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2025.03.06

16:35

iFLYTEK: Launches the full-stack localized iFLYTEK Spark DeepSeek tower all-in-one

iFLYTEK stated on the interactive platform that in February 2025, iFLYTEK innovatively launched the full-stack domestically produced iFLYTEK Spark DeepSeek tower all-in-one and iFLYTEK Spark DeepSeek all-in-one, which are compatible with iFLYTEK Spark and DeepSeek dual-engine models, and integrate the Spark code big model with the big models of various industries to create intelligent solutions, covering a variety of deployment scenarios, helping developers and scientific and technological enterprises to accelerate business innovation.

08:54

Liu Qingfeng, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of iFLYTEK: It is recommended to include AI capabilities in the new curriculum standards

During the National People's Congress this year, Liu Qingfeng, a deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of iFLYTEK, said in an interview with a Securities Times reporter that artificial intelligence technology is reshaping the core literacy of talents, and AI skills have become a necessary ability for future citizens. The European Union and the United States have included AI general education in the compulsory courses of basic education, and my country needs to accelerate the construction of an AI education system covering all stages of education. He suggested refreshing the ability and quality model in the AI era and incorporating AI capabilities into the new curriculum standards; sorting out the AI curriculum system for all stages of education and adding AI general education courses; creating AI experimental training scenarios and issuing AI laboratory construction standards.

2025.03.04

17:10

Liu Qingfeng, deputy to the National People's Congress: It is recommended to add general courses on artificial intelligence and incorporate AI capabilities into the new curriculum standards

Liu Qingfeng, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of iFLYTEK, suggested optimizing the per capita expenditure structure to provide continuous funding for "AI+education". At the same time, systematically constructing a talent portrait and training system for the AI era, innovating evaluation methods, adding AI general education courses, and incorporating AI capabilities into the new curriculum standards to "cultivate new humans standing on the shoulders of artificial intelligence". In the field of employment, he suggested strengthening the planning and management of new AI occupations, establishing an "AI employment dynamic monitoring platform", and setting up a 6-12 month unemployment buffer period for positions that are easily impacted by AI, and piloting "AI unemployment insurance special insurance".

14:23

Liu Qingfeng, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of iFLYTEK: Accelerate the construction of autonomous and controllable large models and industrial ecology on domestic computing platforms

This year, China's amazing breakthrough in the performance of large artificial intelligence models has attracted widespread attention in the international field. In the context of the deep reconstruction of the global scientific and technological competition pattern, the training of domestic large models is highly dependent on imported computing power. If we cannot speed up the solution of the weak domestic independent and controllable artificial intelligence industry ecology and difficulties in adaptation, it is tantamount to "building a high-rise on someone else's foundation." On March 4, the reporter learned from iFlytek that Liu Qingfeng, a member of the National People's Congress and chairman of iFlytek, submitted a number of proposals this year. One of the proposals is "Accelerating the Construction of Independent and Controllable Large Models and Industrial Ecology on Domestic Computing Platforms." Liu Qingfeng suggested: First, encourage the development and application of large models based on independent and controllable domestic computing platforms. Give special financial support to enterprises that make domestic computing chips and enterprises that use domestic chips to train large models, give resources to the national public computing power, and accelerate the innovation of large model algorithms based on domestic computing power; encourage central state-owned enterprises to give priority to purchasing full-stack independent and controllable large models developed based on domestic computing platforms; give priority to promoting industry vertical applications based on full-stack independent and controllable large models; second, build a mechanism for full sharing of data resources. Relying on China's extensive AI application scenarios, we will actively promote the application of large models in the industrial field and form a data flywheel, so that China can take the lead in obtaining the dividends of the AI industry. Third, we will provide special support for the construction of an ecosystem based on domestic computing power platforms. We will encourage the development of a large model developer ecosystem and open source community based on an independent and controllable computing power base, and provide special support to accelerate the formation of a domestic large model ecosystem and tool chain, and accelerate the development of my country's independent and controllable artificial intelligence industry ecosystem.

2025.03.03

15:02

National People's Congress Representative Liu Qingfeng: Suggesting the establishment of AI unemployment insurance

The 2025 National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference will be held soon. Liu Qingfeng, a member of the National People's Congress and chairman of iFLYTEK, said that AI technology will replace some jobs and create more new jobs and employment opportunities for the society. He suggested setting up AI unemployment insurance to provide protection for workers whose employment transformation is caused by the development of AI technology. The World Economic Forum's "Future of Jobs 2025 Report" predicts that in the next five years, new technologies and industrial changes will replace about 92 million jobs worldwide, but will also create 170 million new jobs. Liu Qingfeng proposed to strengthen the planning and management of new AI careers, systematically sort out new AI jobs, and promote their prosperity; build a full-chain governance mechanism of "employment monitoring-early warning-response", pilot an "unemployment risk early warning system" in manufacturing clusters, provide free AI skills training for low-income groups, and encourage insurance institutions to develop commercial AI unemployment insurance products.

09:19

iFLYTEK announces Spark X1 upgrade and releases Spark all-in-one machine and other new products

iFlytek announced the upgrade of Spark X1 and released a series of new products including Spark All-in-One Machine. Among them, the deep reasoning large model Spark X1 was upgraded again, and its mathematical capabilities are fully comparable to DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o1; the first Spark medical large model X1 was released; the Spark All-in-One Machine was upgraded in cooperation with Huawei, integrating the dual-engine capabilities of iFlytek Spark and DeepSeek; and the five new application scenarios of all-in-one machines, namely medical, higher education, government affairs, police affairs, and law, were launched; and the first "Spark X1+DeepSeek" dual-engine AI learning machine was officially released.

