Following the relaxation of restrictions in China, tech giant Alibaba has made its new artificial intelligence model available to the general public. Observers have noted similarities between Alibaba's new AI and ChatGPT.
Alibaba has unveiled its AI system named "Tongyi Qianwen". The new artificial intelligence system will be accessible for public and corporate use throughout China. The launch comes on the heels of Chinese authorities greenlighting applications for AI systems.
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Alibaba introduced its AI system called "Tongyi Qianwen". The announcement of this system being made available for public and institutional access across China came after the country's officials started accepting applications for AI systems.
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Tongyi Qianwen is described as a language model similar to ChatGPT, trained on English and Chinese texts. It's claimed that Alibaba's AI model has been trained with ten times the parameters of ChatGPT4. Previously, Alibaba had released two open-source models based on the Tongyi Qianwen architecture, each with 7 billion parameters. Tongyi Qianwen was initially available to a limited user group during its beta testing phase.
In June, the Chinese government announced that all publicly disclosed artificial intelligence technologies must undergo scrutiny. The government's AI-related regulations came into effect on August 15th. Approval was granted to leading Chinese firms including Baidu, Tencent, TikTok, and ByteDance.
