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On October 24th, at the 2024 Tech Data Xunfei Global 1024 Developer Festival, Tech Data Xunfei officially released "Xunfei Starfire 4.0 Turbo". Xunfei Starfire 4.0 Turbo is said to have ushered in a brand-new upgrade, with seven major capabilities surpassing GPT-4 Turbo, and its mathematical and code capabilities exceeding GPT-4o. In terms of mathematical capabilities, Xunfei Starfire 4.0 Turbo has completed the verification of algorithms for ultra-long thought chain, tree search and self-reflective evaluation, and it is expected that it can realize the difficult mathematical capabilities of class o1 by the end of this year. From ...

iFlytek Group's official WeChat account published a blog post stating that at the results release conference held in Beijing yesterday (August 28), PetroChina released the 33 billion parameter Kunlun Big Model, which is the first big model in China's energy and chemical industry to pass the filing. Introduction to the Kunlun Big Model According to the press release, the Kunlun Big Model was jointly built by PetroChina, China Mobile, Huawei and iFlytek. In May this year, a cooperation and co-construction agreement was signed. According to the "Five Ones" action plan, 8 big models were trained and 18 application scenarios were developed. The Kunlun Big Model passed the...

On August 19, iFlytek announced an update to the Spark Voice Model, bringing "Spark Super-Fast Human Interaction", which is scheduled to be launched on the iFlytek Spark App on August 30. "Spark Super-Fast Human Interaction" uses a unified neural network to achieve end-to-end modeling of speech to speech. Officials said that even if interrupted frequently, it can "respond quickly", which is more in line with daily conversation situations. The upgraded version can recognize emotions such as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, etc.; automatically bring in conversations that fit the situation, and reply with appropriate emotional tone. According to reports, "Spark Super-Fast Human Interaction"...

KU Xunfei's Starfire voice model has received a brand new upgrade, launching a new generation of interactive experience called "Starfire Extreme Hyper Humanoid Interaction". This upgrade has been optimized and enhanced in several aspects, aiming to provide users with a more natural, smooth and emotional dialogue experience. Firstly, the new model achieves faster response time and adopts end-to-end speech-to-speech modeling technology, which enables quick response even in the case of frequent interruptions, and more closely matches the actual situation of daily conversations. Secondly, Starfire Extreme Hyper-Androphilic Interaction has made significant improvements in emotion perception, not only being able to judge the user's emotions based on the speech text...

iFlytek announced that the iFlytek Zhiwen 2.0 version has been upgraded recently, bringing revolutionary changes to PPT creation. This intelligent tool based on the iFlytek Spark AI native application has greatly improved the efficiency of presentation production with its one-click PPT generation function. The new version has achieved significant upgrades in three major technologies, including PPT text generation, AI PPT layout creation engine, and AI PPT online editing module, allowing users to create PPT more freely, personalized and professionally. The upgraded PPT text generation model, relying on the powerful capabilities of iFlytek Spark V4.0, can generate PPT texts input by users in a more personalized and professional way.

iFlytek announced that the long-context version of iFlytek Spark API, Spark Pro-128K large model, is officially available, with the lowest price of 0.21 yuan/10,000 tokens. According to reports, the conversation between users and large models is usually considered to be short-term memory. Once the length of the conversation exceeds its context carrying capacity, the excess part may be forgotten by the model. Different from traditional text processing models, long text models have more accurate text understanding and generation capabilities and stronger cross-domain migration capabilities. They can understand and generate more information at one time, suitable for...

In June this year, OpenAI announced that it would stop providing API services to China. Some industry insiders analyzed that this would hit some companies that used OpenAI’s large model to start a business. Recently, an investor asked iFlytek on an interactive platform: OpenAI shut down its API services in China. Has iFlytek Mars taken over the API business decisions of OpenAI’s domestic users? In response, iFlytek replied: After OpenAI shut down its API services in China, the number of API calls to iFlytek Spark has increased significantly. This further verifies the autonomous and controllable universal large model base…

During the recent 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2024), iFlytek exhibited the upgraded "iFlytek Xiaoyi" App, which can build a "personal digital health space" based on user personalized information such as electronic medical records, examination reports, and physical examination reports. It is reported that after the release of Spark Big Model 4.0 at the end of last month, the Spark Medical Big Model and iFlytek Xiaoyi App were also upgraded simultaneously, claiming that the core medical capabilities are more comprehensive than GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o. The main information of the App is summarized as follows: According to the official introduction, the Ap…

At the iFlytek Spark V4.0 launch conference held yesterday, iFlytek released the iFlytek Spark Big Model V4.0, as well as artificial intelligence applications in multiple fields such as medical care, education, and business. iFlytek Chairman Liu Qingfeng announced at the conference that the iFlytek Spark App Android downloads have exceeded 131 million times. After the Spark Big Model was added, iFlytek's smart hardware sales increased by 70% year-on-year, with an average monthly usage of more than 40 million times. It is reported that the iFlytek Spark Big Model V4.0 is based on the country's first domestically produced Wanka computing power cluster "Feixing No. 1", which comprehensively improves the big...

iFlytek announced that the company will release the latest progress of iFlytek Spark Big Model as scheduled at the Beijing National Convention Center on June 27, 2024. The theme of this press conference is "AI Assistant that Understands You", and the iFlytek Spark Big Model V4.0 and related landing applications will be released. The official disclosed the content of the press conference: Comprehensively improve the seven core capabilities of the big model base, benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo; Newly upgrade the iFlytek Spark App/Desk, release "Personal Space", and create an AI assistant that understands you better; Newly release the Spark Smart Review Machine to help...

Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of KU Xunfei, revealed that KU Xunfei will release Xunfei Starfire V4.0 on June 27 this year, and this new version will showcase the latest end-to-end intelligent speech technology results, and KU Xunfei also plans to launch its end-to-end speech technology modeling solution in the next three quarters. In addition, Tech Data Xunfei will also provide users with one-sentence replication, high-noise scene speech recognition, and multi-dialect-multi-language switch-free function that GPT-4o does not have. In terms of hyper-anthropomorphic synthesis technology, Liu Qingfeng proudly said that KU Xunfei has reached the international leading level in the field of Chinese and English and multilingualism. And in terms of full-duplex technology,...

iFlytek revealed in response to netizens' questions on the "Shenzhen Stock Exchange Interactive Easy" platform that iFlytek Spark V4.0, which is benchmarked against the current capabilities of GPT-4, is under training and is expected to be released at the end of June 2024. Products benchmarked against GPT-4o are under development. iFlytek said that the company will closely integrate the evolution and breakthroughs of artificial intelligence, continue to apply the results to each product of smart education, and continuously improve the user experience and customer penetration of products. In April this year, Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFlytek, revealed that on June 27 this year, iFlytek Spark V4…

According to the China Petroleum News, on May 28, the Kunlun Big Model Construction Seminar and the Signing Ceremony for Cooperation and Co-construction were held in Beijing. China Petroleum, China Mobile, Huawei, and iFlytek signed a cooperation agreement to jointly build the Kunlun Big Model and promote the development and construction of big models and high-level applications of artificial intelligence in the energy and chemical industry. Dai Houliang, Chairman and Secretary of the Party Committee of China National Petroleum Corporation, said that the four companies should give full play to their respective advantages, combine their strengths, complement each other's advantages, focus on the characteristics of China's oil industry, find the entry point and breakthrough point for the development of artificial intelligence, refine the target path, and work together to create a big model with energy and chemical industry...

At the BEYOND International Science and Technology Innovation Expo held in Macau, Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of iFlytek, expressed his unique insights on the competitive situation between China and the United States in the general large model base. He firmly believes that although there is a gap between China and the United States in this field, this is only a dynamic catch-up between half a year and a year and a half, and iFlytek will never be left behind. Liu Qingfeng further pointed out that the gap between iFlytek and GPT-4 is rapidly narrowing, and it is expected that around June or July this year, iFlytek's Spark Large Model V4.0 will be able to reach the current level of GPT-4. He emphasized that once GPT-5 is released, iFlytek can…

KU Xunfei announced that its Xunfei Starfire Lite API is permanently open for free, supports online networking search, and is suitable for customized scenarios such as low-computing power inference and model fine-tuning. Xunfei Starfire Pro / Max API price: 0.21 yuan / million tokens. According to reports, 1 token is equivalent to 1.5 Chinese characters, the user pays 0.21 yuan to call "Xunfei Starfire 3.5 Max" to generate a "Yu Hua "alive"" content volume. The amount of content of "Yu Hua's "Alive"". Xunfei Starfire Large Model V3.5 was released in January this year, the model ...

iFlytek revealed on an interactive platform on Saturday that the company will launch a new voice calendar with the Spark model on e-commerce platforms such as JD.com and Tmall in May, which will have a wider range of knowledge coverage, stronger comprehension ability and more natural human-computer interaction. The official has not yet disclosed more configuration and specification information of this voice calendar product. On April 26, iFlytek announced the spring release of iFlytek Spark Model V3.5, which brings the following new features: Supports the release of a large model with long text, long image and long voice, and the first release of the Spark image and text recognition large model, which can quickly recognize and learn a large amount of multi-type knowledge, and can be used in…

iFlytek released a major update today, iFlytek Spark Big Model V3.5 upgrade, which not only launched the first long text, long image and text, and long voice big model, but also introduced multi-emotion super-anthropomorphic synthesis technology to the market for the first time, and simultaneously launched the Spark Intelligent Agent Platform. This series of innovative measures is aimed at providing more powerful technical support for bidding and contract applications. iFlytek Chairman Liu Qingfeng proudly stated at the press conference that the Spark Big Model's ability in general long text processing has reached the 97% level of GPT-4Turbo's latest long text version in April, which is an impressive achievement. It is even more worthy of…

On February 6, the 2023-2024 annual meeting of Xunfei was held at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) with the theme of "A Star Starts a Prairie Fire in the Sky". Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of KU Xunfei, and Wu Xiaoru, President of KU Xunfei, systematically summarized KU Xunfei's development in 2023 and clarified its development goals for 2024 in their internal speeches. For the year 2024, Liu Qingfeng put forward Xunfei Starfire cognitive big model strategy of the annual four major goals: Starfire big model of the domestic leading standard GPT-4; to empower 10 million intelligent hardware terminals, the number of independent software users exceeded 100 million; to teach ...

The mighty AIGC trend, coupled with the influx of capital funds, has given the AI track a new lease of life in the past year, and it has once again reached the top of the wave of the technological context. However, compared with the excitement of the large-scale model battlefield, the pace of AIGC in the commercialization scene is a little hesitant - on the technical level, from text to image creation to video creation, AI has repeatedly delivered answers that refresh the public's vision, but how to make AI meet actual business expectations is still a complex and severe issue facing the industry. And this may be the key link in the victory or defeat of the AI battlefield this year - only from reality...