Hey Everyone,
As I cover LLMs and breaking news in A.I, Chinaās own experiments in Generative A.I. bears some watching. While Baidu has announced Ernie, in April itās the turn of Alibaba.
Alibaba has an ingenious way to gain back market cap across itās sprawling BigTech and highly diversified business model. It recently announced it will split its company into six business groups, each with the ability to raise outside funding and go public. I actually think Western monopolies should be forced to do the same, with each segment being held accountable.
Alibaba said in a statement that the move is ādesigned to unlock shareholder value and foster market competitiveness.ā Over night, Chinese regulators have released draft rules designed to manage how companies develop so-called generative artificial intelligence products like ChatGPT. This allows Chinaās versions of these Chatbots to flourish on their own terms.
Tongyi Qianwen is Alibabaās answer to ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Ernie and all the rest, it will possess Chinese and English language capabilities, the tech giant said at the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit.
China is not exactly a newcomer to Generative A.I., they have a lot of R&D in the area as well. In some sense they are a bit late as compared with OpenAI however, As Alibaba is mostly known as an e-commerce giant and they launched their chatbotĀ a few weeks after Baiduās received mixed reception, as China races to advance in generative AI, although with their own censorship apparatus slowing things down somewhat.
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