From September 19th to 21st, 2023, the third conference of the Boao Forum for Asia International Science and Technology and Innovation Forum was held in Zhuhai, Guangdong. For a long time, Boao Forum for Asia has maintained a strategic partnership with vivo. In March this year, the vivo X Fold2 series of mobile phones was awarded the official designated mobile phone of the Boao Forum for Asia. In this meeting, Hu Baishan, executive vice president, chief operating officer of vivo, director of vivo Central Research Institute, Zhou Zhou, vice president of vivo, vice president of OS products, director of vivo AI Global Research Institute, and Qin Fei, director of vivo Communication Research Institute Attend this conference and share the latest views and unique insights in the field of scientific and technological innovation with many domestic and foreign government officials, scientists, technology leaders, business leaders and guests from all walks of life.
Build underlying technological strength to create ultimate products and create pleasant experiences for users
With the theme of "Innovation Leads Green Development and Technology Empowers a Better Life", this conference focuses on cutting-edge hot topics such as artificial intelligence, mobile communications, biomedicine, climate crisis, smart construction, smart materials, financial technology, and marine technology.
Hu Baishan, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Vivo and Dean of Vivo Central Research Institute, delivered a speech
At the opening ceremony, Hu Baishan, executive vice president, chief operating officer of vivo, and director of the vivo Central Research Institute, delivered a speech and shared some of vivo’s experiences and thoughts. He believes that there is no shortcut for technology companies to maintain competitiveness and achieve healthy and long-term development. They must consolidate their R&D foundation and invest firmly, vigorously, and long-term in underlying technologies. Now that the mobile phone industry has entered a mature stage, in this era of stock competition, it must return to its essence, build underlying technological strength in areas that users have paid attention to for a long time, create the ultimate product, and create a pleasant, smooth, and surprising experience for users.
At the same time, no matter how technology develops, it must always be user-oriented and carry out differentiated and warm innovation around user needs. Since its establishment, vivo has met the different needs of users at different stages of mobile phone development. It has continuously innovated technology in terms of imaging, design, system, performance and other aspects to create surprising experiences. Now, in the era of artificial intelligence that has quietly arrived, vivo hopes that AI can serve people's daily needs, so that the AI experience on mobile phones can truly change lives and fly into the homes of ordinary people.
Hu Baishan also said that technology companies must follow their true intentions and fly geese forward. Vivo's original intention is to use never-ending technological innovation to satisfy users' many "impossible" yearnings. "Technology illuminates a better future" is vivo's sustainable development concept. This is not just a slogan, but also requires enterprises to have the courage to dare to explore and down-to-earth persistence.
Smartphones have entered the AI era, and vivo’s self-developed large model is about to be unveiled
In addition to the opening ceremony, this conference also discussed a number of cutting-edge hot topics in science and technology. In the sub-forum with the theme "From AlphaGo to ChatGPT: Artificial Intelligence "From Weak to Strong"", Vivo Vice President, Vice President of OS Products, and Dean of Vivo AI Global Research Institute shared with the attendees Vivo's achievements in AI University The layout of the model field and its future development direction.
The vice president of vivo, vice president of OS products, and director of vivo AI Global Research Institute spoke on the spot.
Vivo has been researching artificial intelligence since 2017 and established the AI Global Research Institute. It is one of the first Chinese mobile phone companies to set up a research institute specializing in artificial intelligence. After the emergence of general artificial intelligence, vivo began to be fully involved in large model development and related layout.
During the discussion in the sub-forum, it was mentioned that the basis of artificial intelligence includes four elements-data, manpower, algorithm, and computing power. Vivo has taken the lead in these four dimensions. In terms of data, vivo established the Graph Research Institute in 2018 and accumulated a large amount of data through the construction of knowledge maps by professional teams to easily respond to the knowledge demands of large models; in terms of manpower, vivo has maintained a professional staff of 1,000 people since 2017. As for the artificial intelligence team, vivo has more than 600 people focusing on developing large models by 2021; at the algorithm level, vivo combines theory with practice, publishes high-level papers in top journals and tracks the trends of the world's top academic journals, converting them into algorithms and engineering applications to ensure that the team remains at the forefront of the artificial intelligence industry; at the computing power level, better training and inference deployment are achieved through information innovation. Vivo’s self-developed large model capabilities currently rank at the top of the C-Eval Chinese list .
Regarding the application of vivo’s self-developed large models, Zhou Wei said: “Through in-depth thinking on the mobile phone ecology and user usage characteristics, vivo will bring 5 self-developed large models and launch a series of solutions in the future. First of all, we must use large models as The appearance of our assistant allows vivo's little v assistant to gain broader capabilities. It is not just a change in simple dialogue, but also disruptive innovations in study, life, work and other scenarios; secondly, in the future, it will also use "smart intelligence" High-level presentation in the form of "body", the mobile phone must not only perceive information, but also recognize intentions and help decision-making; and the application of large models requires the entire industry to work together to create, vivo will solve the problems of large model training, tuning and terminal-side auditing Contribute our capabilities to help the industry grow together."
Finally, Weibo also said: “vivo’s self-developed large model capabilities will be fully integrated into the upcoming OriginOS 4, and will also be launched on vivo and iQOO’s flagship series models. By then, everyone will see vivo’s self-developed large models. The complete presentation at the application level is also vivo’s thinking and exploration practice on human-computer interaction and mobile phone intelligence in the new era.”
The transition to a new generation of mobile communications
At the sub-forum themed "The New Era of Mobile Communications", Qin Fei, Dean of the Vivo Communications Research Institute, shared with the participants the current status, development and layout direction of Vivo's 5G and 6G networks. On the one hand, vivo X Fold2 folding screen product industry's first 5G carrier aggregation enhancement technology will bring users a faster and smoother experience, with download speeds up to 2.2 times that of traditional 5G.
Qin Fei, President of Vivo Communication Research Institute, gave a speech on the spot
On the other hand, since 2020, vivo has launched research and development on 6G technology and released two industry white papers, "Digital Life 2030+" and "6G Vision, Needs and Challenges", looking forward to the better life of people in the 6G era. It also clearly proposed the goal of 6G: to work with various industries to build a freely connected intelligent world, and the terminal will become a bridge connecting people and the digital world.
In 2023, vivo will release the first batch of key technology research and development results such as 6G network architecture and mobile computing network integration demonstration system, 6G synaesthesia fusion technology and experimental prototypes, 6G wireless air interface technology and experimental prototypes, marking that vivo has achieved effective results in productization. accumulation. In addition, vivo has also become the first domestic mobile phone manufacturer to implement two-way satellite direct connection services based on 3GPP IoT-NTN mobile phones.
As a leading domestic technology company, vivo has witnessed the development of mobile communication technology and the prosperity of the mobile Internet ecosystem with its support. As Hu Baishan, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Vivo, and Dean of Vivo Central Research Institute, mentioned in his speech, the more technology develops, the more innovation requires cross-field and cross-disciplinary coupling; the intelligence of all things and the Internet of Everything will bring innovation to the forefront. The model has evolved from single enterprise innovation to ecological collaborative innovation. In the future, in order to satisfy more users' yearning for the "impossible", technology companies will have to fly together like a flock of geese to reach farther places.