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CTOnews.com, April 10, CTOnews.com. Recently, Wang Xiaochuan, founder of Sogou, officially entered the big model business and co-founded the artificial intelligence company Baichuan Intelligence with former Sogou COO Ru Liyun, a Chinese company that develops and provides general artificial intelligence services, aiming to create a Chinese version of OpenAI basic large model and subversive upper application.

It is reported that the company has received $50 million in start-up capital earlier, with personal support from Wang Xiaochuan and his friends in the industry. The team has dozens of top AI talents, including former Sogou, Baidu, Huawei, Microsoft, Byte, Tencent and other well-known technology companies as well as core members of other start-ups.

According to reports, Baichuan Intelligence used to be based on Sogou's team and quickly integrated the core teams from well-known science and technology companies, which has formed a complete combat effectiveness; at present, it is focusing on bringing together the top artificial intelligence leaders at home and abroad to quickly align with the world's leading level; the company has also received the full support of relevant departments of Tsinghua University and a number of academicians and professors to establish cooperation to break through the basic science problems of general artificial intelligence and attract excellent Tsinghua students. The company is expected to build an elite team of 50 people by the end of April and is confident that it will produce the best big language model in China by the end of the year.

Wang Xiaochuan, founder of Baichuan Intelligence, said: "it is so lucky to live at the beginning of the 21 century, the magnificent Internet revolution has not yet come to an end, and the era of general artificial intelligence is roaring along. ChatGPT has been born for only 131 days, and there are new developments and breakthroughs coming every day. 131 days seems like a lifetime ago! Many friends recognize my technological idealism and technology-driven entrepreneurial experience, encourage and support me to be China's OpenAI. There are also many Sogou and non-Sogou technology masters, learned that I have the idea of a bigger model, take the initiative to apply to participate in the team, or even 'bring capital into the group'. "

He also said that what fascinates him most is that he and a group of people with ideals can use extreme technology to drive to create disruptive smart products. This time, Baichuan Intelligence will make use of the breakthrough of language AI to build the best large model base in China, and enhance it in search, multimodal, education, medical and other aspects, so as to help the public easily and universally gain access to world knowledge and professional services.

According to Wang Xiaochuan, the original intention of Baichuan is that many rivers converge to the ocean, symbolizing the convergence of a lot of data and industry knowledge into a powerful intelligent system. A hundred rivers also symbolizes the wisdom of a hundred schools, and more people go to the mountains and seas with them. He also called on Chinese leaders, industry product managers and colleagues as far away as the United States to join Baichuan Intelligence.

Wang Xiaochuan also said: "the era of general artificial intelligence has just begun, and as the first batch of human beings to enter a new era, we embrace it with anxiety and curiosity, thinking about and exploring" who am I? "" We can also inject our wisdom into it, be the pioneers of a new era, and let future generations have a better future, prosperity and continuation of human civilization. "

Wang Xiaochuan is the founder of Sogou, who has led the development of Sogou search, Sogou Input, Sogou browser and other products. Has promoted Alibaba and Tencent strategy to buy shares in Sogou. In 2017, he led Sogou to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Full text of Wang Ogawa Open letter attached to CTOnews.com: today I officially announce the creation of Baichuan Intelligence, a Chinese company that develops and provides general artificial intelligence services.

Living in the early 21 century is so lucky, the magnificent Internet revolution has not yet come to an end, and the era of general artificial intelligence is roaring in. Many years ago I asserted that the era of general artificial intelligence was coming when machines mastered language. I also imagined that the future of search is question and answer. With the birth of ChatGPT and the shaking of the earth, all these are beginning to come true. Today, only 131days after the release of ChatGPT, there are new developments and breakthroughs coming every day. 131 days seems like a lifetime ago!

For more than half a century, scientists have been working hard to create general-purpose intelligent machines. The day finally came when we found an ingenious way to successfully transform the language into a mathematical model with AI. Language is the carrier of knowledge, thinking, communication and culture. Wittgenstein said that the boundary of language is the boundary of the world. When AI has mastered the language, he begins to recognize the world and become an agent with knowledge, thinking, expressiveness and learning. I call such an agent "linguistic AI".

