Guides & Tutorials: Harnessing GenAI in Your Academic Journey: Chatbot Tools

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

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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 LLMs, which can be used for different purposes in research.

Please note that the information in this section is subject to revision and may change over time.
Last updated: Feb, 2025

GPT-4o GPT-4o mini Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407 Llama 3.3-70B Instruct Copilot with Bing

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	?*	Supports image-to-text Scores lower on some benchmarks compared to GPT-4o	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 3.3-70B Instruct (Meta)	Dec 2024	70B	Optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases Supports English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai	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.

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