I heard that the Wenyin Yiyuan App has topped the charts, so it’s necessary to conduct a comprehensive test.

The Wenyin Yiyuan App's chart-topping status necessitates a comprehensive test.

On the early morning of August 31st, there was major news in the field of AI: Baidu, Baichuan Intelligent, Sensetime, and eight other technology companies’ large models have been filed for record under the “Provisional Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services”, and can now be open to the public for service.

With the approvals in place, many companies have rushed ahead, and large AI models are expected to enter a new stage of native applications and industrial implementation while evolving technologically.

Among the domestic large model lineup, Baidu Wenxin Yiyu (a Chinese AI model) is the most highly anticipated and has opened for “nationwide download” at the first opportunity, becoming the focus of attention. This is also the first native AI dialogue application in China.

After going live, the popularity of the Wenxin Yiyu App has exceeded expectations. It is reported that the number of users of this app has exceeded one million as of yesterday, and it has appeared on the hot list of many application stores. Within just 12 hours of its release, it shot to the top of the free list on the Apple Store, making it the first Chinese native AI application to top the App Store. Within 24 hours, Wenxin Yiyu has replied to over 33.42 million questions from netizens, demonstrating its enthusiastic response among users.

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After becoming an independent app, what features does Wenxin Yiyu primarily focus on, and what help can the current large model bring us? We conducted a firsthand experience evaluation.

Two main features and various gameplay options, a comprehensive experience of the Wenxin Yiyu App

As early as May 25th of this year, at the Wannian Conference, He Junjie, Senior Vice President of Baidu and General Manager of Baidu Mobile Ecosystem Business Group, previewed this AI native application, called “New App”, which was still under development. The only thing we knew at the time was that it would be built on the capabilities of the Wenxin Yiyu large model. Later, in a keynote speech at the World Internet Conference, Baidu’s founder, chairman, and CEO, Robin Li, emphasized the importance of AI native applications in the era of large models at the strategic level, making us even more excited about this “New App”.

Now, this mysterious application has finally revealed its true form. The Wenxin Yiyu App has also become a major progress in Baidu’s strategy of reconstructing all its products with AI native thinking, pushing the mobile ecosystem to the forefront of change once again.

The conversation interface of the Wenxin Yiyu App is shown in the picture below. On the one hand, it can perform common natural language processing and multimodal generation tasks such as knowledge Q&A, text creation, mathematical and logical reasoning, code understanding, language translation, and image generation through one-on-one dialogue boxes.

On the other hand, it also provides a large number of prompt word templates through the “prompt word tool”, covering more application scenarios in daily life, work, learning, emotions, painting, entertainment, and more. It can be said that it truly achieves a “ready-to-use” experience, allowing users to input short sentences and generate surprising works, greatly enhancing its playability.

If these prompt templates still do not meet your needs, we can also find inspiration on the “Discovery” page, where there are more segmented application scenarios waiting for you to experience.

It looks quite complete and well-prepared.

We understand that the Wenxin Yiyuan App has two main application scenarios. The first one is to serve as a productivity and creation tool, such as office writing, job interviews, PPT copywriting, work summaries, etc. The second one is an emotional care tool, providing emotional guidance, advice, and methods through different role plays, such as being a close confidante, a best friend, a warm-hearted guy, etc. It can be said that all of these belong to the intuitive usage of the Wenxin Yiyuan App, but the capabilities involved are quite extensive.

In our subsequent experience, our biggest takeaway is that the Wenxin Yiyuan App demonstrates a friendly and versatile nature. It can quickly fulfill all the needs you can think of or can’t think of, truly becoming your exclusive AI assistant and emotional partner.

As a student or a working person, you really need this versatile AI assistant.

Since the introduction of ChatGPT, there have been many large-scale conversational models both domestically and internationally, and they perform similarly when dealing with simple natural language tasks. However, when it comes to measuring large models against productivity tools, there are probably not many that can compete. Now, the Wenxin Yiyuan App finally shows us what productivity tools and life assistants look like.

Let’s first not use the prompt templates provided by the Wenxin Yiyuan App and see how well it can generate creative content. For example, if I were a college student and had a thesis pre-defense in October, with the topic being “Analysis of the Development Status and Future Prospects of Generative AI in the Era of Large Models,” let it help me write a thesis proposal.

The generated answer includes research background and significance, domestic and international research trends, research objectives and content, preparation work and measures, research progress and expected results. It has a clear logic and detailed content, and is absolutely qualified as a reference.

However, when it comes to one’s own academic achievements, the AI-generated text should still be used for reference only.

For example, my nephew (even primary school students have troubles) recently watched the movie “Cage of Eight Corners” directed by Wang Baoqiang. His mother asked him to write a movie review to improve his writing skills. However, let’s first have the Wenxin Yiyuan App help him write it. The answer is well-organized and effectively portrays and expresses the main content of the movie, the characteristics of the characters, and the deeper main ideas.

