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Spark Lite, best known for its voice recognition technology, said it will be free to the public.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence (AI) company iFlytek on Wednesday made some versions of its Spark large language model (LLM) free or five times cheaper, making it one of the lowest prices among China's biggest tech companies. We entered the war. Similar products from competitors.
The move comes a day after Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu lowered the price of LLM used to power their generative AI products, and a week after ByteDance made a similar move.
iFlytek announced Spark, a ChatGPT-like product, in September last year, and the following month it outperformed ChatGPT 3.5 on Chinese tasks, and the company claimed it had comparable performance in English.
Hefei-based iFlytek, best known for its voice recognition technology, says Spark Lite is free for the general public to use, while Spark Pro/Max costs 10,000 tokens, or just 0.21 yuan per unit of data processing, or 3. Said to be less than cents. By LLM.
This new pricing is five times cheaper than the 1.2 yuan per 10,000 tokens charged by Baidu's Ernie 4.0 and Alibaba's Tongyi Qwen-Max.
According to a statement posted on iFlytek's official WeChat, 1 token is equivalent to 1.5 Chinese characters in Spark, which means that 10 tokens at a price of 2.1 yuan ($0.29) will allow Spark Max to be used in Yu Hua's popular novel “To Live”. '' was enough to generate all of them. account.
China Mobile, a state-owned company, is iFlytek's largest shareholder with a 10% stake.
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