Tech heavyweight Alibaba jumps on AI chatbot bandwagon

Al-large models will be applied in a wide range of sectors, giving a big boost to productivity and profoundly changing people’s lifestyles, said Alibaba Group CEO Zhang. — Bloomberg

SHANGHAI: Chinese tech heavyweight Alibaba Group Holding Ltd unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered large language model – Tongyi Qianwen – which it plans to integrate into all of its applicable businesses, joining the chatbot race to offer a potential rival to ChatGPT.

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of Alibaba, will offer more enterprises access to Tongyi Qianwen so they can build their own customised large language models.