Alibaba Group sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 6, 2023. Alibaba said Thursday it is opening up its own artificial intelligence model to third-party developers, as the Chinese e-commerce giant aims to increase the use of its product and take a leading role in technology. The move could pit Alibaba against U.S. tech giant Meta , which has made a similar move, and pose a potential challenge to OpenAI, the firm behind viral AI chatbot ChatGPT. In April, Alibaba launched its large language model (LLM) called Tongyi Qianwen. A LLM is an...