China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has recently officially released its latest Kunlun large model, with parameters reaching as high as 300 billion. This milestone marks a crucial step forward for CNPC in the field of artificial intelligence. The development of this large model was jointly undertaken by four major industry giants: China National Petroleum Corporation, China Mobile, Huawei, and iFlytek, and is expected to complete formal registration by August 2024, becoming the first registered large model in China's energy and chemical industries.
It is worth noting that the launch of the Kunlun large model was not accidental. As early as August 28 last year, CNPC launched the first version of the Kunlun large model with 33 billion parameters. Subsequently, an upgraded version with 70 billion parameters was released in November. This time, the 300 billion parameter model not only achieved a leap in parameter scale but also simultaneously launched 100 practical application scenarios, covering 43 upgrades and 57 new scenarios. All application scenarios have been put into production.
Zhang Ping'an, Executive Director of Huawei, stated that Huawei fully supported China National Petroleum Corporation in building this industry-leading visual large model through its Ascend hardware, Huawei Cloud Stack hybrid cloud, and PanGu large model. This cooperation involved the annotation and training of over 700,000 industry visual datasets, increasing the model parameter volume to 44 billion, significantly expanding the application boundaries of industrial visual intelligence.
In terms of technical architecture, the AI platform of the Kunlun large model integrates three main pipelines: corpus processing, model training, and application deployment, supporting the private deployment of mainstream open-source large models, ensuring data security and efficient application. Additionally, a full-stack domestically produced intelligent computing environment was established, with all computing resources incorporated into the AI platform management. The highest computing power scale reached 1,950 petaflops, demonstrating formidable technical capabilities.
Through these series of technological innovations and collaborations, China National Petroleum Corporation not only made breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence but also laid the foundation for the digital transformation of the entire energy and chemical industry.
