May 8 (Reuters) – The global buzz around Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT has spread to China, pushing up the stock prices of artificial intelligence (AI) companies, prompting domestic companies to announce rival projects one after another. became.
Below is a list of Chinese tech companies that have recently announced their AI technology.
Ifly Tech
Chinese AI company iFlytek unveiled a large-scale language model called “SparkDesk” on May 6, demonstrating text generation, math problem solving and handwritten essay critique.
The company also said it hopes to carry out a series of updates to the model this year, allowing it to surpass ChatGPT in understanding Chinese and reach the level of OpenAI chatbots in English.
Alibaba
On April 11, e-commerce giant Alibaba Group showed off a large-scale language model for AI called Tongyi Qianwen, saying it would be integrated into all apps in the near future.
Tongyi Qianwen will first be integrated into workplace messaging app DingTalk and voice assistant Tmall Genie.
Registration of Tongyi Qianwen opened on April 7th.
sense time
Chinese AI company SenseTime unveiled a number of new AI-powered products on April 10, including a chatbot and image generator based on its AI model SenseNova. The company has not disclosed detailed plans for product rollout.
Huawei Technologies
Telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies has the Pangu series of AI models that are used in a wide range of applications, from drug development to computer vision.
Baidu
On March 16th, Baidu Inc announced the long-awaited AI-powered chatbot Ernie Bot. It is now available only to those who have applied for an access code.
Reuters tests show that chatbots are fluent in Chinese, but may not answer political questions.
Baidu plans to use Ernie Bot to revolutionize China’s overwhelmingly dominant search engine and boost efficiency in its cloud, smart car and home appliance businesses.
Tencent
Tencent Holdings has set up a team to develop ChatGPT-like chatbots called “HunyuanAide,” two people familiar with the matter told Reuters in February. When asked for comment, he repeated a statement on Feb. 9 that Tencent was conducting research on the ChatGPT tool technology.
Fudan University team
A team from Fudan University in China launched a ChatGPT-like chatbot called MOSS on February 20. How to go before reaching the level of ChatGPT.
JD.COM
E-commerce company JD.Com said on February 10 that it plans to launch ChatJD, a product similar to ChatGPT, to serve other businesses.
china telecom
China Telecom Corp is developing an industrial version of ChatGPT for telecoms that uses AI in some customer service functions, local media reported on February 18.
Netease
Game company NetEase plans to deploy large-scale language modeling technology to help its education business, a source familiar with the company told Reuters on February 8.
360 Security Technology Co., Ltd.
360 Security Technology Inc said on Feb. 8 that it owns the language modeling technology, but could not give clear direction on when it would launch a related product.
Kuaishou Technology
Kuaishou Technology, a short-video app, is conducting large-scale language model research with the aim of improving its AI customer service and other products, the government-backed newspaper reported on Feb. 9.
Inspa electronic information industry
Inspur Electronic Information Industry has long invested in AI-generated content technology, according to its investor website. (Reporting by Albee Zhang and Brenda Goh; additional reporting by David Kirton, Laura Lin, Josh Ye, Shanghai Newsroom; editing by Edwina Gibbs, Clarence Fernandez, Jamie Freed)
