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Ali Tongyi Qianwen has open-sourced two models of the Qwen2-Audio series, Qwen2-Audio-7B and Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct. As a large-scale audio language model, Qwen2-Audio is able to accept various audio signal inputs and perform audio analysis or directly respond to text based on voice instructions. It has two different audio interaction modes: Voice chat: users can freely interact with Qwen2-Audio by voice without text input Audio analysis: users can…

Recently, Alibaba Entertainment launched its first makeup model - Shenli Nishang. This model focuses on the creative design of makeup for costume dramas, including three functions: styling design, makeup and hair design, and pattern design. By setting conditions such as dynasty, gender, identity, and entering relevant prompt words, it only takes 2 minutes to generate makeup pictures. This technology has been put into use in the costume drama "Palm". Source Note: The picture is generated by AI, and the picture is authorized by Midjourney. The traditional film and television art design process often requires a lot of manpower and time costs, and the emergence of this model provides creators with...

In recent years, short videos have been very popular, especially with the rise of short video platforms such as TikTok. Many people can post their daily life or work online, attracting a lot of attention, and some people have made their first pot of gold. However, video editing is a very energy-consuming task, and it often takes several hours to edit a video. Today I recommend an open source automated video editing tool from Alibaba - FunClip, which can help you easily edit videos. FunClip is a completely open source automated video editing tool that can be installed on our own computers and supports...

According to Alibaba's financial report, the company invested a total of approximately US$800 million (currently approximately RMB 5.9 billion) in the artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI in fiscal year 2024, purchasing approximately 36% equity, which is a preferred stock investment in Moonshot AI. Alibaba Group Chairman Joseph Tsai and CEO Wu Yongming wrote in a shareholder letter that the company "uses AI as the most powerful variable to change and accelerate business growth." The letter to shareholders stated that over the past 25 years, Alibaba has experienced continuous growth and has also shown some symptoms of "big company disease"...

Yesterday, Alibaba Cloud made a big move. One of their advanced AI models called Qwen-Long suddenly dropped in price. The price drop was so steep that the original cost of using this model could now save 97%. One dollar can buy a service that previously cost hundreds of dollars, which is about the same as buying five copies of the Xinhua Dictionary. Alibaba Cloud, Baidu Smart Cloud, and ByteDance have successively announced important news, reducing the cost of using large models to the freezing point. This "price war" has not only reshaped the industry landscape, but also brought unprecedented opportunities to enterprises and developers. Alibaba Cloud: Qwen-Long "game changer"...

Alibaba Cloud announced that the EMO model has been successfully launched in the Tongyi APP and is completely open to all users for free. Today, in the Tongyi Qianwen APP, users only need to do three simple steps: select a template, upload photos, and generate videos to easily achieve the magical effect of the characters in the photos acting and singing. The first batch of Tongyi APP launched up to 80 EMO templates, covering a variety of content such as popular songs and Internet memes. Users can choose preset audio to generate videos, but user-defined audio is not currently supported. The EMO model is an AI model carefully developed by Tongyi Lab. The portrait behind it…

On the eve of the May Day Labor Day, Alibaba released an "AI+" Career Trend Report, which detailed how various industries in my country use artificial intelligence (AI) to promote career development. The report clearly pointed out that AI has shown strong application value in many fields such as programming, design, and even pig farming, indicating that the era of "everyone has an AI assistant" is accelerating. In this context, AI capabilities are gradually becoming the core competitiveness of the workplace, and "human-machine collaboration" has become the new normal of work. The writing of this report is based on in-depth interviews with these "workplace AI people", and records in detail their...

Today, Alibaba founder Jack Ma published an in-depth post titled "To Reform and Innovation" on the intranet forum. This is the first time in five years since his retirement that he has shared his unique insights on the company's reform and innovation and future prospects in a long article. In the article, Jack Ma highly praised the new management team composed of Joseph Tsai and Wu Yongming, fully affirmed their courage to change, and believed that Alibaba has returned to the track of healthy growth and supported them to continue to deepen reforms. Jack Ma expressed his sincere appreciation for the new management team of Joseph Tsai and Wu Yongming at the beginning. He pointed out that in the past year, they faced problems and the future...

On April 7, Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen open-sourced the 32 billion parameter model Qwen1.5-32B. IT Home noted that Tongyi Qianwen had previously open-sourced 6 large language models with 500 million, 1.8 billion, 4 billion, 7 billion, 14 billion, and 72 billion parameters. The 32 billion parameter model open-sourced this time will achieve a more ideal balance between performance, efficiency, and memory usage. For example, compared with Tongyi Qianwen's 14B open-source model, 32B has stronger capabilities in intelligent agent scenarios; compared with Tongyi Qianwen's 72B open-source model, 32B's reasoning cost is…

As the main investors in domestic large-scale model start-ups, Tencent and Alibaba once again stood in the position of "financial sponsor". Since 2023, these two former major investors have coincidentally significantly reduced the number of their investments. According to Tianyancha public data, Tencent invested only 33 times in the whole year of 2023, an average of less than 3 times a month. In 2021 and 2022, Tencent invested 302 and 91 times respectively. For details, please see the previous article of Hedgehog Commune. With more than 300 investments in a year, Tencent has become the "King Duoyu" of the Internet. But focusing on the field related to large models, Tencent and Alibaba are the most "generous" in China...

The Tongyi Qianwen team launched the first MoE model of the Qwen series, named Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B. This model has only 2.7 billion activation parameters, but its performance is comparable to the current state-of-the-art 7 billion parameter model. Compared with Qwen1.5-7B, Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B has only 2 billion non-embedded parameters, which is about one-third the size of the original model. In addition, compared with Qwen1.5-7B, the training cost of Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B is reduced by 75%, and the inference speed is increased…

On March 19, Alibaba's big model product "Tongyi Tingwu" released a number of new features, including the audio and video question-and-answer assistant "Xiaowu", one-click AI rewriting, mind map generation and other six major functions. Tongyi Tingwu is connected to the Tongyi Qianwen big model and integrates more than ten AI functions, including transcription, translation, role separation, full text summary, chapter overview, speech summary, PPT extraction, etc., and supports marking key points and taking notes. Tongyi Tingwu has six new features in this upgrade, the most important of which is the audio and video question-and-answer assistant "Xiaowu", which directly "asks" out key information. Xiaowu uses multi-language Que...