Alibaba Plans An Artificial Intelligence Rival To ChatGPT

Chinese technology giant Alibaba, sometimes known as China’s Amazon, has recently announced plans to roll out its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) ChatGPT-style product called Tongyi Qianwen, which translates to “seeking truth by asking a thousand questions.”

It has been said that their chatbot can switch between Mandarin and English. Its cloud computing unit says it will integrate the chatbot across Alibaba's businesses in the "near future" but has not given details on timing.

Recently technology companies around the world have announced their own so-called generative AI chatbots and earlier this year, Alibaba revealed that it was working on a rival to ChatGPT called Tongyi Qianwen which roughly translates as "seeking an answer by asking a thousand questions", although Alibaba has not given an English version of the name. "We are at a technological watershed moment driven by generative AI and cloud computing," Alibaba's Chairman and chief executive Daniel Zhang said in as Tongyi Qianwen was launched.

The company said Tongyi Qianwen will initially be added to DingTalk, Alibaba's workplace messaging app.  It will be able to perform a number of tasks including turning conversations in meetings into written notes, writing emails and drafting business proposals, the company said.

Alibaba said it will also be integrated into Tmall Genie, which is similar to Amazon's Alexa voice assistant smart speaker.

Interest in generative AI has surged since the release of ChatGPT by Microsoft-backed OpenAI last year. Generative AI is capable of learning from past data to create content indistinguishable from human work and ChatGPT can answer questions using natural, human-like language and it can also mimic other writing styles, using the internet as it was in 2021 as its database.

  • Microsoft has spent billions of dollars on the technology, which was added to its search engine Bing in February. The US software giant also said it will embed a version of ChatGPT in its Office apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
  • Alphabet's Google and Chinese technology group Baidu have also announced their own AI models and released similar chatbots.

On Tuesday, China's cyberspace regulator unveiled draft measures for managing generative AI. Under the proposed rules, companies would be responsible for the legitimacy of data used to train the technology, the Cyberspace Administration of China said. The public has until 10 May to give feedback on the proposals.

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