On May 6th, iFlytek, a Chinese information technology company, unveiled its large language model, SparkDesk, with seven core competencies at a press conference. The Chairman of iFlytek, Liu Qingfeng, asserted that the model outperformed China’s ChatGPT in text generation, question and answer and mathematical ability. He expressed hope that SparkDesk would outshine ChatGPT by the conclusion of October.
Analyzing ChatGPT’s 48 tasks and the requirements of four million developers from iFlytek’s open platform, Liu suggested that a general artificial intelligence must own seven competencies including text generation, language comprehension, question and answer, logical reasoning, mathematical ability, coding skill, and multimodal ability. He suggested that this breakthrough technology could transform our lives in previously unimaginable ways, from needing and distributing information, to creating content and interacting with virtual assistants, making each creative person an entrepreneur in the digital economy.
To manifest its potentials, SparkDesk undertook an on-site challenge and successfully generated a creative story based on the prompt. SparkDesk also managed emails, scheduling, press releases, advertisements, and corrected grammatical errors. Adding to those, it is much superior than ChatGPT in language capacities, particularly in producing long text. To supplement the model’s abilities, the iFlytek team is taking security measures to improve its performance.
Interesting demonstrations were also given in the four significant industries – education, office, automotive, and digital employees – to show the application of SparkDesk. In education, it served as an AI-assisted education assistant and a conversational teacher. In the workplace, SparkDesk could generate meeting minutes from handwritten notes. In the automotive industry, it improved the driving experience. It could finish tedious tasks for digital employees.
iFlytek is a Chinese-based tech heavyweight, headquartered in Hefei City, which specializes in speech recognition, natural language processing, multimedia processing, translation applications and big data processing. The company provides a wide range of products and services, including open platform AI cloud service and a number of Intelligent voice intelligent cloud services. Established in 1999, iFlytek has become a leader in this field in China and has further expanded its global market as technology develops. It is highly praised by many experts and has become an important partner of many renowned enterprises at home and abroad.
Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of iFlytek, has extensive experience in the AI industry. He served as Chief Academic Expert for the National Information Security Engineering Center of the Ministry of Public Security and has been elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering since 2008. Furthermore, he has served as President of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Group Leader of the Intelligent Robotics Lab of the Computer Science Department of National University of Singapore. Through his commitment to innovation and hard work, Liu has become a prominent figure in the AI industry.
