Alibaba says its Tongyi Qianwen AI models are used by over 90,000 corporate clients in China
- The company’s LLM series, also known as Qwen, is in industries ranging from consumer electronics to cars with clients that include Xiaomi
- Some 2.2 million corporate users also have access to Qwen-powered AI services through Alibaba’s office collaboration tool DingTalk
Tongyi Qianwen, the company’s LLM series known also as Qwen, is used in industries ranging from consumer electronics to cars and online games, according to Zhou Jingren, technology chief at Alibaba Cloud, the intelligent-computing arm of Post owner Alibaba.
Qwen “is truly embraced by our enterprise customers and we have seen so many creative applications of the models from across the industries”, Zhou said at a company event held in Beijing on Thursday.
More than 2.2 million corporate users also have access to Qwen-powered AI services through DingTalk, Alibaba’s office collaboration platform, the company said.
LLM is the technology that underpins a new generation of AI tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora. Since the Microsoft-backed start-up unveiled its cutting-edge service in late 2022, Big Tech companies and smaller ventures in China have been scrambling to catch up by developing and promoting similar services.
