Alibaba Cloud Unveils ChatGPT-style AI

Alibaba Cloud has announced that its large language model (LLM) Tongyi Qianwen, has been integrated into its intelligent assistant named Tingwu.

According to Alibaba Cloud, the assistant excels at converting speech and videos to text in real-time to enhance both personal and workplace productivity.

AI-powered assistant

The LLM-powered Tingwu, called “Tongyi Tingwu”, is now available for public beta testing. Tongyi Tingwu will also be integrated into DingTalk, Alibaba's digital collaboration workplace and application development platform, supporting users’ AI demands at work.

In addition to improving workplace efficiency, Tongyi Tingwu can also be used across various multimedia platforms, responding to the growing need for faster and easier knowledge sharing in online education, training, interviews, live streaming, podcasts, and short-form videos.

By leveraging proprietary audio and video models developed by Alibaba’s DAMO research institute, Tingwu can transcribe video and audio files with higher accuracy while enabling numerous AI-powered features.

Additional AI features offered by Tongyi Tingwu will be available later this year. These features include automatically compiling text answers to address user queries across audio or video files, generating a summary based on PowerPoint slides extracted from videos, and providing real-time translation between English and Chinese for multimedia content with Tingwu as a Chrome plugin.

“We live at a time when a growing amount of video and audio content is being consumed in various formats every day. In line with this, Tongyi Tingwu aims to use the large language model to facilitate faster and better comprehension and easier sharing of multimedia content,“ said Jingren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.

“As we gradually integrate the Tongyi Qianwen model into our products and services, we hope users can reap the benefits from these compelling AI innovations for their work, study, play and interaction with each other.”

Tongyi Qianwen was unveiled in April, and has been integrated across Alibaba's various businesses to improve the user experience. Customers and developers will have access to the model to create customized AI features cost-effectively.

The upgraded AI-powered assistant is now publicly accessible at tingwu.aliyun.com, with free access through an Alibaba Cloud account.

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