An Alibaba Group signal is seen on the World Synthetic Intelligence Convention in Shanghai, July 6, 2023.
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Alibaba on Tuesday launched the most recent model of its synthetic intelligence mannequin, because the Chinese language expertise large seems to compete with U.S. tech rivals equivalent to Amazon and Microsoft.
China’s largest cloud computing and e-commerce participant introduced Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, its newest massive language mannequin (LLM). A LLM is skilled on huge quantities of information and varieties the idea for generative AI purposes equivalent to ChatGPT, which is developed by U.S. agency OpenAI.
Alibaba referred to as Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 a “substantial improve from its predecessor,” which was launched in April.
Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 “demonstrates outstanding capabilities in understanding complicated directions, copywriting, reasoning, memorizing, and stopping hallucinations,” Alibaba stated in a press launch. Hallucinations check with AI that presents incorrect info.
Alibaba additionally launched AI fashions designed for purposes in particular industries and makes use of — equivalent to authorized counselling and finance — because it angles in on companies.
The Hangzhou-headquartered firm additionally introduced the GenAI Service Platform, which lets firms construct their very own generative AI purposes, utilizing their very own knowledge. One of many fears that companies have about public generative AI merchandise like ChatGPT is that knowledge may very well be accessed by third events.
Alibaba and different main cloud gamers are providing instruments for firms to construct their very own generative AI merchandise utilizing their very own knowledge, which might protected by these suppliers as a part of the service bundle.
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Studio and Amazon Net Service’s Bedrock are two rival providers.
Whereas Alibaba is the largest cloud participant by market share in China, the corporate is attempting to meet up with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft abroad.
