Whether we like it or not, the tiger's roar is getting louder and louder, and 2023 is gradually passing away. For Chinese's artificial intelligence industry, the past 2023 is undoubtedly an extraordinary year. So, let's look back at the big moments of the year and look forward to the endless possibilities for the future! February 2023
In February, MOSS, the first conversational large language model in China, was released by Professor Qiu Xipeng's team to the public platform to invite the public to participate in internal testing, which is the first ChatGPT-like model released in China. Qiu Xipeng, a professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology at Fudan University and head of the MOSS system, said: "This is the first plug-in version of the conversational language model in China, which can use external tools such as search engines, image generation models, and equation solvers to provide users with more and more services. GPT-4 can also be connected to various plug-ins, which will be valuable in the process of landing large models. 〞
On February 20, the country's first artificial intelligence (AI) public computing platform was officially put into use in Shanghai, relying on the construction and application of Shanghai Supercomputing Center, which will be used to meet the actual computing power needs of scientific research institutions and the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises, and explore new modes of computing power scheduling.
March 2023
On March 16, the large language model product "Wenxin Yiyan" was officially released, which is the first generative language large model product in China after OpenAI released ChatGPT, with five capabilities: literary creation, commercial copywriting, mathematical logic calculation, Chinese understanding, and multimodal generation. 7 months later, Wenxin model 40 came out, and at the same time, it began to invite testing, and brought more than ten AI native applications such as new search reconstructed across the board.
May 2023
On May 6, iFLYTEK officially released the "iFLYTEK Xinghuo Cognitive Model", which surpassed ChatGPT in the three major abilities of text generation, knowledge quizzes, and mathematical ability. In June, the iFLYTEK Xinghuo cognitive model passed the first official credible AIGC large model basic capability (function) evaluation organized by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and was certified to pass all functional items.
July 2023
On July 7, Huawei officially released the HUAWEI CLOUD Pangu Model 30 - The industry-oriented large model series includes the "5+N+X" three-layer architecture, including the general large model of the bottom layer (L0), the industry large model of the second layer (L1), and the subdivision scenario model of the third layer (L2).
August 2023
On August 10, China's first intelligent emergency satellite with artificial intelligence (AI) payload as the core and intelligent operating system, "Guardian Intelligent Emergency 1" (also known as Wonderjourney-1A, referred to as WJ-1A), was successfully launched from the Jiuquan Launch Center and entered the scheduled orbit.
On August 17, Douyin Group (formerly ByteDance) announced that it had begun testing its AI conversation product "Doubao". Allegedly, "Doubao is an AI tool developed by ByteDance based on the lark model, which provides features such as a chatbot, a writing assistant, and an English learning assistant that can answer a variety of questions and have conversations."
September 2023
On September 7, Tencent's hybrid large language model was officially unveiled at the 2023 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference, and it was announced that it will be open to the public through Tencent Cloud. This is the first time Tencent has disclosed a general-purpose large language model. The hybrid model has a scale of more than 100 million parameters, a pre-trained corpus of more than 2 trillion tokens, and has strong Chinese comprehension and creation capabilities, logical reasoning capabilities, and reliable task execution capabilities.
On September 13, Alibaba Cloud announced that its latest artificial intelligence model "Tongyi Qianwen" has been filed, and said that it will open-source a version of the large model with larger parameters for free commercial use by the whole society. This initiative aims to lower the threshold for the use of large models and promote the development and popularization of artificial intelligence technology.