Tencent launches AI assistant App Yuanbao: an all-round productivity tool that can also chat with Zhen Huan

Yesterday, Tencent launched "Tencent Yuanbao" and officially entered the AI ​​application market. What are the highlights and features of "Tencent Yuanbao"? Let's take a look.

Yesterday, Tencent launched an AI native app called "Tencent Yuanbao" based on its own Hunyuan model.

It is officially announced that Tencent will officially enter the AI ​​application market.

In recent times, everyone has witnessed the booming AI application market.

Just two weeks ago, OpenAI and Google secretly competed on AI applications. Various major domestic manufacturers have also launched their own AI applications, such as ByteDance's Doubao AI and Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan, etc.

Tencent’s participation this time will undoubtedly add fuel to the “war” of AI applications.

But how big Tencent's fire is and how much of a wave it can create in the AI ​​application market still needs to be experienced in practice.

The Zhiwei editorial department also obtained the qualification to experience Yuanbao a few days in advance. After using it for a few days, to be honest, it gave us quite a surprise this time.

At first glance, "Yuanbao" sounds like a financial management software, but it does not require recharge, and its functions combine a certain degree of practicality and fun.

Take the Zhiwei editorial department as an example. One of the essential steps before writing an article is to find a topic. Once you open the Yuanbao App, the homepage will push the latest hot news in real time. Click it and you can see what major events have happened recently.

We can also ask Yuanbao directly, and it will summarize the recent news in two or three seconds. The source of each news is clearly marked, and you can open it directly in the App without jumping.

Moreover, the quality of the content it has compiled is quite high. For example, it can accurately tell the verbal battle between Musk and LeCun in the past two days, the big model price war that we just wrote about, and it also compiled the latest follow-up.

If we expand the reference materials it provides, we can also see many high-quality long articles from public accounts.

This is all thanks to Tencent's own powerful content ecosystem. According to Tencent, Yuanbao is the only one in the large-scale model field that can capture article data from public accounts.

To be honest, with the help of Yuanbao, our efficiency in finding topics internally can be greatly improved.

After finalizing the topic, you can continue to use Yuanbao to find and analyze information. Yuanbao can handle multi-modal searches such as files, images, and links.

During this period, it happened to be the time when major companies were releasing their financial reports. We downloaded a copy of Kuaishou’s financial report and threw it to it, asking it “What are the highlights in Kuaishou’s first quarter financial report?”

It listed ten highlights in one breath, and each highlight was supported by data. In order to ensure the accuracy of the answer, we also compared it carefully, and it turned out that Yuanbao was not wrong at all.

Not only that, if there is a specific point you want to know, such as Kuaishou’s R&D investment, but you are too lazy to look through the financial reports, you can also ask Yuanbao directly, and it can accurately pick out the point you want like finding a needle in a haystack.

In addition to financial reports, the Zhiwei editorial department also looks for papers to read when writing articles, and Yuanbao also has certain capabilities in translating and analyzing papers.

In the “Discover” column of the Yuanbao App, there is an AI application called Super Translator, which can help translate English papers.

We threw a paper that has been very popular in the AI ​​circle recently to it. It was able to translate it accurately and also has a special reading mode to ensure our reading experience.

If you don't want to read the original translation, the super translator can also work part-time as a paper tutor and help us summarize the key points in the paper.

We looked through the relevant reports and found that there was nothing wrong with the summary. However, if we were to read and understand it ourselves, it would take us at least an afternoon.

What surprised the Zhiwei editorial department even more was that Yuanbao was able to come up with the title. We sent it the link to the article "Price War of Large Models" we wrote before, and noted that the key to the title should be concise and able to attract readers' attention. Yuanbao was able to give an answer immediately, which met our requirements.

And if you are too lazy to type, the above steps can be completed completely by voice, and you can also choose to let it read the generated content by voice.

Anyway, Yuanbao AI can help with almost every step of the Zhiwei editorial department, from topic selection to information search and finally title creation.

In addition to being a productivity tool, Yuanbao AI has another side. In our daily work, we certainly don’t work seriously from beginning to end. We always have to relax and take a break to replenish our energy. At this time, Yuanbao can transform into a slacking partner.

For example, the Zhiwei editorial department has created a language translator for The Legend of Zhen Huan. You can input any plain language and it will translate it into the tone of The Legend of Zhen Huan.

We even created a dark version of Niu Hulu Zhen Huan, who can role-play in the office and have realistic conversations with the emperor.

If you haven’t had enough fun yet, you can also make an AI application to fight against PUA in the workplace. Send it classic boss quotes, and it will be able to identify which ones are empty promises and give us tips to refute them.

In fact, after actual experience, it is not difficult for us to find that Tencent’s Yuanbao AI is indeed made with care. Not only does it strictly control the basic performance of the product, but it also takes the user experience into consideration in the design.

Yuanbao AI can achieve all this thanks to the Hunyuan model that steadily builds the "infrastructure" behind the scenes.

From September last year to now, the parameter scale of the model has increased tenfold, from hundreds of billions to trillions, and the training corpus has also been upgraded from trillions to 7 trillion tokens.

Moreover, when everyone just noticed the benefits of MoE (mixed expert model), Tencent took the lead in upgrading its own model architecture to MoE, and the overall performance was improved by more than 50% over the original.

In addition, in the field of multimodality, Tencent's Hunyuan is also the first model in the industry to use the Chinese native DiT architecture, which is the same architecture as OpenAI's Sora. The generation effect is improved by more than 20% compared with the previous generation.

It is precisely because of these performance improvements that Yuanbao AI can perform well under the "torture" of various problems.

While there are already many AI native apps on the market, the Zhiwei editorial department believes that there are two main reasons why they chose to launch Yuanbao AI.

On the one hand, Tencent has accumulated sufficient experience in the early stages of AI applications. For example, they have tested a wave of Hunyuan mini-program versions before, and compared with traditional workflows, the time efficiency has been significantly improved.

It can be said that Tencent has already put the arrow on the string and has to shoot.

On the other hand, as Tencent Cloud Vice President Liu Yuhong said at the press conference, the positioning of Tencent Yuanbao is to “bring AI closer to every ordinary person every day.”

Looking at the existing general AI applications on the market, there are not many AI native apps with the same positioning, and none of them have become popular on a large scale.

Therefore, Tencent cannot miss the opportunity to join the AI ​​application competition.

Today, the AI ​​application market is becoming increasingly hot, and the goals of major manufacturers are surprisingly consistent, rushing towards "AI super applications" that integrate various functions.

Perhaps just as Tencent predicts, in the future, AI super apps may really become our gateway into the AI ​​era.