The two largest economies in the world have been competing to demonstrate their generative AI skills over the past few months. Tens of millions of users all across the world are intrigued by services like ChatGPT, Midjourney, the new Bing, and others. Chinese businesspeople are trying to catch up to their American counterparts. An alternative to ChatGPT was just released by Baidu.
Today, Alibaba, a different Chinese tech behemoth, presented its most recent foray into generative AI, which in some ways resembles Microsoft’s Copilot and uses AI to make using the behemoth’s family of apps easier by allowing users use natural language to explain what they want to produce.
Alibaba revealed on Tuesday that Tongyi Qianwen, a large language model, will be included into all of the company’s companies to enhance customer experience. Additionally, by utilizing the model, its users and developers can produce unique artificial intelligence (AI) features.
The Chinese giant in e-commerce and cloud computing operates a wide range of business segments, including food delivery, streaming video, e-commerce, business communication, and flight booking. Based on Alibaba’s disclosure, it appears that all of these services are prepared for some AI disruption.
Two apps from the firm already employ natural language. In a pre-recorded demonstration, Alibaba demonstrated how its Slack-like office messaging software DingTalk leverages Tongyi Qianwen to compose meeting minutes, summarize discussion history, and turn written charts into tiny apps. According to the news, Tmall Genie, Alibaba’s premier online retailer, will also include the LLM.
According to Daniel Zhang, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, we are at a technological turning point driven by generative AI and cloud computing, and businesses across all sectors are beginning to embrace the artificial intelligence growth to stay ahead of the game.
As a top global cloud computing service provider, Alibaba Cloud is dedicated to democratizing access to computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services for businesses and developers, empowering them to gain new insights, investigate innovative growth strategies, and produce cutting-edge goods and services for society.
It’s still way too early to say how reliable these improved services are because users haven’t had a chance to view or use the full range of Alibaba’s AI-powered products. However, the application of AI in internet services is already constrained in several ways.
Alibaba launched its ambitious AI initiatives the same day that China’s top internet watchdog published drafted regulations for how tech companies should provide consumers with generative AI models. The new regulations did not come as a surprise because they generally followed earlier guidelines that had been put in place to control other parts of AI. The new draught regulations, for example, mandate that AI service providers authenticate customers’ identities, register their algorithms with the internet authorities, and maintain records of the data they input, such as AI prompts.
