iFLYTEK Debuted at the Inaugural China International Supply Chain Expo, Showcasing Its Large Model Base Featuring Self-dependent Innovation to Offer a Diverse Array of Choices for Global Industrial Chain

The first China International Supply Chain Expo, CISCE, commenced on November 28 in Beijing. Spanning five days, the event stands as the first national-level exhibition centered on supply chains. Themed “Connecting the World for a Shared Future,” the expo is dedicated to fostering global industrial chain and supply chain cooperation, with a specific focus on green and low-carbon development, digital transformation, and advancing the sound progression of economic globalization.

As one of the five themed exhibition areas centered around the five major supply chains, Digital Technology took center stage, emphasizing cutting-edge technological accomplishments and industrial applications, including large-scale models. Among these, iFLYTEK introduced Spark Desk, demonstrating its application across diverse sectors such as industry, education, healthcare, and ecology. Leveraging the model base of independent innovation, iFLYTEK aims to drive the transformation and elevation of the industrial chain and supply chain while offering a broader spectrum of innovation choices within the global industrial chain in various industries.

Large models driving the transformation and advancement of industrial and supply chains

At the exhibition, iFLYTEK showcased tangible application cases featuring Spark Desk across diverse industries, including education, office, automotive, industrial, and medical sectors. The demonstration of the large model in facilitating individualized teaching, enabling digital office functionalities, and enhancing smart industry are evidence-based. iFLYTEK Spark Desk employs technology to facilitate a robust implementation in various industries, contributing significantly to the intelligent transformation and elevation of industrial chain and supply chain.

iFLYTEK Chairman Liu Qingfeng has emphasized that “large model empowerment in the industry commences by enabling codes”, advocating for a productivity shift enabled by code tools and platforms driven by large models. At CISCE, iFLYTEK showcased intelligent programming assistant iFlyCode2.0 integrated with Spark Desk V3.0. Notably, the use of iFlyCode2.0 can lead to a 50% efficiency gain in the design stage, a 37% improvement in the development stage, and a 44% efficiency boost in the testing stage. It significantly enhances the efficiency of software programmers.

iFLYTEK Spark Desk is propelling industrial intelligent upgrade and new industrialization. Building upon iFLYTEK Spark Desk technology base, Lingyang Industrial Internet has introduced Lingyang Industrial Large Model . This model boasts five core capabilities: industrial text generation, industrial query response, industrial comprehension and calculation , industrial code generation, and industrial multi-modes. It has the capacity to evolve from extensive data and vast knowledge to intricacies across the entire manufacturing process, realizing a closed loop from identification and planning to problem resolution. Since its release over two months ago, Lingyang Industrial Internet has witnessed a remarkable 81% increase in total users, reaching 783,000, and a 103% surge in the number of the times of served enterprises, totalling 4.011 million. Additionally, leveraging Lingyang Industrial Large Model  V1.5 core base, Lingyang has developed various applications such as Digital Artisan and iMOM, providing comprehensive and dynamic solutions for the digital transformation of enterprises.

Lingyang Industrial Large Model  is integrating into a spectrum of industrial scenarios by combining its core capabilities with specific industrial contexts. The amalgamation of “large model + knowledge”, serving to unlock extensive industrial knowledge and revolutionize traditional methods of knowledge acquisition. The synergy of “large model + data” optimizes the interactive utilization of industrial system data. The collaboration of “large model + business” serves as an AI assistant for various job positions, contributing significantly to operational efficiency. The cooperation of “large model + industrial robot” propels production hardware, providing better support for the realization of “unmanned factories” and “lights-out factories”.

Lingyang Industrial Large Model  is reported to have rapidly found practical applications in specific fields like industrial quality inspection and industrial safety currently, including a series of “industrial six senses” products such as industrial stethoscopes, acoustic imagers, industrial endoscopes, industrial equipment guards, and industrial inspection robots. They imbue the industrial production process with intelligent perception capabilities of “listening, seeing, smelling, touching, and thinking”. Furthermore, there is a gradual shift towards supporting intelligent decision-making, effectively addressing challenges in equipment management, safety testing, energy conservation and emission reduction, and other facets of industrial production, which contributes to the enhancement of both the quality and efficiency of industrial processes.

In the realm of education, fuelled by the continuous evolution of Spark Desk, iFLYTEK has introduced a series of features, including English speaking training, Chinese and English composition correction, mathematics interactive tutorship, encyclopaedic knowledge query, parent-child education assistance, and English learning support, which are integrated into products like AI learning machines. Simultaneously, iFLYTEK places a strong emphasis on the mental health development of children and adolescents and has unveiled AI Psychological Companion underpinned by Spark Desk, which have demonstrated a significant reduction in the incidence of psychological problems. Notably, data from 47 primary and secondary schools in Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, and other provinces utilizing iFLYTEK intelligent mental education products reveal a substantial increase in the coverage of student psychological counselling, reaching 52% in 2022 and surging to 74% in 2023.

Within the healthcare domain, iFLYTEK showcased Spark Desk medical large model alongside iFLYHEALTH APP. Harnessing the core technical support of iFLYTEK Spark Desk, iFLYHEALTH allows users to consult before medical appointments to prepare treatment seeking. It helps provide guidance on drug usage, including understanding drug contraindications when taking medications. Additionally, after a physical examination, iFLYHEALTH provides insights into one’s health status. With iFLYHEALTH, widespread benefits of AI healthcare services are better delivered to every household.

Advancing technology-centred global expansion and fostering international innovation and entrepreneurship

The inaugural CISCE showcased a notable emphasis on “internationalisation”, with international exhibitors making up 26% of the participants. CISCE is committed to establishing a collaborative platform encompassing various entities within global industrial chain. Chinese enterprises are pivotal “hematopoietic cells” in global supply chain, and iFLYTEK remains steadfast in its commitment to the promotion of overseas ecological cooperation. It actively cultivates a global technological ecosystem, facilitates industrial implementation, and consistently enhances collaboration with global partners. Through these endeavours, iFLYTEK strengthens partnerships worldwide to jointly explore innovative solutions and accelerate the dissemination and application of scientific and technological achievements.

Since initiating the internationalization strategy, iFLYTEK has swiftly expanded its global footprint, offering high-quality products and applications to serve global clientele. The launch of iFLTEK OPEN PLATFORM(International site) of iFLYTEK Open Platform in 2020 marks a significant step toward the goal of artificial intelligence globalisation. Concurrently, while promoting the internationalisation strategy, iFLYTEK is dedicated to fostering the growth of an international developer ecosystem. The International site of iFLYTEK Open Platform provides global developers with artificial intelligence services, including speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation, and image recognition. As of November 2023, the section boasts a thriving community of over 270,000 overseas ecological developers, who contribute their expertise to offer intelligent development services across diverse sectors such as education, the internet, and financial technology.

Advancing technology-centred global expansion, iFLYTEK remains committed to forging extensive and deep collaborations with global ecological partners, aiming to construct a comprehensive global technological ecosystem while facilitating the implementation of industry solutions. In August of this year, serving as an official event supplier of the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships, iFLYTEK delivered automatic translation software and hardware products and services. iFLYTEK took the lead in establishing a global multilingual technology ecosystem and introduced the Budapest Joint A.I. Open Platform, inviting speech and language technology companies worldwide to actively participate in platform development towards jointly expanding into the European market.