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Standing at the starting point of 2025, if you were asked to choose 50 keywords to summarize the key technologies and application directions of AI, Which 50 will you choose?

Tencent Research Institute has continued to track technologies and trends in the field of artificial intelligence over the past year, creating business lines through AI daily express, AI weekly 50 keywords, weekly technology grid, AGI roadmap and large models Brand columns such as round tables, AI&Society high-end seminars, and 100 People 100 Questions track the cutting-edge trends in technology applications, link the thoughts and opinions of front-line experts, and deeply think about the impact of AI on social development, forming "Industry Large Model Report", "AIGC Ten Major Trends - Entering the Era of External Machine Brains", "Industrial Large Model Application Report", "Ten Questions about "AI Companion"", "Client-Side Large Model", "Inflection Point Moment" "Journalism in the AIGC Era", "Financial Large Model Application Report" and "Large Model Safety and Ethics Research Report 2024", including more than ten reports, continue to provide our thinking and insights for all sectors of society to understand and apply AI.

In the process, we also unexpectedly discovered that the accumulation of daily research bit by bit is gradually causing qualitative changes, verifying that the research process also has an "emergent" phenomenon based on a large amount of information input. For example, "AI Daily Express" has researchers carefully screening ten pieces of AI progress information every day. Even if it only summarizes the compressed content, it has accumulated an AGI database of more than 300,000 words, which not only deepens our understanding of the AI ​​field. , has also become the basis for researchers to comprehensively understand and gain insights into AI technology and industry development trends. We have also tried to carry out special research around end-side intelligence, image processing, video generation and embodied intelligence, etc., which has verified that researchers can achieve trend extraction based on information compression with the support of a large amount of information, and have obtained good results. Industry feedback.

Further, we are thinking about whether we can further compress the key information and special research we have accumulated in the AGI database throughout the year into 50 keywords, so that more people can have the opportunity to master the basics of the AI ​​field. What about the picture and future trends? We conducted this experiment with AI and completed this report.

Here we share our experimental process:

Step1: Based on the researcher’s tracking understanding of the AI ​​field, eight major directions of large model technology and application are divided, namely: basic model, image processing, video Generation, 3D generation, programming assistant, Agent, on-device intelligence and embodied intelligence. Step 2: Invite researchers who are following up on each direction to carefully screen out about 30 keywords in each field based on the 2024 progress data of that direction in the AGI database, and then confirm the 6-8 most representative keywords through multi-person discussions.

Step3: Learn from the "fast thinking" and "quick thinking" possessed by both humans and large modelsWith the two thinking characteristics of "slow thinking", we conducted a two-dimensional analysis of each selected keyword, and "supervised" and "guided" the AI ​​to draw 50 AI keyword cards. In the "Quick Thinking" part, the researcher takes the lead, directing the AI ​​to generate a brief introduction and visual expression of the keywords, and deciding whether to accept the generated results. If it does not meet the standards, the AI ​​will be directed to redraw it. In the "Slow Thinking" section, the researcher provides the special research results accumulated in the early stage, confirms the logical format of the output, guides the AI ​​to assist in sorting out the development context and trends, and finally generates core observations, logical chains and essential insights. Step 4: Based on the 50 card prototypes generated by human-machine collaboration, further proofreading and modification will be carried out, and the human designers will design and beautify them in the style we selected, and finally form the "AI Picture Decoding 50 Keywords" research report.

It should be said that this is an unconventional exploration and an experiment of human-machine collaboration. The value lies in the fact that human researchers, with the assistance of AI, have realized the compression and extraction, trend judgment and visual expression of massive information in the AI ​​field, so that ordinary people without a foundation in AI technology can understand the general outline of the AI ​​field through these 50 cards. At the same time, we also need to point out that the rigor of this report, especially some of the visual illustrations, may not reach the level of a product written entirely by human researchers, and we also invite technical experts to criticize and correct it.

Standing at the starting point of 2025, we hope these 50 cards can provide you with useful reference for learning, research and decision-making. Tencent Research Institute will also continue to deepen its exploration in the field of AI&Society. We also sincerely invite friends from all walks of life to pay attention and participate together to move towards a future of intelligent symbiosis.

Image processing

Video generation

3D generation

Programming Assistant

Agent

Device-side intelligence

Embodied intelligence

Basic model