Tencent jumps on ChatGPT bandwagon by rolling out LLM for corporate clients, including state media
- The Shenzhen-based company’s cloud arm launched its LLM as a model-as-a-service [MaaS] solution at a technical event
- Together with clients, Tencent has launched over 50 LLM-enabled industrial solutions covering over 10 industries
Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent Holdings has launched its industry-oriented large language model (LLM) service aimed at a wide array of traditional sectors from finance to media, making it the latest of China’s Big Tech firms to join the ChatGPT-frenzy.
LLMs are deep language learning models that respond to textual user prompts in a human-like fashion, and provide the technology underpinning for ChatGPT, the chat bot developed by Microsoft-backed start-up OpenAI.
Tencent Cloud’s LLM solutions will cater to industries ranging from finance, media, travel to education, with clients including China’s state media China Media Group, the Shanghai University, and Fujian Big Data Group among others, according to the WeChat post.
Together with clients, the company has launched over 50 LLM-enabled industrial solutions covering over 10 industries, Tang Daosheng said at the event, a senior executive vice-president at Tencent and chief executive of its cloud and smart industries group.
“Tencent will keep opening its ecosystem to provide quality [LLM] services for corporate clients,” said Tang, who added that the company will assist its clients in training multimodels and speed up exploration of applying LLMs in more industrial scenarios.