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China showed alarming response to OpenAI’s video-generating artificial intelligence (AI) ‘Sora’. There is concern that the technology gap has widened to the point where it is impossible to keep up. Accordingly, the New York Times assessed that China’s AI is nothing more than a ‘detailed version’ of the United States.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on the 20th (local time) that Chinese entrepreneurs are expressing fears about Open AI and Sora.
According to this, China’s business and technology community is said to be excited and anxious about Sora, which was released last weekend. The analysis is that the technological gap is becoming increasingly serious due to the US ban on technology exports.
At Ye, the BGI Group CEO called Sora’s appearance a ‘Newton moment’ and noted that it goes beyond video creation and reflects the laws of physics. “When we launched ChatGPT in 2022, we thought China would be able to catch up,” he said. “That’s because it was text only.”
Zhou Hongyu, chairman of 260 Security, said on Weibo, “If Open AI develops other ‘secret weapons’ that will further widen the gap with China, we may fall further behind.”
Some Chinese people despise the conches. Kunlun Tech CEO Fang Han said, “We analyzed the video, but it seems that no significant progress has been made,” adding, “The gap with China is not large.”
Apart from this, stock prices rose in the investment market due to expectations about productive AI. On Monday, the first day after Sora’s announcement, the ‘Sora Index’, which includes 49 affiliated companies, rose 11.4%.
Perhaps aware of China’s response, the NYT published an article the next day titled ‘Chinese companies caught off guard by breakthroughs in productive AI.’
Instead of talking about Sora, he used 01.AI, a Chinese startup that became a unicorn at the end of last year, as an example. According to reports, 01.AI rose to prominence by taking first place on the Hugging Face leaderboard with the launch of an open source model, but the AI model was said to be nothing more than a refinement. version of ‘Rama 2’ Meta.
Citing a survey of 12 experts, it was also reported that China is more than a year behind the United States in the field of AI, and that the gap may widen further in the future. “Chinese companies are under tremendous pressure to catch up with the United States,” said Chris Nicholson, an investor at Page One Ventures. “The launch of ChatGPT is another ‘Sputnik moment’ when China feels it needs to catch up.”
There were even claims that the gap in large scale language models (LLMs) had already widened to 2-3 years. Jenny Xiao, a partner at Leonis Capital, said, “Since the model built by Chinese companies is not very good, many companies use American open source with refinement,” adding, “They are about 2 to 3 years behind the United States. “
Of course, the performance of models developed in-house in China is not all bad. ‘Qwen-72B’, launched by Alibaba at the end of last year, gained popularity not only as the number one hugging face, but also as the best performance among the open source models that appeared at the time.
Correspondent Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
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