On Friday, Alibaba released Tongyi Wanxiang, their generative AI which produces images based on user prompts. This development places the Chinese tech company on par with other tech firms in China and the United States aiming to advance this technology. The AI industry already has text-to-image generation services such as OpenAI's DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, two of the most common services.
On Friday, Chinese technology giant Alibaba rolled out a new artificial intelligence tool titled Tongyi Wanxiang. Featuring both Chinese and English input capabilities, the AI tool can generate visuals (sketch or 3D cartoon) according to prompts. As of now, the product is available to Chinese enterprise customers only, undergoing beta testing.Tongyi Wanxiang is the latest example of generative AI in tech giants' race to be the foremost innovator of this technology. Generative AI is a type of AI trained on large datasets to generate content. A notable example is OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has created a push from the largest tech players to create their own alternatives.Google's AI chatbot Bard, Baidu's Ernie Bot, and Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen are all samples of this endeavor.
At present, various AI text-to-image generation services are available, with OpenAI's DALL-E and Stable Diffusion being the most renowned. In a statement, Jingren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, commented, "With the launch of Tongyi Wanxiang, AI-created images of superior quality can now be more conveniently accessed and this should further the development of imaginative AI-generated artwork and other creative works, particularly for e-commerce, gaming, designing and advertisement sectors."Given the delicate nature of these generative AI tools, tech giants are exercising caution when releasing them, and Alibaba and Baidu have chosen to be precise concerning how they communicate their AI resources. To illustrate, Alibaba is aiming its services towards enterprises, likely because of regulations introduced by the Chinese government in anticipation of generative AI tools, such as the rules issued in January concerning 'deep synthesis technologies' followed by draft regulations released in April regarding AI development.
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