SenseTime, Chinese AI company, has unveiled new AI products including a chatbot.

10 April, Hong Kong A number of new artificial intelligence-powered products, including a chatbot and an image generator, were presented by China's SenseTime (0020.HK) on Monday, joining a race that had been sparked by the success of OpenAI's ChatGPT.

One of China's biggest AI companies' CEO and co-founder Xu Li gave a live demonstration of their "SenseChat" chatbot, which can write emails, tell stories about cats catching fish, and script computer codes in response to requests.According to Wang Xiaogang, another co-founder of SenseTime, the goods were built on the most recent iteration of the company's SenseNova large model, which has been under development for the past five years. Large models are frequently trained utilising powerful hardware on enormous datasets.

Since ChatGPT, a well-known chatbot created by US startup OpenAI, debuted in late 2022, interest in AI technology has skyrocketed. ChatGPT uses generative AI technology, which learns from the past to produce new text, graphics, or computer code. The benefits of AI, along with potential drawbacks like privacy and copyright infringement, are being considered by several governments."Our main effort has been to build our large models. SenseTime has established the ability to deploy huge models throughout our product line in addition to our robust AI infrastructure "Co-founder of SenseTime Wang Xiaogang added that SenseChat had over 100 billion parameters.

The U.S.-sanctioned company claimed participants could try out the devices but did not disclose specific plans for a product roll out.

At the presentation, the company also displayed SenseChat along with an image generator, a platform for creating digital avatars, and two complementing 3D modelling tools.Together, these tools will enable SenseTime's customers to swiftly produce videos where the presenter, the setting, and the products are all created by AI in real time.

"We are able to create an online livestreaming room scene. The livestreaming room is operational nonstop for 24 hours a day, and AI is used to create both interactive content and new products, according to Xu. In fact, it's possible that you won't even be able to discern whether the broadcasting at night is being done by a real person.

After SenseTime started sending out invitations for the event last week, the company's shares, which are best known for its computer vision technology, shot up.

Chinese search engine leader Baidu (9888.HK), whose stock fell and then rose after it introduced the Ernie Bot last month, is one of many businesses developing on their own versions. Now accepting a select group of public testers, Ernie Bot.

After charging SenseTime with creating face recognition software that aided Beijing's monitoring of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang province, the US placed the company on a trade blacklist in 2019.

At the time, SenseTime declared that it vehemently disagreed with the American ban and would cooperate with the appropriate authorities to find a solution.

Chinese tech firms are racing to release their rivals to OpenAI's ChatGPT, with Alibaba Group (9988.HK) planning to do so on Tuesday with its Tongyi Qianwen AI chatbot.