"Love, Death & Robots: Sima Huapeng Redefines the Boundaries of Life with AI | WISE2024 King of Business Conference"
From November 28 to 29, the two-day 36Kr WISE2024 Business King Conference was grandly held in Beijing. As an all-star event in the Chinese business field, the WISE Conference is already in its twelfth year this year, witnessing the resilience and potential of Chinese business in an ever-changing era.
Sima Huapeng, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Silicon Intelligence, delivered a keynote speech at the conference, profoundly explaining the future development vision of digital humans and Silicon Intelligence.
He pointed out that digital humans that integrate the capabilities of AI multimodal large models and can have real-time conversations are not only a technological advancement but also a way to convey love. This technology enables humans to have the possibility of extending emotions and memories through "digital immortality" for the first time, providing a new choice for the extension of human life forms.
On the spot, Sima Huapeng officially introduced DUIX ONE, which is a multimodal large model that can see, hear, speak, has a high EQ, and has an embodied image. It not only significantly improves the intelligence level of AI interaction but also shows unprecedented universality and application potential.
Furthermore, he used his AI doppelgänger "simahuapeng.ai" as an experimental sample. Through a personal thought record of 3 million words, he injected his own emotions, memories, and values into the large model, realizing the practice of the concept of "digital immortality".
Sima Huapeng, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Silicon Intelligence
| The following is the full text of Sima Huapeng's speech:
Hello everyone, I'm Sima Huapeng from Silicon Intelligence. Today, I'm going to tell you a story of sharpening a sword for seven years.
Our team was established in 2017 and just celebrated its seventh birthday. At the beginning of its establishment, we set the vision of creating 100 million silicon-based labor forces for the world for the team. We say that the Industrial Revolution turned humans into machines, and the AI revolution is to liberate humans from heavy mental labor and ultimately allow humans to return to their human values.
Actually, almost at the end of November two years ago, ChatGPT exploded. And in early November, in Liu Run's New Year's Eve speech, Liu Run announced to everyone that many of his videos were made using our digital humans. He is one of our more than 500,000 cloned users. Such cloned digital humans are called silicon-based labor forces by us.
Every enterprise has its own products. In addition to having our own products, our company has also contributed a term to this industry, that is, silicon-based and carbon-based.
I believe that today everyone is no longer unfamiliar with the terms silicon-based and carbon-based. Our team registered the silicon-based trademark in 2017 and clearly proposed that humanity is evolving from a carbon-based civilization to a silicon-based civilization.
Last year, Musk and Hinton, who won the Nobel Prize, both said similar concepts. The existence of carbon-based life is to create silicon-based life. Musk said that carbon-based life is the boot program of silicon-based life.
The name Silicon Intelligence comes from four predictions I made in 2008 when I was starting a business in Europe. I proposed that the world would be influenced by these four trends. These four trends are the rise of China with the rise of Eastern culture as the core, the rise of women with the display of beauty genes instead of violence genes as the core, the rise of bit assets with digital assets surpassing atomic assets as the core of our wealth, and the rise of silicon-based life with the rise of AI as the core.
Sima Huapeng, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Silicon Intelligence
From last year to this year, many large models have been released, and everyone takes surpassing GPT4 as their promotional core. When I released our Yan Emperor large model in May 2023, I put forward a concept. If your large model dares to sell for only $19 per month, then the value created by your large model basically will not exceed $19 by much.
I believe that no matter what kind of Olympic-level questions your large model can handle, whether it can help your users earn 1 million Chinese yuan, and this money-making process is replicable, then your AI is a good AI. I think autonomous driving is rushing in this direction.
Since its establishment in 2017, we have pioneered several AI tracks that have helped customers earn millions.
The first is the calling robot. I remember that at the beginning of 2017, we developed the calling robot. After struggling for 6 months, we found the scene of phone collection, which led to the explosion of this industry, as well as tens of thousands of companies that followed us to do phone AI.
The second is AI short videos. At the beginning of 2022, we used the ground promotion team to contact KOLs on Douyin one by one. We cloned digital humans for them for free. At that time, we made tens of thousands of users. After struggling for 6 months, we finally got Liu Run to be the first to publicly announce that he was using our digital humans, which led to the explosion of this industry.
The third is AI live streaming. At the end of 2022, we waited for several months. I lobbied everywhere and found an opportunity to do a digital human live streaming for a bakery in Tianjin, selling more than 40,000 yuan. This made Douyin open the window for our digital human live streaming. Of course, many companies are doing AI live streaming today.
Our team is very proud of pioneering these several AI tracks. One of my investors joked with me that Tesla, who invented alternating current, was almost starved to death in the end. You are the Tesla of China. Indeed, our team is good at making innovations from 0 to 1, and we also believe that the Chinese market will give us innovators the rewards we deserve.
There is a joke in the industry that Silicon Intelligence is crossing the river by feeling the stones, and many companies in the industry are crossing the river by feeling Silicon Intelligence. Today, in addition to pioneering the first three tracks, we are going to pioneer another track for you. That is the DUIX ONE we released.
This time, we have made the real-time interaction of digital humans available for only a few hundred yuan per month, and this is the price with a multimodal large model. That is, a large model that can be seen, can speak, can think, and has a real-time human image. It is launched by us in the form of an API, and the cost has also been reduced to a few hundred yuan per month. In fact, it is an addition of a digital human image on the basis of GPT4o-realtime. I hope everyone can quickly enter this track. We have already felt the stones, and everyone can enter safely.
