AI enters the era of large-scale models

Grow Together with CIFTIS

Achievements

At 2022 CIFTIS, Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zhipu.AI"), appeared at the achievements exhibition with GLM-130B, an open-sourced high-precision bilingual model with over one hundred billion parameters, and a host of other large-scale model-based cognitive intelligence products, attracting wide attention from professional visitors and the media. Meanwhile, the "Global Discipline Talent Big Data Platform" developed by Zhipu.AI won the honor of "the demonstration cases of scientific and technological innovation" at this year's CIFTIS.

During a post-2022 CIFTIS interview conducted recently, Wang Shaolan, President of Zhipu.AI, talked about the company's participation in the 2022 CIFTIS and its expectations for this year's trade fair.

Zhipu.AI was founded in June 2019, derived from the technical achievements of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. Having pioneered the R&D of an ultra-large-scale multi-lingual pre-trained model with over 100 billion parameters, and constructed a high-precision general knowledge map, the company made an organic fusion of the two to create a cognitive engine driven by both data and knowledge. The company's core technologies won the second prize of the National Award for Science and Technology Progress, and first prize of Beijing Invention Patent Award.

Zhipu put forward the new market concept of Model as a Service (MaaS), and created a cognitive large-scale model platform, digital human and scientific and technical information products, which have been applied to over 1,000 companies and institutions, including China Association for Science and Technology, Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, Huawei, and Tencent.

Prospect

It is reported that Zhipu GLM-130B included in the achievements release conference of 2022 CIFTIS is an open-sourced high-precision bilingual model with over 100 billion parameters, which is created by Zhipu.AI in collaboration with academia and industry. Supporting both Chinese and English, it is the only model in China that has been selected for the evaluation of the world's mainstream large-scale models released by Stanford University in November last year. It matched GPT-3 in accuracy and maliciousness, and performed exceptionally well among all models in robustness and calibration error.

Based on its large-scale models, Zhipu.AI is committed to creating new AI development models with higher accuracy and efficiency for general application to help companies and developers customize downstream applications more conveniently and quickly. Based on these models, the company has developed a range of products and applications such as multi-round chat and dialogue system, AI writing application, AI image generation application, IDE code generation plug-ins, and AI poetry writing.

With respect to scientific and technical information, Zhipu.AI automatically discovers and analyzes major progress and trends in science and technology by analyzing such scientific and technical information as academic papers and patents. Additionally, through exploitative analyses of the law of growth of scholars, high-precision multidimensional talent profiles could be created for objective evaluation of talents, accurate introduction of top talents, and risk of talent outflow warning, thereby "predicting the future" through AI-related technologies to facilitate the search, evaluation, introduction and the use of qualified technical personnel.

Speaking of the expectations and prospects for next year's CIFTIS, Wang Shaolan said that in 2023, Zhipu.AI hopes to leverage the platform of CIFTIS for exchanges and cooperation with more excellent companies to enhance the influence of the company's scientific and technical information services and cognitive intelligence products; and to connect the billions of users in the physical world and empower metaverse and digital human by building large-scale cognitive models, having the large-scale model technology serve more companies, integrate into all aspects of life, and benefit all.