Chinese tech giant Alibaba pledged to introduce artificial intelligence across all its business lines as it launched its ChatGPT-like generative artificial intelligence model in Beijing on Tuesday, with the country’s tech groups racing to catch up with US efforts in the field.
Chief executive Daniel Zhang said on Tuesday that Tongyi Qianwen, which roughly translates to “truth from a thousand questions”, would be incorporated in workplace collaboration tool DingTalk and the company’s Tmall Genie smart speakers before appearing in all its products at some point in the future.
“We are at a technological watershed moment driven by generative AI and cloud computing,” he said, as Alibaba became the latest Chinese company to declare it would try to emulate US start-up and ChatGPT creator OpenAI.