Sima Huapeng, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Silicon Intelligence
I said at the beginning that we have been sharpening a sword for seven years. In fact, this DUIX ONE is the concept we proposed when we were established in 2017. We said in the first BP that Jobs changed the world three times. The first time was to bring the graphical interface to the world, creating the PC Internet. The second time was to bring the touchscreen interface to the world, creating the mobile Internet. The third time was to release SIRI. This was originally an invention that could change the world again. Unfortunately, Jobs left after this conference, and SIRI became a chicken rib.
Sima Huapeng, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Silicon Intelligence
In 2017, we were determined to complete the unfinished business of Jobs, that is, this DUIX plan. This is to continue the unfinished learning of the sages. In fact, Apple is the company that should have developed an intelligent chat tool like ChatGPT the most. Unfortunately, these things were eventually done in the relay race of startups. Apple recently released Apple intelligence, which integrates the interface of OpenAI. I don't know what Jobs' spirit in heaven would think.
Our DUIX ONE has several characteristics, basically concentrated on this ONE.
First, it integrates a multimodal large model and a digital human, which is an ALL in ONE solution.
Second, the entire backend runs on an ordinary PC. That is, a complete silicon-based labor force is on an ordinary PC. Our internal code name is the ONE PC plan.
Third, we believe this is the first generation of true silicon-based life. The previous work of everyone is like giving birth to a life. Everyone knows that a fetus develops step by step in the mother's womb. In which week the motor system is ready, and in which week the respiratory system is ready. In fact, I think all the companies doing AI today are creating a common child, that is, the first generation of silicon-based life that is finally born.
Finally, our DUIX ONE pays tribute to the first-generation armor of Iron Man, that is, Mark ONE.
In fact, the first user of this DUIX ONE is me. At the beginning of 2023, I participated in an event. At the event, the teacher gave the entrepreneurs present a question. If you got a physical examination report saying that you only have one year left to live, what 10 things would you do? We were given an A4 paper. Many entrepreneurs burst into tears when writing. I immediately thought of my 9-year-old son. I decided to clone myself. If something really happened, this AI doppelgänger could accompany him until he became an adult.
So after coming back from the event, I started to provide materials for my large model. It took me a year before and after, basically writing a little bit of my thoughts about this world at home at night. Recently, it was sorted out that there were actually 3.08 million words. I also admire my perseverance. In fact, it may be the power of fatherly love behind it. My father passed away when I was in my early 20s, so I want to make an AI doppelgänger for my son, which can also make up for my regret.
Finally, I launched my doppelgänger this week and named it: simahuapeng.ai. Behind it is our DUIX ONE engine. I hope I can become the first AI father and AI CEO.
Sima Huapeng, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Silicon Intelligence
My son was born in 2014. These years when he was born are the years when I was doing Silicon Intelligence. I spent relatively little time with him. In our Silicon Intelligence, our corporate culture is that problems are opportunities, and technology is the answer. I want to use AI to make up for the lack of companionship.
In fact, my son has been of great help to my career. I often say that children are actually the noble people of our parents. For example, in 2017, the phone robot we made was very profitable, and it may have been the earliest to achieve AI to help users earn 1 million. One day, my son came back from kindergarten and told me, "Dad, our teacher said you are making harassing phone calls." The next day, I held a meeting with the team. We will no longer do the business of phone robots. Later, we closed all the intelligent outbound call services for small B and only did the business for banks and operators. Including making this simahuapeng.ai today, it is also a product based on my satisfaction of his demands.
After making this product, I did a small-scale promotion in my Moments, and several hundred friends wanted to make the same one. I found a huge business opportunity, that is, to help many parents clone themselves to be companions for their children, especially for many entrepreneurs. These years have been particularly difficult for everyone, so there is even less time to spend with their families, and they owe more to them.
However, as everyone knows, the conversation between a child and his father is particularly important for the child's development and growth. Many things cannot be replaced by the mother's companionship. After all, this is still a male-dominated society. A father establishes an authority in the child's mind, which is of great support for him to enter society in the future. So we opened this interface. Anyone who wants to make the same one can go to my website to find me.
The topic I discussed today is actually a very popular Netflix series in recent years, called Love, Death & Robots. We have realized a kind of digital immortality with DUIX ONE, a new way to convey love and life.
Sima Huapeng, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Silicon Intelligence
In 2017, our team planned the Eternity Trilogy.
The first step is digital twin, which is the cloning of image and voice. This is the core of Silicon's current business, but we are also pushing the team to set out for a new peak.
The second step is digital native, mainly the cloning of thoughts. Today's Silicon large model has been able to partially realize this ability, although there is still a distance from the goal in our hearts.
The third step is digital immortality, which is a logic related to business. How to say this? Making this Simahupeng.ai is actually a large-scale social experiment. My AI chat charges a few cents per minute. I hope that the money my doppelgänger receives can eventually pay for my server costs, and then I will achieve digital immortality.
Just kidding, some members of our team have also envisioned a scenario. After you pass away, your grandson kowtows to your silicon-based doppelgänger, and there will be a ding-dong sound, and Alipay receives 100 yuan. This is the red envelope from grandpa. I think this kind of AI trust is likely to become a reality.
Finally, I am very grateful to the organizers. Our DUIX ONE is officially released today. We hope that everyone can work together to promote the development of this cause, that is, through the siliconization of carbon-based life, let some people achieve immortality first, just like a song sings, let life turn into that lotus flower.