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Shanghai: Alibaba.com said on Wednesday it would open its Tongyi Qianwen artificial intelligence model to the public, in a sign that it has received Chinese regulatory approval to bring the model to market on a large scale.
Authorities in China have recently stepped up efforts to support companies developing AI as the technology increasingly becomes the focus of competition with the United States.
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Division said organizations including OPPO, Taobao, DingTalk and Zhejiang University have reached cooperation agreements to train their own large language models or develop language model applications based on Tongyi Qianwen, according to a message published on its WeChat account.
The post also said that an open source version of the grand language model would become available for free commercial use “throughout society” in the near future.
Earlier this week, Alibaba’s cloud division chief, former group CEO Daniel Zhang, resigned from his position. It was replaced by a newly installed one Alibaba Group CEO, Eddie Wu.
In an internal letter to Alibaba staff on Tuesday, Wu said AI would be central to Alibaba Group’s future strategy.
“Over the next decade, the key drivers of change will be the disruptions AI causes across industries,” Wu said in the letter.
“If we don’t keep up with the changes of the AI era, we will become displaced.”
Alibaba first unveiled Tongyi Qianwen in April and said at the time that the AI major language model, similar to ChatGPT, would be integrated into all enterprise applications.
Authorities in China have recently stepped up efforts to support companies developing AI as the technology increasingly becomes the focus of competition with the United States.
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Division said organizations including OPPO, Taobao, DingTalk and Zhejiang University have reached cooperation agreements to train their own large language models or develop language model applications based on Tongyi Qianwen, according to a message published on its WeChat account.
The post also said that an open source version of the grand language model would become available for free commercial use “throughout society” in the near future.
Earlier this week, Alibaba’s cloud division chief, former group CEO Daniel Zhang, resigned from his position. It was replaced by a newly installed one Alibaba Group CEO, Eddie Wu.
In an internal letter to Alibaba staff on Tuesday, Wu said AI would be central to Alibaba Group’s future strategy.
“Over the next decade, the key drivers of change will be the disruptions AI causes across industries,” Wu said in the letter.
“If we don’t keep up with the changes of the AI era, we will become displaced.”
Alibaba first unveiled Tongyi Qianwen in April and said at the time that the AI major language model, similar to ChatGPT, would be integrated into all enterprise applications.
