Baidu Releases Wenxin Large Model 4.0: Li Yanhong Says It Stands Out Compared to GPT-4 in Overall Performance

Li Yanhong delivered a keynote speech titled "Hand in Hand to Teach You How to Build AI Native Applications" at Baidu World 2023, announcing the official launch of the Wenxin 4.0 model and inviting developers and enterprises to test it. He said that the Wenxin 4.0 model has made significant progress in its four core abilities: understanding, generation, logic, and memory, which are the foundation for developing AI native applications.

He demonstrated more than ten AI native applications, including Baidu Search, Ruliu, Maps, Cloud Storage, and Document Library, based on the reconstruction of Wenxin's core. He showcased the powerful creativity and practicality of the large-scale model. "I hope to inspire everyone's imagination and create more stunning AI native applications together," he said.

He introduced that Baidu's new search can generate multimodal answers by understanding the content, allowing users to obtain answers in one step and supporting multi-round interactions to meet users' personalized search needs. Baidu GBI is a generative business intelligence product that can perform data queries and analysis tasks through natural language interaction and support professional knowledge injection. Baidu Cloud Storage and Document Library can understand and regenerate massive documents, images, and videos to enhance creative capabilities. Baidu Maps and Ruliu can become more intimate travel guides and super assistants through their understanding and memory capabilities.

He also gave examples, saying that plugins are a special type of AI native application with the lowest threshold and the easiest to get started with. Baidu has launched the Lingjing Plugin Platform, covering multiple fields such as law, workplace, and learning. APIs are the main way for AI native applications to call basic large-scale models. Baidu's Qianfan Large Model Platform has 42 mainstream large-scale models and covers nearly 500 scenarios. Autonomous driving is a typical application of vision-based large-scale models reconstructing the physical world. Baidu's autonomous driving travel service platform, Luobo KuaiPao, has provided services over 4 million times.

"Large-scale models will usher in a prosperous AI native application ecosystem, promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, and become an important driving force for the new industrialization," Li Yanhong said.