JD.com, China’s leading e-commerce giant, will launch its own ChatGPT-styled project, dubbed ChatJD. According to JD.com, the project will follow a “1-2-5” road map, which includes one platform (ChatJD), two industries (retail and finance), and five applications (content generation, information )

Generating content, drawing information, interpreting users’ intent, categorizing emotions and human-machine communication.

JD.com will be launching ChatJD through JD cloud, which “has over ten years of experience in the fields of retail and finance, and accumulated 4 layers of knowledge system, more than 40 independent subsystems, more than 3,000 intentions and 30 million high-quality Q&A knowledge points, covering more than 10 million kinds of self-owned products of e-commerce knowledge map”, according to the company.

He Xiaodong, vice president of the JD Group, said that JD.com has been advancing on the ChatAI and AIGC tracks, but puts more focus on application on businesses’ end, instead of consumers’ end.

The announcement makes JD.com the newest player in the AI chatbot race, following the footsteps of Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Google’s Bard, Baidu’s Ernie. China’s ICT giant and short video streaming app Kuaishou have also made clear their interest in language models — Huawei is in the process of “establishing a consortium to promote industrialization”, and Kuaishou is committing to Large Language Model(LLM) research, including model training, copy-writing generation and conversational system development.