A famous Chinese company will be available to the general public and businesses across China from September 13. Tongyi Qianwen is a large language model like ChatGPT that works in English and Chinese. However, its exact specifications are not yet known. But early rumors indicate that it will be trained with 10 trillion parameters, which is 10 times more than OpenAI's GPT4. But this news is still unproven. Alibaba had previously released two 7 billion-parameter open-source models based on the Tongyi Qianwen architecture.
Tongyi Qianwen was previously only available to a small number of users during the beta testing stage. But now it has been made public for everyone. The special thing is that it was made public when the People's Republic of China relaxed the rules of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Guidelines published by the Chinese government in June stipulated that going forward, all AI technology released to the public will require a special testing and certification process. These rules have become effective from August 15. After which many Chinese companies have been given approval to launch AI models, including Baidu, Tencent, TikTok and ByteDance.
The new rules ban the creation of photos of Chinese President Xi Jinping by AI models. Also, the companies have been ordered to take action on objectionable content within three months. Earlier monetary fines were also included in these rules, but those schemes were canceled. While China is trying to relax its rules, the United States has only taken initial steps to regulate AI technology. Along with this, G20 is also considering the regulation of AI. G20 member countries have advised to work towards data protection to ensure responsible use and development of AI.
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