The emblem of the Alibaba workplace constructing is seen within the Huangpu District in Shanghai, June 16, 2023.
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Alibaba Cloud stated on Thursday it launched the newest model of its giant language mannequin after greater than 90,000 deployments by corporations.
Jingren Zhou, chief know-how officer of Alibaba Cloud, stated in an announcement the agency has seen “many inventive functions of the fashions from throughout the industries,” together with shopper electronics and gaming.
“We stay up for collaborating with our clients and builders in seizing the immense
progress alternatives offered by the newest surge within the generative AI growth,” stated Zhou.
Alibaba Cloud stated the newest model of its Tongyi Qianwen mannequin, Qwen2.5, possesses “outstanding developments in reasoning, code comprehension, and textual understanding in comparison with its predecessor Qwen2.0.”
Giant language fashions energy synthetic intelligence functions like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. They’re educated on huge quantities of information to generate humanlike responses to consumer prompts.
The most recent Qwen mannequin fares higher than OpenAI’s GPT-4 mannequin in language and creation capabilities, however fell brief in different classes like data, reasoning and math, in response to a March evaluation by giant language mannequin analysis platform OpenCompass.
Alibaba launched Tongyi Qianwen in April 2023 after ChatGPT took the world by storm following its November 2022 launch. An upgraded model was launched in October with improved capabilities in understanding advanced directions, copywriting, reasoning, memorizing, amongst others.
Alibaba Cloud stated greater than 2.2 million company customers have accessed Qwen-powered AI companies similar to DingTalk – Alibaba’s reply to Slack.
The agency additionally stated it has launched a collection of recent Qwen fashions to the open-source neighborhood and upgraded Mannequin Studio, its generative AI platform, with new AI growth assets.
Different Chinese language tech giants similar to Baidu and Tencent have launched comparable chatbots and AI fashions amid explosive demand for generative AI. Baidu in April stated its Ernie bot has exceeded 200 million customers after acquiring the inexperienced mild for public use in August.
Generative AI is accelerating growth of humanoid robots in China the place these robots might assist with manufacturing unit work or labor.