China’s Alibaba unveils AI upgrade for cloud service to rival Amazon and Microsoft

Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s cloud computing unit has released the latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model as it carves out its place in China to rival US giants such as Amazon and Microsoft. Company co-founder Joe Tsai unveiled the so-called AI model Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, its latest large language model to train chatbots, which operates in English and Chinese. The company announced its GenAI Service Platform, which lets companies build their own generative AI applications using their own data. This would eliminate third parties from accessing the data. “We aim to be the most op…

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