iFLYTEK has set a large-scale goal for 2024: 1 million ecosystem partners and 10 million hardware terminals.
On February 6, the 2021 Annual Conference of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology was held, with the theme of "Holding Up a Sky and Igniting a New World". At the meeting, Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of iFLYTEK, and Wu Xiaoru, CEO of iFLYTEK, respectively made a comprehensive analysis of the future development of iFLYTEK, and also put forward new prospects for future development.
In 2022, iFLYTEK seized the development opportunity of the big data era, increased investment in big data modeling, and has become one of the leading ranks in the era of Chinese artificial intelligence big data. The company's operating income also began to decline in the first quarter, stabilized in the second quarter, and returned to more than 20% growth in the fourth quarter, exceeding 20 billion for the first time, and also showing positive cash flow. Liu Qingfeng came to a conclusion: "Under the pressure of the United States, we have seized a huge strategic advantage, and this is an important stage of our independent control!" ”
Liu Qingfeng looks forward to 2025, the four annual indicators of iFLYTEK's "big mode" strategy: "big mode" is in a leading position across the country, benchmarking GPT-4; Empower tens of millions of intelligent hardware terminals and hundreds of millions of independent software users; Education, medical care, finance, automobile, state-owned enterprises, urban industry leaders; Gather millions of modeling developers to build an industry-leading industrial ecosystem.
Last year, the Mars large-scale model caught up and is now close to the current GPT-4 turbine level. Liu Qingfeng also said that "Spark" will continue to be updated at a high speed in 2024, and is expected to achieve the best state of GPT4-Turner in the first half of this year.
China should have a large-scale general model that is independent and controllable and benchmarked against the international advanced level.
In 2022, there has been a wave of international enthusiasm all over the world, from the entry of many industry giants, to the great attention of various countries, to the attention of China from the first to the local level, and then to the active embrace of the industry, which shows that the strong potential of the big data model has become a trend that people generally recognize, and the cognitive big data model provides a new opportunity for people's needs.
According to data, in China, by 2023, there will be more than 200 large-scale robots. Liu Qingfeng predicts that by 2024, the pattern of China's college entrance examination will evolve from a "hundred model war" to a situation of multiple "leading prominent".
At present, the "big model" has become a battleground for technology and strategy between China and the United States, and only China has the potential to be the "second pole" in the world.
Liu Qingfeng said: China must have large-scale general-purpose computers that are comparable to the world level and have the ability to control autonomously. Each repetition of the generic mega pattern "drowns" a large number of weak industrial patterns and applications. "The level of the large model will affect the final strength and level of the entire industry's large modeling. "And in 2024, it will be an important watershed, and it will not be revealed until 2024 how strong China's large-scale modeling team will be.
The "Mars Grand Mode", which was launched on May 6 this year, has now reached v3 after a period of hard work5. Close to the current level of GPT-4 turbines. Liu Qingfeng also said: "The Mars engine will be significantly improved in 2024 and is expected to achieve the current highest level of GPT-4 turbo engine in the first half of next year." ”
By 2025, Mars' goal is: 1 million ecosystems, 10 million hardware terminals, and 100 million software users.
How do you grasp the vast world of AI? Liu Qingfeng said that it is not only necessary to make continuous breakthroughs in data, algorithms, operations and applications, but also to pay attention to the cooperation of the team, so as to continuously create "miracles" and make each iteration of the spark come at the most appropriate time.
In terms of computing, iFLYTEK launched the first self-developed "Feixing No. 1" in China, which supports big data modeling with hundreds of billions of parameters, and launched "Xingdian V3." on schedule5", this is not only a test of iFLYTEK's big data computing capabilities, but also a test of national computing capabilities.
Liu Qingfeng said that "Feixing No. 1" was born in Hefei and was completed in only five months from conception to completion. He said, "We will continue to devote ourselves to Hefei's general AI industry and give back to the people in our hometown." ”
It is also pointed out that it is necessary to face the huge difference between GPT-4 Turbo and its inference of complex knowledge with a scientific and reasonable attitude, so as to achieve the goal of catching up with the last.
Previously, iFLYTEK launched the first "Mars" language model in China, the speech recognition capabilities of 37 major languages in the first phase surpassed OpenAIWHISPERV3, and the human-like degree of 40 languages in the first phase of the multilingual "Mars" speech model reached more than 83%, continuing to maintain the world's first position. "After 25 years of entrepreneurship, we have achieved the dream of being able to listen and speak. ”
Liu Qingfeng said that in the development of global AI, the "big model" has three important characteristics: leading core technology, leading end users, and leading industrial ecology, which is what iFLYTEK has been pursuing for a long time.
This year will be a crucial year for China, and it will be the most important year, because this year, more AI will emerge. Liu Qingfeng will realize four main development directions for iFLYTEK in 2025: to be at the forefront of infrastructure, to be at the forefront of the big model, to be at the forefront of the global market, and to be in line with GPT-4; Empower hardware and software, provide capabilities for tens of millions of intelligent hardware terminals, and have hundreds of millions of independent software users; Leading industry applications, education, medical care, finance, automobiles, state-owned enterprises, and urban industry; Guide the ecology of developers, millions of developers gather together to create the largest ecosystem in the industry.
He said that in 2024, the company will lay a good foundation in the traditional business, focusing on the base business, C-end hardware to the next level, channel expansion and other fields, and for the first assistant, university business, intelligent hardware, smart large screen, intelligent computing platform and other strategic new opportunities around Mars, it is necessary to maintain keen strategic liquidity and saturate investment at critical moments. Liu Qingfeng said that in order to grasp this opportunity, it is necessary to have a general direction and enough vitality.
In addition, in 2024, in the fields of C-end hardware, open platform, language learning, etc., the domestic and international markets will complement each other and avoid risks.
Stand on the shoulders of universal AI and create the future.
In the face of the global AI world, Liu Qingfeng encouraged everyone to start from the development of the individual and move towards a broader AI world, "active learning", "active trial", and "application of learning", so that everyone can step on the shoulders of Mars, from the individual to the whole, to build a new "new quality" comparative advantage.
2024 is the first year of the "Road to Mars", the "spark" of "global AI" has just started, and the "future" is a marathon, how to win? He said, first, there must be a strategic guidance, a goal of "standing up to the sky", a "strategy", and a "implementation"; The second is to continue to bring value to customers and have a long-term concept from love; The third is to lay a good foundation with the help of the strength of the institution, and make great efforts in important strategic aspects to create a combination of basic assets + incremental assets.