On the afternoon of January 21st, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360, and Fu Sheng, the chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile, had a conversation at the latter's opening year AI class. This is their first public stand together after 16 years of rupture.
Zhou Hongyi said that it is meaningless to mention the matter of Chen sesame and rotten millet again. It is not a matter of the past, and we need to look forward. Living in the past is like carving a boat and seeking a sword, waiting for a rabbit, without meaning.
He said that human understanding is constantly improving. As a young man, Fu Sheng was quite passionate, and at the age of 45, Fu Sheng has made great progress compared to when he was 17 or 34 years old. "I have also undergone significant changes myself. As I get older, my hormone levels are decreasing, and my perception of people has become much softer. I need to reflect on myself more."
Fu Sheng was once the most capable general of Zhou Hongyi. In 2005, Zhou Hongyi founded Qihu Company. Zhou Hongyi's single-minded approach was to develop a search business that had been validated by the market, but it did not improve. The new business 360 Security Guard, explored by Fu Sheng and his team, has gained market share. The product produced by this 10 person team had a daily installation volume of 200000 by 2006.
But in the development of 360 Security Guard, there are differences between Zhou Hongyi and Fu Sheng, and the conflict between the two sides is becoming increasingly deep.
In October 2008, Fu Sheng resigned from Qihoo 360 and collaborated with Lei Jun to start a new antivirus software company, Kingsoft Network, which was also the predecessor of Cheetah Mobile. In 2011, 360 sued Fu Sheng in court on the grounds that Fu Sheng violated the agreement between the two parties, stole confidential information from Qihoo, developed antivirus products that competed with Qihoo, and demanded the recovery of Fu Sheng's 200000 shares in 360. Afterwards, Fu Sheng repeatedly criticized Zhou Hongyi in public.
Zhou Hongyi expressed in today's conversation that Fu Sheng has some insights in the field of artificial intelligence, and he is very interested in seeing Fu Sheng's ideas on AI. He came with a learning attitude.
At today's event, Fu Sheng released the Orion Starry Sky Big Model. This large model achieves effects that can only be achieved with a hundred billion parameter large model through 14 billion parameters, and can run on a thousand yuan graphics card computing power. At the same time, he predicted the trend of big models in 2024, including that more than half of the trillion dollar models will wither in 2024, and opportunities to surpass OpenAl come from big model application companies.
However, Zhou Hongyi predicts that there may be some good applications in 2024, but it is difficult to have a large-scale product similar to ChatGPT or serving the enterprise side.