On August 28, 2024, the Alibaba office building in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Alibaba On Thursday, the company released more than 100 open source artificial intelligence models and enhanced the capabilities of its proprietary technology to strengthen competition with rivals.
Alibaba said the newly released model, called Qwen 2.5, is intended for applications and fields such as automotive, gaming and scientific research. They have more advanced abilities in mathematics and coding, it added.
The Hangzhou-based company is looking to increase Competition with domestic competitors For example Baidu and Huawei, as well as American giants, etc. Microsoft and OpenAI.
Artificial intelligence models are trained based on large amounts of data. Alibaba says its model is able to understand prompts and produce text and images.
Being open source means that anyone around the world – including researchers, academics and companies – can use these models to create their own generative AI applications without having to train their own systems, saving time and cost. Through the open source model, Alibaba hopes that more users will use its artificial intelligence.
The Chinese e-commerce giant first launched Tong Yiqianwen (Qwen), last year’s model. It has since released an improved version and says its open source model has been downloaded 40 million times to date.
The company also said it upgraded its proprietary flagship model called Qwen-Max, which is not open source. Instead, Alibaba sells its capabilities to businesses through its cloud computing products. Alibaba says the Qwen Max 2.5-Max surpasses products such as YuanLlama and OpenAI’s GPT4 in multiple areas, including inference and language understanding.
Alibaba has also launched a new text-to-video tool based on its artificial intelligence model. This allows users to enter prompts and AI will create a movie based on the prompts. This is Similar to OpenAI’s Sora.
“Alibaba Cloud is investing in the research and development of artificial intelligence technology and the construction of global infrastructure with unprecedented intensity,” Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said in a statement.
Wu, who He took over as CEO of Alibaba last year The tech giant has been struggling to revive growth amid a historic reshuffle as it faces headwinds including increased competition and sluggish Chinese consumers.
Alibaba is one of China’s largest cloud computing companies, but internationally it lags behind others Amazon and Microsoft. The company hopes its latest artificial intelligence product will attract customers inside and outside China to sign up for its cloud services, boosting a sector that has been sluggish but has shown early signs of recovery. June quarter acceleration.
