Alibaba launches its ChatGPT-like AI model for public use amid loosening restrictions in China

Alibaba introduced that its proprietary giant language mannequin, a man-made intelligence system referred to as Tongyi Qianwen, shall be accessible for public and enterprise entry all through China beginning Sept. 13. 

Tongyi Qianwen is a ChatGPT-like giant language mannequin skilled on a corpus of English and Chinese language textual content. Whereas its actual specs aren’t identified — early rumors indicated it might be skilled with as many as 10 trillion parameters, 10 occasions as many as OpenAI’s GPT4, however these stay unsubstantiated — Alibaba beforehand launched two 7 billion-parameter open-source fashions based mostly on the Tongyi Qianwen structure.

Alibaba Cloud launched two open-source giant imaginative and prescient language fashions, Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, that may comprehend pictures, texts, and bounding packing containers in prompts and facilitate multi-round query answering in each English and Chinese language.

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Beforehand, Tongyi Qianwen had solely been accessible to a restricted group of customers throughout its beta take a look at part. The general public rollout coincides with a latest loosening of restrictions associated to the usage of synthetic intelligence (AI) applied sciences within the Folks’s Republic of China.

A set of pointers printed by the Chinese language authorities in June dictated that, going ahead, all AI applied sciences launched to the general public would require a particular vetting and certification course of.

The foundations went into impact on Aug. 15. As Cointelegraph reported, numerous Chinese language corporations got approval to launch fashions, together with Baidu, Tencent, TikTok and ByteDance.

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Among the many provisions included within the up to date restrictions are guidelines barring the technology of pictures within the likeness of China’s president, Xi Jinping, and mandates indicating organizations will tackle objectionable content material inside a three-month interval. Earlier variations of the laws referred to as for financial fines, however as Cointelegraph reported, these plans had been axed.

As China explores a loosening of its laws, the USA has taken solely preliminary steps to manage AI applied sciences. Most lately, on Sept. 13, Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer hosted a litany of prime U.S. tech CEOs and founders within the first of 9 scheduled boards to debate potential coverage concepts.