Alibaba Soups Up Its AI to Stick It To Microsoft and Amazon

As American - found tech giant like Microsoft andAmazon start to chase the on the face of it unstoppable tidal wave of generative AI , Chinese company Alibaba wants in on the natural action too . The vitamin E - commerce heavyweight is reportedly readying to release its own heavy oral communication model that will compete with Microsoft and Amazon .

Alibaba released a soup - up reading of its large language theoretical account ( LLM ) today call Tongyi Qianwen , which is now aptly call Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 , according to a story fromReutersMonday . The manakin also reportedly has eight diligence - specific versions that can be used in the entertainment , finance , legal , and healthcare sectors . Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 comes six months after the first version was free inAprilon the caller ’s smart speakers — think Amazon Alexa withChatGPT — and a month after it was open - sourced to the public inSeptember .

Alibaba called Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 a “ solid upgrade from its predecessor ” which “ demonstrates remarkable capability in understanding complex teaching , copywriting , reasoning , memorizing , and prevent hallucinations ” in apress releaseTuesday . CNBCreportsthat the tech is Alibaba ’s bidding to contend with Microsoft and Amazon .

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While OpenAI is the companionship behind the wildly pop ChatGPT LLM chatbot , Microsoft has funnel million of dollars into an investment in the venture . That family relationship has been off to a bumpy startandmay not actually be that moneymaking for Microsoft , but it is betoken to the industriousness that this whole AI thing might be worth investing in . Amazon , meanwhile , has been invest in AI too but is insteadthrowing money at an OpenAI challenger address Anthropic . Anthropic ’s AI key Claude is similar to ChatGPT in that it is a school text - based help , and Amazon ’s investment is propose Anthropic some serial of cloud computer science world power through Amazon Web Services .

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