| Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) | |
| Industry: | Artificial intelligence |
| Hq Location: | Wudaokou, Beijing, China |
| Num Employees: | (2023) |
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), also known as Zhiyuan Institute, is a Chinese non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory. BAAI conducts AI research and is dedicated to promoting collaboration among academia and industry, as well as fostering top talent and a focus on long-term research on the fundamentals of AI technology. As a collaborative hub, BAAI's founding members include leading AI companies, universities, and research institutes. BAAI is one of pre-eminent AI research institutes in China. To help it reach its goals, BAAI frequently releases new models and open source code. Moreover, BAAI organizes an annual international conference bringing together AI experts, industry leaders, and international talent to discuss challenges and future of AI.
, BAAI's research focuses on large pre-trained models (LLMs) and open-source AI infrastructure.
See main article: WuDao.
WuDao is a large multimodal pre-trained language model. WuDao 2.0, was announced on 31 May 2022 and has been compared to GPT-3 at the time. But, in comparison, GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, while WuDao has 1.75 trillion parameters; making it the largest pre-trained model in the world at the time. WuDao was trained on 4.9 terabytes of images and texts (which included 1.2 terabytes of Chinese text and 1.2 terabytes of English text). The chairman of BAAI said that WuDao was an attempt to "create the biggest, most powerful AI model possible"; although direct comparisons between models based on parameter count (i.e. between Wu Dao and GPT-3) do not directly correlate to quality.
WuDao has demonstrated ability to perform natural language processing and image recognition, in addition to generation of text and images. The model can not only write essays, poems and couplets in traditional Chinese, it can both generate text based on static images and generate nearly photorealistic images based on natural language descriptions. It has also showed ability to power virtual chat agents and predict the 3D structures of proteins like AlphaFold.
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Jiuding is an AI-computing platform which focuses on supporting AI innovation. As of September 2022 it provides 1000P computation capacity with 400 Gbit/s high-speed interconnection per server, and support AI chipsets of different architectures. BAAI's platform also includes code compilers for the different AI architectures.
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