Six tigers are moving towards differentiation, and the star moves towards intelligent terminal agents and open source

Blue Whale News, February 22 (Reporter Wu Jingjing)After the release of DeepSeek, where will the six tigers go? Will the basic model choose open source or closed source in the future?

At the first Ecological Open Day event on February 21, Step Star, one of the six tigers in the big model, gave his answer: the next step will focus on betting on the direction of smart terminal agents and continue to promote open source.

Jiang Daxin, founder and CEO of Step Star, said in his speech that it has now entered the development stage of Agent (agent). rdquo; He mentioned that Step Star has regarded intelligent terminal Agents as the core breakthrough point in the implementation of large-scale model technology, and focuses on key application scenarios such as automobiles, mobile phones, embodied intelligence, and IoT.

“The most distinctive feature of an Agent is its ability toAutonomous help humans complete complex tasks,In the future, every terminal device will have an Agent that will communicate with people in a multimodal way and help people complete a variety of complex tasks. rdquo; Jiang Daxin said.

Step Star continues to open source: Will open source a large model of graphics video in March

Basic large model capabilities are the foundation for promoting the evolution of Agents. Currently, the Step Step series model matrix has released 11 multimodal large models, covering the comprehensive capabilities of speech recognition, speech generation, multimodal understanding, image and video generation.

Jiang Daxin mentioned that as the capabilities of the base model continue to increase, the capabilities of the Agent will continue to evolve. Agent development will also go through five stages in the future: from completing simple tasks (Level 1) to completing combined tasks (Level 2), then to completing relatively complex tasks (Level 3), then proactively initiating tasks (Level 4), and finally It is the stage of rising from IQ to EQ (Level 5).

Jiang Daxin, founder and CEO of Step Star

While focusing on the direction of intelligent terminal agents, Step Star also regards open source as another important path of its development strategy.

At present, DeepSeek’s open source has attracted the attention of the global market and set off a wave of open source in the technology field. Currently, China companies are striving to contribute their strength. On February 18, Step Star and Geely Automobile Group jointly announced that they would open source the Step-Video-T2V video generation model and the Step-Audio voice model, the two Step series multimodal large models they cooperated with, to developers around the world.

When talking about the impact of deepseek, Li Jing, vice president of Step Star, said that“There has been no fundamental change in strategy. Still focusing on building super models + super applications, the focus is on promoting the implementation of applications and ecosystems. Open source is a way to target developers and promote application development.”He also mentioned that when we expressed our hope to make a small contribution to open source, many open source ecosystem partners immediately gave strong support. rdquo;

Next, Step Star will continue to carry out more open source projects. At the event,The company also announced the news that it will open source a large model of graphic video in March.

“Open source models can bring more feedback from supporters and the technical community to model companies, thereby promoting model iteration and optimization. rdquo; Li Jing, vice president of Step Star, said that next, the company will contribute more to open source and focus more on the industry.” rdquo;

Betting on smart terminal agents may become a key choice on the road to differentiation among stars

In the current context, Step Star’s choice of intelligent terminal Agent direction will undoubtedly become an important point for its future differentiated competition with other manufacturers.

Hong Yuchuan, partner of Xinliu Capital, said in an interview with Blue Whale News that with DeepSeek’s open source, the gap in the capabilities of various basic models is gradually narrowing. How to use its own basic model capabilities to deeply integrate its tentacles and industries and become a foundation for each model company. The key to differentiated competition next.

Hong Yuchuan believes that at present, the emergence of DeepSeek is promoting the introduction of large-model technology in all walks of life and reshaping business models. Large model companies are bound to further deepen their segmentation fields, accumulate experience in specific application scenarios, and build competitive barriers. Although end-side scenarios require higher software and hardware coupling, industry experience, resources and technology, they also contain greater scale value.

At the event, Step Star recently demonstrated cases where its large model has been applied in many industries such as automobiles, mobile phones, embodied intelligence, IoT, and finance.

In the car scene,Geely Automobile Group, Qianli Technology and Step Star announced that they will carry out in-depth technical cooperation. Inqiyi, chairman of Qianli Technology, who had not appeared for a long time, appeared at the event.Inky shared in the roundtable forum that AI+ will incubate new applications in the era of big models.In the process of artificial intelligence leading to AGI, smart cars and robots are the most critical carriers, and cars are the necessary path to embodied intelligence. ldquo;AI+ car meeting is the first landing scene.“Smart driving will become the beginning of intelligence around the ecosystem of cars. In the future, excellent overall solution providers are needed to truly combine large-scale model technology, product definition, software and hardware capabilities. rdquo;

In the mobile phone scene, OPPO demonstrated the two AI mobile phone functions of “one-click screen inquiry” and “one-click all-round search” created based on the multi-modal model of the Step Series. Users can interact with AI through multimodal vision, with multiple functions such as photo Q & A, document Q & A, and screen recognition Q & A. AI can also directly and independently enter various apps to complete tasks, and even search everything with one click.

In the field of finance and finance, in 2024, Step Star reached an in-depth strategic cooperation with Jiexianlian, a subsidiary of Shanghai Newspaper, and jointly founded Caiyue Star, a large model technology company, to take the lead in exploring the application of large models in the field of finance and finance. At present, Caiyue Xingchen has launched the Caiyue Large Model for the financial industry, and has obtained multi-modal results in the “Financial Sector Large Model Evaluation Report (2024)” released by Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in conjunction with Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Shanghai Copas Technology Co., Ltd. First. In addition, a reliable wealth assistant “AI Little God of Wealth” was launched for the C-terminal, providing users with functions including AI data mining, AI dialogue and financial report interpretation.

This is the answer sheet currently handed over by Step Star. At present, the technology of the large model industry continues to change, and basic model manufacturers are trying to find a different path.