Individual human beings will die out one day, but they will be able to record their lifelong knowledge through language for new life to learn and inherit, so civilization continues. Human collaboration also requires communication between individuals through language. AI, a language that has mastered communication and world knowledge, is no longer just a "tool" for human beings, but will become our partner and super assistant and a part of human civilization.

The smart age will rewrite the paradigm of the Internet age.' Connection will be replaced by companionship, information service will be replaced by knowledge service, and free and advertising will be replaced by fee and quality.

The intelligent age will also rewrite the paradigm since the industrial age. It used to be the specialized social division of labor that brought about economies of scale and efficiency, but in the future it will be contrary to the specialized division of labor: the work that needed to be done by many companies before will be accomplished 'end-to-end' because of the empowerment of AI.

The era of intelligence will once again start the Renaissance. Everyone will become stronger with the help of AI. If you make good use of AI, you can be a company, solve problems that are difficult to solve before, and make it easier to become the person you want to be. Society will also be more flat, and intellectual services that used to be available to a small number of people will also be more universal.

After saying goodbye to Sogou, I have embarked on a new expedition: I am determined to contribute to the development of life science and medicine in the next 20 years, and to make some contribution to public health. The core path is to build a mathematical model of life and health, which has been put into action. The emergence of ChatGPT will also become an important force for the new expedition.

Not only that, ChatGPT is the continuation and sublimation of my past experience. In 2019, I upgraded Sogou's mission to "make it easier to express and acquire knowledge". The vision is defined as "to help everyone talk and write easily. Easy access to knowledge and services to improve work efficiency and quality of life".

The data preparation and product shape searched by Sogou Input and Sogou are also close to ChatGPT. They all collect, clean, compress and build super products from all the language data on the Internet. With the development of deep learning, these products have been upgraded iteratively for many times, fully using Transformer / Bert and other technologies. Input method guess what you want to say, search and guess what you want. While ChatGPT pushes these capabilities to a new level, it is the third super product that converts network-wide data into language services in addition to input method and search. Sogou's unfinished mission can finally be realized after the machine has mastered the language.

Many friends recognize my technological idealism and technology-driven entrepreneurial experience, encourage and support me to be China's OpenAI. There are also many technical masters of Sogou and non-Sogou. I learned that I had the idea of making a bigger model, and took the initiative to apply to join the team, or even "bring capital into the group."

What moves me most is to be able to create subversive intelligent products with extreme technology drive with a group of people with ideals. This time, Baichuan Intelligence will make use of the breakthrough of language AI to build the best large model base in China, and enhance it in search, multimodal, education, medical and other aspects, so as to help the public easily and universally gain access to world knowledge and professional services.

Less than two months after the establishment of Baichuan Intelligence, a number of technical partners and leaders have joined. There will be an elite team of nearly 50 people by the end of this month. The training of the big model has also been started and is progressing smoothly. According to the current progress, strive to release the best large models and subversive products in China by the end of the year.

We are a Chinese company, but we do not want to be just "China's OpenAI", but to establish a world-class vision and technical quality, so that China can enjoy world-class products, produce technological breakthroughs with world influence, and then serve overseas. The original intention of Baichuan is that many rivers converge to the ocean, symbolizing the convergence of a lot of data and industry knowledge into a powerful intelligent system. A hundred rivers also symbolizes the wisdom of a hundred families, and more people go to the mountains and seas with me. We call for China's leaders, industry product managers and colleagues as far away as the United States to join us.

Comrades, please contact us through the following email address:

80@baichuan-inc.com

90@baichuan-inc.com

95@baichuan-inc.com

00@baichuan-inc.com

Oier@baichuan-inc.com

The era of general artificial intelligence has just begun. As the first batch of human beings to enter a new era, we embrace it with anxiety and curiosity, thinking and exploring "who am I?" We can also inject our wisdom into it and be the pioneers of a new era, so that future generations can have a better future, prosperity and continuation of human civilization.

Baichuan Intelligent CEO Wang Xiaochuan

April 10, 2023

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