Chapter 687 Outbreak
Applause rang out in the multi-functional integrated recording studio in Building 1 of the Dixing Group.

The studio was built into a scene similar to an “award ceremony”, and the founding ceremony was held here.

The stage was packed with guests, including all employees of the headquarters, representatives of branch employees, representatives of various cooperative enterprises, celebrity artists, and relevant leaders.

On the stage, standing in the middle was Xu Xiyu who was giving a speech; on the right side of the stage stood a man and a woman, two well-known domestic hosts.

During the nearly three-hour ceremony, employee representatives, corporate representatives, peer friends, and leadership representatives had all finished speaking;
The songs, dances and language programs of the performance have also been watched.

Normally, the ceremony would be over at this point and you would just have to wait to go to the five-star hotel next door for dinner.

However, most of the people present did not realize that the real show had just begun.

Xu Xiyu, who was standing behind the podium, smiled and said after the applause: “Finally, I would like to report a piece of news to all the leaders and guests present, as well as all our employees.

That is, MOSS Technology, jointly established by Zhoubi Asset Management, Weigu Group and Dixing Group, has successfully released the artificial intelligence [MOSS-550B] series it developed. “

As soon as he finished speaking, applause broke out again from below.

However, apart from some core employees who were really clapping excitedly, everyone else was just applauding out of habit.

For example, Lao Zhou.

He clapped his hands and asked quietly, “Hasn’t this MOSS been released a long time ago? Why do we have to mention it today?”

“The previous one was 550A, and now it’s 550B. Are they different versions?”

“Is there any difference?” Lao Zhou was puzzled.

Xu Xiyu’s voice answered his question: “In layman’s terms, MOSS-550B is an upgraded version of the 550A we released previously.

It covers the full stack of AI technologies. There are NLPs for text processing, semantic understanding, and machine translation; there are also those for image recognition and target detection…”

“I bet 9% of the people here don’t understand him. He’s talking to a cow.” Listening to Xu Xiyu’s gibberish introduction on the stage, Lao Zhou couldn’t help but joked.

In fact, Xu Xiyu also knew that the people in the audience probably wouldn’t understand.

So, after a casual introduction, he got to the point: “The basic code base of the above major functions.

It will be open source together with our efficient decoding kernel [FlashMLA] and browser automation tool [Browser-use].

At the same time, we will also open source the model weights of MOSS-550B1 and B3; for small and medium-sized enterprises and individual developers around the world, we will reduce the cost of using AI, optimize GPU utilization, and alleviate the pressure of computing power monopoly.”

well.

Now everyone understands.

Therefore, there was an immediate burst of applause from the audience.

However, the guests still did not realize what this meant.

It’s okay if you don’t realize it, you will realize it soon enough.

Xu Xiyu continued, “I won’t go into too much detail about the specific technology. If you are interested, you can go to the official website of MOSS to check.

Here, I would like to introduce a few key points to you.

First, after testing, our general model MOSS-550B3 with a hybrid expert architecture is close to the current best performing model Claude-3.5-Sonnet-1022 in knowledge-based tasks.

In the long text evaluation, our average performance surpassed other models; in the algorithm code scenario, it was also far ahead of all models on the market except the o1 model;
In math tests, 550B3 outperforms AI such as ChatGPT3.5 and Doubao, and is comparable to GPT-4. We also have a leading advantage in Chinese proficiency.

Second, our reasoning model MOSS-550B1 has performance comparable to the official version of OpenAI o1 in tasks such as mathematics, code, and natural language reasoning.

At the same time, in addition to the open-source full-blooded model, we also distilled 6 small models to open source to the community. Among them, the 32B and 70B models have achieved the same effect as OpenAI o1-mini in many aspects. “

Perhaps, what Xu Xiyu said is still a little confusing to everyone, but everyone has more or less heard of the name of Open AI.

Therefore, there was a burst of laughter from the audience and the discussion immediately began.

“Holy shit? Really?”

“So amazing? Isn’t it said that our country’s AI lags behind foreign countries by several generations? Why did Mr. Xu just keep saying ‘surpass’ and ‘benchmark’?”

“Boasting?”

“That shouldn’t be the case. A few days ago, many people on the Internet also said that MOSS is very useful.”

“That should be true.”

“My goodness, how come he can be ranked first in every field? It’s the same in movies, games, and novels. That’s fine, at least he belongs to the literary and artistic world.

How come AI, which is so far away from the subject, is also possible? Isn’t this a bit unreasonable?”

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around immediately burst into bitter laughter.

However, Lao Zhou, hearing the noisy discussions around him, still expressed doubts about Xu Xiyu’s statement.

