Robin Li: in the real AI era, new applications will be developed based on large models.

On the evening of May 4, at the sixth anniversary of Baidu's new mission and Baidu Pride Award ceremony, Robin Li pointed out that two years ago, Baidu realized that the direction of artificial intelligence technology had changed, from discriminative artificial intelligence to generative artificial intelligence. AIGC has since become the key direction of Baidu, and its resources have gradually tilted in this direction.

In Robin Li's view, in the real AI era, new applications will be developed based on large models, just like a large number of Android-based and iOS-based applications emerged more than a decade ago. The big model is Game Changer, which will revolutionize the rules of the cloud computing game. In the past, cloud computing mainly sold computing power, looking at speed and storage. Today, customers buy cloud services to see whether the framework and model are good, not just how good the computing power is. In the future, when enterprises develop applications based on large models, they will find that Baidu intelligent cloud is the most convenient, fast and low cost.

"in the future, we should consciously cultivate the way of thinking and ideas of AI native applications, and we need to use new ideas to reconstruct every product and business we have now." Li Yanhong said.

As for the advent of generative AI and the changes it brings, Li Yanhong said, "how many engineers' hard-developed functions are hidden under layers of menus and how much inspiration that can't be obtained can be inspired by some simple prompts, we should have the courage to change our way of thinking."