E-commerce giant Alibaba has integrated its chatGPT-style AI technology ‘Tongyi Tingwu’, into meeting and messaging apps, to enhance both personal and workplace productivity.
The large language model, or LLM, developed by Alibaba Cloud called Tongyi Qianwen, is now behind the interactions with a new version of the assistant, dubbed Tongyi Tingwu.
The latest version, which analyzes audio and video files and generates text summaries, has now been opened to the public to try. The technology will also be fused into messaging app DingTalk. DingTalk is Alibaba’s digital collaboration workplace and application development platform, supporting users’ AI demands at work.
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The integration of AI technology with the meeting assistant is aimed at the increasing number of videos and audio consumed daily.
In addition to improving workplace efficiency, Tongyi Tingwu can also be used across various multimedia platforms, responding to the growing need for faster and easier knowledge sharing in online education, training, interviews, live streaming, podcasts, and short-form videos.
Speaking on the rollout of the technology, CTO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Jingren Zhou said,
“We live at a time when a growing amount of video and audio content is being consumed in various formats every day. In line with this, Tongyi Tingwu aims to use the large language model to facilitate faster and better comprehension and easier sharing of multimedia content.
“As we gradually integrate the Tongyi Qianwen model into our products and services, we hope users can reap the benefits from these compelling AI innovations for their work, study, play, and interaction with each other.”
Tongyi Tingwu harnesses the understanding and summarization capabilities of the Tongyi Qianwen large model, making it a powerful tool for transcription, retrieval, and summarization of audio and video content. It assists users in generating accurate transcriptions, organizing interviews, extracting PPTs, and more.
Also, this AI assistant is like a note-taking companion, that is always ready to help users efficiently complete their tasks.
Alibaba said it will release further features for Tongyi Tingwu later this year including real-time translation between English and Chinese for multimedia content. The service will be a plugin for Google’s Chrome web browser.
Tongyi Tingwu looks set to revolutionize traditional business practices. The technology can automate time-consuming functions, as well as make sure organizations stay efficient and up-to-date. The opportunity for organizations and enterprises to benefit from AI services is just about to start.
The rollout of Alibaba’s latest AI-generated technology comes at a time when Chinese technology giants are integrating Al features into their products, to spur growth for their businesses which have been impacted by a slowing domestic economy and stricter regulation from Beijing.