At the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, "debut" and "new product release" have become important layouts for many manufacturers.
On July 4th, multiple new AI products from NetEase made their debut at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and released their first robot brand, "Lingdong". NetEase Lingdong is a robot brand created by NetEase Fuxi based on self-developed industrial models and AOP technology ideas. Its two core products, mining robots and loading robots, have participated in 50 key construction projects in more than 10 provinces, covering various application scenarios such as mines, ports, mixing plants, and schools.
In addition to making new progress in the engineering field, NetEase continues to scale up the implementation of self-developed large models in fields such as gaming, education, music, and cultural tourism.
This time, NetEase Youdao has made its debut on the Youdao Dictionary Pen X7, which exclusively includes two native applications of the first education model in China, "Ziyue": the AI family teacher Youdao Xiao P and the virtual human oral private teaching Hi Echo.
NetEase Fuxi's self-developed "Yi Sheng Zhu Xiang" multimodal large model has also brought multiple industry-leading applications: the intelligent agent assistant "Danqing Yue", which can complete image modification with just textual descriptions of needs, and the world's first game Copilot jointly released with the mobile game "Eternal Sorrow"; NetEase Yaotai has once again made a breakthrough, bringing a new product called "VR Big Space". Visitors can experience the industry's first enterprise VR exhibition hall on site, unlocking unlimited space in a 20 square meter venue
NetEase not only empowers the industry with AI to unleash more productivity, but also allows more people to enjoy the benefits of AI. At this conference, NetEase Youling platform also announced that it has provided nearly 100 million work tasks and is expected to provide new AI careers for nearly a million people by the end of this year.
NetEase Fuxi releases its first robot brand "Lingdong", accelerating construction progress by over 30%
What is the most grounded exhibit of this artificial intelligence conference? That must be a NetEase agile mining robot.
At the exhibition site, visitors can not only control the micro excavators by operating flight controllers and AR glasses like playing games, but also connect to the construction site in real time and remotely control the excavation robot work in the Tonglu mining scene in Hangzhou hundreds of kilometers away.
At the same time, viewers can also watch the "live broadcast premiere" of NetEase's agile loading robot on site, where the loading robot of the concrete mixing plant is completing tasks such as unmanned driving and autonomous operation in one go.
In the past two years, NetEase Fuxi has applied the AI technology accumulated in games to the physical industry based on AOP technology and self-developed industrial models, and has successively launched the first domestic loading robot and mining robot.
At this artificial intelligence conference, NetEase Fuxi released its first robot brand, "Lingdong". NetEase Lingdong is a robot brand created by NetEase Fuxi based on self-developed industrial models and AOP technology ideas. Its two core products, mining robots and loading robots, have participated in 50 key construction projects in more than 10 provinces, covering various application scenarios such as mines, ports, mixing plants, and schools.
In April, NetEase Lingdong successfully won the "Xuzhou Construction Machinery Industry List Leading Technology Research Projects" and further deepened cooperation with XCMG Group in the field of intelligent construction machinery. The next step is for NetEase Lingdong to explore the cutting-edge trend of intelligent construction machinery with XCMG, and to customize the development of an unmanned cluster management system for multi scenario construction machinery. The person in charge of NetEase Lingdong stated that in the context of vigorously promoting new quality productivity in the new era, the release of NetEase Lingdong further reflects NetEase Fuxi's determination to empower the physical industry with AI capabilities.
In the future, whether it is excavators, loaders, rollers, bulldozers, or even agricultural machinery, household robots, or cleaning robots, NetEase's agile embodied intelligence related technology can be used. NetEase's agile will accelerate the scale replication in multiple application scenarios and be applied in a wider range of market areas.
It is reported that currently NetEase's agile mining robot has automation functions such as automatic loading, one click slope cleaning, one click leveling, automatic throwing, and tracking navigation. At present, mining robots have achieved normal operations in extreme environments, with a single continuous automated operation lasting over 10 hours and a single machine comprehensive efficiency of over 80% for real people. Even in the recent continuous rainstorm weather, the mining robot can still guarantee the work progress in the mine construction scene, complete the loading task of about 50 vehicles a day, and accelerate the production efficiency by more than 30%.
NetEase's agile loading robot has achieved all-weather unmanned loading operations in the construction of concrete mixing plants, which can fully guarantee the actual production demand of nearly 1000 cubic meters per day. It not only helps construction units solve safety production problems, but also effectively alleviates the pain points of difficult recruitment and employment in the construction machinery industry for a long time.
Multiple "industry first" large-scale model applications have made their debut, and "production model integration" has been deeply promoted
As large models enter the explosive period of application, whether they can be applied on a large scale in real scenarios has become the core criterion for verifying the value of large models. NetEase's major models such as "Ziyue" and "Yisheng Zhuxiang" are accelerating their sinking and deepening implementation, achieving large-scale applications in core businesses and high-frequency scenarios, and completing model capability iteration and business operation through "production model integration".
