Today (December 10th), the 2023 (21st) China Enterprise Leaders Annual Conference was held in Beijing. At the "AI Forum" held in the afternoon with the theme of "One Year Challenge and Outlook for Big Models", a reporter from Daily Economic News noticed that NetEase's Executive Vice President, Zhou Feng, stated that the development process of Big Models takes 10 years or 5-10 years as a cycle.
Analogous to the wave of mobile internet, Zhou Feng mentioned that if you look back at the development process of mobile internet, the length of its cycle is remarkable. In 2011, applications like WeChat emerged; Mobile games began to rise on a large scale in 2014, and Tiktok short videos did not appear until 2017. In the past decade, there has been a massive business form emerging in the wave of mobile internet every now and then.
When it comes to his view on the overall market, Zhou Feng said that the current development of China's large model field is very fast, but at the same time, it also faces a great challenge, which is a very lack of successful C-end applications. Most of the stunning big model applications widely spread on social media platforms come from overseas. This actually reflects the overall development stage and current situation of the application of big models in China. Therefore, from NetEase's perspective, the core is to focus on deep applications. As Ding Lei said, a large model requires someone to build an aircraft carrier, as well as someone to pilot the aircraft carrier. "Let's first pilot the aircraft carrier well.".