Alibaba Office building in Nanjing, Jiangasu province of China on August 28, 2024.
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Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched its latest AI model in its “Qwen Series”, as the big language model in China continues to heat up after the “Deepsek Moment”.
According to an announcement on Alibaba Cloud’s website, the new “Qwen2.5 -omni-7B” is a multimodal model, which means that it can process input including lessons, pictures, audio and video.
The company says that the model can be deployed on edge equipment such as mobile phones, which provides high efficiency without compromising performance.
Alibaba said, “This unique combination makes it the perfect foundation to develop this tight, cost -effective AI agents that distribute tangible value, especially intelligent voice applications.”
For example, it can be used to help a visually impaired impure person to navigate his environment through real -time audio details, the company said.
After the growing trend in China after creating its success R1 model Open-SOS, Dipsek has opened the new model open on the platforms hugging face and githb.
Open-source usually refers to software in which the source code is made freely available on the web for potential amendment and redistribution. In the previous years, Alibaba Claude says that it is open-and-cut of more than 200 generative AI models.
Amidst China’s AI enthusiasm, Deepsek, Alibaba and other generative AI contestants are quickly released new, cost -effective models and products at an unprecedented speed.
Last week, Chinese tech veteran Baidu A new multimodal foundational model and its first logic-centered model released.
Meanwhile, Alibaba started its updated Qwen 2.5 Artificial Intelligence Model in late January and released a new version of its AI Assistant Tool Quark earlier this month.
The company has strongly committed to its AI strategy, announced a plan to invest $ 53 billion in its cloud computing and AI infrastructure last month, which is more than spending in space in the last three years in the last three years.
At Morningstar, Asia’s senior equity analyst Kai Wang told CNBC that big Chinese technical players like Alibaba, who build data centers to meet AI’s computing requirements in addition to the construction of their own LLMs, are well deployed to benefit from China’s post-Deepasek AI Boom.
Alibaba won a major victory for her AI business last month when she confirmed that she was partnership with the company. Apple To roll AI integration for iPhones sold in China.
On Wednesday, the group reported an extended strategic partnership with BMW to accelerate the integration of AI in the wise vehicles of the carmaker’s next generation.
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