[AI Technology Mini-Apps] Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) | Editor: Li Zisheng

What is Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen)?

Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) is a Large Language Model (LLM) AI platform independently developed by the Alibaba Cloud team within Alibaba Group. Similar to a Chinese version of ChatGPT, it is an all-around AI tool for intelligent conversation, content generation, and office efficiency, integrating multimodal models such as text, images, audio, and video. Qwen is positioned as "your AI assistant, process automation helper, and creative partner for work and study." It offers free services and API services to individuals and businesses, and is applicable to a variety of fields, including language, images, and documents.


Core technologies and highlights

1. Multimodal Fusion

  • Supports plain text, image generation, image understanding, speech recognition, and video content summarization, etc.

  • It can perform comprehensive intelligent processing on images, text, audio, video and other data

2. Large Language Model Expertise

  • Exceptional Chinese comprehension and generation, optimized for the Greater China user context

  • Good at data search, content summary, logical reasoning, knowledge encyclopedia, and writing

  • Multiple rounds of in-depth conversations can be conducted to comprehensively sort out the background, context and user instructions

3. Content creation and office assistant

  • Automatically convert meeting summaries and recordings into text and extract key points

  • Generate PPT manuscripts, reports, marketing copy, short video scripts, and academic articles with one click

  • Higher accuracy for Excel tables, data analysis, and batch processing of various files

4. Professional field knowledge coverage

  • Integrate massive academic resources, medical, financial, legal, teaching and other fields

  • Questions are answered, and some answers also provide authoritative source notes or references

5. API and plugin support

  • Support individuals and enterprises to connect websites, OA office systems, and APP applications through API

  • Provides custom knowledge bodies and "intelligent bodies" (similar to GPTs), office applets


Product Type and Usage


Key features:

  • Multi-round open intelligent chat (including emotional companionship/expert consultation)

  • Various text writing/organization/revision/translation/summary

  • 2D and 3D image generation and editing, structure completion

  • PPT, data reports, professional reasoning, code assistance, automated process settings


Ecology and openness

  • Starting in 2025, the "Qianwen 3" model will be open sourced and 8 models of different sizes will be launched, covering deployments from mobile phones/edge AI to enterprise-level supercomputing.

  • Establish a "Baibaodai" application market: self-install various AI gadgets to quickly solve the needs of writing, learning, and daily life scenarios

  • Enterprises can use API to connect to the knowledge base and quickly integrate and upgrade according to their own processes


Advantages and positioning

  • Chinese/Chinese-style English performance leads similar AI (Kimi, Baichuan, Baidu Wenxin Yiyan, etc.)

  • High enterprise deployment flexibility, open API, plug-in customization, and a large number of ready-made cases such as automatic meeting recording, self-service procedure review, data annotation, etc.

  • The free trial has a low threshold and is suitable for students, professionals, creators, and corporate customers.


Applicable Scenarios

  • Academic papers, course writing, professional training, and course content creation

  • Office automation: meeting records, process review, knowledge management

  • Commercial automation: e-commerce content production, advertising scripts, and marketing plan planning

  • AI mapping, data analysis, and voice-to-text one-stop efficient processing


Editor's suggestion

Tongyi Qianwen is a leading comprehensive domestic AI platform in mainland China. It also effectively supports multilingual processing, enterprise API integration, and has strong office and learning automation capabilities. It is ideal for local businesses and creators who require comprehensive digital collaboration and pursue high efficiency.

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