2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference Inaugurated: Baidu's Robin Li Claims Grand Models Worthless Without Applications In this translated title, the main event is highlighted as the inauguration of the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, and the key quote from Baidu's CEO, Robin Li, is presented to emphasize his view on the necessity of applications for large-scale models to have value. The title is concise and captures the essence of the original statement, making it accessible to an English-speaking audience.

Today, at the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and its Global Governance High-Level Forum held in Shanghai, Baidu CEO Li Yanhong delivered a keynote speech.

Li Yanhong emphasized that a basic model without a practical application scenario, regardless of whether it is open-source or closed-source, cannot reflect its true value. He appealed to the industry not to focus solely on the competition of the models themselves but to shift towards the deep development of applications. He believes that as long as the application can bring significant benefits to the industry, the overall value it creates will far exceed that of the mobile internet.

Li Yanhong further pointed out that with the improvement of the basic model's capabilities, the threshold for application development is being lowered. He particularly mentioned the intelligent entity as an important direction for AI application development and expressed great optimism about it.

Baidu previously announced that the daily call volume of its developed Wenxin large model has exceeded 200 million. Recently, the average daily call volume of the model has even exceeded 500 million times. Li Yanhong believes that this leapfrog growth reflects the real market demand and proves that people are actively utilizing large models and obtaining substantial value from them.