Recently Alibaba the Chinese technology conglomerate launched its much-awaited ChatGPT rival ‘Tongyi Qianwen’ for enterprise testing. And on Tuesday, during Alibaba Group Holding’s Annual Cloud Summit in Beijing Chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang Yong announced plans to incorporate their ChatGPT-like service, ‘Tongyi Qianwen’, into the company’s products and services.
The tech giant announced that Tongyi Qianwen will possess the ability to support both Chinese and English languages and will be integrated into current products like DingTalk, Alibaba’s enterprise communication and collaboration platform, and the smart home device Tmall Genie. However, no timeline was disclosed for the actual launch and integration.
In his keynote speech, CEO Zhang announced that all products of Alibaba will be incorporated into their extensive language model and will undergo a thorough improvement. He further added that this move was planned to elevate the intelligence of all Alibaba services and bring forth possibilities that were previously inconceivable.
CEO Zhang further said that businesses in all industries have begun to adopt intelligent transformation in order to maintain a competitive edge, and the world is at a pivotal moment of technological advancement fueled by generative AI and cloud computing.
Following the announcement by CEO Zhang, the Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba recorded a 3.12% rise in trading. Conversely, the shares of Baidu dropped by over 4%, due to the company’s recent setbacks in the artificial intelligence market.
Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen is a highly advanced AI model designed to understand and respond to human commands. It serves as an efficient assistant and can even generate ideas. It is being developed by Alibaba’s advanced research institute, the DAMO Academy.
Baidu, Tencent, and JD.com are among several other Chinese tech companies that have introduced or declared their intentions to introduce their own chatbots utilizing AI technology which is similar to Open AI’s ChatGPT.
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