[Question] Are you considering supporting the model service at dashscope.aliyun.com?

[coolbeevip]

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Currently, Alibaba's dashscope.aliyun.com model service supports two methods: a private SDK and an OpenAI-compatible interface.

I have made some appropriate modifications to the Camel code, and I can now call the Qwen model on dashscope through the OpenAI-compatible interface.

Aside from adding appropriate model configurations in camel/models/model_factory.py and camel/types/enums.py, the only obstacle is that camel/utils/token_counting.py checks for the model name and throws an exception if there’s a mismatch (could we use a default value instead and log a warning instead of throwing an exception?).

Being new to Camel, I wondered if the compatible model interface was appropriate. While many model services provide an interface compatible with OpenAI, support for function calls varies widely.

[Wendong-Fan]

Hey @coolbeevip , thanks for the question! It's a great idea to add more support for models support OpenAI-compatible interface, I will create a PR for this and add you as reviewer. To support more model types I will not set model type as enum value, I will let user pass the model type string directly and I will set OpenAI's token counter as default one, but allow user to switch the token counter based on their needs

[Wendong-Fan]

@coolbeevip PR create: https://github.com/camel-ai/camel/pull/815

[coolbeevip]

@coolbeevip PR create: #815

Thanks LGTM