Chinese internet company Alibaba will make its Tongyi Qianwen artificial intelligence (AI) model available to the public. This was reported by the Reuters agency today, according to which this means that the company has received approval from Chinese regulatory authorities for its mass launch. Chinese authorities have recently increased support for companies developing AI as the technology takes center stage in competition with the United States.
Training language mutations
Cooperation agreements on training their own large language models (LLM) or developing applications of language models based on Tongyi Qianwen have been signed by OPPO, Taobao, DingTalk and Zhejiang University, among others, the Alibaba Cloud Intelligence division wrote on the WeChat social network. The post also states that in the near future, it will make the source code of the large language model available to the public for free commercial use.
Earlier this week, the head of Alibaba’s cloud division, former group CEO Daniel Zhang, resigned. He was replaced by newly installed CEO Eddie Wu. He said in an internal letter to employees on Tuesday that AI will be at the center of the company’s future strategy. “Artificial intelligence will be the most significant change agent in all industries in the next decade,” he wrote in the letter.
What does the name mean?
Alibaba first introduced its artificial intelligence model Tongyi Qianwen in April. The name of the model can be translated as “seeking the truth by asking a thousand questions”. The Chinese company intends to integrate the technology into all its business applications.
source: čtk
