora, people in advertising agencies, game companies, and film and television companies had begun to have a sense of crisis, and the stock price of tool company Adobe fell by more than 7%. 
Musk even left a message under the social ** of OpenAI CEO Ultraman: Every time OpenAI releases a feature, a startup will be eliminated. 
Forward, is the broad road; Backwards, in fact, there is no way back. Because of this, mainstream technology companies are crazy involution on AI big data models, and it is even more lively in the digital circle. On the first day of the working day in the Year of the Dragon, Meizu, a domestic mobile phone manufacturer, announced that it would stop the development of a new project for traditional smartphones, "All in AI" technology. Earlier, the Samsung Galaxy S24 series was also heavily promoted with AI phones as a highlight. 
Compared with Samsung and Meizu, OPPO's goal on AI phones is clearer, and the launch of the terminal is also earlier. On January 8, OPPO launched the world's first AI mobile phone that deploys a 7 billion parameter large language model on the device side - Find X7 series. On February 9th, in the first period before the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, OPPO held a first-class press conference to promote the "AI upgrade plan for mobile phones of tens of millions of users", and officially announced that it has entered the "AI mobile phone era". 
On February 18, Chen Mingyong, founder and CEO of OPPO, issued an internal letter to all employees, once again improving the strategic positioning of AI, officially announcing 2024 as the first year of AI mobile phones, and defining AI mobile phones as the third stage of the mobile phone industry; At the same time, an AI center has been set up to concentrate the company's resources on AI, and the strategic goal of "being both a leader in AI mobile phones and a popularizer of AI mobile phones" has been set. 
On February 20th, OPPO held the "AI Strategy Conference", at which not only the OPPO AI Center was officially unveiled, but also the 1+N agent ecological strategy was announced, which deeply analyzed their definition of AI mobile phones, their judgment on the industry, the measures to be implemented, and the technical reserves and accumulation in AI, and once again reaffirmed their determination to promote and accelerate the arrival of the AI mobile phone era with partners in the industry chain. 
At the press conference, OPPO also cooperated with the world's famous market research institute IDC to release the first AI mobile phone*** in the world, IDC**, the global new generation of AI mobile phone shipments will reach 1700 million units, which can reach 15% of the overall smartphone shipments.
So, is there any difference between the AI mobile phone that is so optimistic about the market and so firmly certified by mobile phone manufacturers as the "next stage of mobile phones" and the AI that has long been applied on mobile phones? The biggest difference between the two is that the latter is just the development of simple functions, while the former has completed the upgrading of mobile phones by deploying AI large models on mobile phones. Take the world's first AI mobile phone, Find X7, for example, which not only runs a 7 billion parameter AI model on the mobile phone to provide a high-quality local AI experience, but also deploys a 70 billion parameter and up to 180 billion parameter large model in the cloud to handle those highly complex tasks.
Reflected in the specific function, it is the efficiency that the previous generation of products could not do. For example, the OPPO AI elimination function that can "save waste films with one click". If you want to get rid of the people or things that are not very harmonious on the ** that you have worked so hard to photograph, no matter how skillfully you use the retouching software, it will take a lot of time. With Find X7, you can instantly remove unwanted passers-by or dirty backgrounds in the picture with just a simple circle, and you can also intelligently complete the picture according to the image background while eliminating them. There is no need to worry about element fragmentation, afterimage, mosaic, etc., which appear after processing, and the effect is comparable to refinement.
Also a big time-saver is the "OPPO AI Call Summary" feature. By simply clicking "Smart Summary" on the call interface, AI can accurately understand the content of the call, record the key information in the call content in the form of text, and generate a summary content with clear and clear points, and can also set the summary part as a "to-do list" according to the specific situation. For professionals who often need to use mobile phones to connect, this function can undoubtedly greatly improve work efficiency.
In addition to being efficient, the Find X7 also offers more than 100 AI features to satisfy the imagination of users. The new Xiaobu assistant tuned with 7 billion parameters can help users complete new capabilities such as content creation, super Q&A, exclusive AI, schedule assistant, and ** creation, showing the public the revolutionary intelligent experience of terminal interaction empowered by large models. For example, during the Spring Festival, the new Xiaobu assistant can help smooth out the relationship between relatives, provide Spring Festival recipes, customize AI greeting cards, generate AI family photos and many other functions, accurate and comprehensive, which is more reliable than the most professional assistant.
With the more frequent human-computer interaction, AI mobile phones will become more and more accurate in portraying users' portraits, and their answers will become more and more customized, and the role of AI mobile phones will become more and more like "exclusive digital assistants". In the past few years, mobile phone manufacturers have "rolled" up on hardware such as imaging and fast charging, but the improvement of user experience is not obvious; Now that AI mobile phones have been born, it is more like a new starting point and a turning point in the industry reshuffle, and mobile phone manufacturers will naturally continue to work hard and strive to become a leader in the field of AI technology, so the next few years are undoubtedly the key to the key. As consumers, we just need to wait for the flowers to bloom and enjoy the convenience brought to us by the large-scale model landing terminal.