ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and its Chinese sibling Douyin, is furthering plans to boost its research capabilities in large language models (LLMs), the technology used to develop generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, as the firm’s recent efforts begin to bear fruit. The company has added at least two prominent AI experts to … Read more
Alibaba Group Holding is giving developer access on DingTalk to six Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-ups to expand generative AI features on the workplace messaging platform, in its latest bid to gain an edge in the increasingly competitive market. The Hangzhou-based e-commerce and cloud computing giant, which has built its own AI model Tongyi Qianwen, … Read more
Three of the four top 10-ranked Chinese LLMs were from the Tongyi Qianwen series, also known as Qwen, developed by e-commerce and cloud computing giant Alibaba, according to AI and machine-learning developer platform Hugging Face, which released its updated leaderboard with new metrics on Wednesday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s Qwen-72B-Instruct … Read more
A total of 14 LLMs and enterprise applications were recently given the green light by authorities for commercial use, according to local media reports and company announcements including those from smartphone giant Xiaomi, AI specialist Beijing Fourth Paradigm Technology Co and Beijing-based tech unicorn 01.AI, founded by venture capitalist Lee Kai-fu. This new batch includes … Read more
