April 24 (Reuters) – Russian lender Sberbank (SBER.MM) mentioned on Monday it had launched know-how known as GigaChat as a rival to ChatGPT, initially in an invite-only testing mode, becoming a member of the factitious intelligence chatbot race.
The discharge final yr of ChatGPT, a chatbot from the Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) startup OpenAI, has brought about a dash within the know-how sector to place AI into extra customers’ palms. The hope is to reshape how individuals work and win enterprise within the course of.
Sberbank mentioned what units GigaChat aside was its skill to speak extra intelligently in Russian than different international neural networks.
Russia’s dominant financial institution has invested closely in know-how in recent times, in search of to scale back the nation’s reliance on imports, a course of that has change into critically necessary as Western nations have slashed exports to Russia and imposed punitive sanctions over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.
Reporting by Alexander Marrow
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