Just from these two examples, we can see the remarkable strength of the Wenxin Yiyuan App in text creation. With some modifications based on the generated answers, it should be of usable quality. For students, the generated answers can assist in learning and help with creative writing. It’s simply amazing.

However, since it is a productivity tool, as workers, we inevitably encounter many troublesome things in our daily work. The Wenxin App can also be our “gospel” and finally liberate our brains and hands.

Next, let’s take a deep dive into the “discovery” page’s prompt word template, and the effect is amazing. You only need to enter the question you want to ask in the corresponding dialog boxes of each prompt word template, and the friendly part is that you don’t need a long description in natural language.

For example, in the era of large models, technology self-media needs to pay attention to large models and generative AI in real time, and also conduct research reports on their application prospects. Let’s see how the Wenxin App can write this report? It first points out the background, purpose, method, and conclusion of the research one by one, and provides corresponding suggestions for the current technological and ethical challenges. As a simple research report, although it is not specific enough, it can provide some ideas.

For example, occasionally there will be urgent manuscript writing needs at work, and there is not enough time to think about the ideas. Taking this Wenxin App from Baidu as an example, let it write a PPT outline by itself.

Not only that, the Wenxin App can also use a simple Excel table to present this PPT outline, making it more clear at a glance.

After a day’s work, sometimes you have to write a daily report. So, hand it over to the Wenxin App, and a complete work daily report will be ready in no time, with reviews, reflections, and directions for improvement.

For workers, it is common to encounter troubles at work. At this time, it is much better to have an “experienced person” to guide you than to struggle on your own. The Wenxin App can also play this role well. As a journalist, sometimes I can’t grasp the key points of the interviewee’s speech, what should I do? The four suggestions given by the App are very inspiring to me.

For the same question, let the Wenxin App have a “brainstorming” session, and this time it gave me more perspectives and ways to deal with it.

Since it is a technology self-media in the AI field, there will always be some code-related knowledge. But unfortunately, I, who come from a liberal arts background, know nothing about it. The Wenxin App can help explain the code snippets encountered, such as a small part of the code written by Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi.

In the future, “I” may change jobs and let the Wenxin App help optimize my resume. “I” have been working at Jiqizhixin for four years, and my current position is editor and reporter, responsible for original reports after interviews or meetings. Its optimization suggestions will let me add the areas of reporting I have written, the people I have interviewed, the activities I have participated in, and the contributions I have made to the company. It seems that the Wenxin App understands the logic that the more “genuine” the resume is, the more attractive it is.

The Wenxin App is like a tailor-made tool for students and working people. Whether it’s diverse text creation needs or the various troubles that need to be dealt with at work, it can provide decent answers and inspiration. This time, the Wenxin App has hidden a fourth-dimensional pocket of Doraemon in our mobile phones, with versatile functions for you to choose from.

AI Emotional Companion, Becoming Your Emotional Confidant

Emotional companionship is another main scene of the Wenxin App. In the past two days, the term “Morning F, Evening E” referring to the phenomenon of working hard during the day but often feeling confused and lost at night has become popular on social media, resonating with many people.

This also reflects the growing need for emotional companionship among modern people, and the Wenxin App caters well to this demand. The role-playing character “Sister Confidante” on the “Discovery” page helps you solve worries and difficulties.

For example, now that it’s the beginning of the school year, for some people with social anxiety, they may be afraid of entering unfamiliar environments. At this time, you can talk to “Sister Confidante” about the things you want to say but can’t tell others. In the responses below, “Sister Confidante” will kindly comfort you that this is a normal phenomenon and reassure you not to worry. In addition, it will provide clear suggestions, each of which is very reasonable, and encourage you to believe in yourself.

Next, let’s ask it a more complicated question. In simple terms, it’s about wanting to work in another place, but family members suggest staying closer to home. How do you persuade your parents in such a situation? At this time, “Sister Confidante” will consider the issue from your perspective and suggest that you have an open and honest communication with your elders, and then express your thoughts to them… After reading this advice, I feel much clearer in my mind. “Sister Confidante” has already provided the answer on what to do next.

In fact, in our daily work and life, we encounter various problems. Some problems can be shared with family and friends, but some problems are difficult to express. At this time, having something like a confidant can greatly reduce your worries and unhappiness.

With the Wenxin App, you can throw all your troubles to “Sister Confidante” and let it give you advice and guidance, killing two birds with one stone.

Next, let’s see if the Wenxin App can provide some help in the emotional aspect.

As we all know, many people now get to know each other through blind dates. When meeting a blind date, how do you introduce yourself? Don’t worry, just ask the Wenxin App. You only need to enter your basic information, and the Wenxin App will perfect all the details. From your personal situation, your time in school, graduation, to future development, it covers all the information and provides answers that are even more perfect than a real person.