After all, on the way here just now, he told Zhou Zhou that whether it is domestic Internet giants such as Baidu or foreign companies such as Microsoft, their AI capabilities are half a block behind Open AI.

How come when it comes to you, Xu Xiyu, you are either on par with them or surpass them?
Although Zhou Zhou admired Xu Xiyu, he was not quite convinced. He smacked his lips and whispered, “Are you really bragging?”

Soon, Xu Xiyu’s bigger “bull” came.

“Third, compared to Open AI’s closed-source model, we support local deployment by enterprises, which effectively solves the data security concerns of some sensitive enterprises or institutions.

At the same time, our deployment cost is lower, and individual consumers can even use consumer-grade CPUs for local deployment. For example, our 1.5B small model only requires a 8 graphics card with 3050G video memory. “

“What the hell?” Zhou Zhou, who was still in doubt just now, was shocked.

“What’s wrong?” Lao Zhou looked at him puzzled.

“The 3050 graphics card is the lowest-end entry-level graphics card released by Nvidia two years ago. It was priced at only 1899 yuan. Whoever buys it will be laughed at. It’s hard to play games. How can it be used to deploy AI locally?”

As Zhou Zhou spoke, he began to click his tongue in amazement.

After hearing what was said, Old Zhou also realized something was wrong.

Xu Xiyu on the stage naturally didn’t pay attention to the reactions of the father and son.

He continued: “Not only that, in actual applications, our training cost is 557.6 million US dollars, which is much lower than similar large models and one-thirtieth of Open AI.

At the same time, our API call cost is 95% lower than Open AI.”

“Wait, wait a minute!” Old Zhou’s eyes widened instantly, and he turned to Zhou Zhou to confirm, “According to Xu Xiyu, they used one-thirtieth of the cost to train an AI of the same level?”

“Holy crap???” Zhou Zhou did not respond directly, but instead exclaimed, “Crazy, this guy is really crazy, this is too awesome!”

“Impossible? That doesn’t make sense! Baidu, Microsoft…” Lao Zhou still couldn’t believe it.

But Zhou Zhou couldn’t listen any more and interrupted, “Hey, Dad, don’t talk about Baidu. What else has Baidu done in these years besides lending and advertising?
They are rotten internally, with a bunch of vice presidents who have nothing to do but fight among themselves all day long. Just wait and see, if this company continues like this, it will fail sooner or later. “

“Then it shouldn’t be Xu Xiyu and the others. Listen to the shareholder structure of MOSS. Is there one related to high-tech?” Lao Zhou’s expression became more and more shocked.

But the shocking things did not end there.

Xu Xiyu continued: “In our invitation test, we successfully deployed MOSS in domestic graphics cards.

Including Huawei Ascend series, Moore’s Thread MMT series, Hygon DCU series, Cambrian MLU series, etc. Among them, MOSS performs particularly well in Huawei Ascend 910B.

理论算力达到了英伟达禁售芯片A100的95%；在长文本处理上，时延较比A100阉割版芯片A800，快了18%。

In our 70B small model training, the memory occupancy rate of Haiguang DCU reached 92%, close to the level of A100.

I must emphasize that MOSS-550B supports cross-platform, heterogeneous distributed reasoning, which means that when deploying, you can choose a mixed deployment of NVIDIA and domestic graphics cards.

For example, in the test, our Ascend 910B plus A100 hybrid deployment solution reduced costs by 25% compared to the pure NVIDIA solution.

Of course, in order to resist the risk of further chip sales ban, you can also choose to deploy purely domestic graphics cards. I will not go into the details today. “

Needless to say indeed.

Because everyone at the scene was completely confused by what Xu Xiyu said.

Everyone stared at Xu Xiyu on the stage, and was so confused that they even forgot to applaud for the end.

If the employees of Dixing Culture had not reacted quickly and clapped, the scene would have been almost silent.

Obviously, the people present really didn’t expect that they would hear such “earthquake-like” news when they came to attend the founding ceremony of a film and television group.

“If it’s really like what Xu Xiyu said, the same level, lower cost, and can be deployed on domestic graphics cards…

Then wouldn’t Tru’s Stargate plan be bankrupt?” Old Zhou still stared with his eyes wide open, muttering with his mouth slightly open.

This mumbling reminded Zhou Zhou, and he said anxiously: “Dad, the share price of the Nvidia stock you bought is going to fall, right? Run away quickly!”

Lao Zhou thought it made sense, but the next second, he hesitated again, shook his head slightly and said, “No.”

“What’s wrong?”

