The two companies are the latest to join DeepSeek, Baidu and Alibaba in enhancing their AI services amid intense market competition
Multimodal models are designed to understand multiple types of input data such as text, video and audio, unlike traditional models that only handle one type.
That upgrade comes a day after TikTok parent ByteDance launched a suite of new AI models and tools at reduced prices, underscoring the intensifying competition in the domestic market after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s cost-effective products garnered global attention.
