OPPO has announced the launch of an expansive experiential activity featuring its new version of Xiao Bu Assistant, which is built on the company’s large language model, AndesGPT. The updated Xiao Bu Assistant promises to mark a significant advancement in AI conversation technology with enhanced semantic understanding capabilities, the ability to generate content from text prompts, and improved summarization skills.

OPPO Xiao Bu AI Assistant will get large model capabilities

AndesGPT, which forms the core of the upgraded Xiao Bu Assistant, is a large language model developed by OPPO’s Andes Intelligent Cloud team. It operates on a hybrid cloud architecture and has been in development for two years, following a series of self-developed models, OBERT, with different levels of complexity and performance capabilities. The OBERT models boasted parameters ranging from one hundred million to one billion and managed to gain impressive recognition, briefly ranking fifth in the Chinese language understanding benchmark CLUE1.1 and first in the large-scale knowledge graph question-answering KgCLUE1.0 leaderboard.

AndesGPT builds upon the OBERT model, adopting various key technologies that bring about its unique features. This includes continuous learning from Chinese dialogue data, instruction fine-tuning, the incorporation of reinforcement learning with human feedback, and enhancement of the knowledge base. Such a combination of technologies makes it an ambitious project, representing the efforts of OPPO to be at the forefront of conversational AI. Notably, AndesGPT ranked fifth in the C-Eval evaluation rankings in June of this year.

By drawing on the considerable research and development that went into the OBERT models, OPPO has been able to produce a more refined, contextually aware, and responsive conversational assistant.

The move by OPPO aligns with the trend in the tech industry where AI integration is becoming a standard, following other companies like Huawei and Xiaomi.

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