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Alibaba Cloud, an Alibaba subsidiary, presented at the World
Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai an image
generator named Tongyi Wanxiang that will initially be available
to enterprise customers in beta form.
Also on Friday, Huawei demonstrated the third iteration of its
Panggu AI model at the start of its three-day annual developer
conference in Dongguan.
Chinese tech companies are aggressively developing AI products
after the ChatGPT chatbot by OpenAI ignited a generative AI
boom. McKinsey estimates that generative AI could eventually add
$7.3 trillion in value to the world economy each year.
Alibaba's image generator will compete with OpenAI's DALL-E and
Midjourney Inc's Midjourney, U.S.-based rivals that have gained
a large following worldwide.
Alibaba Cloud emerged from a massive overhaul announced in March
that split the Chinese tech major into six units. In April, it
launched a ChatGPT-like text generator Tongyi Qianwen.
In addition to the Tongyi Wanxiang image generator, which
roughly translates as "truth from tens of thousands of
pictures", presented on Friday, Alibaba Cloud has also rolled
out ModelScopeGPT, an AI tool for developers.
Huawei said its AI takes a different approach from many AI
applications. Rather than focusing on generating content, its
Pangu 3.0 model would mostly serve industrial usages, it said.
The Shenzhen-based company said its model aims to ensure more
efficient safety inspections for freight train carriages, AI
assistance for local government services and more accurate
weather prediction.
(Reporting by Josh Ye; Editing by Edmund Klamann and Barbara
Lewis)
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