Microsoft and OpenAI staged "You among me". How do domestic artificial intelligence companies adapt to the situation?

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Author/Wang Haoda

From May 23 to 25, local time, the Microsoft Build 2023 conference opened in Seattle, USA. Artificial intelligence once again became a hot topic at the conference. Microsoft announced a number of plans to use artificial intelligence technology to expand its applications and services.

Among them, for C-side users, Microsoft has introduced its AI voice assistant Copilot into Windows 11. In Windows 11, Copilot will appear in the taskbar, and users can open the Copilot sidebar with a single click, making it easy to summarize, rewrite, and interpret text in any application currently in use, as well as adjust computer settings. Microsoft said the feature will begin public testing next month before being rolled out to more users.

Microsoft Build 2023 showcases the role of AI in the multi-in-one PC ecosystem including Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office, Microsoft 365, etc., based on Microsoft's multi-billion dollar cooperation in OpenAI. Microsoft announced that Bing will become the default search engine for ChatGPT, which means users will be able to see citation additional information provided by Bing in the chatbot's responses. In this way, users can more easily obtain relevant content without leaving the chat interface. This feature will initially be available only to users of ChatGPT Plus, but Microsoft plans to expand it to all users in the future.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has rolled out several other updates for developers. For example, Microsoft has launched a new "Dev Home" dashboard to make it easier to develop for Windows devices. Additionally, Microsoft is bringing AI-generated app review summaries to the Microsoft Store and launching a new AI Hub to highlight Windows apps that leverage AI.

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It can be clearly seen from Microsoft Build 2023 that the gap between Microsoft and other companies in the field of artificial intelligence has once again widened. Driven by Microsoft, global enthusiasm for artificial intelligence remains high. Its partner Nvidia specifically mentioned in its first fiscal quarter financial report of fiscal year 2024 that as the market's interest in artificial intelligence surges, the company is "significantly" increasing its Product supply related to data center business. Affected by this, Nvidia rose 24.63% after the market closed, and its market value soared by nearly 200 billion.

However, some foreign media said that NVIDIA's GPU delivery time to Chinese customers may increase from 3 months to more than 3 months. Even some new orders may need to wait until at least December to be completed, and the waiting time may exceed 6 months. At the same time, even the first GPU V100 with tensor core architecture launched in 2018, the price in China reached about 10,000 US dollars.

Faced with such oppressive competition and unfair treatment, domestic companies are not ready to surrender, and are always ready to fight against the impact of top technology companies such as Microsoft and Google, looking for ways to break the situation.

01 Strengthen technological innovation and R&D costs

In addition to Microsoft investing $1 billion in OpenAI over five years. Microsoft also provides a large amount of technical resources and talent support, especially in technical fields such as Azure cloud services, natural language processing, computer vision, etc., and has launched extensive cooperation with OpenAI. If domestic artificial intelligence companies want to catch up with Microsoft, they need to increase investment in technological innovation and R&D, increase the proportion of independent intellectual property rights, and create internationally competitive AI core technologies and products.

In 2019, Baidu announced that it would invest 100 billion yuan in artificial intelligence research and development in the next five years, and at the same time established the world's largest deep learning research institute-Baidu Research Institute. Currently, there are two figures Spiritual Award winner settled in. As of April 2022, Baidu has submitted more than 22,000 artificial intelligence-related patent applications globally, and has obtained more than 4,600 artificial intelligence patents in China alone.

In addition, Tencent also stated in its first quarter financial report that the company is investing heavily in building artificial intelligence capabilities and cloud infrastructure to embrace the opportunities brought by the basic model. It is worth noting that Tencent’s R&D expenditure continues to maintain high growth, reaching 15.181 billion yuan, which is basically the same as the same period last year. From 2018 to now, the company’s R&D investment has exceeded 220 billion yuan.

According to IDC research, China’s artificial intelligence market size has reached 77.5 billion yuan in 2019, and is expected to exceed 370 billion yuan by 2023. Domestic companies in the field of artificial intelligence started a little later, but the exponential increase in investment is enough to prove that the domestic market will show "China speed" to the world in the field of artificial intelligence.

02 Integrate efforts to create an artificial intelligence model with Chinese advantages

Mr. Zhang Junbo, CEO of Unity China, once told Sutu.com: “The way out for China’s ChatGPT is to train with the Chinese’s own data.” Large models trained using domestic data will provide solutions that are more in line with the business logic of Chinese enterprises, and will far exceed the help that ChatGPT can bring in terms of timeliness and accuracy. At the same time, applications in finance, medical care, environmental governance and other fields will play a more targeted decision-making role.

In April 2023, China Unicom Research Institute and China Unicom Guangdong joined hands with Huawei to build a full-stack independent innovation AI intelligent computing center, and completed the country's first OSU (Optical Service Unit, Optical Service Unit) live network verification for flexible integration into multi-cloud. Achieve new breakthroughs in the integrated development of computing and networks and inject new momentum into the high-quality development of the digital economy in the Greater Bay Area.

