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iFlytek
Speech technology and the Spark (Xinghuo) large-model family, from a long-established, partly state-owned Chinese AI firm.
iFlytek is a partly state-owned Chinese company, founded in 1999 in Hefei by Liu Qingfeng and fellow graduates of the University of Science and Technology of China, that became the country's dominant supplier of speech recognition, speech synthesis and machine translation. In the language-model era it has built the Spark (Xinghuo) family of models, aimed heavily at education, healthcare and government customers and marketed as running on domestic computing hardware. Unlike the newer AI startups it is a long-established, publicly listed firm, and its work has drawn attention both for that home-grown compute stack and for its close ties to the Chinese state.
- Category
- Chinese AI labs
- Founded
- 1999
- HQ
- Hefei, CN
- Key people
- Liu Qingfeng
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iFlytek releases Spark V3.0
iFlytek said the update matched ChatGPT 3.5 in English and surpassed it in Chinese, while promising a GPT-4-competitive model in the first half of 2024.
Models & capabilities · Benchmarks & progress
iFlytek launches Spark (Xinghuo) cognitive model
Chairman Liu Qingfeng said the model beat ChatGPT on Chinese-language tests and pledged to match it in English by October 2023, at a Hefei launch event.
Models & capabilities