Chinese tech firms working on ChatGPT-style technology

The world buzz round Microsoft chatbot ChatGPT has unfold to China, shoring up shares in synthetic intelligence (AI) associated corporations and prompting a flurry of native firms to announce rival initiatives.

Like Microsoft and Google, Chinese tech giants equivalent to Baidu and Alibaba in addition to smaller start-ups have been engaged on AI initiatives for years.

Chatbots in China principally concentrate on social interactions whereas ChatGPT, which learns from huge quantities of knowledge the right way to reply prompts by customers in a human-like method, performs higher at extra skilled duties, equivalent to programming and essay writing.

Here is an inventory of Chinese tech firms which have lately made bulletins on AI know-how:

BAIDU

Baidu Inc stated on Feb. 7 it could full inner testing of a ChatGPT-style undertaking known as “Ernie Bot” in March.

ALIBABA Alibaba Group on Feb. 8 stated it’s growing a ChatGPT-style software presently in inner testing. The e-commerce big stated giant language fashions and generative AI have been areas of focus because it shaped its analysis institute Damo Academy in 2017.

TENCENT

Tencent Holdings stated on Feb. 9 is conducting analysis on the ChatGPT-tool know-how and the agency will proceed to spend money on AI analysis primarily based on its present technical reserves in basis mannequin, machine studying algorithms and pure language processing.

JD.COM

E-commerce firm JD.Com stated on Feb. 10 it plans to launch a product just like ChatGPT that it stated will likely be known as ChatJD and will likely be geared toward serving different businesse.

NETEASE

Gaming agency NetEase plans to deploy giant language fashions know-how to serve its training business, a supply accustomed to the corporate advised Reuters on Feb. 8.

360 SECURITY TECHNOLOGY INC

360 Security Technology Inc stated on Feb. 8 it possessed language mannequin know-how however that it couldn’t give a transparent indication on when it could launch any associated merchandise.

KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY

Short video app Kuaishou Technology is conducting analysis on giant language fashions, which it would use to enhance its merchandise equivalent to AI customer support, the government-backed the Paper reported on Feb. 9.

INSPUR ELECTRONIC INFORMATION INDUSTRY

Inspur Electronic Information Industry stated on its traders relation web site that it has lengthy invested in AI-Generated Content (AIGC) from arithmetic, algorithms to the applying of the know-how.

KUNLUN TECH

Beijing based-mobile video games agency Kunlun Tech stated it deliberate to launch a Chinese model of ChatGPT this yr whose code will likely be open supply, the corporate stated on its WeChat account on Thursday.

The firm stated in a separate assertion that on Wednesday it would embed ChatGPT into its Norway-based net browser Opera.

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