On September 5, the 2023 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference was held in Beijing. At the meeting, Baidu Smart Cloud released four ecological partner support plans: a 10+ comprehensive partner common growth plan, a 100+ application partner special development plan, a 10,000+ innovative enterprise application service plan, and an agency partner transformation and upgrade plan. In the era of large models, Baidu Smart Cloud will build its own ecosystem and cooperate with ecological partners in an orderly manner to jointly provide customers with good services.
Yuan Foyu, Vice President of Baidu Group, gave a keynote speech on "The Era of Big Models, the Eve of Ecological Change" and said, "In the era of big models, Baidu is committed to continuously iterating and developing our large model platform to ensure that it is always the most advanced and most useful. and the most economical. Based on our products and technologies, we work with partners from all walks of life to form a joint force to jointly serve customers and achieve inclusive AI benefits for thousands of industries."
Yuan Foyu, Vice President of Baidu Group
The following is the transcript of the speech:
Dear distinguished guests and friends old and new, hello everyone! Thank you very much for coming to today's venue and having the annual in-depth exchange with Baidu Smart Cloud.
What I want to share today is how, in the era of big models, Baidu Smart Cloud builds our ecosystem and how to cooperate with our ecological partners in an orderly manner to jointly provide customers with good services. We are in awe of our customers, and we know that there is still a long way to go from a good technology and product to something that customers can use well and bring value to. We must work with professional partners who are deeply involved in various industries to transform technology into real industrial value.
The title I shared is " The Era of Big Models, the Eve of Ecological Change "
In the past half year, each of us has been immersed in topics related to large models and generative AI.
In the data just released by Dr. Shen Dou, there are many customers and partners of Baidu Smart Cloud who firmly embrace generative AI and continue to conduct in-depth testing and development on the Qianfan large model platform, from arming their own organizations to serving the business. increase.
This is because we share the belief that large models will bring powerful productivity multiplier effects and become the coveted super-intelligent assistants, allowing people to focus their precious time on high-quality achievements.
Now, we are only entering the early days of a great era. In the future, we will continue to see that business reconstruction and application reconstruction based on large models are becoming more and more profound and widespread in all walks of life.
Application development, deployment and services with MaaS as the core have become a consensus. Under this premise, the enterprise service model, industry and ecological division of labor will be reconstructed accordingly.
In the traditional cloud computing era, customers paid for the cloud resources they purchased and the PaaS services they called. As a resource provider, cloud vendors are far away from the final business application scenarios of customers, and their participation in applications is not deep enough.
But in the age of big models. Large model manufacturers provide general large model services, and ecological partners with industry knowledge develop industry models and industry applications, which will be closer to customers' business scenarios and the depth of participation will be deeper; customers only need to pay for the final business value, without having to worry about technology. and implementation details.
We are ushering in a new form of application and service that is truly customer-centric.
We judge that the ecology in the era of large models will have three important characteristics:
>>First, the application ecosystem will become more central. Only through application can the magic of the big model be truly activated and the value of intelligence transformed into business value.
>>Second, enterprises with industry expertise will fundamentally improve their ability to serve customers with the support of model intelligence. Companies that embrace big models will be in a strong competitive position. Conversely, there is the challenge of being disrupted.
>>Third, the base capability is stronger, and the threshold for application development is lower. It is possible for small and medium-sized enterprises and individual developers to create star applications with very little investment. We will see new star companies appear frequently in the industry, which will continue to drive the prosperity of generative AI applications.
Amidst these changes, what remains unchanged is that customer success is the only reason for our existence . It is also the starting point and ultimate pursuit of close cooperation between Baidu Smart Cloud and ecological partners.
In the era of large-scale models, Baidu is committed to continuously iterating and developing our large-scale model platform to ensure that it is always the most advanced, most usable and most economical.
Based on our products and technologies, we work with partners from all walks of life to form a joint force to jointly serve customers and achieve inclusive AI benefits for thousands of industries.
Under such division of labor and collaboration, in the past six months, more than 500 partner institutions have conducted in-depth application development on the Qianfan large model platform, covering many fields such as government affairs, finance, marketing, education, operation and maintenance, etc.
