Speech recognition company iFlytek announced today a remarkable new initiative: its iFlytek Starfire Lite API will be permanently free. This decision not only demonstrates iFlytek's firm determination to promote the popularization of AI technology, but also signifies the further democratization and popularization of AI services.

It is reported that the iFlytek Starfire Lite API supports online network search and is particularly suitable for customized scenarios such as low computing power inference and model fine-tuning. For developers and small businesses in need of AI assistance, this is undoubtedly a great boon. iFlytek hopes that through this initiative, the threshold for using AI technology can be lowered, allowing more people to enjoy the convenience brought by AI.

At the same time, iFlytek also announced the pricing strategy for the iFlytek Starfire Pro/Max API. The cost per 10,000 tokens is 0.21 yuan, and 1 token is approximately equivalent to 1.5 Chinese characters. This means that users only need to pay 0.21 yuan to generate content equivalent to Yu Hua's "To Live" using the "iFlytek Starfire 3.5 Max." This pricing strategy undoubtedly provides a high cost-performance ratio for AI content generation.

The iFlytek Starfire Large Model V3.5 was officially released in January this year, bringing seven major improvements. Among them, text generation improved by 7.3%, language understanding improved by 7.6%, knowledge question answering improved by 4.7%, logical reasoning improved by 9.5%, mathematical ability improved by 9.8%, code ability improved by 8.0%, and multimodal ability improved by 6.6%. These improvements make the iFlytek Starfire Large Model perform even better in handling long texts, cross-domain question answering, and knowledge question answering.

iFlytek officials stated that the iFlytek Starfire Large Model has powerful capabilities in handling long texts, quickly absorbing and understanding large amounts of text data from different sources. For questions and answers in various industries and professional fields, iFlytek Starfire can provide more accurate answers. In addition, the efficiency of iFlytek Starfire has also been significantly improved in terms of file uploading, knowledge question answering response speed, and text generation.

Industry experts believe that iFlytek's opening of the iFlytek Starfire Lite API and the announcement of the pricing strategy for the Pro/Max API will further promote the popularization and application of AI technology. With the continuous development of AI technology, more industries and companies will benefit from this technology in the future. As one of the leading companies in the AI field, iFlytek will continue to devote itself to the innovation and application of AI technology, making greater contributions to the development of human society.