In 2023, the field of hard science and technology is particularly hot, especially in the field of humanoid robots, with the promotion of local policies and fund support, humanoid robots have attracted the attention of almost all investors in the field of hard science and technology.
With the support of large models, embodied intelligence has made humanoid robots further attractive to investors in the field of artificial intelligence.
The market is so hot that it naturally attracts more and more teams to enter with capital.
As a star team in the field of domestic artificial intelligence, IFLYtek is particularly dazzling this year, not only released iFLYTek Spark cognitive model, but also stepped up to promote iFLYtek Spark model into manufacturing, medical care, education and other scenes.
As a unicorn enterprise in the field of robotics such as Yuntrace and Youbi, iFlytek will naturally not miss this opportunity to enter the field of humanoid robots.
Today (October 24) at the IFLYtek 1024 Developer Festival, the IFLYtek humanoid robot was officially unveiled.
01 Incoming humanoid robot
In January 2022, at the annual meeting of IFlytek this year, Iflytek Chairman Liu Qingfeng officially launched the "iFLYtek Super Brain 2030 Plan", which is also the first long-term plan for iflytek to enter the field of robotics.
In this plan, Liu Qingfeng divided the overall layout of IFlytek's inbound robot field into three steps:
The first step, 2022-2023, for the underlying technology in medical, teaching, health and other fields, to achieve the manufacture of soft and hard integrated robots and digital virtual people;
The second step, 2023-2025, to achieve self-adaptive walking exoskeleton robot, let the exoskeleton robot into human life;
The third step, 2025-2030, to realize knowledge, can learn, can evolve to accompany robots, autonomous learning of virtual people, so that the robot has interaction, action, promote the robot into the family.
2023 as a key year for the "IFlytek Super Brain 2030 Plan", Liu Qingfeng said at the opening ceremony of this year's 1024 Developer festival:
"The AIBOT robot hyperbrain platform released by IFlytek at the 2022 1024 Developer Festival has now been used by developers from 372 enterprises in the fields of industry, education, service, and special."
At the same time, Liu Qingfeng also announced the release of iflytek humanoid robots at the scene.
"Now by combining the cognitive large model with embodied intelligence and motor intelligence, it will further help China's robots to enter a high-level intelligent iteration," he said.
It was also at this conference that we saw the IFlytek humanoid robot on the spot.
According to the official introduction of IFlytek, based on the "visual-language-action" multi-modal embodied intelligence large model, humanoid robots will have the following performance improvements:
Complex task dismantling accuracy increased by 95%, open scene object finding success rate increased by 85%, reinforcement learning generalization grasp success rate increased by 30%, reinforcement learning imitation walking ability increased by 30%, and exercise energy consumption decreased by 20%.
02 The potential of embodied intelligence
In March 2023, after the global wave of ChatGPT and large models, OpenAI turned to invest in 1X Technologies, a Norwegian humanoid robot company, which made the concept of embodied intelligence with a large model of the body popular again.
As far as the research on embodied intelligence is concerned, we can see that Stanford Professor Li Fei-fei's team disclosed an embodied intelligence research project in July this year, in which a robot with access to a large model can complete various actions according to the language instructions issued by humans.
Google's DeepMind team later released a visual-speech-action model called Robotics Transformer 2.
Coincidentally, as early as 2015, IFlyTEK had invested in a humanoid robot company in China, which is likely to become the first stock of humanoid robots in China.
This allows IFlytek to have a good calibration on the humanoid robot, and behind all this, in fact, it is based on the breakthrough of artificial intelligence and the emergence of large models.
Iflytek is in May 6 this year released the IFLYtek spark large model, now, after three iterations of the version, Liu Qingfeng said that the latest release of iFLYtek Spark V3.0 has been able to mark ChatGPT, and achieved "Chinese beyond, English equivalent".
The IFLYtek Spark V3.0 released by IFLYtek has been improved to a certain extent in seven abilities, including text generation, language understanding, knowledge answering, logical reasoning, mathematical ability, code ability, and multi-modal ability.
Specifically, in terms of code capability, iFlySpark V3.0 has been optimized in terms of project-level understanding, and has been able to carry out comprehensive understanding of code.
For example, it can now understand your prompt: using python to code a large heart shape, and then a lot of stars, big and small, colorful inside gradually appear.
In terms of English writing ability, the current iFlyspark large model has been able to output Native writing and dialogue based on various people's Settings.
In terms of multi-modal capabilities, the current iFlyspark large model has been able to achieve command understanding and following, as well as the expression of details has been improved to a certain extent, such ability improvement is also the key to the robot can move well in complex scenes.
According to a study conducted by the National Research Institute of Economics this year on the application of large-model industry ability assessment, IFlySpark 3.0's Chinese knowledge and language understanding ability in the medical and legal fields have exceeded GPT4 performance by 5.3% and 4.1% respectively, and the performance gap between the basic ability and GPT4 performance in the field of education is less than 1%.
This allows IFlyspark V3.0 to become the "soul" of various robots launched by iFLYtek.
03 IFlytek's hard technology
2023 is the year of the emergence of large models, and this year, with the continuous emergence of various large models, computing power has become particularly scarce.
At this time, iFlytek pulled to Huawei platform.
At this year's 1024 Developer festival, IFLYtek officially released the "Flying Star One" platform based on the Shengteng large model base built by Huawei, and officially announced the IFLYtek Spark V4.0 large model training with a larger parameter scale.
As a heavy cooperation between the two national teams, Liu Qingfeng said passionately that IFlyspark V4.0 will be released in the first half of next year, when it will officially benchmark GPT4.
In fact, just this year, iFLYtek has teamed up with the Huawei team to double the training and reasoning effect of iFLYtek Spark's large model in half a year by incubating large model fusion operators, multi-dimensional distributed parallelism, algorithms-network-memory system-level intelligent operation and maintenance, and joint deep optimization based on CANN.
These are the basis for IFLYTEK to further enter the field of robotics and further study embodied intelligence.
In terms of the layout of the robot industry, IFLYtek has not only released humanoid robots, but also released (wheeled) family companion robots, and even broke into the field of sweeping robots that have been in the Red Sea market.
In the exhibition hall outside the conference, we also saw these robot products of iFlytek.
2023 is a key year for IFLYtek's "IFLYtek Super Brain 2030 Plan", and it is also a year for IFLYtek to stride into the field of robotics.
This year, with the blessing of the large model, IFlytek has gone deep into the field of robotics through embodied intelligence.
Entering the field of humanoid robots, especially with IFlyspark big model into the field of humanoid robots, iFLYtek will also bring a wave to the humanoid robot industry.