Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, announced Tuesday that it will launch its own ChatGPT-style product, Tongyi Qianwen.
Tongyi Qianwen, which has Chinese and English language capabilities, will initially be deployed on Alibaba’s workplace communication software DingTalk and smart home appliances provider Tmall Genie, the company said in a release.
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Alibaba is ready to release its rival to ChatGPT
At the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit, the company said it would roll out artificial intelligence-powered chatbots across all Alibaba products, from enterprise communications to e-commerce, in the “near future”. It did not reveal a timeline.
Daniel Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group and CEO of Alibaba Cloud, said, “We are in a state of technological transformation, driven by generative AI and cloud computing, and businesses across sectors have embraced the intelligence transformation to stay ahead of the game. started adopting.” Intelligence, in a statement.
Alibaba first told CNBC that it was working on a ChatGPT rival in February.
“In the near future, the new AI model will be integrated into Alibaba’s various businesses to improve the user experience,” the company said. The company’s customers and developers will have access to the model to create customized AI features in a cost-effective manner. “
Alibaba Cloud will provide its customers with access to Tongyi Qianwen on the cloud and help them build customized large language models.
The chatbots will be ‘fine-tuned’ with proprietary information and data from customers, thereby reducing resources and costs for these companies. Alibaba Cloud’s enterprise customers in China will be able to access Tongyi Qianwen for beta testing.
“We expect to help businesses across all industries transform their intelligence and ultimately boost their business productivity, expand their expertise and capabilities,” Jingren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said in the release. ” ,
The company said that developers in China can also apply to beta test Tongyi Qianwen to scale their AI applications.
Users can expect “more compelling” AI features such as image understanding and text-to-image to be added to the Tongyi Qianwen model soon.
Alibaba is the latest Chinese player after Baidu to reveal ChatGPT alternatives. Baidu revealed its own version of ChatGPT, Ernie Bot, in March.
Chinese tech giants from Alibaba to Baidu to NetEase have announced their intention to launch ChatGPT-style products.
According to International Data Corporation, Alibaba has maintained its position as the third leading public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider globally since 2018.
The tech company holds the position of the world’s third-leading and Asia Pacific’s leading IaaS provider by revenue in US dollars since 2018, according to technology research firm Gartner.