At the same time, many Chinese users who have used ChatGPT said that although ChatGPT can provide more comprehensive information or more natural answers, there are always some situations that are inconsistent with Chinese language habits in terms of language expression. Sutu.com believes that the core competitiveness of China's large generative artificial intelligence model will revolve around Chinese language habits.

Once it conforms to Chinese language logic, it is like laying a foundation in the field of artificial intelligence. Large artificial intelligence models that conform to Chinese language logic can be widely used in Chinese question and answer, conversational robots, intelligent customer service, and natural language processing and other fields, bringing more intelligent and convenient services to enterprises and users.

03 Focus on the future and strengthen the cultivation of high-quality artificial intelligence talents

Any competition in the field of cutting-edge science and technology is inseparable from the reserve of talents. Sutu.com believes that grasping high-quality talents is the common responsibility of society and enterprises. Cultivating cutting-edge talents in the industry will promote technological innovation in artificial intelligence; drive the development of the artificial intelligence industry; improve the country's core competitiveness; and promote the integrated development of artificial intelligence and other fields.

In September 2022, the "USTC-Alibaba Intelligent Computing Joint Laboratory" was established in Hefei. The University of Science and Technology of China will cooperate with Alibaba Damo Academy to carry out basic, forward-looking and key common technology research in the fields of artificial intelligence and intelligent computing around the national strategic direction; leverage the advantages of industry-research cooperation to jointly cultivate "new engineering" Talent.

Bao Xinhe, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of the University of Science and Technology of China, said: He hopes that the joint laboratory will have high aspirations, answer the questions of the era of self-reliance and self-reliance in science and technology, aim at one or two world-class problems, and find a place in future scientific research. .

It is true that competition is not a hostile and emotional behavior. Being complacent will only lead to bumpy development. The road to autonomous artificial intelligence still requires more comprehensive and rich ideas to be realized.

Currently, China ranks first in the world in terms of number of artificial intelligence startups, and has received a lot of domestic and foreign investment support. Startup companies have made important contributions to artificial intelligence technology innovation and industrial applications, injecting new vitality into the development of the entire industry.

04 Strengthen cooperation to expand application scenarios and expand market demand

Chinese companies have also begun to focus on win-win cooperation in the process of commercializing artificial intelligence. Companies including Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Huawei and Xiaomi are actively establishing partnerships with well-known foreign companies and universities to promote technological innovation and application promotion, providing more resources and support for industry development and innovation. .

In addition to large manufacturers, some emerging companies and start-up companies are also exploring areas in which artificial intelligence can reduce costs and increase efficiency in various industries. Walker AIGC Art Professional Edition SaaS implements controllable AI in the field of game industry art and enables efficient drawing production. In the medical field, Jingtai Technology has launched a first-in-class integrated drug discovery solution that uses AI molecule generation, virtual screening, DEL, and rapid screening to make full use of cutting-edge R&D and computing resources to maximize user needs.

It is worth mentioning that in order to simplify the 3D creation process, Shenzhen Maitao Technology launched GenieAI Genie - an AI-generated 3D assistant. Make 3D creation truly out-of-the-box, cloud-native, and low-cost, and have a wide range of application scenarios in the fields of smart cultural tourism, water affairs, construction sites, and education

05 Strengthen supervision and maintain data security

Due to the rapid development of the artificial intelligence industry, how to ensure data and information security has become a key issue of global concern. The CEO of OpenAI even asked the government to regulate it at the hearing; the European Union is also about to launch the world's first "Artificial Intelligence Act."

In view of the data privacy leakage, malicious attacks, political and ethical issues existing in artificial intelligence. Sutu.com believes that society should strengthen the formulation and implementation of laws and regulations in the field of artificial intelligence, establish a complete artificial intelligence safety system, and ensure the legality, reliability and safety of artificial intelligence technology. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen international cooperation, jointly explore methods and countermeasures to solve artificial intelligence safety issues, build an international artificial intelligence safety system, and achieve win-win and mutual benefit.

For enterprises, they should continuously improve the security and protection capabilities of artificial intelligence systems through continuous technological innovation and research and development, and build efficient, safe and reliable artificial intelligence systems. Strengthen education and training on artificial intelligence safety, improve the safety awareness and skill level of relevant practitioners, and enhance their ability to handle and solve artificial intelligence safety issues. The autonomous road of artificial intelligence is like a war without gunpowder. Facing AI giants like Microsoft, it will indeed take some time to surpass, but this road is more like sailing against the current. Maybe it’s Robin Li’s “three months left”, maybe it’s Liu Qingfeng’s “Chinese surpasses, English is equivalent”, or maybe Wang Xiaochuan’s “parallel world”,

It is undeniable that the world’s competition in artificial intelligence has evolved into China and the United States are wrestling with each other, and domestic companies are on the road to integrating each other and learning from each other's strengths through multiple collaborations such as increasing research and development, strengthening supervision, and expanding markets.

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