At the high-level meeting on global governance at the 2024 Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Baidu CEO Robin Li delivered a compelling keynote speech. He deeply explored the role of artificial intelligence in today's society and its future development direction, providing participants with profound insights.
In his speech, Robin Li emphasized that the value of artificial intelligence lies not only in its technology itself, but also in its practical application. He pointed out that whether the model is open source or closed source, its value will be greatly reduced if there are no actual application scenarios. He called on the industry to shift its attention from the competition of the model itself to the in-depth development of applications, believing that only through practical applications can artificial intelligence truly bring significant benefits to the industry and create overall value far exceeding the mobile Internet.
Robin Li further pointed out that with the continuous improvement of basic model capabilities, the threshold for application development is gradually lowering. He specifically mentioned that agents are an important development direction for AI applications, and expressed great optimism. He believes that the development of agents will bring revolutionary changes to all walks of life and promote the widespread popularization of artificial intelligence technology in practical applications.
Baidu previously announced that the number of daily calls to the Wenxin big model it developed has exceeded 200 million. Recently, the average number of calls to this model has exceeded 500 million. Li Yanhong believes that this leap-by-leap growth reflects the real demand of the market and proves that people are actively utilizing big models and obtaining substantial value from them. He believes that with the continuous advancement of technology, the Wenxin big model will play an important role in more fields and create greater value for society.
Li Yanhong's speech not only pointed out the direction for the artificial intelligence industry, but also provided valuable thinking for the high-level conference on global governance. His views sparked widespread discussion among participants and injected new impetus into the future development of artificial intelligence. With the continuous advancement of technology, artificial intelligence will play an important role in more fields and create greater value for society.