As artificial intelligence technologies gain popularity, competition is increasing in proportion. Companies around the world are fiercely battling it out to develop the best AI model and outperform their competitors. Although, for now, OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, leads the race, the performance of its competitors is not too shabby either. In fact, some claim to be even better. One such claim comes from Chinese company iFlytek, which asserts that its latest large language model, Spark 3.0, surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in Chinese language tasks while demonstrating comparable performance in English contexts. Here are the details…
Chinese AI Firm iFlytek Develops Spark 3.0, a Large Language Model that Beats GPT-3.5 in Chinese
Following the success achieved by OpenAI with ChatGPT, the entire tech industry has turned its focus towards artificial intelligence. Many companies are actively working in this field, aiming to create their own success stories. One of these companies is iFlytek, a Chinese information technology company specializing in artificial intelligence. iFlytek is a global leader in AI-powered voice recognition and is involved in the development of various other AI products and services. Currently, they are in the process of developing a chatbot named Spark.
Now, iFlytek claims that Spark 3.0, surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in Chinese language tasks while demonstrating comparable performance in English contexts. The company said that Spark 3.0 has been trained on a dataset of 1.2 trillion words and code, and that it can perform a variety of tasks, including text generation, language understanding, knowledge answering, logical reasoning, mathematical computation, code generation, and multimodal interaction.
iFlytek also said that it plans to train Spark 4.0, a further enhanced AI foundation model that it aims to benchmark against GPT-4, on an arithmetic platform built with Huawei. The new iteration is expected to be launched in the first half of 2024. However, iFlytek’s stock price slumped nearly 10% during its annual AI event on Tuesday, a slide believed to be linked to reports that the firm’s teenager-focused educational tablet was allegedly found to have criticized Mao Zedong in an article.
Despite the stock price slump, iFlytek’s claim that Spark 3.0 is on par with GPT-3.5 is a significant achievement. If accurate, it would mean that the company has developed a competitive alternative to GPT-3.5, which could give it a significant advantage in the global AI market.
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