Alibaba launches A.I. tool to generate images from text

Chinese exertion elephantine Alibaba connected Friday launched an artificial quality instrumentality that tin make images from prompts.

Tongyi Wanxiang allows users to input prompts successful Chinese and English and the AI instrumentality volition make an representation successful assorted styles specified arsenic a sketch oregon 3D cartoon.

Alibaba's unreality division, which launched the product, said it is disposable for endeavor customers successful China for beta testing.

Tongyi Wanxiang is Alibaba's latest generative AI offering arsenic tech giants successful China and the U.S. look to contention up with the technology.

Generative AI refers to a benignant of artificial quality that is capable to make contented based connected prompts. It is trained connected immense amounts of information to beryllium capable to bash this. The astir celebrated illustration is OpenAI's ChatGPT which has sparked a unreserved from the biggest tech players to make their ain rivals.

In the U.S., Google launched its AI chatbot called Bard. And successful China, Baidu released Ernie Bot and Alibaba launched Tongyi Qianwen.

There are already AI text-to-image procreation services disposable astatine the moment. OpenAI's DALL-E and a work called Stable Diffusion are 2 of the astir well-known.

"With the merchandise of Tongyi Wanxiang, high-quality generative AI imagery volition go much accessible, facilitating the improvement of innovative AI creation and originative expressions for businesses crossed a wide scope of sectors, including e-commerce, gaming, plan and advertising," Jingren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said successful a property release.

Technology giants are treading cautiously successful releasing these generative AI products truthful arsenic not to get connected the incorrect broadside of regulators. Companies similar Alibaba and Baidu person been very circumstantial successful the mode they person positioned their AI tools. For example, Alibaba is focusing its offerings connected enterprises.

That's due to the fact that of regularisation Chinese authorities person already introduced successful anticipation of generative AI technologies. In January, Beijing introduced first-of-its-kind regularisation governing "deep synthesis technologies" oregon images and videos altered by AI. And successful April, regulators released draft rules designed to negociate however companies make generative AI products.