Alibaba reveals progress with large language model research as Chinese Big Tech firms continue to push for ChatGPT rival


By Ann Cao

A group of researchers from DAMO Academy have unveiled a new audiovisual language model called Video-LLaMA. The new DAMO Academy model is an enhancement from previous vision-LLMs as it can tackle two challenges in video understanding. — SCMP

Alibaba Group Holding’s in-house research unit is making progress with its own large language models (LLMs), as Chinese Big Tech companies continue to pile into the artificial intelligence (AI) space in an attempt to come up with a rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

A group of researchers from DAMO Academy unveiled a new audiovisual language model called Video-LLaMA, which helps the system to understand visual and auditory content in videos, in a research paper published last week on ArXiv, an online scientific paper repository.

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