Li Yanhong, the founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said at Viva Technology in Paris, France that he was a long-term believer in Chinese AI, and disclosed that Baidu had actively invested in the research and development of AI more than 10 years ago.
Li Yanhong recalled that he had learned the AI course when he went to university more than 30 years ago, and realized that AI is the core technology to solve the search problem. Therefore, Baidu started the research and development of artificial intelligence technology more than ten years ago, especially in the fields related to natural language processing.
He mentioned that Baidu launched version 1.0 of Wenxin big model with 100 million parameter scale in 2019, and soon after the release of ChatGPT, it quickly launched version 3.0, which shows Baidu's rapid response and technology accumulation in the AI field.
Li Yanhong also stressed that application innovation is the key to promote innovation of basic models. He believes that the progress of AI application can promote the technical iteration of basic models and help accelerate the transformation from the Internet era to the era of artificial intelligence.
He said, for example, that Baidu Search, Live e-commerce digital people and other applications can continue to optimize and feedback models and promote the technical iteration of basic models after obtaining real user needs.
In addition, Robin Li expressed his opinion on the progress speed of AI technology. He believed that although the technology has developed rapidly in the past few years, the speed is still too slow ".
He predicted that it might take more than ten years to reach the true era of general artificial intelligence (AGI).
At the exhibition, Li Yanhong also mentioned that the cumulative number of Baidu Wenxin Yiyan users has reached 200 million, and tens of millions of users are using the AI functions of Baidu Search, Baidu Library and other applications every day.