From December 16 to 17, Geek Park Innovation Festival 2024 (hereinafter referred to as "IF"), sponsored by Geek Park and co sponsored by 751, was successfully held in Beijing 751 Park · Transmission Space. This is also the second time that the IF Conference returns to Beijing after two years.
In 2023, the science and technology circle will be surging - the battle of new energy vehicles is in full swing, ChatGPT is a blockbuster, big models are sweeping the world, Apple releases Vision Pro, humanoid robots go to the public... It can be predicted that a new round of technology explosion is brewing, and a new round of paradigm revolution has started.
Against this background, the theme of this year's IF conference is "Enhancing Life". As Zhang Peng, the founder and president of Geek Park, said, the progress of science and technology is drawing a dynamic draft for the new era, and it is an exciting new opportunity for innovators to put the finishing touches on this draft.
Zhang Peng, founder of Geek Park, delivers a speech In the past 13 years, IF has accompanied China's mobile Internet from taking off to the peak. This stage not only witnessed the appearance of global legendary geeks such as Google Chairman Schmidt, Apple co-founder Wozniak, Uber founder Kalanik, Tesla founder Mask, but also recorded the initial starting point and highlight moment of outstanding Chinese innovators such as Lei Jun, Zhang Yiming, Wang Xing, Huang Zheng, etc. The only thing that remains unchanged is that IF always insists on going with innovation and the times.
This year is the 14th year of IF. Geek Park has invited more than 30 technological innovators who stand at the forefront of the times to analyze the significance of this technological revolution for enterprises, society and individuals, and find the opportunities of the times brought by the big model to entrepreneurs. At the same time, the site also released the "50 Chinese Innovation Forces", 2023 China "+Big Model" Pioneer Case Top 10, 2023 Geek Favorite, "Extreme" Smart New Forces · 2023 Smart Car Annual List sorted by Geek Park.
Site of Geek Park Innovation Conference 2024 Road to AGI
2023 is a year of rapid development of AI technology represented by the big model. No technological revolution like the big model can make everyone reach a consensus quickly in such a short time and develop at a speed of thousands of miles in a day. In the United States, OpenAI leads Google, Meta, Microsoft and other enterprises to re engage in the battle in the AI field; In China, Baidu, Zhipu, Baichuan and other enterprises have joined in. This can not help recalling the early days of the mobile Internet era.
How will the big model change products, tools, and even business models? How can each individual use AI to become more free and valuable in the new era?
At the event, Robin Li, Baidu's founder, chairman and CEO, discussed the products and developers needed in the AI Native era. He stressed that most of this year, the focus of the whole society is on the big model itself. However, he has always held that the value of the big model can be reflected only when there are thousands of AI native applications on the basic model.
Li Yanhong believes that there are hundreds of basic models in China, which is a huge waste of social resources. Especially when our computing power is still limited, more resources should be put on exploring the combination with all walks of life, and exploring whether there is any new super APP.
Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Li Yanhong talks to Zhang Peng In a dialogue, Ye Jun, president of Nail, and Liu Qing, a Daguan scholar and a distinguished professor of East China Normal University Zijiang jointly discussed how to understand the AI era? Ye Jun is a technological optimist who believes that technological change will bring opportunities to every individual and emphasizes that human beings can control technological tools; Liu Qing is cautious about the development of the big model, and believes that the current AI technology change is different from the past, which may lead to political and cultural shock and social structure adjustment.
However, they also believe that although the road of technology development is long, it is full of hope, and people need to embrace it. At the same time, as the builders of business civilization, practitioners also need to have a sense of responsibility and mission, think more about and innovate from the perspective of individual development. After all, the success of enterprises and business civilization are ultimately created by individuals.
Ye Jun, President of Nailing, talks with Professor Liu Qing In another dialogue, Zhang Hongjiang, academician of the National Academy of Engineering and president of Zhiyuan Research Institute, and Lu Yifeng, senior engineer of Google DeepMind, analyzed the current situation and challenges of today's large-scale language models. They said that the existing large models are excellent at "fast thinking", but sometimes they encounter difficulties and need to introduce the concept of "slow thinking". At the same time, hallucination is the key to restrict the big model to deepen and change human productivity.
