Last Update: February 18, 2023, 16:05 IST
Chatbots in China mostly focus on social interactions while ChatGPT, which learns from large amounts of data how to respond to prompts. (Image: Reuters/Florence Low/Illustration)
Global buzz around Microsoft chatbot ChatGPT has spread to China, driving stocks in artificial intelligence (AI)-related firms lower and prompting a flurry of local companies to announce rival projects.
Beijing: Global buzz around Microsoft chatbot ChatGPT has spread to China, sending stocks in artificial intelligence (AI)-related firms lower and prompting a flurry of local companies to announce rival projects.
Chinese tech giants like Microsoft and Google, as well as smaller start-ups like Baidu and Alibaba, have been working on AI projects for years.
Chatbots in China focus mostly on social interactions, while ChatGPT, which learns from large amounts of data how to respond to prompts by users in a human-like manner, performs better in more professional tasks such as programming and essay writing. .
Here is a list of Chinese tech companies that have recently made announcements on AI technology:
baidu
Baidu Inc. said on February 7 that it would complete internal testing of a ChatGPT-style project called “Ernie Bot” in March.
alibaba
Alibaba Group said on February 8 that it is developing a ChatGPT-style tool currently in internal testing. The e-commerce giant said that since it set up its research institute Damo Academy in 2017, big language models and generative AI have been areas of focus.
Tencent
Tencent Holdings said on February 9 that ChatGPT-tool technology is being researched and the firm will continue to invest in AI research based on its existing technical reserves in foundational models, machine learning algorithms and natural language processing.
jd.com
E-commerce company JD.Com said on February 10 that it plans to launch a product similar to ChatGPT, which it said would be called ChatJD and would aim to serve other businesses.
China Telecom
China Telecom Corp is developing an industrial version of ChatGPT for the telecommunications sector and that will use AI in some customer service tasks, local Chinese media reported on February 18.
NETease
Gaming firm NetEase plans to deploy large language model technology to serve its education business, a source familiar with the company told Reuters on February 8.
360 Security Technology Inc.
360 Security technology Inc. said on February 8 that it has language model technology but could not give a clear indication of when it would launch a related product.
Kuaishou Technology
short video app kuaishou technology Big is researching language models it will use to improve its products such as AI customer service, the government-backed paper reported on February 9.
INSPUR ELECTRONIC INFORMATION INDUSTRY
Inspur Electronic Information Industry said on its Investor Relations website that it has long invested in AI-generated content (AIGC) ranging from arithmetic, algorithms to the application of technology.
Kunlun Tech
Beijing-based mobile game firm Kunlun Tech said it plans to launch a Chinese version of ChatGPT this year whose code will be open source, the company said on its WeChat account on Thursday.
The company said in a separate statement that on Wednesday it would embed ChatGPT in its Norway-based web browser Opera.
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