On April 16, Robin Lee, the founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said at the Create 2024 Baidu AI Developers Conference that the open source model will become more and more backward.
Based on the basic model Wenxin 4.0, Robin Lee said that users can tailor smaller models suitable for various scenarios according to needs, taking into account effects, corresponding speed, reasoning costs and other considerations. Small models are significantly better than models directly called out from open source models under the same size; Under the same effect, the cost is significantly lower.
Robin Lee interacted with Xiaodu on the spot in real time, demonstrating that Xiaodu performed different tasks by combining multiple models. For example, using the small model ERNIE Tiny to perform model routing work, while the best performing Wenxin 4.0 is used to perform complex requirements such as scheduling. Compared to the flagship version that uses the entire Wenxin model, Xiaodu can achieve a response speed increase of 2 times and a cost reduction of 99%.