Embracing the Future of Autonomous and Controllable Large Models: iFLYTEK Shines at the 2024 World Smart Industry Expo

From June 20 to June 23, 2024, the World Intelligence Expo 2024 was held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Tianjin) on the theme of "Intelligently Navigating the World; Empowering the Future". iFLYTEK was invited to participate in the expo and showcased the iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model and its latest application achievements in various industries, including healthcare, education, industry and consumer-end hardware, in the AI exhibition area.

Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK, was invited to attend the expo opening ceremony to deliver a keynote speech and talk about the SPARK Large Model's latest progress and industry applications. Liu emphasized the importance of establishing autonomous and controllable underlying large model capabilities in China. "With a foundation like this, we have the potential to excel in various specialized domains and vertical industries," he stated. "Currently, the iFLYTEK SPARK Large Speech Model has already achieved outstanding performance in 37 mainstream languages." Liu also announced that iFLYTEK will release the iFLYTEK SPARK V4.0 on June 27.

While empowering industries with its capabilities, the iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model also plays a crucial role in helping the developer ecosystem flourish. "As can be seen from iFLYTEK's developer ecosystem, we have welcomed over 2 million new developer teams to our AI open platform over the past year, with overseas developer teams growing by over 260%. The number of developer teams in Tianjin is approaching 100,000 and we are actively building the 'Northern Sound Valley'," remarked Liu Qingfeng. At the expo, iFLYTEK's booth attracted countless visitors with its showcase of the iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model and a series of cutting-edge "iFLYTEK SPARK+" applications.

iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model: A Demonstration of "Intelligent Emergence"

"Tianjin is known as the 'Home of Quyi' (traditional Chinese storytelling and oral performance). Can you perform crosstalk for me?"

"The summer vacation is coming up. I want to explore Tianjin in depth. Can you recommend some 'must-visit' spots that are both fun and culturally significant?"

"I'm in Tianjin too, and I want to experience the joy of being a 'Pan-tou Dama' (an elderly woman who wears a traditional Chinese bouffant hairstyle). Where is the best place to get my hair done like that?"

The iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model V3.5 became the center of attention at the iFLYTEK booth, with visitors eagerly posing various questions to it. Facing these queries, the iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model V3.5 not only responded fluently but also engaged in natural and emotionally rich conversations with the audience. It expressed various emotions such as joy and could be flirtatious and coy at times. Its "one-sentence voice cloning" function allowed visitors to experience the warmth of conversing with their loved ones.

On January 30, iFLYTEK released its open-access large model, iFLYTEK SPARK V3.5, marking a significant advancement in the following seven capabilities: language understanding, text generation, knowledge question answering, logical reasoning, mathematical ability, coding ability and multimodal ability.

On April 26, iFLYTEK SPARK V3.5 unveiled the industry's first large model for long text, long image-text and long speech. This groundbreaking model not only rapidly learns from vast amounts of text, image-text materials and meeting recordings from various sources, but also provides professional and accurate answers in various industry scenarios. Additionally, iFLYTEK debuted the SPARK Optical Character Recognition Large Model. Its SPARK Speech Large Model was further upgraded, with the introduction of the "Multi-Emotional Super-Humanoid Synthesis" function and the "One-Sentence Voice Cloning" function, making AI speech more vivid and realistic. This function attracted a crowd of eager attendees, ensuring that the iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model became a popular attraction at the expo.

 "iFLYTEK SPARK+Healthcare": Creating an AI Health Assistant for All Resident

At the iFLYTEK SPARK+Healthcare booth, visitors were treated to a glimpse of the future of healthcare with the iFLYTEK HealthMate app and other smart healthcare products powered by the iFLYTEK SPARK Healthcare Large Model.

 Ever felt unsure of how to accurately describe your symptoms when scheduling a doctor's appointment? Ever been unsure about the contraindications of certain medications, or confused by the cryptic data indicators in your medical report? Then iFLYTEK HealthMate is here to help. This AI health assistant, designed for all residents, provides a comprehensive range of services, including symptom self-assessment, hospital recommendations, medication consultation, report interpretation and dietary advice. Residents can enjoy personalized, systematic and scientifically sound healthcare services from the comfort of their own homes.

The "AI Medical Assistant", upgraded with the iFLYTEK SPARK Healthcare Large Model, provides doctors with a range of support functions, including auxiliary diagnosis, rational drug use, preion reviews and medical record quality control. This empowers ordinary people to access medical services more conveniently and ensures a more efficient and equitable allocation of medical resources. The "iFLYTEK HealthMate App", "AI Medical Assistant" and other smart healthcare products form a comprehensive AI healthcare solution for hospitals, patients and residents.

iFLYTEK's "Smart Healthcare" products currently serve 11 districts, 162 health service centers and 5 hospitals in Tianjin. Doctors have used the "AI Medical Assistant" more than 1.33 million times since its launch in Binhai New Area, providing over 300,000 suggestions for medical record standardizations and diagnostic consistency. It also issues immediate alerts when there are discrepancies between a doctor's preion and diagnosis, and has been used for over 26,000 medical searches.

iFLYTEK SPARK+Education: Empowering the Intelligent Transformation of Education

Embark on an intellectual challenge with "Einstein", engage in a word game with the erudite "Confucius", commission an acrostic poem from "Li Bai", or collaborate on a painting with "Leonardo da Vinci"… at the iFLYTEK booth, historical figures and scientific giants "transcended time and space" to guide visitors through the innovative charm of "iFLYTEK SPARK+Education".

