Tongyi Qianwen, an alternative to ChatGPT made by Alibaba, was launched by the company's cloud unit, but the language model it uses was made by the company's Damo Academy research division.
Tongyi Qianwen, an alternative to ChatGPT made by Alibaba, was launched by the company's cloud unit, but the language model it uses was made by the company's Damo Academy research division.
Alibaba Group Holding is the latest Chinese Big Tech company to show off its expected answer to ChatGPT. The race to make a homegrown chatbot that can compete with the popular one from OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, continues to draw a lot of resources and attention.
The service, which is called Tongyi Qianwen, was announced by Alibaba Cloud on Friday through its official WeChat account. The chatbot is now available for corporate clients who have been invited to beta test it.
Tongyi Qianwen's website has a sparse landing page that doesn't say much about how the service works. The service is described as a "productivity assistant and idea generator" that uses a large language model to "respond to human commands" (LLM).
The terms of service for the chatbot say that it was made by Alibaba's Damo Academy, which is a scientific research group. In February, the research centre of the Hangzhou-based e-commerce giant confirmed that it was making an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.
On Friday, Alibaba Cloud and its parent company, Alibaba, which owns the Post, did not respond right away to requests for comment.
The AliceMind LLM was first shown off by Damo Academy's deputy head Zhou Jingren at the World AI Conference in September of last year. He said that it was a multimodal, pre-trained language model that could take in text, images, audio, and video, among other things.
A deck about AliceMind said that the language model could be used in many different areas, such as e-commerce, smart cities, healthcare, agriculture, smartphone photography, autonomous driving, and the Internet of Things.
Damo has said in the past that its LLM has already been used by clients and in hundreds of internal applications, including integration with Taobao.
Few people on social media have been able to test Tongyi Qianwen yet, but some have already posted their comparisons to Baidu's Ernie Bot and OpenAI's ChatGPT. On Friday, a person with a self-media account named Zhiwei tried out the service and said that all three are mostly the same, with only small differences. The person wrote that ChatGPT has more trouble with hard Chinese, while Ernie Bot's answers to "common sense" questions are more confusing, but it did better at creative writing tasks.
Just a few weeks before Alibaba released its ChatGPT-like service, Baidu released its Ernie Bot. The Internet search giant's launch event in mid-March didn't have a live preview, so the beta product got off to a rough start. However, early users eventually gave it more positive feedback.
Also, Tongyi Qianwen is being shown off just a few days before Alibaba's annual cloud summit, which starts on Tuesday in Beijing.
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