- tech360.tv
China Develops 79 Large-Scale AI Models
Updated: Jan 5
China is making headway in the development of large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models, with at least 79 models developed with over 1 billion parameters each.
The United States and China are leading the global development of large-scale AI models, but China still has to narrow the gap with the US.
More than 14 provincial regions in China have contributed to the research and development of large-scale AI models, with Beijing and Guangdong leading the way. Local authorities are offering public computing power to meet the rising computing demand from large-scale AI models.
Zhao Zhiyun, head of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, said that the development of China's large-scale AI models is booming, with several technical routes making breakthroughs at the same time. China has to narrow the gap to catch up with the US, and that more efforts are needed to boost the overall planning and coordination of resources and accelerate basic research and technological innovation.
According to the report, half of China's large-scale AI models are open source, meaning that they are made freely available.
Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China and CEO of Chinese investment firm Sinovation Ventures, said that open source should be supported but Chinese companies cannot rely too much on open source. He also mentioned that it is necessary to establish their own intellectual property and technological advantages as soon as possible to form a moat, or a barrier, because the open source model cannot reach the performance of the self-developed model of foreign manufacturers.
China has developed at least 79 large-scale AI models with over 1 billion parameters each.
The US and China are leading the global development of large-scale AI models.
Local authorities are offering public computing power to meet the rising computing demand from large-scale AI models.
China needs to narrow the gap with the US in the development of large-scale AI models.
Open source should be supported but Chinese companies cannot rely too much on open source.
China needs to establish its own intellectual property and technological advantages in AI.
China needs to boost AI talent training.