2025.03.02

12:01

BAIC Group and iFLYTEK signed a strategic cooperation agreement

On March 1, Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of iFLYTEK, and his delegation visited BAIC Group and held discussions with Zhang Jianyong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of BAIC Group. BAIC Group and iFLYTEK signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. The two parties will jointly promote all-round strategic cooperation in the field of automotive intelligence, relying on advanced artificial intelligence technology and large model capabilities to comprehensively improve the research and development level of intelligent networked vehicles and the company's digital innovation service capabilities, and lead the transformation of future travel modes through technological innovation. Witnessed by Zhang Jianyong and Liu Qingfeng, Liu Yu, Deputy General Manager of BAIC Group, and Liu Junfeng, Vice President of iFLYTEK and General Manager of the Automotive Division, signed the agreement on behalf of both parties.

2025.02.20

21:08

iFLYTEK: DeepSeek large model has been launched on iFLYTEK open platform

iFlytek said on the interactive platform that since 2018, iFlytek Open Platform has connected more than 10 AI partners such as SenseTime and Hehe, with a total of 98 capabilities, and the current platform has a total of 806 capabilities. On February 10, iFlytek Open Platform announced that the DeepSeek full series of large models including the "full-blooded version" DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 were officially launched, supporting public cloud API calls and one-click deployment of exclusive models, and continuously promoting the acceleration of artificial intelligence technology towards universal implementation.

2025.02.15

15:23

iFLYTEK: Actively focus on the application innovation opportunities of big models on the C-end

Regarding the progress of AI glasses research and development, iFLYTEK responded to investors' questions on the interactive platform and stated that the company is actively paying attention to the application innovation opportunities of large models on the C-end. For the latest product developments, please follow the company's official website or WeChat public account "iFLYTEK" or "iFLYTEK Group".

2025.02.14

23:25

The new version of iFlytek Spark X1 with pure domestic computing power will be completed in March this year

iFlytek held an online conference call on February 13 to discuss the development of the artificial intelligence industry under the DeepSeek craze and disclosed the progress of the iFlytek Spark large model. More than 40 companies including Bosera Fund, CITIC Construction Investment, and Minsheng Securities participated in the survey. It was disclosed that the new version of iFlytek Spark X1 with pure domestic computing power will be completed in March this year, and it is expected to achieve a comprehensive benchmark or even surpass the OpenAI o1 mathematical answering and process thinking chain capabilities.

2025.02.10

08:23

Guojin Securities: DeepSeek promotes "computing power equality" and focuses on investment opportunities in edge AI and Agent

Guojin Securities said that after the computing power cost on the inference side is reduced, "computing power equality" will hopefully accelerate the implementation of AI and Agent applications on the end side, and at the same time, the implementation of applications will also bring about the demand for network security and information innovation. It is recommended to pay attention to iFlytek, the leading domestic generative large model company; AI hardware is expected to become a new carrier for the implementation of applications, and it is recommended to pay attention to EZVIZ Network, ArcSoft, etc.; the polishing of AI-related functions can drive the monthly active volume and payment rate of C-end applications, and it is recommended to pay attention to Kingsoft Office, Wondershare, etc.

2025.02.05

09:41

Humanoid robot concept stocks fluctuated higher, with Softbank rising more than 10%

Humanoid robot concept stocks fluctuated higher, with Softline rising more than 10%, Shengtong Holdings and Meige Intelligent hitting their daily limit, iFlytek rising more than 7%, and Green Harmonic and Junpu Intelligent following suit.

2025.01.27

13:21

Liu Qingfeng of iFLYTEK: Data on the Sino-US technology competition must be China

"In the global artificial intelligence game, without the empowerment of the artificial intelligence base, all scientific research will be research at the agricultural production stage, and with artificial intelligence, the speed will be increased 10 times or 100 times." On January 25, Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFLYTEK, delivered a speech at the company's annual meeting with the theme of "Flattening the Bumps into a Highway", analyzing the current development trend of the industry. He also mentioned the current "dark horse in the model circle" DeepSeek and other domestic model companies, which have received a lot of attention. He believes that in the Sino-US technological game, the United States is now strong in computing power, and everyone's algorithms are gradually becoming similar, but China must be strong in data.

07:34

iFLYTEK: We have paid attention to the technical progress of DeepSeek-V3 and will continue to promote algorithm iteration

iFLYTEK stated on the interactive platform that the company has paid attention to the technical progress of the hybrid expert (MoE) architecture of DeepSeek-V3. The company will continue to promote algorithm iterations to allow the autonomous and controllable Spark large model to continue to evolve and improve on the autonomous and controllable computing power platform.

2025.01.15

10:15

iFLYTEK launches the industry's first end-to-end simultaneous voice interpretation model

On January 15, iFLYTEK released the Spark Voice Simultaneous Interpretation Model, the first large model in China with end-to-end voice simultaneous interpretation capabilities. Aiming at the high-difficulty simultaneous interpretation needs in international communication scenarios such as daily conversations, business exchanges, and industry translation, the Spark Voice Simultaneous Interpretation Model is at the industry-leading level in terms of content completeness, information accuracy, and language quality, and can achieve a simultaneous interpretation delay of less than 5 seconds at the fastest, reaching the level of human expert interpreters.

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