Russia’s news agency Sputnik has lauded the launch of Vietnamese-developed apps as a positive signal, demonstrating the efforts of domestic technology units to gradually reduce reliance on foreign products and improve the accuracy of information containing Vietnam’s historical and cultural values.
ViGPT on website (Photo: VinBigdata)
Hanoi (VNA) – Russia’s news agencySputnik has lauded the launch of Vietnamese-developed apps as a positivesignal, demonstrating the efforts of domestic technology units to graduallyreduce reliance on foreign products and improve the accuracy of informationcontaining Vietnam’s historical and cultural values.
Sputnik notedthat in 2023, OpenAI's ChatGPT has made waves in the global technology market, triggering a race to conquer generativeartificial intelligence (Gen AI) among nations and lobal tech giants. DespiteEnglish-language data sources producing the world's largest language models,these models may not fully comprehend or accurately reflect the culturalintricacies and context of the Vietnamese people, leading to inaccuracies. Thispresents a notable challenge for AI research units in Vietnam.
Recent developments confirm that Vietnam is not an outlier inthis trend, evidenced by the introduction of a series of AI products. Notably,Gen AI models like FPT Gen AI, PhởGPT, and Zalo AI have been recently unveiled,it said.
On December 27, VinBigdata, a subsidiary of Vietnamese private conglomerate Vingroup, officiallylaunched the ViGPT app, a Vietnamese counterpart to ChatGPT, in Ho Chi Minh City.
Sputnik commented that this move aligns seamlessly with theVietnamese Government’s directions, especially in light of the Ministry ofInformation and Communications' recently issued plan outlining a target forVietnam to possess at least one Large Language Model (LLM) platform inVietnamese by 2025.
The plan underscores the significance of studying, developingand applying Vietnamese LLM, considering it a crucial and meaningful task. TheVietnamese LLM will leverage knowledge and curated training data specific toVietnam, offering cost-effective solutions for residents, businesses andorganisations to develop new apps, the newswire added./.
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ViGPT on website (Photo: VinBigdata)