Cheap and Open Source, Chinese AI Models Are Taking Off
Some of the hottest Silicon Valley startups are taking to the likes of Alibaba’s Qwen for a shortcut.
Jingren Zhou, Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, unveils the Qwen 2.5 models at Alibaba Cloud's Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, September, 2024. Credit: Alibaba Cloud
Large language models produced by Chinese AI firms have received a flurry of unexpected endorsements lately.
Brian Chesky, chief executive of Airbnb, caused a stir last month when he revealed that the company favours Alibaba’s Qwen over ChatGPT for its customer service chatbot, because it is “fast and cheap.”
Of the top five trending models on developer forum Hugging Face, four are produced by Chinese firms or based off Chinese models. Source: Hugging Face
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