Competition is heating up the fast-developing field of generative artificial intelligence, a cutting-edge disruptive technology that is expected to be increasingly applied to a wider range of sectors and spearhead a new round of industrial transformation and upgrade, domain experts said. Chinese technology companies, they said, should step up investment in improving computing power and algorithms and accumulate more high-quality training data, so as to gain an edge in the global AI race and narrow the gap with the United States in the latest tech frontier. Generative AI refers to computer algorithms trained with huge amounts of data capable of generating content such as images, text, audio and video in a human-like fashion.
It is the key technology underpinning US-based research firm OpenAI's ChatGPT. The recent launch of GPT-4o, the latest large language model or LLM developed by OpenAI, has caused a global sensation. The new flagship generative AI model surpasses the company's existing models in visual and audio understanding, making the interaction between humans and machines much more natural and easier.
LLMs are AI models fed with huge amounts of text data for use in a variety of tasks, ranging from natural language processing to machine translation. Industry insiders said the multimodal LLMs, which possess the abilities to process and generate content across multiple modalities, including text, images, audio and video, will lead the way for the further development of th.
