Recently, imitation models imitating ‘ChatGPT’ are pouring out like a flood in China.

Reuters reported on the tenth (local time) that as ChatGPT became unavailable in China, firms developing a Chinese version of ChatGPT instead emerged one after one other, and 12 Chinese firms which have developed or launched AI chatbots with functions just like ChatGPT have thus far reported to have reached

Including Baidu with ‘Enebot’, Alibaba, SenseTime, Tencent, Fudan University, NetEase, 360, JD.com, Kuaishou, China Telecom, Inspur, and Kunlun Tech.

Nevertheless, most of those firms don’t disclose the small print of the AI ​​chatbots they’ve developed. Nevertheless, in comparison with ChatGPT based on ‘GPT-4’, the dominant evaluation is that it appears to be behind in just about all features resembling parameter scale, multimodal function, and foreign language support scale.

On this regard, Chinese experts also admit that ChatGPT is one generation ahead of China and has much richer learning data.

Nevertheless, Chinese chatbots are developed with an emphasis on ‘social interaction’, highlighting that they will reduce hallucinations and other problems that appear in ChatGPT. That is where Chinese chatbots are higher because they filter information to comply with government policy.

Essentially the most recent product is ‘SenseChat’, an AI chatbot based on the super-giant AI model ‘SenseNova’, unveiled by Chinese AI startup SenseTime on the tenth. It is thought to perform general AI chatbot functions that generate text and code through Q&A.

On the seventh, Alibaba unveiled an AI chatbot called ‘Tongyi Qianwen’. Alibaba only introduced it as a productivity aid and idea generator that responds to human commands using a big language model (LLM), but didn’t explain specific functions.

Unlike ChatGPT, ‘Ernie Bot’, which Baidu unveiled on the sixteenth of last month, claims that it may perform mathematical calculations and generate images and videos with text prompts.

In February, Tencent also announced plans to develop an AI chatbot called ‘HunyuanAide’. In the identical month, Fudan University unveiled an AI chatbot platform called ‘MOSS’, and e-commerce company JD.com also announced plans to launch an AI chatbot ‘ChatJD’ for businesses.

As well as, China Telecom announced that it’s developing an industrial AI chatbot for customer support, followed by short video app Kuaishou Technology, game company NetEase and security company 360 Security, etc. A study plan has been published.

Inspur Electronic Information Industry and mobile game company Cruntech announced that they’re repeatedly investing in the event of AI chatbots for the AI-generated content business.

Nevertheless, there is no such thing as a business version available to the general public yet. Only Baidu’s ‘Hernibot’ and Alibaba’s ‘Tungyi Chenwon’ are at the extent of providing tests only to limited users.

Chan Park, cpark@aitimes.com