The application of video presentation is the most meaningful innovative practice in the process of large-scale model implementation in the industry. They are the process of transforming vision into value. Our partners, focusing on the business needs of customers, in the product and solution development process, every trial and error, every breakthrough, and every problem solved are our most valuable assets on the road to AGI.
Behind every successful partnership, there must be collisions and trials. It is important that we work together for our clients' business success and provide each other with solid support.
In the past period, we have launched different services based on the support our partners need during the implementation of large models. Facing the next stage, I will report to you our partner support plan.
The construction of our partner system is based on the starting point of providing good customer service in the industrial process of large-scale models being implemented in thousands of industries.
>>We will develop ten core comprehensive partners , and jointly invest deeply in the whole life cycle of large models entering the industry, to create model rooms of large models for the industry, and to shape landing benchmarks and roadmaps for the industry.
>>We will also develop 100 core application partners to support partners in reconstructing enterprise applications based on the Qianfan large model platform and starting a great journey of intelligent transformation in all walks of life.
>>We will invest in supporting 10,000 start-ups , support entrepreneurs and developers, and inject the strongest innovative vitality into the intelligent era.
>>We will also invest in supporting the transformation and upgrading of agency partners , and together we will bring intelligent services to every organization and everyone.
For comprehensive partners, Baidu Smart Cloud will provide business opportunity support worth more than 1 billion , giving priority to support these partners to participate in projects that Baidu is responsible for, helping partners accumulate and accumulate experience in serving large customers and large model transformation, and jointly enhance the value of products and services.
We will invest 10 million yuan in special funds to empower our partners with exclusive technologies , provide expert certification for technical service capabilities, joint solution fund support, and special financial support for market activities to help partners improve large model-related technologies and services. ability.
Facing application partners, Baidu Intelligent Cloud has launched two special plans.
>>First of all, we set up special funds for joint solutions to support partners in building and upgrading application products based on Baidu Qianfan large model platform. We will also provide exclusive technical resources and supporting MDF marketing expenses to help partners bring their products to the market.
>>We will continue to launch Qianfan AGI HOUSE’s special hands-on large model training camp. We have already launched in Beijing and Shanghai, covering a team of nearly 100 partners. This is also the most in-depth training camp in the industry for the implementation of large model applications. Next, we will increase the implementation of this training and support partners to accelerate the development of large model applications.
For startups and developers, we will continue to implement the "AI Accelerator" project and provide cloud migration subsidies and large-model technical resource support. It also connects the resources of investment, media, and industrial institutions to give good projects the opportunity to grow rapidly.
We have also launched the Qianfan Big Model Community to serve application developers , providing online system original knowledge, third-party practical experience, innovative tools, and online communication. In the large model community, competitions are held regularly to provide active developers with products, computing power, and training. Provide product drainage and match product transactions.
Let's look at agency partners. Today's times are special. Digitalization is in the ascendant and intelligence is coming. Our customers and partners are facing transformation and upgrading at the same time. We must establish compound capabilities and diversified businesses to ensure the sustainable development of enterprises.
We will continue to support the transformation and upgrading of our agency partners to remain competitive in the big model era. In this process, large-scale model services will be provided to hundreds of cities and thousands of counties.
>>First of all, we will adhere to stable channel policy guarantees , which is the basis of mutual trust between manufacturers and partners. On the basis of maintaining commission competitiveness, we will further clarify the operational boundaries between Baidu Smart Cloud and agency partners. We respect our partners’ self-expanded customers and support our partners in cultivating customers in the long term.
>>Secondly, we provide AI technology empowerment and technical resources to encourage partners to use new productivity to increase business.
Standing at the beginning of this great new era, I feel both lucky and full of pressure. The same goes for our customers and partners.
Thank you all for your support and trust in Baidu Smart Cloud. We will do our part with the utmost respect.
"Poems express aspirations, and songs express feelings." Every significant technological innovation in human history is inseparable from diligent sweat, great imagination, poetic feelings, and innovative beliefs.
Every step we take together, we must be down-to-earth and do everything realistically. It is also very necessary to have faith and a blueprint in mind to firmly believe in the beautiful poetic life that technology brings to mankind. Both doing things and writing poetry. Only those who have love in their hearts will truly have a future. thank you all!
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