“What Xu Xiyu said is not right. I always feel that he is bragging. This MOSS is too unrealistic. How can there be such an AI?
Is it possible to have low cost and good effect? ​​If so, why haven’t other countries done it? Why doesn’t Open AI develop it? “

“No, Dad, is there a possibility that it’s not that they don’t want to do it, but that they can’t do it.”

“If they can’t do it, Xu Xiyu can do it?”

“It wasn’t Xu Xiyu, it was made by the technical team of MOSS Technology.”

“Why would such an amazing technical team choose MOSS Technology, a company that invests in quantitative, beauty, and film and television companies? Why didn’t other Internet giants poach them?” “Dad, aren’t you just arguing?!” Zhou Zhou was speechless.

“I’m just stating my logic. Don’t you think my logic is reasonable?”

“…” Zhou Zhou was completely speechless now and really didn’t know what to say.

Fortunately, there are some things that Zhou Zhou doesn’t need to say.

Because the market will tell.

Half an hour later, the relevant open source documents and reports of MOSS were released along with the video of Xu Xiyu’s speech.

Domestic and foreign colleagues soon noticed the open source information of MOSS-550B, some of whom had previously participated in the testing of 550A.

At the same time, news related to MOSS was also pushed to the hot search list.

The first reaction of most netizens when they saw this hot search was actually the same as Lao Zhou, thinking that Xu Xiyu was exaggerating too much.

Therefore, countless mocking voices were heard.

Some netizens, like Lao Zhou, started arguing directly and asked countless “whys”.

The reason why all these can be summarized is actually one meaning: “If something has not been done abroad, how can you do it? To put it another way, your domestic counterparts have not done it, so how can you, an outsider, do it?”

However, it didn’t take long for the sound to disappear.

The next day, at 5 a.m. on Saturday, which was 6 p.m. on Friday local time in the United States, Lao Zhou, who was still asleep, was awakened by a series of hurried knocks on the door.

Before he could curse, Zhou Zhou, who rarely stayed at home and had messy hair, ran in. He held up his phone screen to Old Zhou, who was lying on the bed with a confused look on his face, and said excitedly, “Dad! You are wrong. You are absolutely wrong!”

Oh my god, Lao Zhou was already annoyed when he was woken up.

Now when I heard Zhou Zhou not sleeping early in the morning and coming over to say this, I got angry.

But Zhou Zhou didn’t give him time to lose his temper, and continued excitedly: “AMD has just publicly announced that it will integrate MOSS-550B3.

Moreover, their CEO also said that MOSS’s innovation in algorithms will accelerate the popularization and development of AI, which is a very meaningful initiative! ”

“What is that?” Upon hearing this, Old Zhou really didn’t have time to get angry, and took the phone that Zhou Zhou was holding.

Oh my goodness, it would have been fine if I didn’t take it, but when I took it I found another message at the top of the screen.

The message clearly stated that [Intel officially announced the access to MOSS-550B1 and will support the B1-1.5B model, running locally offline on the Core Ultra200H platform, and applied to translation, document processing and other scenarios]

stay.

After reading the news, Lao Zhou just stayed in bed.

The dizziness caused by being suddenly woken up quietly came over him, making him feel as if he was still dreaming.

No, I am just dreaming, right?
AMD and Intel connected to MOSS?

Why don’t they develop their own?
Is MOSS really that powerful?

“Dad, are you dumbfounded? What did I say? What did I say yesterday?!” Zhou Zhou was really excited.

The exciting thing is that he proved his judgment and vision.

Old man, don’t be disappointed in me eight hundred times a day.

When it comes to new things, I can judge more accurately than you!

“Stop arguing.” Lao Zhou is not the kind of person who would easily admit his mistakes.

He lay back on the pillow, and after a long pause, he closed his eyes and said, “Whether it’s Intel or AMD, they all make chips.

In other words, they are in competition with Nvidia, so their access to MOSS does not mean anything. “

“Can you stop making up stories and deceiving yourself?” Zhou Zhou couldn’t hold back and started to complain, “This doesn’t mean anything. This means that MOSS is really as awesome as Xu Xiyu said.

Otherwise, there are so many AIs abroad, Open AI is not the only one, and Meta’s model is also open source, so why don’t they integrate it? “

“……”Now it was Lao Zhou’s turn to be speechless.

Again, he actually didn’t understand. He just relied on his experience to conclude that China’s AI technology was far inferior to that of foreign countries.

In this case, in his opinion, it is really difficult to accept AI like MOSS, which has lower cost and similar effect than the top foreign AI.

Seeing that Old Zhou was speechless, Zhou Zhou was in high spirits to speak because he saw another piece of news.

