Robin Lee's latest voice is coming!
In the future, everyone will possess the ability of a programmer
On March 9, Robin Lee, the founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, pointed out in an interview with CCTV's "Dialogue" at the beginning of the new year that there will be no "programmer" in the future, because as long as you can speak, everyone will have the ability to be a programmer. "There will only be two programming languages left in the future, one called English and the other called Chinese."
In Chinese, Wenxin Big Model 4.0 has surpassed GPT-4
Robin Lee said that Wenxin 4.0 has surpassed GPT-4 in Chinese. He used writing poetry as an example, stating that even big models like the Wenxin model can be written, but GPT is not enough. "For example, to write a poem, many big models can write it. But if I ask to write a word on the word board of" Qinyuan Spring ", GPT is completely confused. It does not know whether the first sentence is four words or five words." In the past year, the number of ERNIE Bot users has exceeded 100 million, Wenxin big model has been upgraded to version 4.0, and the restructured Baidu Wenku and other AI native applications have also achieved the improvement of various data indicators.
I'm not angry about the huge difference between ChatGPT and ERNIE Bot
On March 9, after the release of Robin Lee's ERNIE Bot, there were many negative comments on the Internet. He said that he was not angry about the huge difference between ChatGPT and ERNIE Bot, and he hoped to change their ideas within a year. He said that he was very confident about ERNIE Bot. Those who can get the right to use the professional version can compare it with ChatGPT4.0.
I feel that the development of artificial intelligence is slower than imagined
As for the development speed of AI, Robin Lee said: "I think the development of AI is slower than I expected. AI has been proposed for 70 years, and maybe every 10 years or so, a group of people say that we are finally going to achieve universal AI. But the situation is more complicated than expected."
Baidu's net profit increased by nearly 40% in 2023
Baidu released its financial reports for the fourth quarter and full year of 2023, with a total revenue of 134.598 billion yuan and a net profit attributable to Baidu (non GAAP) of 28.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth rate of 39%. Comparing institutional perspectives, it can be seen that in 2023, Baidu's annual revenue and profit exceeded market expectations.
From the fourth quarter of 2023 alone, Baidu achieved a revenue of 34.951 billion yuan and a net profit attributable to Baidu (non GAAP) of 7.755 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 44%.
Robin Lee, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said that in 2023, significant progress will be made in iterating Wenxin's big model and ERNIE Bot's one word, restructuring products and services, and commercialization. We will continue to firmly invest in generative AI and foundational models in the future, laying the foundation for creating new growth engines.
Baidu is the AI company that the market is most concerned about. Robin Lee's emphasis on AI has become a new driving force for Baidu's growth according to the latest financial report.
The financial report shows that in 2023, Baidu's core revenue was 103.465 billion yuan, and the net profit attributable to Baidu's core (non GAAP) was 27.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38%; In December 2023, the monthly active users of Baidu App reached 667 million. As of January 2, 2024, the total service volume of Carrot Run exceeded 5 million orders; In the fourth quarter of last year, the number of orders for the Carrot Run service increased by 49% year-on-year to 839000, and the proportion of all autonomous driving orders in Wuhan reached 45%.
The Wenxin Big Model is a representative AI tool of Baidu, with the highest number of calls in China. Public data shows that by the end of December 2023, the number of ERNIE Bot users has exceeded 100 million; Robin Lee said in his speech in November last year that there are more than 200 major models in China, and "the call volume of Wenxin model is more than the total call volume of these 200 major models".
Robin Lee previously disclosed in the event that from March 2023 to the end of December 2023, Wenxin has basically reduced the reasoning cost to 1% of the original. At the same time, through the collaborative optimization of PaddlePaddle and Wenxin, the average weekly training efficiency of the model exceeded 98%.