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Harnessing GenAI in Your Academic Journey

Chatbots utilizing different large language models (LLMs) for various language tasks, such as refining research questions, checking grammar, polishing language, and translation, or even generic information search.

PolyU GenAI App

PolyU ITS offers a variety of GenAI chatbots for staff and students to use in teaching, research, and work-related activities. Access requires authentication with a PolyU NetID. For technical issues of this service, please contact ITS.

The following compares these available GenAI large language models(LLMs), which can be used for ideas and language enhancement in research.

Please note that the information in this section is subject to revision and may change over time.
Last updated: Dec, 2024

 

Model Release Total Parameters Key Features Max. Prompt Size
(in English Characters)		 Host Chat Limit
GPT-4o
(OpenAI)		 May 2024 ?*
  • Fast processing
  • Supports image-to-text
  • Supports more complex text prompts
  • Better translation between languages
 100,000 Microsoft Azure Cloud

Total 1850 credits limit per month (credits share with GPT-4o mini)

*The use of GPT-4o consumes more credit than GPT-4o-mini
GPT-4o mini
(OpenAI)		 Jul
2024		 ?* 100,000 Microsoft Azure Cloud

Total 1850 credits limit per month (credits share with GPT-4o)

*The use of GPT-4o consumes more credit than GPT-4o-mini
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
通义千问
(Alibaba)		 Sep
2024		 72B
  • Supports understanding of text within images
  • Multilingual support including English, Chinese, and most European languages
 100,000 PolyU Campus^

Use of the model will NOT consume the monthly use entitlement credit
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
通义千问
(Alibaba)		 Sep
2024		 72B
  • Excels in conversational understanding and math problems
  • Enhanced multilingual support, especially for tasks in Chinese
 100,000 PolyU Campus^

Use of the model will NOT consume the monthly use entitlement credit
Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407
(Mixtral AI)		 Jul
2024		 123B
  • Excellent for complex reasoning
  • Comparable to GPT-4o in common sense and reasoning
  • Good at processing code inputs
 100,000 PolyU Campus^

Use of the model will NOT consume the monthly use entitlement credit
Llama 3.1-70B Instruct
(Meta)		 Jul
2024		 70B
  • Excels in language understanding and reasoning
 100,000 PolyU Campus^

Use of the model will NOT consume the monthly use entitlement credit
Copilot with Bing
(Microsoft)		 Nov
2023?		 ?*
  • Integrated with Bing search for real-time information retrieval
  • Supports image-to-text
  • Adjustable tone of responses
  • Can be installed in Edge, computers, and mobile devices
  • Powered by GPT-4, Prometheus, and DALL-E3?
 16,000

Service provided by Microsoft

(Copilot Commercial Data Protection (CDP) available c.f. personal account)
  • 30 response quotas for each conversation
  • New conversation can be initiated once 30 responses have been reached

*The number of parameters for these models was not disclosed. 
^Information input to GenAI models hosted in PolyU Campus is encrypted and will be erased within 48 hours.