2024-02-22 09:00:00
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China showed a shocked reaction to OpenAI’s video-generating artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Sora’. There is concern that the technology gap has widened to the point where it is impossible to keep up. In line with this, the New York Times assessed that China’s AI is nothing more than a ‘fine-tuned version’ of the United States.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on the 20th (local time) that Chinese entrepreneurs are expressing fears regarding Open AI and Sora.
According to this, China’s business and technology community is said to be both excited and concerned regarding Sora, which was released last weekend. The analysis is that the technological gap is becoming increasingly severe due to the US ban on technology exports.
BGI Group CEO In Ye called Sora’s appearance a ‘Newton moment’ and noted that it goes beyond the creation of a video and reflects the laws of physics. “When we launched Chat GPT in 2022, we thought China would catch up,” he said, “because it was only text.”
Zhou Hongyu, chairman of 260 Security, said on Weibo, “If Open AI develops other ‘secret weapons’ that will further widen the gap with China, we may fall further behind.”
Some Chinese people are disparaging the conches. Kunlun Tech CEO Fang Han said, “We analyzed the video, but it appears that no significant progress has been made,” adding, “The gap with China is not large.”
Separately from this, stock prices rose in the investment market due to expectations regarding generative AI. On Monday, the first day following the Sora announcement, the ‘Sora Index’, which consists of 49 related companies, soared by 11.4%.
Perhaps aware of China’s reaction, the NYT published an article the next day titled ‘Chinese companies were caught off guard by groundbreaking developments in generative AI.’
Instead of mentioning Sora, he used 01.AI, a Chinese startup that became a unicorn at the end of last year, as an example. According to reports, 01.AI came into the spotlight by taking first place on the Hugging Face leaderboard with the launch of an open source model, but it was pointed out that the AI model was in fact nothing more than a fine-tuned version of Meta’s ‘Rama 2’.
Citing a survey of 12 experts, it was also reported that China was more than a year behind the United States in the AI field, and that the gap might widen further in the future. “Chinese companies are under tremendous pressure to catch up with the U.S.,” said Chris Nicholson, an investor at Page One Ventures. “The launch of ChatGPT is another ‘Sputnik moment’ when China feels it needs to catch up.”
There were even claims that the gap in large-scale language models (LLMs) has already widened to 2-3 years. Jenny Xiao, partner at Leonis Capital, said, “Because the model built by Chinese companies is not very good, many companies use American open source with fine-tuning,” adding, “They are regarding 2 to 3 years behind the United States.”
Of course, the performance of models developed in-house in China is not all bad. ‘Qwen-72B’, launched by Alibaba at the end of last year, gained popularity not only as the number one hugging face, but also as the best performance among the open source models that appeared at the time.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
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