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Zhihu AI, a leading player in the Chinese large language model market, has officially begun its initial public offering (IPO) process, marking a significant milestone for the industry's 'Big Six' companies.

Zhihu recently released its Q4 2024 and full-year financial results. The data shows that Zhihu's annual revenue reached 3.6 billion yuan, a 14.3% decrease compared to last year. However, in Q4, Zhihu achieved a significant breakthrough, with revenue reaching 860 million yuan. Adjusted net profit was 97.1 million yuan, and operating profit was 23.1 million yuan, successfully achieving overall profitability. This marks the first time Zhihu has achieved overall profitability in a single quarter since its IPO.

The new version of Zhihu Straight Answer boasts several innovative features. Users can upload and parse web pages, documents, and other knowledge bases, and treat each Zhihu answerer as an independent knowledge base. By focusing on a single answer or all the works of a specific answerer, users can ask questions, search, and parse to obtain more targeted and professional answers. This feature significantly enriches the content sources for AI search, resulting in more accurate and reliable search results.

The DeepSeek-R1 model boasts excellent logical reasoning and structured output capabilities, excelling in text generation scenarios. Zhihu Zhida, on the other hand, has a vast repository of high-quality content within the community and over 50 million Chinese and English literature pieces, providing strong professional content search and provenance capabilities. The combination of the two will bring a significant innovation to AI search products.

On November 21, at the 2024 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhou Yuan, founder, chairman, and CEO of Zhihu, shared his views on the changes brought by AI search. He believes that AI search is currently still in its early stages, and both domestically and globally, its user coverage and application scenarios need further expansion and improvement. Zhou pointed out that the industry often compares AI search with traditional search, yet traditional search has already addressed a wide range of mature problems.

Recently, at the 10th SaltClub New Knowledge Youth Conference, the founder of Zhihu, Zhou Yuan, announced the launch of a new AI product called "Zhihu Direct Answer." This product marks another innovation by Zhihu in the field of large model applications, aiming to enhance the efficiency and quality of question and answer interactions through AI technology. "Zhihu Direct Answer" is based on Zhihu's extensive question and answer data, offering two types of answer generation methods: brief and in-

At the 2024 National Two Sessions, Zhou Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zhihu, submitted multiple proposals focusing on addressing the shortcomings of high-quality Chinese corpus data. The data volume in China is expected to grow from 18.51ZB to 56.16ZB, but high-quality Chinese data remains scarce. Zhou suggested establishing a regulatory mechanism for data compliance to promote the improvement of AIGC regulatory legislation. As 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of internet access in China, Zhou proposed to strengthen the保障 of policies and regulations. Additionally, he advocated for accelerating the legislative process to promote the development of the private economy and inspire innovation among internet platform enterprises. Zhou emphasized that artificial intelligence technology...

Zhihu announced that its 'Zhihai Map AI' large model will open for service. This large model has hundreds of billions of parameters and stronger logical reasoning capabilities. It aims to continuously empower creators, discussion forums, information retrieval, content operation, and various business scenarios. Zhihu's educational business has also utilized large model technology for product innovation. In the future, 'Zhihai Map AI' will be applied to empower creation, discussion forums, and information retrieval.