© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Alibaba Cloud logo is displayed near a screen showing the website of its Tongyi Qianwen AI chatbot, in this illustration picture taken June 28, 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo) said on Tuesday it has updated its artificial intelligence model Tongyi Qianwen and released a suite of industry-specific AI models amid an intensifying AI race among tech companies.
It also said it has launched eight AI models for the entertainment, finance, healthcare and legal industries. Rival Tencent last month said China was in the middle of a"war of a hundred models", with over 130 flooding the market. Tencent said its Hunyuan AI has more than 100 billion parameters and exceeds OpenAI's GPT-4 model in processing Chinese.Alibaba's industry-specific models went online on Tuesday, offering dedicated tools for creating images, writing computer code, analysing financial data and searching for legal documents.