Alibaba Group Holding on Tuesday unveiled its own generative artificial intelligence model, its version of the technology that powers the successful chatbot ChatGPT, and said it will soon be integrated into all of the company’s apps.

The launch, which followed SenseTime’s launch of a series of new AI products this week, was accompanied by the government’s publication of draft regulations outlining how generative AI services should be governed.

In a video demonstration, an AI model named Tongyi Qianwen, which means “the truth of a thousand questions,” composed invitation letters, planned travel itineraries and advised customers on the types of eye makeup they should buy. .

Tongyi Qianwen will initially be integrated into DingTalk, Alibaba’s workplace messaging app, and can be used to summarize meeting notes, write emails and make business proposals.

It will also be added to Tmall Genie, Alibaba’s voice assistant.

The technology will “make a big difference to how we produce, how we work and how we live,” CEO Daniel Zhang said during the live broadcast.

AI models like Tongyi Qianwen are “a big picture that will make AI more popular in the future,” he added.

The cloud division of the Chinese internet giant plans to make Tongyi Qianwen available to customers to build their own language models, and opened registrations on Friday.

(Photo source: Minipig5188, Dreamstime.com)