First, Chinese sample set is 1.4B and they have been training their AI, enterprise level - with cameras, image recognition and processing. There are huge farms of people, entire industries which are AI model’s human partners since 2017.

Second, the language model can work with the WeChat data, which is a lot and lot of person to person interaction, as opposed to Western data which does not include that, but just general public interactions. Even considering private, everything being consolidated on a single platform means a lot.

Third, TikTok data - one of the largest social media with large data sets, including language, culture and stuff.

So - guess this adds the quality. And they don’t want to expand to the west which places it in the understandable category.

There have been low level chat bots in China, and also they’ve thus far focused on enterprise and public (read government) use. They’re venturing into private, ig