Chinese language expertise company Tencent unveiled its “Hunyuan” synthetic intelligence (AI) system, a multimodal massive language mannequin (LLM) much like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, on the International Digital Ecosystem Summit in Shenzhen on Aug. 7.
Say hello to Hunyuan! Our massive basis mannequin, unveiled on the International Digital Ecosystem Summit. The platform is now obtainable to enterprises in China, supporting a heap of features, from picture creation, copywriting, customer support and extra. https://t.co/ifLfc9yCVQ #AI pic.twitter.com/wWhRfzl3km
— Tencent 腾讯 (@TencentGlobal) September 7, 2023
Hunyuan marks Tencent’s entry into “foundational fashions,” so named for his or her improvement as a framework upon which related AI APIs can run.
In line with a weblog publish from Tencent, Hunyuan is meant to operate as a complete suite of AI instruments:
“Tencent’s basis mannequin helps a wide selection of features spanning the creation of photographs, copywriting, textual content recognition, and customer support, to call just a few. These can be instrumental in key industries like finance, public companies, social media, e-commerce, transportation, video games, and plenty of extra.”
The AI system has additionally been built-in into Tencent’s ecosystem of purposes and companies with connectivity to Tencent Cloud, Tencent Advertising Options, Tencent Video games, Tencent fintech companies, Tencent Assembly, Tencent Docs, Weixin Search, and QQ Browser.
The launch comes as relations between the U.S. and China stay icy after the Biden administration signed off on an export ban on sure sorts of laptop chips, together with {hardware} generally used to develop and prepare AI techniques, in October 2022.
In line with a current report, the 2 administrations proceed to interact in diplomatic talks however haven’t made any headway in the direction of establishing a timeline for ending the ban.
Tencent, for its half, says the launch of Hunyuan alerts that it’s “dedicated to open collaboration within the ecosystem, with home companies finally benefiting from the corporate’s high-quality mannequin companies, whereas worldwide companies leverage Tencent to entry the Chinese language market.”
Presently, ChatGPT isn’t obtainable in China. Although Hunyuan isn’t the primary LLM launched within the Chinese language market, as Cointelegraph reported, it follows scores of different fashions from the likes of Alibaba and Baidu, it is perhaps probably the most important.
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Tencent Holdings is China’s largest expertise firm. Its merchandise have nation-wide attain and, as a result of ubiquity of WeChat and its related apps, Hunyuan has the potential to permeate the home market in ways in which OpenAI and Microsoft may not have the ability to imitate with ChatGPT within the west.
Hunyuan is supposedly related in energy and functionality to GPT3 (OpenAI’s core mannequin circa 2022) relating to uncooked numbers as reported by Tencent. At 100-billion parameters and two-trillion tokens, the LLM takes its place as one of the highly effective LLMs on the planet.
Nonetheless, it’s value noting that parameter and token counts aren’t essentially indicative of the capabilities of a multimodal AI system. Hunyuan has the good thing about being educated on an enormous corpus of Chinese language language textual content. Theoretically talking, this may give it a bonus over fashions educated totally on non-Chinese language texts relating to operations within the Chinese language language surroundings.