Alibaba office building in Nanjingu, Jiangsu Province, China, August 28, 2024.
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Alibaba On Thursday, Cloud launched its latest AI model in its “Qwen series”, as the competition of major linguistic models in China continues to warm up after a “deep moment”.
The new “Qwen2.5-Log-7b” is a multimodal model, which means that it can process the entrances, including text, pictures, sound and video, at the same time generating text and natural speeches in real time, according to a announcement On Alibaba Cloud website.
The company says the model can be scheduled on edge devices Like mobile phones, offering high efficiency without endangering performance.
“This unique combination makes it a perfect basis for the development of agile, economical AI agents who deliver tangible value, especially intelligent voice applications,” Alibaba said.
For example, this could be used to help a person with a visual impairment that it moves with its environment through an audio description in real time, the company added.
The new model is open on platforms hugged face and github, following a A growing trend in China After Deepseek made his breakthrough R1 model open code.
Open-Source is generally related to the software in which the original code is freely available on the web for possible changes and redistribution. Over the past years, Alibaba Cloud says more than 200 generative AI models have been opened.
In the midst of China’s fervor accelerated by Deepseek, Alibaba and other generative AI competitors, they published new, economical models and products of an unprecedented pace.
Last week Chinese technological giant Baid released The new multimodal fundamental model and its first model focused on reasoning.
Alibaba, meanwhile, presented his updated Model for artificial intelligence Qwen 2.5 at the end of January and published a New version his AI auxiliary tool Quark earlier this month.
The company has strongly committed to its AI strategy, announcing last month a plan To invest $ 53 billion in your Cloud Computing Infrastructure and AI in the next three years, exceeding what he spent in space in the past decade.
Kai Wang, an elderly capital analyst in Asia in Morningstar, told CNBC that great Chinese technological players like Alibaba, who build data centers to meet computer needs AI, besides building their own LLMS, have positioned themselves well from the Chinese AI BUM.
Alibaba also secured a great victory for her AI job last month when confirmed That the company was a partner Apple To cheer up ai integration for iPhone -selling devices in China.
