With Artificial Intelligence (AI) set to revolutionize education, HKU ITS is providing selected large-language models, embedding, and image generation models, powered by Microsoft’s Azure and Google’s Vertex AI services, for staff and students to prepare for the future and reap benefits from the immense potential AI has to offer. Limited to teaching, learning, work and research-related purposes only, these AI assistants can help users resolve queries and assist in tasks.
Staff
HKU ChatGPT Web App
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gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-5-nano, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5.1, gpt-5.3-codex, gpt-5.4, o4-mini
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DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3.2
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Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 3 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro
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Qwen3 235B, Qwen3-Next-80B Instruct, Qwen3-Next-80B Thinking
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GLM 4.7
HKU DALL∙E Web App
- gpt-image-1.5
- Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)
HKU ITS Developer Portal API
Up to 300 requests per day
- Aforementioned models
- text-embedding-ada-002, text-embedding-3-small
Contact ITS Service Desk to increase the quota limit via a self-pay subscription (not applicable to Gemini, Qwen3, and GLM models).
HKU ChatGPT Web App
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gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4.1-mini, gpt-4.1, gpt-5-nano, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5.1, gpt-5.3-codex, gpt-5.4, o4-mini
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DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3.2
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Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 3 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Pro
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Qwen3 235B, Qwen3-Next-80B Instruct, Qwen3-Next-80B Thinking
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GLM 4.7
HKU DALL∙E Web App
- gpt-image-1.5
- Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image), Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)
HKU ITS Developer Portal API
- Aforementioned models
- text-embedding-ada-002, text-embedding-3-small
Up to 500,000 tokens a month for both web apps and Developer Portal APIs. Number of tokens used per request varies based on several factors.
Be aware of each course’s policy on using AI for assistance in any coursework. Failure to adhere to the course policy can lead to disciplinary action against the student.
Data Privacy and Content Filtering
With respect to data privacy, user inputs in the web apps, for both staff and students, are not recorded by HKU, Microsoft, and Google. There is also a default content filtering system in place to avoid hate, sexual, violent and self-harm outputs.