They believe that multimodal learning may be the frontier in the future, and hope that the future training objectives will be more comprehensive, including text and other perceptual information, so that the model can understand human civilization more comprehensively. For practitioners, only through personal participation can they deeply understand the potential and problems of the big model and stimulate their passion for potential application. They encourage entrepreneurs to actively welcome the innovation wave brought by the big model, strive to make breakthroughs in technology and application fields, and create more value for the entire human society.
Wang Xiaochuan, the founder and CEO of Baichuan Intelligent, also shared his views on the domestic big model competition and "what kind of product managers are needed in the AGI era". When talking about the fact that a large number of entrepreneurs are focusing on the big model but no Super App has appeared, Wang Xiaochuan mentioned that technology is still changing, and today's application should focus on the fit of technology products. He suggested that entrepreneurs focus on whether technology is suitable for market demand from the perspective of product power.
Wang Xiaochuan, founder and CEO of Baichuan Intelligent With regard to the difference between product managers in the AI era, Wang Xiaochuan believes that product managers need to really end up practicing. Only when they have seen the use of large models, can they design products better. He also mentioned that the dimension of AI products is people, and the design of products should first make people feel comfortable, then be used well and usable.
Zhipu AI COO Zhang Fan shared how to build product competitiveness in the AI era. He said that the industry has shifted from the pursuit of model scoring to the real application landing stage. He reminded enterprises not to regard the big model as a "wishing pool" and have too high expectations for the short term. He mentioned that there is a huge gap between 70 points and 90 points. At the same time, Zhang Fan also said that enterprises are faced with key problems when implementing the big model, such as how to correctly understand AI, whether the enterprise is AI ready, and what path to choose to meet AI.
In addition to the above scientific and technological leaders in the field of big model, Youzan founder and CEO Bai Ya, Chairman and CEO of Impression Notes Tang Yi, Founder and CEO of Blue Lake, Founder and CEO of MasterGo Ren Yanghui, Kyligence co-founder and CEO Han Qing, Zilliz partner and technical director Luan Xiaofan, Miaoya camera product leader Cai Xiaocen, Zhang Luyu, founder and CEO of Dify. AI, and other top product and application developers in China shared their views on the exploration of new applications in the AI era.
The Platform, Computing and Terminal of Cybercentury
AI has indeed pressed the accelerator button for all lines once again, but the progress worthy of attention is not limited to this - from the evolution of the content community to the evolution of smart cars, to the new progress in AR space computing, robots, brain computer interface and other fields, scientific and technological progress is accelerating product innovation in an all-round way, triggering a new round of technology explosion.
In 2023, in the era of mobile Internet stock, people seem to have tacitly accepted the fact that it is difficult for new entrants to break through in the arena of strong players. Therefore, any emerging business phenomenon will be magnified, and Xiaohongshu is no exception.
Xiaohongshu COO Conan shared his profound thoughts on Xiaohongshu's commercial value. She emphasized that over the years, Little Red Book has created a sincere, altruistic and mutual trust community atmosphere through careful management, and created fertile soil for commercialization. In this context, the emergence of commercialization, such as grass planting, shop broadcasting, buyer economy, e-commerce, did not harm the community. On the contrary, it enabled "individuals" (i.e. users) in the community and created value returns for them.
Xiao Hongshu COO Conan This new business model redefines the production relationship of marketing, e-commerce and other industries, and promotes innovative business values, including high-quality information flow (community value), efficient connection (community value+commercialization value) and the resulting transaction value.
