Tag: Baidu

Alibaba incorporates its LLM Tongyi Qianwen into Tingwu to enhance AI accuracy. The public beta testing automates audio and video summarization.

Alibaba's AI chatbot challenges OpenAI's ChatGPT, offering file analysis and text summaries for starters. Features to be added include real-time translation and a Chrome extension amidst fierce competitive rivalry from Amazon, Tencent, and Microsoft. Meanwhile, China's Baidu has launched its chatbot, Ernie, amid new national legislation mandate that AI products undergo national security threat assessment. Alibaba's new chatbot reflects President Xi's bigger and continued AI investment drive with a goal to protect national security.

Alibaba merges advanced AI system with messaging app DingTalk & meeting assistant Tingwu, keeping up with audio and video demands. Other companies follow suit.

Alibaba launches its language model, Tongyi Qianwen, to power the digital assistant Tingwu and stay ahead in China's AI race. It generates text summaries for multimedia content. Domestic tech firms like Baidu and Tencent focus on specific areas.

China's tech companies, including Baidu, are investing in generative AI to address the US-China tech divide. Baidu has launched a $145m fund for early-stage AI applications, betting on Chinese firms leading the way in commercial AI. Baidu's co-founder and CEO Robin Li is regarded as a pioneer of the tech industry in China.