Published: November 16th, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, cautioned on Wednesday at an industry forum in Shenzhen about the squandering of resources in the development of large AI language models. Li observed a phenomenon in China where many industries, companies, and even cities are acquiring hardware, stockpiling chips and building data centers to independently train proprietary large models from scratch. While these entities aim to develop significant language models, a considerable number lack a sustainable business model.