Alibaba will launch its rival to ChatGPT across all its products
- Chinese tech giant Alibaba revealed the ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen at a Tuesday summit.
- Tongyi Qianwen will have Chinese and English skills, the tech giant said at the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit.
- “We are at a technological watershed driven by generative AI and cloud computing, and businesses across all sectors have begun to embrace intelligence transformation to stay ahead of the game,” said Daniel Zhang, Alibaba Group Chairman and CEO and CEO in Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba, unveiled its ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen at the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit on Tuesday morning.
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Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, announced on Tuesday that it will roll out its own ChatGPT product Tongyi Qianwen.
Tongyi Qianwen, who has Chinese and English language skills, will initially be deployed on DingTalk, Alibaba’s workplace communication software, and Tmall Genie, a provider of smart home appliances, the company said in a release.
Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba rose further after the announcement, trading 3.12% higher. Shares of rival Baidu fell more than 4%.
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Alibaba will release its rival to ChatGPT
At the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit, the company said it will roll out the AI-powered chatbot to all Alibaba products from business communications to e-commerce in the “near future.” It revealed no timeline.
“We are at a technological watershed driven by generative AI and cloud computing, and businesses across all sectors have begun to embrace intelligence transformation to stay ahead of the game,” said Daniel Zhang, Alibaba Group Chairman and CEO and CEO in Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, in a statement.
Alibaba first told CNBC it was working on a ChatGPT rival in February.
“The new AI model will be integrated across Alibaba’s various businesses to improve the user experience in the near future. The company’s customers and developers will have access to the model to create custom AI functions in a cost-effective manner,” the company said.
Alibaba Cloud will offer its customers access to Tongyi Qianwen on the cloud and help them build customized large language models.
Alibaba is the latest Chinese player after Baidu to unveil ChatGPT alternatives. Baidu revealed its own ChatGPT version, Ernie Bot, in March.
Chinese tech giants from Alibaba to Baidu to NetEase have announced their intentions to launch ChatGPT-style products.
Alibaba has maintained its position as the third leading provider of public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) globally since 2018, according to International Data Corporation.
The technology company also holds the positions 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.
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