Technically HR: Move over, ChatGPT—new multilingual, multimodal AI platform launches

Move over ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini—there’s a new AI platform in town, and it means business (and personal and creative).

This week, QX Lab AI launched its new Ask QX Pro, a multilingual AI platform with text to image, image to text, document analysis, and text-to-code capabilities. This new version builds on the text-to-text features available in the first Ask QX launch in February.

The new service focuses on solutions for businesses and creatives, as well as for personal use. Ask QX has garnered more than 15 million users, 4 million of whom engage with the platform on a regular basis, according to a company press release. QX Lab AI’s co-founder and chief strategy officer, Arjun Prasad, told HR Brew that the company worked to deliver a solution that was user ready before marketing the product.

“We’ve been building in stealth mode, we’ve been one of the few companies that haven’t actually been talking about what we’re building,” he said.

ChatGPT’s OpenAI reportedly fetches 180 million active monthly users and 1.6 billion monthly visits. Google’s Gemini’s—formerly Bard—receives almost 331 million monthly visits.

“Google and OpenAI are large conglomerates. We’re a bootstrapped company which has managed to create a multimodal capability in 120-plus languages,” Prasad said, adding that unlike translation apps, Ask QX Pro is rewritten in more than 120 languages natively.

Prasad sees the platform—available on the web, on Android devices, and in the Apple store—as a safer platform for enterprise operations while also democratizing AI for the general user.

He also contends that Ask QX Pro data protection measures are stronger than the larger competitors because of its “node-based architecture,” which relies on user-specific models on nodes, rather than the large language model of a ChatGPT platform. The data in the model delivered for customers will be curated to better match the use case. It is also trained on premise, keeping company private personal information and anything proprietary in-house, rather than training the larger model. This concern is high on the agenda for many business leaders.

“Everything is in one platform,” he said. “We also have our own search engine, which is plugged in, which actually references and sources where the data is extracted from.”

Zoom out. As the working public gets more comfortable with the idea that everyone will likely be (or already is) using AI at work, choosing the right AI products and tools might become a complicated task. Reminds us of the days when, “Hello, I’m a Mac…And I’m A PC” really meant something.

Between OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Google’s Gemini (among many others), Ask QX Pro’s entry into the market may add another possibility for people leaders.