Alibaba tests ChatGPT rival as Chinese tech giants like Baidu race to build country’s best AI chatbot

• An Alibaba spokeswoman has confirmed that the company’s research institute Damo Academy is conducting an internal testing of an AI chatbot
• Damo launched a natural language processing model with 27 billion parameters in 2021, after OpenAI released GPT-3 with 175 billion parameters in 2020