Baidu AI Cloud launched the first "AI native app store" in China

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On October 17, Baidu AI Cloud announced that Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan large model service platform has served more than 17000 customers and covered nearly 500 scenes at Baidu World 2023. At the same time, new enterprises and developers are constantly pouring into Qianfan, and the number of large model calls is rapidly increasing. On the platform, there are both young developers as young as 14 years old, newly established startups, and internet veterans who have been deeply involved in the industry for over a decade. They have developed diversified applications such as intelligent creation, consultation, e-commerce, short videos, games, and emotional companionship.

Ecological construction has also become the most important part of Baidu AI Cloud in the era of big model. On the same day, Shen Shao, Executive Vice President of Baidu AI Cloud Group and President of Baidu Intelligent Cloud Business Group, announced that the strategic connotation of "cloud intelligence integration" was upgraded to "cloud intelligence integration, in-depth industry, ecological prosperity, and AI inclusive". Compared with the past, "ecological prosperity" is a new content in Baidu AI Cloud strategy.

Yuan Foyu, Vice President of Baidu Group

Yuan Foyu, Vice President of Baidu Group01

Yuan Foyu said that the big model ecological support system of Baidu AI Cloud is divided into three parts. The first part is to support developers and innovative enterprises from multiple aspects. Baidu AI Cloud has built the first big model training camp in the industry to provide enabling training support for new developers and enterprises in urgent need of updating knowledge. AI accelerators provide innovative application incubation support for innovative enterprises, cultivating potential star enterprises. Other methods include sales opportunity support and marketing support. In the second part, Baidu AI Cloud has built the first AI native app store in China, Qianfan AI native app store, which conducts one-stop transactions for enterprise customers, to accelerate the commercialization of AI native apps. Third, Baidu AI Cloud builds Qianfan Community to provide a platform for Qianfan developers to exchange and share AI native development cases and practical experience.

From 0 to 1, the industry's first large-scale model training camp activates AI native application innovation

For entrepreneurs and businesses, whoever is the first to develop popular AI native applications has the potential to become a new giant in the era of big models. But innovators also face many troubles. For example, large model technology has a high threshold and fast iteration speed. New developers are not particularly familiar with how to develop based on large models, and "veterans" who have been deeply involved in the industry for many years also need to update their knowledge.

Baidu AI Cloud launched the industry's first big model training camp - Qianfan AGIHouse, which is based on the technical support required by partners in different stages of implementing the big model. Guided by practice and practice, it supports partners to understand the direction of technological development, avoid detours, make good use of Qianfan's big model platform, etc., and is committed to truly landing the technological frontier into the real production scene. It is reported that Qianfan AGIHouse has received a very positive response from the market. The number of registrations for each event exceeds several times the capacity.

Guan Chenguang, vice president of Paoding Technology, an ecological partner of Baidu AI Cloud, said that Paoding Technology can help Wenxin large models understand the industry better and make it easier for the industry to use Wenxin large models. Paoding Technology supports various integration methods and empowers the needs of various large and small enterprises. In the past, if financial practitioners wanted to find some long tail information from regulatory disclosure, such as which listed companies changed accounting firms in the past year, manual statistics would take at least one working day. And ChatDOC, an enterprise level knowledge Q&A AI cooperated by Paoding and Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan, can chat with the knowledge base in the form of dialogue, get information quickly, and improve efficiency at least dozens of times.

Baidu AI Cloud has also created a "Qianfan Community", which provides the most pragmatic product strategy, and brings together front-line practical experience, cutting-edge views and rich product tools. Users include beginners who have just entered the AI industry and hope to seek hands-on guidance, business leaders who have rich entrepreneurial stories and experiences and are willing to share them with others, and technical elites who pursue technology deeply and hope to learn from their peers. Baidu's big model technology and product experts will also be stationed in Qianfan Community for sharing and exchange.

AI accelerator+first AI native application store, allowing the first batch of those who dare to eat crabs to reap results

Under the wave of big models, the first batch of innovators who are brave enough to eat crabs have created rich AI native applications. However, development is only the first step, and true application prosperity inevitably includes commercial success. However, innovators generally lack technical training and empowerment, capital, and industry landing support, and the hard built AI native applications require opportunities and channels for commercial monetization.

The AI accelerator launched by Baidu AI Cloud provides technology empowerment, technical resource support, traction investment and marketing support for innovators. For example, in terms of technology empowerment, the AI native application development workbench newly launched by Baidu AI Cloud is mainly composed of application components and application framework services. It settles the common modes, tools and processes of various applications on the workbench, so that developers can no longer worry about the development process. Comate intelligent programming assistant, an AI native application developed by Baidu itself, will be fully opened on October 24. Developers and enterprises can apply for use through Baidu AI Cloud official website or Baidu Search directly. At present, the Comate intelligent programming assistant has been widely used within Baidu, covering over 80% of engineers, with an average adoption rate of over 40%.

Baidu AI Cloud has also stimulated many industrial institutions to jointly provide one-stop all-round support for accelerator member enterprises from products and technical training to capital empowerment and market promotion, including top scientific research institutes such as Beijing University Intelligence Institute, Tsinghua Internet Industry Research Institute, CCID, etc., enterprise service platforms that provide all-round services for entrepreneurs such as entrepreneurial dark horse and Ai'an Analysis, as well as industrial parks and many well-known investment institutions. Li Mingshun, Chairman of Xingxing AI, stated that both domestically and internationally, the strong application faction is the vanguard of this big model revolution, and the key to China's strong application lies in the industry. Xingxing AI is building a strong application regional empowerment center network nationwide, and is willing to work with Baidu AI Cloud AI Accelerator to promote the prosperity of large model application ecology.

Members of Qianfan AI Accelerator Appear

At present, Baidu AI Cloud AI Accelerator has been launched for two phases, with 57 enterprises participating in training and more than 22 commercial applications developed. More than 70% of the students are the founders or CXOs of the company, and some of the company's chairmen personally step down and participate in the course training 24/7.

Baidu AI Cloud also launched Qianfan AI Native App Store, the first AI native app store in China that conducts one-stop transactions for enterprise customers, to provide brand exposure and sales channel support for businesses and further accelerate the commercialization of AI native apps. Let the first batch of AI native application developers who have the courage to take the lead "survive", grow rapidly, and achieve commercial value.

The Qianfan AI native application store was officially launched on October 16th, and the first batch of selected applications created by partners such as Kingdee have entered the store. Users can enter the store through the "Baidu AI Cloud official website", see the new product recommendation list, popular application list, industry recommendation list and other lists, and quickly find the latest and hottest AI native applications.

Qianfan AI Native App Store

Yuan Foyu said that we hope this app store is not only an app display, but also a convenient and efficient app trading platform. We hope that it can connect AI native application suppliers and demand parties, not only improving the efficiency of enterprise customers in application selection and procurement, but also helping businesses quickly push applications to the market, becoming a gathering place for large model business opportunities.