(22 May 2024) As the competition between artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots intensifies, researchers in China are making progress on building Chinese-language AI models. The leading Chinese offerings include ChatGLM, which comes close to ChatGPT on some capabilities and outperforms it in Chinese, according to its developers.
“Basically, ChatGLM is a ChatGPT alternative,” said Jie Tang, a computer scientist at Tsinghua University in Beijing, during a talk presenting ChatGLM’s capabilities at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024) in Vienna on 9 May.
ChatGPT is not available in China. But that’s not the only reason to build local alternatives. Chinese-oriented LLMs produce outputs that better reflect the needs and preferences of people in China, says Tang — including, say, nation-specific financial or education information.
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