Bid farewell to artificial mental retardation: Mengzi open source project team received RMB 100 million financing to help NLP develop

author | Song Linfei

I believe you still remember when AI was just facing the market , Frequently appear on the network “ Great reward for artificial mental retardation ”. Sometimes , You tell it “ Call Zhang San ”, It may “ witty ” To help you dial 120; Sometimes you tell it to play “ Thousands of miles away ”, It may “ Intimate ” To help you open the navigation route to Los Angeles . There are these “ Dump site ” One of the reasons is that the machine can't accurately understand what we say .

But in recent years , These robots are becoming smarter and smarter at a visible speed . Reception on some platforms 、 Customer service 、 Assistant we can often see the figure of robots . Sometimes we even don't know whether it's a robot or a real person who is talking to us . In fact, all this is inseparable from a kind of called “ natural language processing （Natural Language Processing）” Technological development . In a popular way ,NLP Namely “ Let the computer speak human words , Understand human words ”.

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Of course ,NLP There are many more things covered .NLP It is an important direction in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence , It mainly studies how to realize effective communication between people and computers in daily terms .NLP It is a technology with a very wide coverage , It's a combination of Linguistics 、 Computer science 、 Mathematics and other subjects .NLP The application scenarios are also very wide , It is mainly used in machine translation 、 Public opinion monitoring 、 Automatic summarization 、 Point of view extraction 、 Text classification 、 I want to answer 、 Text Semantic Contrast 、 Speech recognition, etc .

talk about NLP technology , We can't get around the top experts in this field – Dr. Zhou Ming . He's the best in the world AI scientists 、 Representative figures in the field of natural language processing , Currently, he is the vice president of China Computer Society 、 Executive director of Chinese information society of China 、 Chief scientist of Innovation workshop , He was vice president of Microsoft Asia Research Institute 、 International Association of Computational Linguistics （ACL） chairman .

Dr. Zhou Ming once said ： At present , No matter from the major technical breakthrough of the pre training model , From the perspective of the national innovation and entrepreneurship incentive policy , Hard core technology entrepreneurship has shown a momentum of vigorous development , a “ Hard technology entrepreneurship is at the right time ”, From perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence , There are huge business opportunities here . therefore , He founded Lanzhou Technology . The core team members of Lanzhou technology graduated from Peking University 、 Harbin Institute of Technology 、 Beijing Jiaotong University and other famous universities , Or worked for Microsoft 、 Alibaba cloud and other well-known technology companies .

Lanzhou team is committed to building NLP As a new generation of cognitive intelligence platform with core technology , Help practitioners greatly improve information access 、 Search for 、 translate 、 Analyze and judge 、 Business forecast 、 Report generation and decision support . In recent days, , Beijing Lanzhou technology announced that it had completed a project of nearly 100 million yuan Pre-A Round of funding , By Lenovo venture capital 、 Stoic capital co leads the investment and Innovation workshop co invests . This is the third round of financing obtained by Lanzhou technology since its establishment one year ago , This financing will be mainly used for NLP Development and prospective research of core products .

In understanding what is NLP Technology and Lanzhou technology team , In fact, it is not difficult to understand why Lanzhou technology can be so valued by investors , The reason is that it is NLP With leading R & D capabilities , Very promising . Open source project “Mengzi” It is the lightweight Chinese language pre training model opened by Lanzhou technology team . It has a “ Light weight ”、“ High performance ”、“ Easy to deploy ” Other characteristics . It is based on linguistic information integration and training acceleration , It can quickly replace the existing pre training model , In text categorization 、 Excellent performance in reading comprehension and other tasks .

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be based on “Mengzi”, Lanzhou technology has also launched a number of commercial solutions . It covers keyword based 、 Text generation of titles, etc , Industry search engine , Machine translation . All technologies are at the leading level in the industry , Also with Hua Weiyun 、 Tonghuashun and other leading enterprises in the industry signed strategic cooperation agreements .