At today's 2024 Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference,Alibaba Cloud CTO Zhou JingrenAnnouncement of recentTongyi Large ModelAnd the latest progress of Alibaba Cloud Bailian Platform:
In the past two months, Tongyi QianwenOpen SourceModel downloads increased 2 times, exceeding 20 millionThe number of customers served by Alibaba Cloud Bailian increased from 90,000 to 230,000, an increase of more than 150%.
Zhou Jingren reiterated Alibaba Cloud's firm stance on embracing open source"Two years ago, we released the Tongyi large model series at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference. At that time, we announced that Tongyi's core models would be open source. Today, Tongyi Qianwen has achieved full-scale and full-modal open source in the true sense, narrowing the gap between open source and closed source models."
Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li has a different view on this. He said during the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference,Open source is actually a kind of IQ tax"When you think rationally about what value a large model can bring and at what cost, you will find that you should always choose a closed-source model. Today, closed-source models such as ChatGPT and Wenxin Yiyan are definitely more powerful than open-source models and have lower inference costs."