At this conference, NetEase Youdao made its debut with the brand new AI big model learning hardware Youdao Dictionary Pen X7, which exclusively includes two native applications of the first education big model in China, "Ziyue": AI general family teacher Youdao Xiao P and virtual human oral private teaching Hi Echo. Among them, Hi Echo is the world's first virtual human oral private teaching application launched by NetEase Youdao, providing one-on-one oral practice anytime and anywhere. Recently, the application scale has reached millions. In early July, the Youdao Hi Echo children's mode tailored specifically for children will also be launched.
The comprehensive Q&A function of Youdao XiaoP covers 10 subjects of learning content, providing users with the most comprehensive and up-to-date exam resources to assist in practice. It can also provide targeted problem-solving ideas and heuristic guidance teaching based on different user learning stages, age groups, knowledge areas, and other factors, equivalent to a 24-hour all-around AI tutor who can respond at any time.
In addition to the continuous expansion of the application scope of the "Confucius" model, NetEase's "Yisheng Zhuxiang" model has also brought two industry-leading applications.
Based on the "Yi Sheng Zhu Xiang" big model, the multimodal intelligent agent assistant "Danqing Yue" has been fully upgraded. Users only need to describe instructions, such as "help me put on sunglasses", "change the background to the beach", "change from day to night", etc. AI can understand the intention and directly generate results without the need for learning tools and tedious parameter tuning, greatly reducing the threshold for use. Viewers can scan the QR code of the WeChat mini program Danqing Yue at the NetEase Fuxi booth, and create their own image photos for 2048 by talking to the intelligent agent "Xiaoqing". At the same time, the generated image photos can also be printed directly on site as a commemoration for attending the conference.
In addition, Copilot, the world's first game to be installed in the mobile game Eternal Sorrow, also made its debut at this conference. By utilizing the large model reasoning ability of "Yi Sheng Zhu Xiang", we can create AI teammates who are almost identical to real players. During battles, we can autonomously run maps, search for supplies, fight, run circles, and assist in rescue. We can seamlessly communicate with players in both directions through open microphone and natural voice, not only understanding commands but also actively alerting and helping players. At present, the number of reservations for the mobile game "Eternal Sorrow" has exceeded 40 million.
In December 2023, the "Yisheng Zhuxiang" multimodal large model was approved by the national double registration system. The model includes the "Yuyan" series of cultural and graphic models and the "Danqing" series of cultural and graphic models. Currently, the model has enabled the application of multiple cultural and entertainment scenarios within NetEase, providing services to tens of millions of users, with an overall call volume of over 100 billion times.
The big model provides employment opportunities for millions of people and unleashes the productivity of human-machine collaboration
Artificial intelligence has given birth to new industries and formats, as well as new employment directions. NetEase Youling Platform is a human-machine collaboration task platform developed by NetEase Fuxi, which supports users to quickly model, publish, and operate tasks that can be completed by machine and human collaboration, thereby helping various industries release digital job positions. Since its establishment, the business of Youling Platform has grown rapidly, providing nearly 100 million work tasks and covering the whole country, even as far as Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. It is expected to provide employment opportunities for nearly a million people by the end of this year.
In order to achieve better human-machine collaboration, the Youling platform provides an automatic quality inspection function based on user profiles, integrating a series of cutting-edge algorithms in cost control, task cycle shortening, and quality assurance, including active learning, truth inference, and reward decomposition. Through data closed-loop, the AI algorithm continuously feeds back manually annotated data to achieve seamless human-machine collaboration task processing, greatly improving the efficiency of task completion. Users can also engage in flexible and free work through online order taking and remote operation modes.
According to the introduction, the job positions provided by Youling Platform include excavator remote driver, AI painter, AI expression binding engineer, and so on. In 2024, the Youling platform launched a new real-time product content review service, which has trained over 100 users with an accuracy rate of over 99% within a month, and can process over 100000 tasks per day. The audience of this conference can also experience the "NetEase Fuxi Intelligent Container" solution on-site, understand the entire process of real-time review of product content in "Human AI Collaboration", and experience the high-speed and precise task processing supported by intelligent technology through practical operations in real scenarios, deeply experiencing the efficiency leap brought by human-machine collaboration.
NetEase not only empowers the industry with AI to bring about a leap in productivity, but also allows more people to enjoy the benefits of AI. In addition to providing new employment opportunities, it also makes education more inclusive. With the support of Confucius, Youdao Smart Education has also been implemented in multiple scenarios on campus. Currently, Youdao Smart Education has established deep cooperation with Haidian District in Beijing, Gongshu District in Hangzhou, and Yibin City in Sichuan Province. Taking sports scenes as an example, smart sports equipped with the "Confucius" education model have supported more than 20 exercise projects such as pull-up and standing long jump. They have successively entered more than 200 primary and secondary schools in the entire Gongshu area of Hangzhou City, as well as Wangjing School of Tsinghua University Affiliated Middle School, helping more than 300000 primary and secondary school students improve their physical health.