On June 9, on the day of the 26th anniversary of iFlytek, Chairman Liu Qingfeng directly "spoiled" a major news in his internal speech: the upgraded version of iFlytek Spark X1 will be launched in July.

Faced with the current fierce "arms race" in the AI ​​circle, Liu Qingfeng's attitude is very clear--we must unswervingly follow the "difficult but correct path". What's the meaning? It means insisting on independent control, combining communication and expertise, integrating software and hardware, and deepening the industry. In his words, we must seize the "root dividend" in the AI ​​era.

The "actual test" of the college entrance examination, iFLYTEK X1 (420 version) has outstanding results

During this year's college entrance examination, the AI ​​big model circle was also particularly lively. All mainstream AI models have been brought to "passively take exams", and the scene is fierce.

In this contest, iFLYTEK Spark X1's performance was particularly impressive, confirming the strong strength of iFLYTEK Spark X1 (420 version).

Take the college entrance examination Chinese essay as an example, many authoritative media used college entrance examination questions to test the strength of many big models, and the evaluation conditions can be called "hard core" - disconnecting the Internet, opening in-depth reasoning, blind evaluation of real teachers, and completely simulating the real examination environment. The results show that iFLYTEK's comprehensive score in Chinese composition surpasses many mainstream big models and ranks first. This wave of performance is really impressive.

Faced with the "abstract" materials of the three literary masters, Lao She, Ai Qing and Mu Dan, the "Use Songs as Breaking the Long Night and Forging the Mountains and Rivers" handed over by Xinghuo X1 was rated as "a masterpiece with both speculative and infectiousness in the examination room." From the "dialectical relationship between silence and expression" to the sublimation of family and country narratives, the ability is eye-catching.

iFlytek Spark's advantages are not only reflected in Chinese. In the English composition illiteracy review of three authoritative media, iFLYTEK Spark X1 (420 version) also won the first place, surpassing models such as DeepSeek R1 (528 version);

In the college entrance examination mathematics evaluation, iFLYTEK Spark and DeepSeek became the only two large models with scores exceeding 140 points in the whole volume, but it cannot be ignored that there is a one-month time difference between the two models.

Through these evaluation results, we can see the technical accumulation of iFLYTEK in the field of education AI. Liu Qingfeng said that education is a field with a very high threshold. If you want to give others a bowl of water, you must have at least a bucket of water. In his opinion, AI should not only be able to answer questions and correct them, but also be able to assist children in their studies, and then help children improve their creativity, further help children's mental health, so that their children's academic improvement, five-education and development can be achieved healthily.

"Only iFlytek in China are working", taking the "difficult but right path"

At the moment when the computing power arms race is intensifying, choosing the national computing power training big model is undoubtedly a difficult road. Liu Qingfeng did not hide the challenge: "The research and development of all new algorithms based on domestic computing power will be three months slower." In this era of rapid technology iteration, what three months means is self-evident. But his response was firm and powerful: "I don't compete for the first place, I'm competing for endless talk. Training based on domestic computing power will be slower, but I won't be short!"

"The only iFLYTEK in China is doing the national production." Liu Qingfeng said. To be honest, in this era when everyone wants to seize the opportunity, it is really not easy for companies to be willing to take the long-term steadily. Liu Qingfeng’s logic is very clear: the full stack is independent and controllable, one is because of the ability to do it, and the other is that it is necessary to avoid being choked. Under the current international situation, this technical route choice seems to have a particularly strategic vision. Although some price may be paid in the short term, in the long run, the core technology is the king.

The year when the national AI is opened in 2025, iFLYTEK will grab the "root dividend"

2025 is the year when the national AI is opened. Liu Qingfeng emphasized that iFLYTEK should seize the root dividends of the AI ​​era driven by the mission and vision, and proposed four major directions:

First, it must be independent and controllable. Only by insisting on independent and controllable can we explore the big model and the ceiling of embodied intelligence in the future without restrictions; secondly, it must combine the specialization and the general base model to benchmark the world's highest level, and the industry professional model must be incomparable; secondly, it must integrate software and hardware, and form systematic innovation advantages through software, chips, C-end hardware, etc.; finally, the industry is deeply rooted, and we must find the root dividends in each industry, serve social progress, people's livelihood needs, and industrial scientific research needs, and lead the industry's development.

It is worth looking forward to that Liu Qingfeng revealed that in July this year, iFlytek will launch the upgraded version of Spark X1. He also introduced that iFLYTEK has always been on the road to higher artificial intelligence in the future, and the company is currently planning multimodal and embodied intelligence.