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Tencent unveils ChatGPT rival in China amid persevering with US AI chip ban

Chinese language know-how company Tencent unveiled its “Hunyuan” synthetic intelligence (AI) system, a multimodal massive language mannequin (LLM) much like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, on the World Digital Ecosystem Summit in Shenzhen on Sept. 7. 

Say hello to Hunyuan! Our massive basis mannequin, unveiled on the World Digital Ecosystem Summit. The platform is now obtainable to enterprises in China, supporting a heap of features, from picture creation, copywriting, customer support and extra. https://t.co/ifLfc9yCVQ #AI pic.twitter.com/wWhRfzl3km

— Tencent 腾讯 (@TencentGlobal) September 7, 2023

Hunyuan marks Tencent’s entry into “foundational fashions,” so named for his or her improvement as a framework upon which related AI APIs can run.

Based on a weblog publish from Tencent, Hunyuan is meant to perform as a complete suite of AI instruments:

“Tencent’s basis mannequin helps a big selection of features spanning the creation of photos, copywriting, textual content recognition, and customer support, to call just a few. These will likely be instrumental in key industries like finance, public providers, social media, e-commerce, transportation, video games, and plenty of extra.”

The AI system has additionally been built-in into Tencent’s ecosystem of functions and providers with connectivity to Tencent Cloud, Tencent Advertising and marketing Options, Tencent Video games, Tencent fintech providers, Tencent Assembly, Tencent Docs, Weixin Search and QQ Browser.

The launch comes as relations between the USA and China stay icy after the Biden administration signed off on an export ban on sure sorts of pc chips, together with {hardware} generally used to develop and prepare AI programs, in October 2022.

Based on a latest report, the 2 administrations continue to have interaction in diplomatic talks however haven’t made any headway towards establishing a timeline for ending the ban.

Tencent, for its half, says the launch of Hunyuan alerts that it’s “dedicated to open collaboration within the ecosystem, with home companies in the end benefiting from the corporate’s high-quality mannequin providers, whereas worldwide companies leverage Tencent to entry the Chinese language market.”

At the moment, ChatGPT isn’t obtainable in China. Although Hunyuan isn’t the primary LLM launched within the Chinese language market — as Cointelegraph reported, it follows scores of other models from the likes of Alibaba and Baidu — it may be essentially the most vital.

Tencent Holdings is China’s largest know-how firm. Its merchandise have a nationwide attain, and because of the ubiquity of WeChat and its related apps, Hunyuan has the potential to permeate the home market in ways in which OpenAI and Microsoft won’t have the ability to imitate with ChatGPT within the West.

Hunyuan is supposedly related in energy and functionality to GPT3 (OpenAI’s core mannequin, circa 2022) relating to uncooked numbers, as reported by Tencent. At 100 billion parameters and a pair of trillion tokens, the LLM takes its place as some of the highly effective LLMs on the planet.

Nevertheless, it’s value noting that parameter and token counts aren’t essentially indicative of the capabilities of a multimodal AI system. Hunyuan has the good thing about being skilled on a large corpus of Chinese language language textual content. Theoretically talking, this might give it a bonus over fashions skilled totally on non-Chinese language texts relating to operations within the Chinese language language atmosphere.