Alibaba Unveils ChatGPT Rival and Hundreds of AI Models to Compete in China's Tech Race
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Alibaba has developed its own ChatGPT rival called Tongyi Qianwen and launched it across various products like smart speakers and workplace apps.
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It created an image generation model, Tongyi Wanxiang, using diffusion technology similar to Stable Diffusion.
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Alibaba launched Modelscope, a platform providing access to hundreds of pre-trained generative models through its cloud platform.
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The company open-sourced its main language model Tongyi Qianwen to comply with China's AI regulations and enable improvements by developers.
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Alibaba aims to become more customer-centric and AI-driven, competing in what's been called a "War of a Hundred Models" among Chinese tech giants.
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