Alibaba Group Ready To Enter The AI Chatbot Race, Competing With ChatGPT

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JAKARTA - The popularity of ChatGPT has made many technology companies flock to create chatbots powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). One of them, Alibaba Group.

First reported by the 21st Century Herald newspaper, the e-commerce giant is developing a ChatGPT-like dialogue robot that is currently in internal testing with its employees.

"Border innovations such as large language models and generative AIs have been our focus area since DAMO's formation in 2017," said a spokesman Alibaba.

"As technology leaders, we will continue to invest in turning cutting-edge innovations into added-value applications for our customers and their final users through cloud services," he added.

However, when asked about whether Alibaba Group would combine the technology with the DingTalk group communication app, he declined to comment.

ChatGPT is currently a hot topic of conversation in cyberspace, how not, the chatbot released in November last year can produce articles, essays, jokes, and even poetry in response to requests.

OpenAI's new breakthrough has been assessed as a consumer application with the fastest growth in history.

No doubt, technology companies are also competing to create similar chatbots. Recently Alphabet Inc, Google's parent announced that it would release a chatbot called Bard which was integrated into its search engine.

A day later Microsoft Corp, which owns OpenAI, also plans to tie ChatGPT to a Bing search engine.

If the news that Alibaba Group is really going to launch a chatbot, it will compete with the search giant Baidu, which is both based in China.

Because, just yesterday they announced that they were completing internal testing for a chatbot called Ernie. This was quoted from Channel News Asia, Thursday, February 9.