Alibaba is doubling down on LLMs, with work app DingTalk now incorporating its AI model Tongyi Qianwen

DingTalk app enables enterprise customers to use Tongyi Qianwen, the ChatGPT-like service launched in April by Alibaba Cloud. DingTalk’s president said all products within the app will be ‘re-made with AI’ in the future, and that AI will underpin research and development. — SCMP

Alibaba Group Holding has been utilising self-developed large language models (LLM) to help Chinese enterprises improve efficiency via its workplace collaboration app DingTalk, as the ecommerce giant pushes ahead with its investment into this hot artificial intelligence (AI) space.

The DingTalk app enables enterprise customers to use Tongyi Qianwen, the ChatGPT-like service launched in April by Alibaba Cloud, said Ye Jun, president of DingTalk, at the annual digital economy conference hosted on Tuesday by Luohan Academy, the open-research platform initiated by Alibaba in 2018.