"Li Kaifu brings Yi series large models into the 'Battle of Hundred Models'"

"New Force in the Battle of Large Models! On November 6th, 'Zero One Everything,' an AI 2.0 company founded by Kai-Fu Lee, released its open-source large model series, Yi." "Since the beginning of this year, AI large models have become a hot area for investment and entrepreneurship, with various players launching their own large models and opening up services. Although 'Zero One Everything,' led by Kai-Fu Lee, entered the scene a bit later, it has demonstrated strong capabilities and ambitions." "The Yi series of large models consists of two versions: Yi-6B (with 6 billion parameters) and Yi-34B (with 34 billion parameters). Yi-6B is suitable for personal and research purposes, while Yi-34B possesses the ability of intelligent emergence and can be applied to various scenarios, meeting the needs of the open-source community." "The performance of Yi-34B is particularly outstanding. It ranked first globally with a score of 70.72 in the Hugging Face English Test Public Single Pretrained Open Source Model Ranking, surpassing LLaMA-70B and Falcon-180B. Moreover, Yi-34B has far fewer parameters than the latter two, achieving a 'miracle' of surpassing the hundred-billion level with only tens of billions of parameters." "In addition, the Yi series of large models supports both Chinese and English, leading in Chinese language capabilities among all open-source large models. It also has an extremely long context window, enabling the generation of more abundant, coherent, and accurate text. In comparison, ChatGPT's GPT-4 context window can only support approximately 25,000 Chinese characters of text input, while Yi-34B can handle around 400,000 Chinese characters. This makes Yi-34B the largest model in terms of context window globally." "Currently, the Yi series models have been launched on three major open-source community platforms: Hugging Face, ModelScope, and GitHub, and commercial applications are also open for submission. Zero One Everything has also initiated the training of the next hundred-billion-parameter model." "Zero One Everything is an AI company founded by Kai-Fu Lee in March this year. It is composed of top AI talents from domestic and foreign leading companies, with its core team originating from Tsinghua KEG Laboratory. The name of the company implies 'Zero One Intelligence, Empowering Everything,' expressing its vision and determination to become the 'World's No.1.'" "Alongside the release of the Yi series of large models, Zero One Everything has also completed a new round of financing, raising $300 million, led by Alibaba Cloud. Its current valuation has exceeded $1 billion, making it an AI unicorn." "This year, the field of AI large models has attracted the attention of numerous well-known investment institutions and industrial capital, and several AI startups have received substantial financing. However, large model entrepreneurship has also shown a polarization trend, where only teams with high professionalism in the AI field and influence in the capital circle have the opportunity to succeed. All of this indicates that large model entrepreneurship is a niche endeavor. Kai-Fu Lee's involvement has added new variables to this technological feast and brought more highlights to large model entrepreneurship."