"If you look at the electricity revolution more than a hundred years ago, the relationship between cloud computing and GPT is that between electricity and motors," said Wang Jian, academician of the CAE Member and founder of Alibaba Cloud.
On October 31st, at the 2023 Yunqi Conference, Wang Jian delivered a speech with the theme of "The Third Wave of Cloud Computing". He believed that in 2023, artificial intelligence and cloud computing had a concentrated manifestation and explosion, and the combination of GPT models and cloud computing would be the third wave of cloud computing.
The Third Wave of Cloud Computing
Since we are going to talk about the third wave of cloud computing, Wang Jian first reviews the development of cloud computing.
In his view, the first service provided by cloud computing in 2003 was the first wave of cloud computing, which changed the world of the Internet.
Perhaps you may not have noticed that when the first iPhone came out, there was no well-known APPStore. When the APPStore was launched in 2008, there were only 500 apps on it. But now there are millions of apps on the App Store, and without cloud computing, these things cannot happen.
In 2011, a company called MihaYou was born, completely on the cloud on its first day, without even knowing what traditional IT is. In 2023, this company entered the top 50 global game developers, completely due to the emergence of cloud computing.
In the second wave, many traditional enterprises began to use cloud computing. Wang Jian stated that the term "traditional enterprises" here does not mean discrimination. After experiencing the first wave, companies that were once pioneers in the IT field have found themselves catching up with the wave of cloud computing, and they have also created a second wave using cloud computing.
The most typical example is the banking cloud, which marks the beginning of many important digital means in the banking industry. Another landmark event is that at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, cloud computing hosted the core system of the event for the first time.
The relationship between cloud computing and the Olympics is not simply about using technology or not using technology. Its significance is like using AC power for the first time at the World Expo in Chicago, "Wang Jian said.
The third wave of cloud computing took place in 2023, and as someone who has been working in cloud computing for decades, Wang Jian still feels that 2023 is too special. Due to the emergence of large models, artificial intelligence and cloud computing have come together, and computers have had a very important impact on the revolution of technological innovation.
The computing power of cloud computing will be consumed by large models
In fact, few people realize that the combination of big models and cloud computing is not a revolution in scientific research tools, but a tool that will revolutionize science. It has brought us new tools, making our science a complete revolution. "Wang Jian said that big models enable cloud computing to create more unimaginable value in the future.
Just as great inventions such as the telephone, air conditioning, and electric cars emerged after the emergence of electricity, various inventions relying on cloud computing will also emerge in the third wave of cloud computing. At that time, cloud computing may be like today's electricity, and its existence as a public service and infrastructure will have a very long vitality.
Just like over 50% of electricity is consumed by various motors, the computing power of future cloud computing will be consumed by these "motors" in the intelligent era, that is, various models.
Even if companies like NVIDIA are ahead in the field of generative AI, it cannot avoid one thing in the end, which is that "all these calculations will ultimately be driven to be provided in the cloud".
Of course, the third wave of cloud computing will not be completed in one or two years, it may give us ten or several decades of time.
I believe that many things in the world are unnecessary for many people until we create them, "said Wang Jian. This is an era of innovation driven development, and he hopes to work with everyone to do many unexpected things in the next decade.
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