On April 16th, Baidu held the Create 2024 Baidu AI Developer Conference. Many guests including Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, gave speeches on the stage and shared the latest technological progress of Baidu in the AI field with developers all over the world.
Everyone is a developer.
Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, delivered a speech on the topic of "Everyone is a developer", which brought a powerful basic model series and three AI development tools to developers around the world, and formed a toolbox to support developers to pack and take away. Li Yanhong said that in the future, natural language will become a new general programming language. As long as you can speak, you can become a developer and change the world with your creativity.
Powerful basic model series, that is, Wenxin big model series, include: flagship versions of ERNIE3.5 and 4.0, and lightweight versions of ERNIE Speed, Lite, Tiny, etc. At the scene, Li Yanhong also officially released the tool version of Wenxin Big Model 4.0. Since ERNIE Bot was released more than a year ago, the number of users has exceeded 200 million. At present, Wenxin Big Model has become the most advanced and widely used AI basic model in China.
Three "out-of-the-box" AI development tools, including AgentBuilder, AI native application development tool AppBuilder, and ModelBuilder of various sizes. Li Yanhong said, "Today, you can make an AI application without writing code; You can make an agent without programming. "
In terms of specific ideas for developing AI native applications, Li Yanhong pointed out that MoE, small model and agent are three directions worthy of attention. "This is what Baidu has paid for by stepping on countless pits and paying high tuition fees according to the practice of the past year."
Speaking of open source and closed source, Li Yanhong emphasized, "Everyone used to think that open source is cheap. In fact, in the big model scenario, open source is the most expensive. So the open source model will become more and more backward. "
In addition to developing tools, Li Yanhong also brought financial and resource support to developers. At the conference site, Li Yanhong announced that the second "Wenxin Cup" Entrepreneurship Competition was officially launched, recruiting entrepreneurial innovation teams in the direction of AI native application for global markets and college students, and setting up a "special award". He said, "Particularly excellent projects will have the opportunity to get 50 million yuan in cash and resources support."
New progress of Wenxin big model: agent, code and multi-model
Wang Haifeng, chief technology officer of Baidu, gave a speech on the topic of "Building the Foundation with Technology, Brilliant Milky Way", and interpreted the key technologies and latest progress of many large-scale models of Wenxin, such as agent, code and multi-model. Wang Haifeng said that agent is an important development direction, which will bring more applications. Based on the basic model, the agent further carries out thinking enhancement training, including supervised fine tuning of thinking process, preference learning of behavior decision-making, and enhanced learning of result reflection, and then gets the thinking model. The thinking model of an agent, like a human being, can read the instructions, learn how to use tools, and then call tools to complete tasks.
From the trillion-dollar training data, Wenxin Big Model not only learned the ability of natural language, but also learned the ability of code, and opened up the process from thinking to execution. Based on these two capabilities of Wenxin Big Model, Baidu developed a code agent and an intelligent code assistant. Wang Haifeng said: "The code agent allows everyone to do what only programmers can do before, and everyone can become a programmer; Intelligent code assistants help professional programmers to write better code more efficiently, which can be said to be programmers’ AI peers. "
Wang Haifeng also shared the multi-model technology. He said that the effect, efficiency and cost are very important in the process of large-scale model application. In practical application, it is necessary to choose the most suitable model from the needs of the scene. On the one hand, it is efficient and low-cost model production; On the other hand, it is multi-model reasoning.
The sustained and rapid evolution of Wenxin model benefits from Baidu’s full-stack layout of chips, frameworks, models and applications, especially the joint optimization of the flying paddle deep learning platform and Wenxin. The weekly average training efficiency of Wenxin Big Model reached 98.8%, which was 5.1 times higher than that when it was released by ERNIE Bot a year ago, and the reasoning efficiency was 105 times. Up to now, Flying Paddle Wenxin Ecology has gathered 12.95 million developers, served 244,000 enterprises and institutions, and created 895,000 models based on Flying Paddle and Wenxin.
Released by Baidu AI Cloud
Wanyuan, a New Generation Intelligent Computing Operating System
Shen Yao, executive vice president of Baidu Group and president of Baidu AI Cloud Business Group, officially released Wanyuan, a new generation of intelligent computing operating system. By abstracting and encapsulating the intelligent computing platform in the AI native era, it shielded the complexity of cloud native system and heterogeneous computing power for users and improved the efficiency and experience of AI native application development.
