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Author | Liu Baodan

Editor | Huang Yu

More than a decade ago, Zhou Hongyi pioneered free antivirus, which completely changed the development of the Internet security industry. Now, he has once again applied this concept to the field of AI big models.

On July 31, Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Group, announced at the ISC.AI2024 12th Internet Security Conference Digital Security Summit that 360 Security Big Model will officially be free for standard capabilities, mainly for users who have purchased 360 standard products.

"To bring the big model down from the altar, we must implement the free policy to the end. Today, I am the first in the industry to announce that the security big model will be free." Zhou Hongyi said that the company's goal is to make the technological dividends brought by the big model affordable to everyone and to achieve a new qualitative productivity transformation in the security industry.

"We don't want big models to become a rare and profitable tool in the hands of a few manufacturers. If every company can afford professional big models, we strongly support open source, which will help improve the productivity of all companies in China."

This is not an easy decision because Zhou Hongyi needs to strike a balance between profitability and free.

In recent years, 360 Group's operations have been under pressure. On July 9, the company released its 2024 semi-annual performance forecast. During the reporting period, the net profit attributable to the parent company was approximately -350 million yuan to -240 million yuan.

Behind the losses, the company invested resources in AI big models. Since last year, 360 Group has begun to place heavy bets on AI. Zhou Hongyi proposed the "two-wing flying" strategy, one of which is to fully develop generative big language model technology. To a large extent, 360 Security Big Model is the result of this strategy.

It is understood that in order to train the big security model, the company has invested 20 years of accumulated security data knowledge, 10 years of AI technology accumulation, 80 AI algorithm experts, 100 security experts, dispatched 5,000 cards of A800 and H800 computing power resources, and 200 days of training and tuning.

The 360 ​​Security Big Model is a vertical model that focuses on security. It can be said that it is a verification of 360 Group's many years of development experience in the AI ​​era.

Zhou Hongyi said that 360 has summarized a set of professional big model methodologies through more than 100 practical cases, emphasizing that it does not pursue an all-round big model, but a model that does one thing. Specifically, the 360 ​​security big model consists of six expert sub-models, including attack detection, operation disposal, tracking and tracing, knowledge management, data protection, and code security.

"The 360 ​​Security Big Model surpasses GPT-4 in security capabilities and is the champion in security capabilities," Zhou Hongyi further emphasized.

Since the beginning of this year, AI model companies have reduced the cost of model calls and launched multiple free versions. To a large extent, this is to enable the model to be applied more quickly and better explore commercial realization.

2023 is the year of models, and the Hundred Models War solved the problem of creating models from scratch. 2024 will depend on applications, and the most important scenario that 360 Group sees is "security."

Zhou Hongyi is very optimistic about the future development of AI big models. He said, "The AI ​​wave is unstoppable. It is an opportunity for industrial revolution for us and also for the security industry."

The advantages are obvious. 360 is the only manufacturer in China that has both AI and security capabilities. It has a self-developed 100 billion-dollar model, the 360 ​​Intelligent Brain, and a data-driven model with performance of 100 billion yuan. It has also created a series of models such as knowledge management and intelligence analysis.

"360 is now providing security as a service, which is the trend of the future, and we also use the security big model to empower them." For example, a Fortune 500 company has 300 subsidiaries. After empowering them with the security big model this year, it only used one expert to submit five digital security reports. One expert surpassed the eight experts last year.

Zhou Hongyi chose to give it a try precisely because he saw the broad market prospects. As the 360 ​​security big model gradually opened up the possibilities of the application side, the company also wanted to take a chance to turn things around, which was destined to be a challenging adventure.