On September 13th, Alibaba Cloud announced that the model of Tongyi Thousand Questions had been put on record for the first time and was officially opened to the public.
In the past nearly half a month, the domestic big models of Baidu, Tencent and other big manufacturers have been officially launched, and the "Hundred Models War" moment of the domestic AI big model will come!
Domestic large models are intensively launched, and the "Hundred Models War" is coming?
According to 21 Data News Lab, on August 31st alone, large model products of eight enterprises or institutions, including Baidu, ByteDance, Shangtang Technology and Baichuan Intelligent, passed the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services, and became the first batch of "officially launched". Among them, except for ABAB, Scholar General, Zidong Taisan, all other domestic large models have consumer products that are open to the public free of charge.
Since September, the big models of (), Tencent and Alibaba have also been opened one after another.
Previously, with the AI model represented by ChatGPT spreading all over the world, a number of domestic models have been released, but they are only in a small-scale testing session and are not fully open to the public. It is reported that at least 130 companies in China have studied large model products, among which 78 have made general large models and 52 have made vertical large models. It is expected that other records will be approved one after another.
Since the beginning of this year, AIGC’s favorable policies have continued.
Judging from the pace of policy promotion, since the beginning of this year, the relevant good news in the AIGC field has continued.
In April this year, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held a meeting, pointing out that we should attach importance to the development of general artificial intelligence, create an innovative ecology, and pay attention to preventing risks.
On July 13, the National Network Information Office, together with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology, announced the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services. On August 15th, the management method was officially implemented, and the filing of large models was started, which accelerated the release of commercial capacity of large models.
Which is stronger than the domestic big model?
So, what is the difference between the big domestic models that have been released?
According to the latest "AI Big Model Technical Capability Assessment Report 2023" issued by IDC, an IT market research and consulting company, at present, Wenxin Big Model 3.5 launched by Baidu is in a relatively leading position among the mainstream big models in China, and it gets full marks in the two indicators of "algorithm model" and "industry coverage".
Source: IDC《AI Large Model Technical Capability Assessment Report 2023.
Researchers in the Data Journalism Laboratory tried several applications corresponding to domestic large models, and found that Baidu ERNIE Bot has relatively rich functions, supports multimodal input and output such as pictures and voices, and can realize real-time online search, while other domestic large models have relatively few functions.
Since the beginning of this year, influenced by the AIGC wave, the stock prices of many companies with layout in this field have performed well. From the beginning of this year to September 13th, Iflytek’s share price rose by about 50%, while Baidu’s Hong Kong stocks and US stocks both rose by more than 20%.