Baidu’s CTO Wang Haifeng: PaddlePaddle Now Has 7.5 Million Developers

On July sixth, on the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Wang Haifeng, Chief Technology Officer of Baidu. and Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Deep Learning Technology and Applications revealed that as of now, PaddlePaddle has attracted 7.5 million builders. This can also be the primary time Baidu has disclosed the most recent knowledge on the PaddlePaddle ecosystem this 12 months.

According to his introduction, Baidu. has been comprehensively deploying synthetic intelligence since 2010 and is likely one of the few world AI firms which have carried out a full-stack structure. From Kunlun chips, PaddlePaddle deep studying platform, and ERNIE Bot large-scale fashions to AI purposes, Baidu has layouts in all layers of the AI expertise stack.

Among them, the PaddlePaddle deep studying platform is positioned on the framework layer, supporting large-scale mannequin manufacturing upwards to enhance mannequin deployment effectivity and suppleness, downwards it adapts to varied kinds of {hardware} to enhance {hardware} adaptation effectivity and scale back prices.

In March of this 12 months, Baidu. launched a large-scale mannequin product referred to as “ERNIE Bot”. In June, the CEO of Baidu, Robin Li, acknowledged that Baidu‘s ERNIE Bot has been iterated to model 3.5. He emphasised that “Version 3.5 of ERNIE Bot is not only an upgrade in terms of technology but also in terms of security.” At that point, Robin Li pressured that “there have been important enhancements in knowledge high quality, technology effectiveness, and content material security.

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Wang Haifeng launched that the ERNIE Bot 3.5 has comprehensively improved its effectiveness, performance, and efficiency. It achieved upgrades in primary fashions, improvements in fine-tuning strategies, enhancements in information factors, and enhancements in logical reasoning. The mannequin’s effectiveness has elevated by 50%, coaching pace has doubled, and inference pace has elevated by 30 instances.

In addition, ERNIE Bot 3.5 has added a plugin mechanism. On June seventeenth, ERNIE Bot formally launched the Baidu Search and ChatFile plugins. Baidu Search is the default built-in plugin, which permits ERNIE Bot to generate real-time correct info. ChatFile is a protracted textual content summarization and question-answering plugin that helps the enter of extraordinarily lengthy texts.

Wang Haifeng acknowledged that ERNIE Bot will launch extra high-quality Baidu official and third-party plugins, permitting customers to higher make the most of its capabilities. At the identical time, it’s going to step by step open up the plugin ecosystem to assist builders construct their very own purposes primarily based on the ERNIE giant mannequin.

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