The Shanghai 2024 World AI Conference (WAIC), China’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) event, was held from the 4th to the sixth. Chinese AI firms were all present, and the event was reportedly held in an environment of fighting against US technological sanctions.
China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency and the South China Morning Post reported on the sixth that Chinese AI firms showcased greater than 1,500 products and technologies at WAIC held in Shanghai.
In keeping with this, the corporate that received essentially the most attention this time is SenseTime, which unveiled its latest model ‘SenseNova 5.5’ and announced that it showed performance comparable to OpenAI’s ‘GPT-4o’ in mathematical reasoning.
Also, iFlytek, well-known in the sector of speech recognition, attracted attention with its educational large language model (LLM) ‘Spark-Desk V4.0’.
But what was highlighted at this event was not the products, however the calls for China to stand up against US technology sanctions.
“We want to eliminate the concept that a scarcity of cutting-edge AI chips will thwart China’s goal of becoming a pacesetter in AI,” said Zhang Ping’an, who’s answerable for Huawei’s cloud computing division.
Baidu CEO Li Yanhong also urged firms to stop focusing solely on LLM development and as a substitute deal with developing “practical applications” to create real results as a way to differentiate themselves from america.
Specifically, Yang Mingyuan, a Baidu AI developer, claimed, “When ChatGPT-3.5 was released, we expected that it will take 1-2 years to meet up with the technological gap with america, but in only one 12 months, we narrowed the gap to six months,” and “In some areas, reminiscent of Chinese language processing capabilities, we’ve got surpassed america.”
Meanwhile, some foreign firms reminiscent of Microsoft, Apple, and Tesla also participated on this event. Specifically, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who had attracted much attention, didn’t attend the event, but it surely is thought that he exhibited the humanoid robot ‘Optimus’.
Reporter Im Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com
