Chinese and US firms collaborate on first global generative AI standards
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China's Ant Group, Baidu, and Tencent collaborate with US firms OpenAI, Microsoft, and Nvidia to publish two international standards on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs). The standards, released during a side event at the United Nations Science and Technology Conference, are the first global standards specifically covering GenAI and LLM. The GenAI standard provides a framework for testing and validating the security of GenAI applications, while the LLM guideline outlines attack methodologies to test an LLM's resistance to hacks. The collaboration aims to keep the technology safe as GenAI develops rapidly and becomes increasingly used by businesses and individual users. China became the first country to regulate GenAI in July 2021, and since then, Beijing has approved several tech companies, including Ant, Baidu, and Tencent, to open their LLMs for commercial use. International standards and regulations on AI have existed before GenAI became popular, including Unesco's "Recommendation on the Ethics of AI" and AI-related guidelines published by the International Organisation for Standardisation.
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