China is actively encouraging artificial intelligence companies as well as research institutes to build large language models, as part of a broader effort to boost the country’s prowess in the critical technology behind ChatGPT, a text-generating AI chatbot developed by US-based tech firm Open-AI that went viral across the world after it was launched late last year.
On Tuesday, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology told China Daily that Beijing will offer over 40 million yuan ($5.6 million) in subsidies for the first batch to support companies involved in LLM training. As this is guided by an AI working group of the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee set up in 2020, almost all leading internet firms are involved, the source said.