Continuing from the previous topic, if the blind date goes well, the next step is to go on a date. How to choose the location, what topics to talk about, what clothes to wear… Wenxin Yiyuan App can provide guidance on all of these. All you need to do is input the personality and hobbies of your date, you don’t need to write a long essay, just a few short words are enough. It’s very convenient to use.

If during the date, you received a few phone calls due to work reasons and don’t know how to apologize to the other person afterwards. In this case, all you need to do is input a brief apology reason, and an apology letter will appear in front of you.

If you experience heartbreak, Wenxin Yiyuan App can also help you find out the reasons for the heartbreak and propose solutions.

In addition to helping you solve emotional problems, Wenxin Yiyuan App can also transform into a “gentleman” to chat with you. For example, in about a month, it will be the National Day holiday, and we want to ask this “gentleman” if he has any good travel recommendations. It recommended several cities. Then we asked it about the attractions worth recommending in Qinghai if we were to go there. Wenxin Yiyuan App listed famous attractions in Qinghai such as Qinghai Lake and Chaka Salt Lake, all with high reference value.

A Conversation Across Time and Space

In addition to the rich emotional support roles, Wenxin Yiyuan App also allows you to experience the fun of conversing with ancient people, such as having a conversation with “Qin Shi Huang” or “Confucius”.

First, we asked “Qin Shi Huang” about the order of unifying the six states during the Qin Dynasty:

Then we followed up by asking about the famous generals of the Qin Dynasty. Wenxin Yiyuan App listed two famous generals from the Four Great Names of the Warring States Period in the Qin Dynasty, providing clear introductions of their personal lives and contributions.

If you feel that the conversation with “Qin Shi Huang” lacks a bit of the taste of ancient people, then in the “Confucius Evaluation of Pictures” function, you will immediately feel like you have traveled back to ancient times. All you need to do is upload a photo and write a brief theme, and you will get a conversation between Confucius and his outstanding disciple Zigong. Here, we uploaded a photo of the top stream flower in the panda world, and let it introduce the animals in the picture.

With Zigong and Confucius asking and answering, the appearance and food preferences of the panda are presented, and the descriptions are completely in the style of ancient scholars. This also proves the multimodal processing capability of Wenxin Yiyuan App.

An All-encompassing Community Exploration

In addition, the Wenxin Yiyan App also has a built-in community section, which is all user-generated content and very rich in content.

For example, if we click on the “10KG Weight Loss Plan in January” and click on the same topic for a trial chat, we can get prompts about weight loss. With a little modification, the Wenxin Yiyan App can customize a weight loss plan specifically for us. Whether it’s an exercise plan or a diet plan, Wenxin Yiyan App lists them very clearly, even including what exercise to do from Monday to Sunday.

You can also share the generated results (including all the displayed content mentioned above) to the community, WeChat friends, Moments, etc., and even generate photos.

The above test examples only occupy a small part of the Wenxin Yiyan App. Everyone can go to download and experience more content.

In addition to the capabilities of large models, Baidu is also strengthening the creation of plugins to other services. At the WAVE SUMMIT conference this month, Baidu introduced the plugin mechanism of version 3.5 of Wenxin Yiyan, which includes Baidu search, Lanjuan documents, Yijingliuying, Shuotujiehua, and E Yanyitu functions. These additional capabilities enable Wenxin Yiyan to have real-time information acquisition, multimodal capabilities, etc.

In the future, Baidu hopes to create a richer plugin ecosystem.

Application of Large Models: Reconstructing All Products

In people’s perception, Baidu is the first company among global giants to develop large language models. Over the past decade, Baidu has accumulated research and development investment of over 140 billion yuan, and has built a global AI technology system with four layers of application, models, frameworks, and chips, achieving end-to-end optimization and leading industry in various aspects of self-developed key technologies.

Based on Baidu’s strong AI capabilities, the Wenxin Yiyan App has such stunning performance. Today, this app in the consumer field brings the most advanced technology to the hands of every ordinary user.

We can imagine that in the future, using the application of large models, we can quickly handle tedious work tasks, instantly obtain knowledge from all over the world, and even ask for AI’s advice when encountering difficulties. In this way, many problems will no longer be problems.

Li Yanhong once said that large models will give birth to AI-native applications, and Baidu is using AI-native thinking to reconstruct all products, services, and workflows. The key point is to redo and reconstruct all products, not integrate and access. The Wenxin Yiyan App is the “pioneer” of practicing this concept by Baidu, setting an example for other domestic manufacturers.

The new turning point in the field of large-scale models has emerged, and the next generation will compete in AI-native applications. As the first AI-native application based on large-scale models, the Wenyin Yiyuan App will reconstruct Baidu’s mobile ecosystem along with applications such as Baidu Search, Baidu Wenku, and Baidu Input Method. The world we live in is already undergoing changes.

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