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Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI claims breakthrough in expanded Chinese-character prompt for Kimi chatbot
- Moonshot AI’s updated Kimi chatbot can handle up to 2 million Chinese characters in a single prompt, up from the previous 200,000 characters
- Company founder Yang Zhilin has said that the ability to process long prompts is critical to the future development of AI models
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Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI claims that its Kimi chatbot can now handle up to 2 million Chinese characters in a single prompt – the instruction or query a user enters into the interface of a ChatGPT-like service – to surpass the capabilities of existing home-grown AI tools.
The Beijing-based start-up, known in Chinese as Yuezhi Anmian, said this feature on its updated Kimi chatbot is currently in beta testing that is limited to invited users before a wider roll-out, the company said in a statement on Monday. Launched last October, the chatbot was built on the firm’s self-developed Kimi large language model (LLM).
Previously, the Kimi chatbot could handle as many as 200,000 Chinese characters in a context window – referring to the swathe of text that an AI model can process during conversation with users.
“We believe that the exponential expansion of the size of an LLM’s context window will help unleash users’ imagination for various AI applications,” Moonshot AI engineering vice-president Xu Xinran said in the statement.
Such applications could include the “understanding and analysis of a complete code repository, an intelligent agent that autonomously performs multi-step tasks to multimodal models”.
LLMs are the technology used to train ChatGPT and similar generative AI services, which are used to create new content including audio, code, images, text, simulations and videos.
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