Recently, Baidu's Ernie Bot officially announced that starting from 12:00 AM on April 1, 2024, its services will be fully available for free to all PC and app users. This means that users will not need to pay any fees to experience the latest features of the Ernie Bot series models.

Baidu AI has recently launched a new feature - the 'Deep Writing' Professional Version of Wenxin Yiyan. This feature aims to enhance AI writing capabilities by actively searching and referencing materials, making the article content richer and more specific, tailored to meet users' personalized needs. This feature is particularly suitable for occasions requiring personalized text creation, such as summary reports, and can automatically search the internet for sample texts, typical cases, and other relevant materials to provide users with more targeted creative support.

Baidu AI's Wenxin Yiyuan AI painting technology has received a major upgrade, now supporting one-click generation of images in multiple aspect ratios, greatly simplifying the image preparation process for new media. The professional version of Wenxin Yiyuan AI painting technology allows users to input the desired image aspect ratio, and the system can automatically generate images in multiple sizes, covering various needs within a width-to-height ratio of 2:1. For example, simply adding the aspect ratio term '3:4' to the prompt will prompt the system to generate images of the corresponding size. This technology not only improves work efficiency but also enhances visual effects, significantly benefiting new media.

On September 25, Baidu Wenxin Kuai Ma topped the rankings of two major evaluation organizations, Sullivan and SuperCLUE. The '2024 AI Code Generation Market Observation Report - Milestone' published by Sullivan in collaboration with the TOPO Research Institute shows that Baidu Wenxin Kuai Ma ranks first across eight important dimensions, including technological foundation, application implementation, and product maturity, making it the product with the most first-place awards among all participating vendors. On the same day, the domestic evaluation organization SuperCLUE released the 'Chinese Native Code Assistant Evaluation Benchmark List', in which Baidu Wenxin Kuai Ma also achieved high marks.

Baidu AI has recently launched a new feature that allows users to directly import files from Baidu Wangpan into the Wenxin Yiyan platform. This update greatly simplifies the process of uploading and managing files for users, enabling quicker access and processing of various documents stored in the cloud.

Logitech held a product launch event in Beijing titled 'AI-Driven, Co-Creating Sustainable Development', unveiling its first AI-customized wireless mechanical keyboard designed for Chinese users - the Logitech Amber Series K98M. This keyboard integrates Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan AI platform, allowing users to access AI services with a single click through the Logi Options+ software, offering features such as content creation, image generation, academic paper assistance, and data processing.

IDC has released a report that thoroughly analyzes the domestic market for mobile generative AI large models, with a focus on evaluating the competitiveness of eight popular mobile chatbot applications, including Baidu Wenxin Yiyan. The evaluation is based on four dimensions: market influence, user activity, user engagement, and user experience. The results show that Baidu Wenxin Yiyan excels in multiple aspects, becoming a market leader. Kunlun Wanwei's Tiangong is recognized by users for its rich features and good integration with search engines, but it needs to improve user activity. ByteDance's Doubao is notable for its market influence and user activity.

Baidu Wenxin Yiyan is offering users a free 'Member Experience Card', allowing them to experience its latest large model 4.0 Turbo for up to 7 times. The offer is limited by time and instances, applicable to users who have received other experience cards. This model significantly enhances speed and effectiveness through technological innovation, integrating data, foundational models, alignment technology, and is jointly optimized with PaddlePaddle Wenxin, showcasing potential close to general artificial intelligence.

Baidu plans to offer free access to its long text capabilities, with a character range between 2 million and 5 million. After the upgrade, Baidu Wenxin Yiyan will provide broader text processing capabilities. This initiative will be officially implemented next month and is of great significance to users. The opening of Baidu's long text capabilities will greatly enhance users' text processing efficiency and convenience.

The inference cost of Baidu Wenxin large model has been reduced to 1% of the original. The daily call volume of the Wenxin large model exceeds 50 million, with a quarterly growth rate of 190%. Approximately 26,000 enterprises are using the Wenxin large model, with a quarterly growth rate of 150%.

The user base of Wenxin Yiyan has surpassed 100 million since it opened public services on August 31. The volume of user inquiries continues to rise, and the massive data from user questions continuously optimizes the intelligence level of Wenxin Yiyan. The number of developers on the PaddlePaddle platform has reached 10.7 million.

The Baidu Wenxin Yiyan Plugin Marketplace has officially launched, supporting practical scenarios such as office efficiency improvement, multimodal content understanding and generation, and professional information retrieval. The plugins include features such as project management dashboards, mind mapping tools, PPT generators, and AI video assistants. Users can easily generate PPTs, extract audio and video, and create mind maps with simple commands. The plugin marketplace also supports users in designing new plugin applications. The Baidu Wenxin Yiyan Plugin Marketplace provides users with more practical plugin options.

Baidu Chairman and CEO Li Yanhong stated that Baidu Wenxin Yiyan is one of the first large language models to implement charging. Li Yanhong introduced the excellent performance of Baidu Wenxin Yiyan 4.0 and its warm welcome from users. Starting from November 1st, Baidu will charge enterprises and consumers for using the Wenxin Yiyan service. Baidu has achieved significant results in driving advertising business growth through generative artificial intelligence technology. Baidu will continue to leverage generative AI and large language model technology to achieve sustainable revenue growth.

The user base of Baidu Wenxin Yiyan has reached 70 million. The number of scenarios for Baidu Wenxin Yiyan has reached 4,300. Artificial intelligence serves as a significant driving force in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Deep learning is the core technology of artificial intelligence. Baidu's Wenxin Model 4.0 possesses multiple capabilities including understanding, generation, logic, and memory.

Baidu Wenxin Yiyuan has launched the 'Professional Version Trial' activity, allowing users to experience the Wenxin Large Model 4.0 in advance. Users can apply for the experience through the official Baidu Wenxin Yiyuan website. The activity runs from October 28, 2023, to October 31, 2023. Upon receiving the trial quota, users can choose to engage in conversations with either Wenxin Large Model 3.5 or Wenxin Large Model 4.0. The understanding, generation, logic, and memory capabilities of Wenxin Large Model 4.0 have been significantly enhanced. The activity lasts for 30 days, during which participants can...

Xiaodu Technology has launched the 'Xiaodu Tiantian Home Robot' based on Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan large model, priced at 4599 RMB, expected to be released in spring 2024. It features functions such as super companionship, caring housekeeper, and super assistant, showcasing high levels of human-like and intelligent characteristics, capable of chatting with users and controlling home appliances.

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