Alibaba launches AI-assisted slide-deck creation tool through cloud storage platform Quark

Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

The launch of AI PPT comes after Quark launched its self-developed LLM in November. At the time, Quark said the model contained hundreds of billions of parameters and its intended usage scenarios ranged from online search and medical to education and office productivity.

LLMs are the technology that underpins OpenAI’s ChatGPT and similar chatbots. These models’ sophistication and capabilities are partly measured by their parameters. For instance, ChatGPT was trained on 175 billion parameters.

Quark is one of four “strategic-level innovation businesses” designated by Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu Yongming late last year. These units have been given the freedom to devise their own strategies and experiment with new ideas to compete in the larger market, according to Wu during his first post-earnings conference call with analysts as group chief executive.

Quark’s automated deck-making service offers free trials for initial uses. After that, it is available only to subscribers of Quark’s online document service at 19 yuan (US$2.66) a month for a maximum of 30 uses each month.

Chinese Big Tech companies are racing to entice users to their new AI services catering to various industries. Search giant and Chinese AI pioneer Baidu last year launched the paid version of its Ernie Bot, charging a monthly fee of 59.9 yuan for access to a more advanced version of its ChatGPT equivalent.

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