On August 28, 2024, I saw the Alibaba office building in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Alibaba It said Wednesday it has used video AI models for free, further exacerbating competition with competitors such as Openai.
The Chinese giant says it is open source four models, which are part of its WAN2.1 series, the latest version of the company’s basic AI model that can generate images and videos from text and image input.
These models will be provided through Alibaba Cloud’s model scope and embrace Face, a huge repository of AI models. They will be available to scholars, researchers and commercial organizations around the world.
Alibaba’s Hong Kong listed stocks rose nearly 5%.
Since Chinese company DeepSeek In January, the global market in January claimed that training for its AI models was a fraction of the cost of leading AI players and was trained in case of insufficient. Nvidia Bargaining chips.
DeepSeek’s model is open source, such as Alibaba’s model, which means it can be downloaded and modified.
Open source is different from proprietary models, such as those created by OpenAI, and does not generate revenue for the company. Open procurement technologies can be used for many purposes, including driving innovation and building communities around products.
Debate is currently under debate Will AI models become commoditized.
In particular, Chinese companies have been pushing open source models, Alibaba and Deepseek Now the most popular in the world. Alibaba published it The first open source model In August 2023, Meta leads open source fees in the United States with its llama model
Alibaba’s stock has been crying this year, and Hong Kong has listed 66% in 2025 so far Improve financial performanceIts perception is one of the major AI players in China, and the latest signal Further support From Chinese President Xi Jinping’s domestic private sector.