Shen Shayi said that with the continuous evolution of large-scale model technology, programming through natural language is becoming a reality. Programming will no longer be process-oriented or object-oriented, but demand-oriented; The process of programming will become a process for developers to express their wishes and bring revolutionary changes to the operating system. In the kernel of the operating system, the underlying hardware has changed from CPU-based computing power to GPU-based computing power, and the world knowledge compressed by large models has been added. The object of operating system management has undergone essential changes, from managing processes and micro-services to managing intelligence.
"The traditional cloud computing system is still important, but it is no longer the protagonist. We need a brand-new operating system to abstract and encapsulate the new computing platform, that is, intelligent computing, and redefine human-computer interaction to provide developers with a simpler and smoother development experience." Shen Yao said.
All along, Baidu and Intel have maintained close cooperation in infrastructure, providing customers with mature solutions in the cloud, edge and end. Chen Baoli, vice president of Intel Data Center and Artificial Intelligence Group and general manager of China, said that AI is one of the core strategies of Intel’s development, and the company is currently integrating AI into its overall product portfolio. Baidu is one of Intel’s important partners. In the original era of AI, we look forward to the cooperation between Baidu and Intel, which will bring the positive impact of intelligent computing to thousands of industries.
Agent: Creating the Original Future of AI
He Junjie, senior vice president of Baidu Group and general manager of Baidu Mobile Ecological Business Group, delivered a keynote speech on "Agent: Creating the Original Future of AI". He Junjie said that agents will reshape the way people interact with technology and bring new application ecology, traffic pattern and business model. Baidu mobile ecology is not only a hot spot for the growth of large-scale model applications, but also the head of the wave of agents. No matter users, customers or ecological partners, they can share the low-threshold, multi-scenario and high-value agent ecology in Baidu Mobile Ecology.
He Junjie said that at the user level, Baidu Mobile Ecology is committed to creating a "super agent available to everyone". He showed the new progress of Baidu New Library and ERNIE Bot APP on the spot; At the customer level, business agents, smart broadcast stars, etc. are becoming the standard and infrastructure of commercial operations; On the ecological level, AgentBuilder is committed to making everyone an agent developer and a platform that everyone can develop, operate and benefit.
In addition, Baidu ecological platforms such as Baidu search, maps, and post bars can also access the capabilities of agents, allowing developers to obtain real traffic support.
"agent ecology is not a’ one-man show’ of big players, but a’ chorus’ of the whole people." He Junjie said that Baidu Mobile Ecology always adheres to the principle of "making applications, building capabilities and building ecology", so that every ordinary person can become a developer and every developer can become a creator. Baidu welcomes all enterprises, developers and ecological partners to jointly seize the new opportunities brought by agents and open up the next golden age of traffic.
A small launch of the world’s first AI native operating system DuerOS X.
Super brain was officially launched.
Li Ying, vice president of Baidu Group and CEO of Xiaodu Technology, officially released DuerOS X, a new generation operating system, which is the world’s first AI native operating system based on Baidu Wenxin model. Li Ying said: "As an important and large-scale landing scene of the model, the degree of AI intelligence helps lead the AI native application to a new height." Different from the past, as the world’s first AI native operating system, DuerOS X has completely subverted the old model of the traditional "human adaptation system" and truly achieved end-to-end "connecting users’ intentions and tasks". This innovation has greatly expanded the boundaries of the operating system.
At the Create AI conference, Li Yanhong, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, interacted with Xiaodian Tian AI tablet robot equipped with DuerOS X. Through several rounds of dialogue, Xiaodi can not only clearly arrange complex schedules, but also express his language more vividly. Not only is it smarter, more capable and more understanding of users, but it can also provide users with emotional companionship value, and it will truly become a more useful and soulful AI partner that everyone can have.
2024, as the first year of AI native application, the launch of DuerOS X is not only a small-scale extreme brain change, but also a subversive innovative application of the big model. In the future, Xiaodi will bring more people a convenient, comfortable and technological life experience through continuous exploration and breaking the ceiling of intelligent ability, improve people’s quality of life, and truly let AI enter thousands of industries and thousands of households.
"AI is setting off a creative revolution. Developing applications in the future is as simple as shooting a short video. Everyone is a developer and everyone is a creator." Li Yanhong said. Just as the theme of Baidu World 2023 is "Creating the Future", at the end of the speech, Li Yanhong said that today, everyone can become a developer, and the future will certainly be a future created by developers together.