“Dad, Amazon just officially announced the launch of MOSS. Their CEO Andy also publicly encouraged users to use it, saying that this is the best AI so far.”

“……”Old Zhou.

“Of course, in your eyes, this doesn’t mean anything either.” Zhou Zhou felt proud and spoke more and more boldly.

The result of his insolence was, of course, Lao Zhou’s “Get lost!”

“I’m going to get out, I’m going to get out.” Zhou Zhou shrank his neck and was about to walk out when he suddenly thought of something. He stopped and asked, “Dad, did you really buy Nvidia’s stock?”

“Oh no!” As soon as these words came out, Old Zhou, who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, sat up suddenly.

“what time is it?”

“5 o’clock in the morning.”

“I asked you what time it is in the United States?”

“Six o’clock in the afternoon.”

“Oh no, oh no!” Lao Zhou got out of bed directly. Wasn’t the market closed at 6 pm?

Seeing that Old Zhou was getting anxious, Zhou Zhou couldn’t help gloating and bought Nvidia’s stocks. He also persuaded me to buy them together, saying that the company has a market value of 4 trillion yuan.

Nvidia’s current market value is 3.53 trillion. I’ll have to wait and see whether it goes up or down on Monday.

However, even though he thought so, Zhou Zhou pretended to be concerned and comforted him, “Dad, that’s not necessarily true. NVIDIA is very strong.”

“What the hell! Nvidia’s stock price has grown so fast because of its monopoly on AI computing power. Now that MOSS is so powerful, it requires even less computing power and can be deployed domestically…”

“Ah!” Zhou Zhou suddenly pointed at Old Zhou with both hands and shouted in a weird way, “Dad, do you admit that MOSS is amazing? Do you admit that you made a mistake!”

“Get out of here!” Old Zhou was almost mad at Zhou Zhou and he grabbed a pillow and threw it at him.

On the other hand, the Baidu that Lao Zhou had been obsessed with was also almost getting angry to death.

“Damn you Xu Xiyu, you really are going to die a miserable death!”

“Damn it, are you deliberately trying to kill our Wen Xin Yiyan?”

“They have no sense of martial ethics, no regard for unity, and engage in malicious competition! I will sue them for destroying the market environment!”

Baidu is furious, and the people from Nvidia and Open AI are naturally not much better.

At this time, Nvidia’s Johnson angrily pounded the table and cursed: “F**K, damn MOSS, damn Xu Xiyu! I knew they had bad intentions and were waiting to snipe us, and it turned out to be true!”

“They didn’t release it earlier or later, but waited until Friday afternoon to release it. This is deliberately giving the market time to react. Just wait, the short sellers on Wall Street are definitely targeting us!”

“There will be no shortage of colleagues joining in the fun!”

The same is true.

Time passed minute by minute, and another piece of news appeared in front of everyone.

#Microsoft announced that it will incorporate MOSS-550B1 into its enterprise-level service platform and plans to integrate it into AI computers#
This is not over yet.

#Shocking news: US Department of Defense employees are testing MOSS-550B1 and using the AI ​​for work assistance#
As soon as this news came out, NASA immediately banned its employees from using MOSS-550B due to “national security and privacy issues.”

However, they did not deny the technological content of MOSS-550B;
At the same time, due to their ban, the popularity of MOSS-550B has risen again.

That evening, the number of MOSS APP downloads topped the global charts of major countries/the globe.

Major media outlets at home and abroad have reported on this.

It is very popular overseas and has exploded in China.

#State Grid announced that its cloud platform has fully connected to MOSS-550B1, which is used in scenarios such as demand interpretation, defect prevention and control, document generation, and supports marketing systems#
#China Southern Power Grid announces deployment of MOSS-550B1, upgrading the “Big Watt” model with billion parameter levels#
#ICBC, Postal Savings Bank of China, and China Construction Bank announced the deployment of MOSS-550B1#
#Pengcheng Longgang District announced the deployment of MOSS-550B1 to optimize official document processing, people’s livelihood appeals and other services#
#Huaguo Petrochemical announced the deployment of the full-blooded version of 671B MOSS-550B1 to support AI applications in the chemical industry#
Official announcements, intensive official announcements.

In just two days, key industries in China, including energy, medical care, finance, government affairs, and chips, have reported that they have connected to MOSS-550B.

numb.

This made Lao Zhou feel numb.

“No, they…these…moves, are they so fast?”

“They must have received the news a long time ago. In fact, it is very likely that they have already tested it.” In contrast, Zhou Zhou was almost laughing.

The short sellers were also laughing.

Everyone is waiting for the U.S. stock market to open.

(End of this chapter)