World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai on July 6, 2023.
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Beijing -a number of releases last week shows how quickly Chinese companies such as DeepSeek and Bytedance have developed artificial intelligence models competing with Openai’s Chatgpt.
Currently, many Chinese companies are strengthening their foundations to develop products beyond chatbots.
The most well -known search engine and ANY chatbot bot, on Tuesday, the AI integrated platform Wenku to create power points and other documents quickly reached 40 million paid users, and as of the end of last year, the profit was one year ago. It has been announced that it has increased by 60 %. year. Updates, such as generating presentations based on corporate financial documents using AI, began to be deployed to users last week.
In terms of corporate aspects, Gartner’s data & analytics director Ben Yang, more than 10 % of Chinese companies, are using AI and have increased from 8 %, about six months ago. 。 He said on Wednesday that this would be a faster pace -it took more than a year to increase the introduction of the past two -percent points.
“We have heard more and more successful cases from customers,” he said in Mandarin translated by CNBC. Yang pointed out that the so -called AI agent would help accelerate the introduction of new technology by companies.
The AI model focuses on specific functions such as search and outline, but the AI agent is more advanced and can automate the entire process from search to reservation. One example is Openai’s new “Operator” function that claims that you can make a reservation for a restaurant on behalf of Chatgpt users.
AI agents are also trying to enter the Chinese market on a large scale.
According to a copy of the annual speech obtained by CNBC, Tencent will soon be integrated with the AI agent with the WeChat of the social media app, and the CEO Pony Ma, CEO, January 13. Talked to the staff in the speech.
“I believe that China’s AI sector is progressing at the same pace as the United States,” said Joe Fan, a private equity in Ruffles Family Office. He stated that the company is considering investing in a major Chinese Deep Tech Fund in order to get local opportunities.
The development of Chinese AI applications creates functions that are integrated with domestic smartphones. Apple’s AI intelligence function has not yet been provided to Chinese iPhone users.
“In addition, there is a tendency for local brands to provide advanced AI functions that match the preferences of local consumers,” said Way San, a counselor artificial intelligence analyst at a counter point research. I mentioned by e -mail.
Chinese smartphone companies such as HONOR, Xiaomi, and Vivo will improve the AI -function user experience, thanks to the efforts of AI models that can be executed on a device without greatly dependent on the cloud connected to the Internet. She pointed out that she was able to do it. service.
Compliance hurdle
The latest trends reflect the differences in regulated monitoring with the United States and the differences in the technology developed.
Ernie bot, similar to Baidu’s Chatgpt, did not issue a go -signed Chinese government to publicly released almost a year after Chatgpt swept the world.
In order to use the AI model in China, it is necessary to obtain an official certification, but the application is much easier to use, Alex Lou, a founder of LSY consulting based in Shanghai. On the other hand, as well as the work of human consultants, we are working with a small team to develop tools using AI to provide daily insights on the trends of the industry and global regulations.
Six months after the development began in June 2023, Lou said Lou had started a free product test for potential customers, including car battery manufacturers. Lou said that the team had gained feedback to products that the team wanted to claim from $ 70,000 to 100,000 yuan ($ 9660 to $ 13,790) as an annual license fee.
However, a greater challenge may be that companies allow AI to access their own data or commercially use content generated by AI.
“I think [multinational corporations are] Due to copyright and legal issues, we are much more cautious than Chinese brands, “said Chris Lightherman, CEO of the Oglvy Asia Pacific and Ganglians. He is also the president of WPP China.
According to him, the client tried to use AI for the campaign, but complained problems and hindered the start of the project. “Local brands may have a little worries about these issues and may be more trial and error,” he said.
AI for users around the world
Some of the AI applications developed by China are also used overseas. Alibaba’s international department announced earlier this month that the number of users of the search engine “ACCIO” utilizing AI for product procurement has reached 500,000 SME users.
Using the Lonted ACCIO in November, companies can use some text and images to find wholesale products, and provide analysis of the popularity and predictive interests from consumers.
Mike McLallery, who has been using ACCIO early and has sold camping lanterns and other products online for over 10 years, states that the research time has been reduced from a few weeks to one day. Amazing.com’s CEO, McClary, claims that the annual sales of electronic commercial transactions have exceeded $ 1 million and is based in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri.
He said that Alibaba.com and Amazon, which had been used earlier, examined the results of hundreds and thousands of cases, and had negotiated with 5 to 10 suppliers before deciding on one company. According to Macrary, the “next variable” is to use AI to incorporate images of the product into every scenario to create ads.
