Alibaba Cloud unveiled the service called Tongyi Qianwen on Friday via its official WeChat account and is now opening the chatbot for testing, temporarily only for enterprise customers.
Alibaba's ChatGPT alternative is called Tongyi Qianwen. Photo: Shutterstock
Information on Tongyi Qianwen's website is very limited and there are no details about the functions of the service, which is described as a “productivity assistant and idea generator” “dedicated to responding to human commands” through the use of large language models (LLM).
The Hangzhou-based e-commerce giant confirmed in February that its research institute was working on an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Damo Academy (a division of Alibaba) first introduced the LLM, called AliceMind, in September last year when deputy director Zhou Jingren announced it at the World AI Conference. He described it as a multimodal pretrained language model that can handle different types of input including text, images, audio, and video.
An introduction to AliceMind suggests that the language model could be used in a wide range of areas including e-commerce, smart cities, healthcare, agriculture, smartphone photography, autonomous driving, and the internet of things. Damo Academy has previously said that its LLM has been used by customers and in hundreds of internal application scenarios, including integration into Taobao.
Tongyi Qianwen was revealed just days before Alibaba's annual cloud technology summit, which kicks off in Beijing next Tuesday.
Mai Anh (according to SCMP)
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