Ant Group confirmed that it is developing a large language and multimodal model, named "Zhengyi".

Update: ant Group confirmed the matter to Sina Technology and responded that "the news is true".

CTOnews.com, June 21, according to Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, the technology research and development team of Ant Group is developing its own language and multimodal large model, which is internally named "Zhenyi".

Multimodal large model refers to the model that combines text, image, video, audio and other multimodal information for training. Previously, Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, said that "the long-term goal of artificial intelligence is to build multimodal neural networks, that is, AI can learn concepts between different modes to better understand the world."

It is worth mentioning that on June 19, a new team led by Zhu Jun, professor of computer science at Tsinghua University and deputy dean of the Institute of artificial Intelligence, completed nearly 100 million angel round financing, led by Ant Group.

At the 2023 Alibaba Luohantang Digital economy Annual meeting held today. Zhang Yong, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group and Aliyun Intelligence Group, held a dialogue with three Nobel laureates. Talking about the future of artificial intelligence, Zhang Yong pointed out, "artificial intelligence will be everywhere, but I believe that human beings have more wisdom than machines, and will certainly find a model to live in harmony with artificial intelligence and machines."

At present, there is not much information about Zhengyi, and CTOnews.com will keep an eye on it.