HANGZHOU, CHINA – Media OutReach – October 31, 2023 – Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, today announced the launch of
Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, its latest major language model (LLM), as well as new industry-specific models at its annual flagship technology event, the Apsara Conference. This release represents another significant advancement in Alibaba Cloud’s pursuit of cutting-edge AI innovation and its continued commitment to powering digital transformation for businesses.
In response to the growing demand for powerful infrastructure supporting the development of generative AI, Alibaba Cloud also unveiled an AI model training platform and a series of innovative cloud products. New initiatives aimed at strengthening the open source AI model community and global AI startups were also unveiled at the conference. These resources are designed to enable customers, partners, developers, startups and the broader community to fully exploit the potential of generative AI.
“Currently, 80% of Chinese technology companies and half of large model companies operate on Alibaba Cloud. We aim to be the most open cloud in the AI era. We hope that through this cloud it will become easier and affordable for everyone. develop and use AI, so we can help, especially small and medium-sized businesses, turn AI into huge productivity,” said
Joe Tsai, Chairman of Alibaba Group.
Tongyi Qianwen 2.0: a leap forward in LLM
Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, a generic LLM with a few hundred billion parameters, represents a substantial upgrade over its predecessor launched in April. The model successfully outperforms some leading LLMs in benchmark tests in areas ranging from language comprehension to arithmetic problem solving to question answering.
With enlarged model size and improved alignment technique, Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 demonstrates remarkable abilities in understanding complex instructions, writing, reasoning, memorizing and preventing hallucinations. The model is now accessible to the public via its
website and mobile applications, and available to developers via APIs.
Industry-Specific Models: AI for Improved Business Performance
In addition, Alibaba Cloud also released
new industry specific models to help businesses unlock the transformative potential of generative AI across industries to improve business performance. These industries include customer support, legal advice, healthcare, finance, documentation management, audio and video management, code development, and character creation.
“Major language models hold immense potential to revolutionize industries. We are committed to using cutting-edge technologies, including generative AI, to help our customers benefit from the growth dynamics ahead,” said
Jingren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud. “To help businesses better realize the benefits of generative AI in a cost-effective manner, we are launching a more powerful base model as well as industry-specific models to address domain-specific challenges. Through these initiatives, we hope that our proprietary models can bring real values to our customers to improve operational efficiency and remain competitive. »
GenAI Services Platform: A comprehensive AI model building platform
To meet the growing demand for generative AI, Alibaba Cloud introduced
GenAI Services Platform, an all-in-one AI model building platform aimed at streamlining the process of model development and application creation. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for data management, model deployment and evaluation, and rapid engineering, making it easier for companies across industries to develop their industry-specific AI models. ‘business.
Innovative cloud products to drive the development of generative AI
To meet the growing computing and data processing needs required in the development of generative AI, Alibaba Cloud has launched a series of innovative cloud products covering machine learning, containers and databases.
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To improve the efficiency of LLM model training and inference, Alibaba Cloud has upgraded its
Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), providing enhanced computing power, networking, storage, compute, container, model training, and inference capabilities. AI and metaverse technology company Futureverse trained its text-to-music generation model on PAI leveraging its high performance and easy-to-scale capabilities to improve effectiveness and efficiency .
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To accelerate the process of creating custom generative AI applications, Alibaba Cloud has enhanced its comprehensive suite of
database solutions – including the cloud-native PolarDB database, the cloud-native AnalyticDB data warehouse and the cloud-native multi-model database Lindorm – with its proprietary vector engine. It also introduced LLM-based database ecosystem tools, including the Data Management Service (DMS) intelligent data analysis assistant Data Copilot.
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To enable a more scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure for application development, Alibaba Cloud unveiled
Alibaba Cloud Container Computing Service (ACS), a pioneering serverless solution that integrates container services with its cloud computing resources. ACS allows businesses and developers to deploy the resources of Kubernetes, a container-centric management software, in a more cost-effective and user-friendly way.
Community programs to foster the development of AI
Aiming to support the broader AI community, Alibaba Cloud is committed to further contributing to open source communities, including ModelScope, the AI community launched by the company with over 100 million model downloads since its inception. a year ago. The cloud pioneer plans to
open source its 72 billion parameter version of Tongyi Qianwen Later this year.
Alibaba Cloud also announced the
Alibaba Cloud Startup Catalyst Programoffering cloud computing resources including up to $120,000 in cloud credit, free online training memberships and networking opportunities to promising global startups including AI companies.
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