Today, 106 days after releasing the AI hero post, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, a well-known investor and chairman and CEO of Innovation Works, finally unveiled the Project AI 2.0 project he is planning.

On July 3, Titanium Media App learned that Li Kaifu's latest AI large model startup and official website was officially unveiled, the company is called "Zero One Everything" (01.AI), headquartered in Beijing.

It is reported that the zero-one everything is positioned to build AI 2.0 platform and application, the technical route for self-research large model, within three months has achieved 10 billion parameters scale model internal testing, is now expanding to 30 billion - 70 billion parameters scale. The team members who have joined Zero2 Everything include former Alibaba vice president, former Baidu vice president, former chief algorithm leader of Drip/Baidu, former Google China executives, etc. "Zero One Everything is recruiting AI talent from around the world.

The information in the sky-eye search shows that the main business entity of Zero One Everything is "Beijing Zero One Everything Technology Co. The company's shares are 99% owned by Ma Jie, the former vice president of Baidu and the person in charge of the product "Xiyang", and 1% owned by Innovation Works (Beijing) Enterprise Management Co.

Titanium Media App learned that although Ma Jie holds 99% of the shares and is the executive director of the company, but Ma Jie is not the CEO of Zero One Everything, but only an executive, and the Innovation Works team is acting as the co-founder of the company, and Li Kaifu will not be All in this company, and he will balance the company and the fund project afterwards.

At present, zero one million things did not announce more core team information.

Earlier during the 2023 Zhongguancun Forum, Li Kaifu told Titanium Media App and others that the generative AI fever represented by GPT-4 and other big models is spreading around the world, meaning that the AI 2.0 era has arrived, which will bring opportunities ten times greater than the mobile Internet era, penetrating all walks of life to greatly boost productivity. "We predict that the new AI 2.0 platform will effectively help boost human productivity and create tremendous economic and social value."

On March 19 this year, Kai-Fu Lee announced his entry into the AI big model field, personally organizing the new Project AI 2.0 company, which he said is a global company dedicated to building a new AI 2.0 platform with AI-first productivity applications. "It's an innovative company driven by a technology vision, with a superior Chinese engineering heritage, and a global call for world-class talent to join."

Three months later, the seventh company incubated by Lee Kai-fu's Innovation Works, Zero One Everything, went live.

Li Kaifu said, zero-one is 01, which represents the digital world, from zero to one, and even everything in the universe, implying the ambition of "zero-one intelligence, everything empowerment". Innovation Works said that this is Li Kaifu "rolled up his sleeves" personally led the team, "the tip of the tower incubated" an AI 2.0 company, after three months of preparation period.

"The technical threshold of large models is very high, and it is very necessary to integrate an efficient team with both scientific research capabilities and development strength, to develop and implement the company's technology and product strategy, and to implement it consistently from top to bottom." According to Kai-Fu Lee, Zero One Everything will focus on building a platform and productivity application ecology for the AI 2.0 era, and the vision of Innovation Works is to build Zero One Everything into a world-class company that shows our R&D and engineering capabilities to the world.

Specifically, in order to build AI 2.0 big language models, Zero2 One Everything chose to "self-research models" and build an experimental platform - building thousands of GPU clusters for training, tuning and inference to increase the number of effective data parameters, as well as the density of high-quality data used. We also built an experimental platform - a cluster of thousands of GPUs (graphics processors) for training, tuning and inference, to increase the number of valid data parameters and the density of high-quality data used to build continuous, controlled and scientific training capabilities.

In order to improve the modeling capability, Zero2 Everything adopts a strategy of dismantling the technical route and attacking it step by step, including 7 modules:

Pre-training framework (Pre-train) technology that defines the ceiling of model capability; Post-train (post-training) technology that refines the model realization capability; AI Infra technology that supports efficient training of models; Multimodal modeling techniques for more diverse and multi-media; Platform middleware and toolchain technologies; Inference deployment technologies; Service deployment technology. At present, the technical experts of the seven directions of Zero2IPO come from the background of many Chinese and foreign technology companies, with a high proportion of PhD background, and have achieved the internal testing of models with 10 billion parameters in three months, and are expanding to 30 to 70 billion parameters. At the same time, Zero2IPO also plans to launch an open source version of the model in the future to attract outstanding talents to enhance the model and promote the global AI 2.0 developer ecology.

"It's not a Chinese or American problem. I think all companies will tend to think about their core business and how they can integrate with AI." For arithmetic, there are other chips available in China as AI arithmetic alternatives, Kai-Fu Lee told Bloomberg in March this year. "In any case, it's not a desperate situation."

Li Kaifu has said that the main focus of Innovation Works in the AI 2.0 era is on three major directions: intelligent applications, platforms and infrastructure. With a cutting-edge technology layout of "tower incubation + angel investment + VC fund", Innovation Works will actively support hard-tech entrepreneurs in AI 2.0 and help China continue to lead the world in the next golden decade of AI.