{"id":36316,"date":"2024-09-21T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T12:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/chinas-leading-ai-start-ups-eye-fresh-opportunities-after-openai-previews-latest-llm\/21\/09\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T12:05:46","slug":"chinas-leading-ai-start-ups-eye-fresh-opportunities-after-openai-previews-latest-llm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/chinas-leading-ai-start-ups-eye-fresh-opportunities-after-openai-previews-latest-llm\/21\/09\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s leading AI start-ups eye fresh opportunities after OpenAI previews latest LLM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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China’s leading artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) start-ups are looking to chase down new opportunities in their field, following the preview of an advanced new series of large language models<\/a> (LLMs) – the technology<\/a> underpinning generative AI services – by ChatGPT<\/a> creator OpenAI<\/a>, according to executives at Alibaba Cloud<\/a>‘s Apsara Conference<\/a> in Hangzhou<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OpenAI o1<\/a>, previewed earlier this month by the Microsoft<\/a>-backed firm, represents a so-called generative pre-trained transformer model, designed “to reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding and maths”, according to the San Francisco-based company.<\/p>\n

“[OpenAI o1] is indeed of great significance,” Yang Zhilin<\/a>, founder of Moonshot AI<\/a>, said on Thursday at the main forum of the three-day conference, which runs until Saturday. Alibaba Cloud is the digital technology backbone of Alibaba Group Holding<\/a>, owner of the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n

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“The most important question here is whether you can do further scaling through reinforcement learning, which completely raises the upper limit of AI,” Yang said, referring to the so-called scaling law on how an LLM’s performance improves as its size and training data increases.<\/p>\n

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Moonshot AI founder and chief executive Yang Zhilin. Photo: Weibo alt=Moonshot AI founder and chief executive Yang Zhilin. Photo: Weibo><\/em><\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Moonshot AI founder expected OpenAI o1 to “cause some changes in the structure of many industries and create new opportunities for start-ups”.<\/p>\n

According to an update by OpenAI this week, the new models were trained “to spend more time thinking through problems before they respond, much like a person would”.<\/p>\n

Through training, it can “learn to refine their thinking process, try different strategies and recognise their mistakes”, the US firm said.<\/p>\n

“If [a company] reaches a certain computing power threshold, it can make basic innovations in algorithms and even breakthroughs in foundational models,” Yang said.<\/p>\n

This development, Yang said earlier this week<\/a>, represents a paradigm shift because LLM developers, which have run out of organic data to train their models, are now turning to a technique known as reinforcement learning to recreate thought processes and in turn, generate more data.<\/p>\n