Recently, OpenAI's large text generation model called SORA has attracted widespread attention and sparked a boom in the capital market. AI-related concepts** are once again favored by investors, including Hanwang Technology's two consecutive daily limits. Industrial Fortune Union and Inspur Information, which also belong to the concept of computing power, also performed strongly. As a star artificial intelligence enterprise in China's A** field, iFLYTEK has also performed very well, with a current market value of 105.3 billion yuan.
Benefiting from the trend of generative AI, industries are undergoing a reinvention that will create tremendous business value. IDC previously stated that global enterprises will invest $143 billion in generative AI solutions by 2027. He also emphasized that generative AI is not a "flash in the pan or hype", but a transformative technology with far-reaching implications that will transform the way humans work, play, and interact with the world.
As a leading enterprise dedicated to the application and practice of artificial intelligence, iFLYTEK has been deeply engaged in the field of artificial intelligence for more than 20 years. In terms of large-scale models, the company has increased its R&D investment in general artificial intelligence cognitive models. As of 2023, the iFLYTEK AI Open Platform provides 647 open capabilities and has 57850,000 developers, including 197 new50,000 developers. It is worth mentioning that more than 350,000 developers have participated in the development of large models. In addition, it brings together more than 2A team of 70,000 assistant developers developed more than 50,000 assistant applications throughout the year, covering multiple application scenarios such as workplace, marketing, travel, life, official documents, and customer service.
It is worth noting that since the official release of the "iFLYTEK Xinghuo Cognitive Model" on May 6 last year, iFLYTEK said that the model has played a significant role in promoting the growth of AI intelligent hardware sales. "
Driven by large-scale models, products such as iFLYTEK learning machines, smart office laptops, translators, voice recorders and smart hearing aids continue to maintain high-quality growth. It is expected that by 2023, its revenue will exceed 20 billion yuan, an increase of about 7% over the same period last year; Net profit is expected to be 645-7.300 million yuan, an increase of 15%-30% over the same period last year. In particular, it is expected to achieve operating income of more than 7.5 billion yuan in the fourth quarter of 2023, an increase of more than 20% over the same period last year, and gross profit of more than 3.2 billion yuan, an increase of more than 25% over the same period last year. This shows that the growth of performance driven by large models is already being felt. iFLYTEK is firmly committed to the development of artificial intelligence general models and industry models, and since the launch of the iFLYTEK Xinghuo model last year, it has been upgraded to 35 versions, the overall level is comparable to ChatGPT. And, they claim that by the first half of 2024, the iFLYTEK Spark will be able to reach a level comparable to GPT-4.
According to the introduction, iFLYTEK Spark v35. It has been comprehensively upgraded in seven aspects, including language comprehension, text generation, knowledge question and answer, logical reasoning, mathematical ability, advanced ability and multimodal ability. Among them, it surpassed GPT-4 Turbo in language comprehension and math ability, reaching 96% of GPT-4 Turbo's ability and 91% of GPT-4V in multimodal understanding. In addition, iFLYTEK will also release the Spark voice model for the first time, which has surpassed the whisper-large-v3 launched by OpenAI in the first batch of 37 mainstream languages, maintaining the international leading position of iFLYTEK's intelligent voice technology. At the same time, iFLYTEK has clarified the goal of the large model in 2024, that is, to benchmark with GPT-4, with 1 million ecosystems, 10 million hardware terminals and 100 million software users.
Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK, announced at the company's 2023-2024 annual meeting that he has set four main goals for the iFLYTEK Xinghuo cognitive model: first, to make the Xinghuo model take a leading position in China and reach a level equivalent to GPT-4; secondly, it will empower 10 million smart hardware terminals and make the number of users of its independent software exceed 100 million. Third, to become a market leader in education, healthcare, finance, automobiles, central state-owned enterprises and urban industries; Finally, attract 1 million model developers to join to build the most influential ecosystem in the industry.
At present, the artificial intelligence industry is facing a more favorable development environment. On this solid foundation, iFLYTEK plans to promote the progress of technology and the development of the industry with higher quality, and grasp various industrial opportunities in the era of artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is entering the era of large models, and many companies are seizing this opportunity to adjust and change accordingly. According to Gartner's survey results, in the era of large models, enterprises will accelerate the pace of intelligent upgrading. Among them, 98% of leaders believe that generative AI has the potential to revolutionize the way businesses operate. In my opinion, this is also the main reason why many technology vendors have launched large-scale model services, and their goal is to help all walks of life achieve digital transformation.
Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK, once pointed out that various industries will usher in the era of exclusive large models. iFLYTEK and industry leaders jointly released 12 industry models, fully and deeply connecting the capabilities of large models with various industrial fields to promote the digital transformation of various industries. With the breakthrough of large model technology, artificial intelligence is gradually entering the development stage of general artificial intelligence. This will further accelerate the promotion and application of digital and intelligent technologies around the world, indicating that manufacturers in the field of artificial intelligence will usher in greater opportunities.
The above is only a personal opinion and is for reference only.