Xiaomi Founder Lei Jun Comments on Large-Scale Models and AIGC

On the night of April 14, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun posted on a Chinese social media platform for the primary time about Xiaomi‘s views on large-scale fashions and AI-generated content material (AIGC). He wrote: “Xiaomi has been working in the AI field for many years, with teams such as AI Lab, Xiao Ai voice assistant, and autonomous driving. Of course, we will spare no effort to embrace large-scale models. We are developing some interesting technologies and products, and  will show them to everyone when they are good enough.”

Earlier this month on April 14, in keeping with a report by Chinese media outlet The Paper, Xiaomi issued an inside e-mail appointing Luan Jian as the pinnacle of the Large-Scale Model Team at its Technical Committee’s AI Lab. Luan Jian studies to Wang Bin, Vice Chairman of the Technical Committee and Director of AI Lab.

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Public data reveals that Luan Jian is at present liable for Xiaomi‘s AI Lab Speech Generation Team and previously held positions such as Toshiba Research Institute researcher, Microsoft Engineering Institute Senior Speech Scientist, Microsoft Xiaoice Chief Speech Scientist and Head of its Speech Team. Currently, there aren’t many studies about him, however his private tag on the Chinese Q&A platform Zhihu is “Xiaomi NLP Technology Senior Director.”

After being appointed as the pinnacle of Xiaomi‘s Large-Scale Model staff, it stays to be seen what distinctive contributions he can deliver together with his wealthy expertise in AI speech expertise from Microsoft.

It is value mentioning that in this 12 months’s Xiaomi Investor Day occasion, relating to their format on ChatGPT, a language mannequin developed by OpenAI, Xiaomi President Zeng Xuezhong stated that ChatGPT was based mostly on large-scale AI fashions with billions-level parameters supported by information annotation. In phrases of large-scale AI fashions, Xiaomi has all the time invested closely into it. There are many situations the place large-scale AI fashions have been carried out in cell phones and automotive companies.

Later, through the 2022 monetary report convention name in March of this 12 months, Xiaomi President William Lu talked about ChatGPT-related points and stated that Xiaomi had made many deployments in large-scale AI fashions early on and adopted a method of parallel a number of expertise routes. Xiao Ai voice assistant is consultant of Xiaomi‘s implementation of large-scale AI fashions.

However, it needs to be famous that there’s nonetheless a substantial hole between the product capabilities of Xiao Ai voice assistant and ChatGPT educated based mostly on GPT-3.5.

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