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China’s Alibaba invites businesses to trial AI chatbot – media
Tech giant Alibaba is seeking companies to test its Tongyi Qianwen AI chatbot, business publication STAR Market Daily reported on Friday, joining the rush to emulate the explosive success of ChatGPT. The free-to-use ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) application created by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, was released to the public last November and can generate articles and essays on demand in response to user prompts. Alibaba has opened up registration for businesses to conduct testing for its AI application, STAR Market reported without specifying details.
