- ERNIE Bot has amassed 200 million users while ERNIE API now handles 200 million daily
queries.
- Baidu presented three AI development toolkits: AgentBuilder,
AppBuilder and ModelBuilder, helping to boost creativity in
AI.
- Baidu unveiled Apollo VTA, Baidu's vision foundation model for
autonomous driving with enhanced AI capabilities in detection,
tracking, understanding, and map building.
- Baidu also launched the second ERNIE Cup Innovation Challenge,
offering up to RMB 50 million in
incentives for the next iconic product in the AI era.
SHENZHEN, China, April 16,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and
HKEX: 9888), a leading AI company with strong internet foundation,
today showcased a suite of AI models and development toolkits at
Create 2024 Baidu AI Developer Conference. These innovations aim to
empower individuals with boundless potential to create AI
applications and agents regardless of technical expertise, helping
pave the way for a more vibrant AI future.
"In the future, natural language will emerge as the new
programming language," Robin Li,
Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Baidu, said in his keynote speech
at Create 2024. "Simply being able to speak is enough to make you a
developer, empowering you to shape the world with your
creativity."
Create 2024 Highlights Latest Advances in Baidu's ERNIE
Models
Today, ERNIE has emerged as China's leading AI foundation model (FM) with
the broadest range of applications, as Li noted at the event. The
latest key figures and product additions for ERNIE were also
revealed at Create 2024.
Key Data on ERNIE:
- ERNIE Bot, Baidu's conversational AI bot built on ERNIE, has
amassed a total of 200 million users since its debut on
March 16, 2023.
- ERNIE API handles 200 million
queries on a daily basis.
- Baidu Comate, an AI coding assistant powered by ERNIE, has
contributed to 27% of newly generated code within Baidu
since its deployment one year ago. It has served over 10,000
companies including Ximalaya, iSoftStone, and Shanghai Mitsubishi
Elevator, with a code adoption rate of 46%.
- Over 85,000 enterprise clients have used Qianfan,
Baidu AI Cloud's FM platform, to create 190,000 AI
applications.
- ERNIE's training throughput is 5.1 times more efficient
than last year. Its queries per second, or QPS for inference, has
also seen a remarkable increase of 105 times, while the
inference cost has been reduced to just 1% of the
March 2023 version. 98.8% of the LLM
training time on Baidu's AI infrastructure has been fully
utilized.
New Product Additions to ERNIE:
- ERNIE 4.0 Tool: Accessible through ERNIE Bot, it
features a code interpreter allowing users to manage and analyze
complex data through natural language. It is also able to generate
charts and documents, enabling quick insights and efficient support
for data-driven decision-making.
- ERNIE Lightweight LLMs: The ERNIE model family has grown
to include lightweight LLMs such as ERNIE Speed, ERNIE Lite, and
ERNIE Tiny. Each of these models is compressed and distilled from
the original ERNIE to offer more agile and efficient AI
solutions.
AI Development Toolkits Empower Developers to Create with
Ease
To help developers quickly and effectively tap into the latest
AI trends, Baidu has presented three plug-and-play toolkits,
covering a wide spectrum of the AI development pipeline:
- AgentBuilder is a development tool based on ERNIE to
build and deploy AI agents. It offers both zero code and low code
modes, enabling even non-coders to create an agent with just a few
sentences. With AgentBuilder, developers can deploy agents across
Baidu flagship products and services like Baidu Search, Xiaodu,
Baidu Maps, ERNIE Bot, etc. As of today, over 30,000 agents have
been created using this platform.
- AppBuilder is a comprehensive set of tools for AI-native
applications on Baidu AI Cloud. It provides numerous components and
frameworks needed to develop AI-native applications, such as
retrieval-augmented generation (RAG),
agent, and generative BI (GBI). Developers can use natural
language to create an application within three steps.
- ModelBuilder is a model customization tool curating up
to 77 models across various sizes, from ERNIE 3.5 and 4.0, to
lightweight models like ERNIE Speed, ERNIE Lite, ERNIE Tiny, and
many more third-party models. It also provides a full set of model
development tool chains and industry-specific datasets, allowing
developers to solve model fine-tuning problems in one-stop.
Click to access more use cases
video demo in the Press Kit:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M_dfVIWKc8HQ3rSkKXC96l5Ph-u4fzoF?usp=sharing.
Three AI Development Trends Shape the Future of AI
Adoption
In his keynote speech, Li also shared three key AI development
trends that are poised to shape the near future of AI adoption.
- MoE: MoE, or Mixture of Experts, will become critical to
the future development of AI-native applications, as it will allow
developers to draw on different models to solve a wide range of
complex problems.
- Small Models: Small models offering low inference costs
and quick response times can be more effective than larger models
in certain scenarios.
- Agents: Agents powered by foundation models are capable
of understanding, planning, reflecting, and self-improving.
Create 2024 also witnessed the launch of Apollo VTA (Vision
Takes All), Baidu's vision foundation model for autonomous driving.
Apollo VTA has been trained on real data collected from over 100
million kilometers of test drives on complex urban roads. The model
boasts four foundational capabilities in visual perception:
detection, tracking, understanding and map building, which together
offer a smarter, more adaptable and safer autonomous driving
solution.
Li also announced the launch of the second Baidu ERNIE Cup
Innovation Challenge, a competition for visionaries pursuing the
next iconic model products or applications for the generative AI
era. This latest ERNIE Cup will offer a Special Prize, with the
winner receiving cash and resource rewards totaling RMB 50 million.
Baidu is committed to empowering everyone with highly accessible
and easy-to-use tools to build product in the AI future. As Li said
in the keynote, "We've reached a point where programming skills are
no longer a prerequisite to creating AI applications or agents. AI
is catalyzing a revolution in creativity. In the future, developing
an AI application will be as
straightforward as creating a short video. Everyone can be a
developer and create."
The full-day Create 2024 event included more than 20 industry
forums and over 30 AI development open classes. Spread across a
3,000 square meter AI interactive experience area and AI music
festival, Create 2024 provided guests with an unforgettable
experience of immersion in AI. For more information, please visit
Create 2024 at
https://create.baidu.com/ticket_type/?lng=en.
Click here to watch the replay of Create 2024: X, YouTube.
About Baidu
Founded in 2000, Baidu's mission is to make the complicated
world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company
with strong Internet foundation, trading on the NASDAQ under "BIDU"
and HKEX under "9888." One Baidu ADS represents eight Class A
ordinary shares.
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