Since the release of the iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model, each iteration and upgrade has been closely aligned with education. In particular, generative interactive capabilities can deeply empower differentiated instruction and holistic development, contributing to the intelligent transformation of education. At this expo, iFLYTEK showcased its "iFLYTEK SPARK+Education" series of products, including the "iFLYTEK SPARK Smart Blackboard" powered by AI Avatar technology. Whether in language, science or art, these AI Avatars can "step" into the classroom anytime and answer every curious question the students have.

Incorporating conversational AI, teachers can utilize the iFLYTEK SPARK Smart Blackboard to create multi-themed English dialogues, enabling students to improve their spoken English through interactions with AI Avatars. Additionally, supported by core technologies such as speech recognition and semantic understanding, voice interaction between teachers, students and the blackboard becomes more natural. Sounds and notes from lessons can be automatically transformed into structured classroom recordings, helping students review knowledge precisely and efficiently after class. Empowered by iFLYTEK SPARK, the blackboard transforms into a teacher's AI assistant.

Several iFLYTEK SPARK-powered products for science education at the booth also attracted attention from the industry. The AI science education solution, leveraging advanced technologies such as Large Language Models, AI Avatars and scientific visualization, aims to enhance regional education quality and expansion, comprehensively elevate students' scientific literacy, and identify and cultivate promising future science and technology talent early on. "Curious Planet" can record every question students ask during hands-on activities. By analyzing data, it can identify students' interests and potential, providing personalized learning support.
 

Currently, iFLYTEK has utilized cutting-edge AI technology, including large models, to create a rich repository of high-quality, accessible and innovative quality education resources and AI-powered teaching tools. These solutions have been implemented in over 10 schools in Binhai New Area, Tianjin, fostering an innovative campus culture where students are immersed in a technology-rich environment, embrace cutting-edge technology and actively engage in hands-on learning. This approach genuinely contributes to students' holistic development and promotes well-rounded growth in all five areas of education.

iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model Continuously Empowers Essential Scenarios

The iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model has been widely applied in various industries, including finance, automobiles, education, industry and government affairs. As a "new high ground" in AI technology, the Large Model is empowering a wide range of industries at unprecedented speeds, becoming the core driving force behind the transformation of the next generation of industries. Adhering to the principle "application is the real deal", iFLYTEK is continuously accelerating the application of its Large Model. At the expo, iFLYTEK also showcased a range of applications powered by its Large Model in various fields, including industry and urban planning.

At the iFLYTEK SPARK+Industry booth, the industrial stethoscope, which "listens" to product defects, the industrial endoscope, which makes equipment malfunctions "visible", and the Antelope Industrial Large Model showcased the key achievements of the deep integration of iFLYTEK SPARK and industry. Behind the industrial stethoscope and industrial endoscope lies iFLYTEK's "Industrial Six Senses" technology, which enables industrial production processes to boast a series of intelligent perception capabilities and gradually acquire motion and cognitive capabilities. This technology supports intelligent decision-making and solves problems in various aspects of industrial production, such as equipment management, safety inspection, and energy conservation and emission reduction.

 The Antelope Industrial Large Model is a large model specifically designed for the industrial field, with iFLYTEK SPARK's general capabilities as its core technical foundation. It is tailored to meet the actual needs of industrial scenarios and possesses five core capabilities: industrial text generation, industrial knowledge question answering, industrial understanding calculation, industrial code generation and industrial multimodal capabilities. It can continuously evolve from massive data and large-scale knowledge, achieving a full-process closed loop from problem identification and planning to resolution. Since 2022, the Antelope Industrial Large Model has won the Harvard Business Review 2023 New Species Award, first place in the Jinzizhu Award's "2023 Industrial Large Model Pioneer List Top 20" and first place in the Internet Weekly's "2024 Industrial Large Model Top 20". 

At the iFLYTEK SPARK+City booth, the iFLYTEK SPARK Intelligent Legal Consultation Assistant made a surprise appearance. Visitors enthusiastically interacted with the assistant, seeking legal advice through voice dialogue and text input. Powered by SPARK Legal Large Model's capabilities in semantic understanding, text generation, long-term memory and multi-turn dialogue, the Intelligent Legal Consultation Assistant can currently provide intelligent Q&A in multiple scenarios, including court service guidance, legal advice consultation and litigation procedure consultation, promoting equitable access to legal consultation services.

Consumer-end hardware products powered by the iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model also attracted a crowd of visitors for hands-on experiences. These products include the iFLYTEK AI Learning Machine which reduces the burden on students and improves learning efficiency through precise diagnosis and personalized learning plans, the iFLYTEK Intelligent Recorder which generates meeting minutes with one click and supports multilingual simultaneous interpretation, the iFLYTEK Translation Machine which supports online translation in over 80 languages and enables dialogue with 5 AI coaches in 73 scenarios, and the iFLYTEK Intelligent Notebook which solves the problems of handwritten notes being "incomplete, unfindable and insecure". These products meet the diverse needs of different consumer groups.

Artificial intelligence is a key driving force for the new round of technological revolutions and industrial transformations. iFLYTEK is further cultivating its presence in the AI field and the iFLYTEK SPARK Large Model continues to empower a wide range of industries. The upcoming iFLYTEK SPARK V4.0 will further enhance user experience, with a complete upgrade of the iFLYTEK SPARK APP/Desk and a variety of intelligent products for learning, life and work. This will also signal the arrival of the SPARK Enterprise Intelligence Platform and intelligent assistants for multiple enterprise scenarios such as marketing, operations and procurement, creating a dedicated AI assistant for every enterprise and individual, and opening up a new AI-powered way of working and living in the era of general artificial intelligence.