Two representatives of Xiaohong booksellers, He Yi, the founder of the Eastern Beast, Chai Xiaodong, the founder of Grado Gedu, Zhang Wei, the founder of the New World Prime Minister, and Wei Wuwei, the senior engineer of the School of Media and Communication of Shanghai Jiaotong University, jointly formed a round table to discuss how to activate the "individual" in the new era? And what opportunities has the platform created for "individuals" under the triple update of times, technology and business logic? How can "individuals" seize these opportunities and certainty?
Round table dialogue: How to find your own "growth" on the growth platform - a close observation of Little Red Book business At the same time, the intelligence of cars has been continuously improved. Smart driving has opened the first year of no map landing, and smart cabin has entered a new stage of multi-mode interaction, multi screen integration, and active interaction. In particular, the emergence of new technologies such as large models has greatly expanded the capability boundaries of intelligent vehicles and travel platforms.
Xiaopeng Automobile has been exploring the way of travel in the future. He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO of Xiaopeng Automobile, shared their latest progress in flying cars - the split flying car "Land Aircraft Carrier". It consists of a land vehicle and a flying vehicle. Among them, the land vehicle is equipped with an intelligent cockpit that can seat 4-5 people. It adopts an incremental hybrid power system, 6X6 all wheel drive, and rear wheel steering; The flying body uses pure electric vertical takeoff and landing technology, equipped with a 270 ° panoramic two person cockpit, and supports manual/automatic driving modes, which can be automatically separated/combined with the land body.
According to He Xiaopeng, the split flying car has a very wide range of application scenarios: it can not only expand the travel boundary of individual users vertically, but also serve public utilities such as emergency and rescue.
He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO of Xiaopeng Auto Xia Yiping, CEO of Jidu and CEO of Jiyue, shared what a car robot should look like after the big model "gets on the car". He said that the goal of Jiyue is not simply to build a car, but to build a "car robot". Different from many cars that only add intelligent modules on the original basis, it is extremely necessary to create a new car paradigm that grows out of intelligence.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that in 2023, cutting-edge technologies in brain computer interface, embodied intelligence, XR and other fields will show a vigorous development trend. Industry progress is not only reflected in technology and products, but also involves all-round breakthroughs in industrial layout, application innovation and effective governance, showing great potential.
Peng Lei, the founder and CEO of Brain Tiger Technology, shared the latest progress of brain computer interface technology, saying that scientists have been able to restore EEG signals to language signals through brain computer interface and connect them to big language models, just like automatic correction when typing, which can be regarded as the integration of human beings and AI. He said that the output of the current big language model is still limited by the previous input training, and brain computer interface+AI may be able to accumulate new information through sensors and become a new form in the future.
Founder of Brain Tiger Technology& CEO Peng Lei Yang Jianbo, founder and CEO of Can Technology, shared the exploration of technology in this field from the perspective of robot industry practitioners, and thought about the future development of the companion robot track. He believes that the change of technology stack will lead to the change of demand for interactive forms, just like the transition from the Internet era to the mobile Internet era. Under the new technological paradigm reform of the big language model, technological innovation is also exploring the possibility of new hardware. At present, robots that focus on family scenes and provide emotional value are expected to build "Home's. AI" in the future.
Li Hongwei, the founder and CEO of Thunderbird Innovation, shared the great potential of AI in the field of augmented reality. He believes that the explosion of Ai Pin has satisfied users' desire for technological innovation, but the main entrance of AI in the future will be AR glasses. The deep integration of AR+AI can expand more life scenes and extend human capabilities, such as semantic understanding, audio recognition, 3D model generation, etc. At present, despite the recovery of consumer grade AR, the "iPhone moment" of AR has not yet arrived. In the future, AR glasses still need killer scenes and applications.
Scientific and technological innovation represented by artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, giving birth to new business models and product forms, and profoundly changing people's lifestyle and social relations.
The end of IF 2024 is the end of a conference and the beginning of a new chapter. In this era of high innovation, the tide of science and technology is growing. The Geek Park Innovation Conference is like a bridge connecting the frontier of science and technology with innovative thinking, bringing together innovators and stimulating sparks across the ideological boundary.
