2023 is the year when the economy resumes development after three years of COVID-19 prevention and control. my country's economy is picking up and high-quality development is solidly advancing.
With the in-depth adjustment of the global economy, China's economy in 2024 stands at a new historical starting point. The Central Economic Work Conference set the tone of "seeking progress while maintaining stability, promoting stability through advancement, establishing first and then breaking", and pointed out that to further promote economic recovery, some difficulties and challenges need to be overcome.
With the deployment of a series of tasks such as the Central Economic Work Conference, can economic expectations rise? How can China's macroeconomic policies be made more powerful and effective? Can China achieve sustainable growth next year and beyond? How confident are entrepreneurs?
On the occasion of the transition between the old and the new, Shell Finance launches the annual special report "Looking at 2024", joining hands with well-known Chinese economists, scholars and entrepreneurs to advise on the Chinese economy and help China's economic recovery and prosperity.
Shell Finance interviewed Tang Yi, chairman and CEO of Evernote.
Tang Yi, Chairman and CEO of Evernote. Photo provided by interviewee
Shell Finance : The 2023 Central Economic Work Conference emphasized the importance of technological innovation in promoting high-quality development. How has Evernote used technological innovation to promote corporate development in the past year? What plans or strategies do you have for technological innovation in 2024?
Tang Yi : As a leading technology company, Evernote pays great attention to the development and innovative applications of new technologies around the world. 2023 coincides with the year of the explosion of large AI models. Evernote, as a technology manufacturer serving hundreds of millions of users and many enterprises, has released a self-developed proprietary large language model - Elephant GPT based on years of continuous accumulation, and based on this technology The "Impression AI" product service was launched on the Internet, becoming the first AI product to be implemented in the industry. "Impression AI" fully empowers its software products - Evernote, verse, etc., collaboration tools that help teams and enterprise knowledge management - Impression Teams, and smart hardware products - smart headphones everbuds, AI light office notebook everpaper, etc., covering Intelligent knowledge management full-scenario services such as information collection, content creation, summary, document analysis, and time management.
2024 will not only be the year of further development of large models, but also the year of AI-driven super applications. Evernote will make full use of the six elements of users, scenarios, interactions, carriers, data, and models, evolving from a reliable information storage space for users to an exclusive AI partner that understands users' personalized needs and proactively completes tasks for users, realizing the goal of helping users Users enhance their memory to upgrade to help users enhance their lives. Evernote’s “AI Assistant” function will be launched in January 2024, allowing users to partially experience Evernote’s more personalized AI services.
Shell Finance : The 2023 Central Economic Work Conference mentioned the need to deepen supply-side structural reforms and expand effective demand to promote the economy to achieve effective qualitative improvements and reasonable quantitative growth. What specific plans and strategies does Evernote have in this regard? What are your expectations for 2024?
Tang Yi: As a specialized and special new enterprise in Beijing and a unicorn enterprise that is focused on cultivating, Evernote will continue to enhance its technological innovation, market competitiveness and industry influence, and continue to increase its technological innovation and product iterations. , user experience upgrade and other aspects, further improve the cultivation and construction of high-level talent teams, comprehensively improve the quality of products and services, drive more upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain to collaborate, and jointly promote the high-quality development of the knowledge management industry ecosystem. Use technological advantages to inject vitality into industrial digital upgrading.
Looking forward to 2024, Evernote will adhere to its original intention of building a "second brain" for humans. With its deep accumulation in the field of artificial intelligence and rich experience in vertical scenarios, it will continue to explore the best practices of generative artificial intelligence in application scenarios, and fully Give full play to its comprehensive advantages in brand, market, operation, etc., effectively stimulate consumers' enthusiasm for digital consumption, enhance users' sense of gain from consumption, promote the comprehensive improvement of digital literacy among the people, play an active role in cultivating and strengthening emerging consumption, and then realize the economic A good harvest of both economic and social benefits.
Shell Finance : The 2023 Central Economic Work Conference emphasized the importance of deepening reforms in key areas and expanding high-level opening up to the outside world. What plans and strategies does Evernote have in these two areas? How do you expect these plans and strategies to drive business development in 2024?
Tang Yi : As the most successful case of foreign enterprise restructuring 3.0 and foreign enterprises completing comprehensive MBO in China, Evernote has benefited from my country's continued high-level opening-up policy. Evernote uses Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technologies and products to deeply serve the Chinese market, connect global users, and empower knowledge workers and knowledge-based enterprises. It fully confirms the fully open and cooperative pattern of the Chinese market and demonstrates China's "willingness to share digital data with countries around the world." Economic Development Opportunities”. By boldly exploring new technologies, new structures, and new models, Evernote has created a unique Chinese model for cross-border cooperation with foreign-funded enterprises, and contributed Chinese-style solutions for win-win cooperation to global enterprises and entrepreneurs.
In 2024, Evernote will further go global. By actively expanding the global market, participating in international organizations, and world conferences, it will serve as a demonstration case for my country's expansion of high-level opening up to the outside world, introduce its innovative practices and experiences to global technology companies, and let global users Experience excellent Chinese technology products, become a bridge connecting China and the world, promote global knowledge sharing and technological cooperation, and jointly promote the development of the digital economy.
Beijing News Shell Finance Reporter Luo Yidan
Editor Xu Chao
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