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The former Ali Tongyi Qianqian big model technology leader Zhou Chang (fancy name: Zhong Huang) was exposed on July 18th will leave to start a business, but on October 23rd, there is news that Zhou Chang has low-profile to join the byte jump. On November 13, a news about Alibaba's decision to apply for arbitration "Tongyi big model former employee Zhou Chang violated the non-compete agreement" quickly spread in the AI circle, close to Tongyi's industry insiders said "the situation is true". According to the first financial report today, a service byte headhunting company staff revealed: "Resignation to start a business is a front, is afraid of being non-compete, but...

According to surging news reports, Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming delivered a speech at the plenary session, saying that AI promotes productivity changes in thousands of industries and will create value far beyond that created by Internet links, "facing the AI era, Alibaba focuses on doing two things well, one is to continuously improve AI infrastructure, and the other is to adhere to open source and openness, and transform AI capabilities into productivity in thousands of industries. Productivity." Wu Yongming further revealed that in the past year, Alibaba has made intense investment in AI infrastructure. Thanks to the scale effect and technological progress, the arithmetic cost continues to decrease. Among them, Alibaba ...

Alibaba Dharma Institute (Lakeside Laboratory) held a decision-making intelligence product conference in Beijing, officially releasing the eight-view meteorological large model. According to the official introduction, the model introduces regional multi-source data on the basis of the global meteorological model, and the temporal and spatial accuracy can be up to 1 kilometer * 1 kilometer * 1 hour. By significantly improving the prediction performance of temperature, irradiation, wind speed and other key meteorological indicators, the eight-view meteorological model is the first to land on the new power system with a high proportion of new energy, helping the State Grid Shandong Power Control Center to successfully predict a number of extreme weather conditions, and the accuracy of new energy power generation and power load prediction has been increased to 96 respectively....

StarDrive Era, a body intelligence company, announced on October 16th that it has recently completed a Pre-A financing round of nearly 300 million RMB. The round was led by Clearstream Capital, Yuanjing Capital, and Alibaba, followed by Ceyuan Capital, and continued by veteran shareholders Lenovo Venture Partners, Century Jinyuan, Jinding Capital, Zeyu Capital, and Tsingtao Tiancheng, with China Renaissance continuing to serve as the exclusive financial advisor for the round. According to the company, this round of financing will mainly accelerate the native breakthrough research and development of embodied intelligence technology and the commercialization of universal humanoid robots, as well as continue to consolidate the company's talent, technological barriers and market leadership. The round of financing also...

Connectly.ai, a company that uses artificial intelligence to help retailers and e-commerce leaders sell products and services on any messaging platform, has just secured a $20 million Series B led by Alibaba, with Unusual Ventures, Volpe Capital, RX Ventures, Falabella Ventures, RX Ventures, Falabella and Philippos Kourkoulos Latsis followed. Connectly is funded by Facebook, Google,...

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Alibaba's founding, the company's founder, Jack Ma, delivered a moving speech on its internal website. Ma emphasized that Alibaba has become what it is today because it has always adhered to the spirit of idealism, believes in the power of the market and the value of innovation, and firmly believes that only companies that create real value for society can survive in the long run. Jack Ma reviewed the development of Alibaba, starting from a dream 25 years ago to a globally recognized Internet company today. He mentioned that the company has been able to achieve what it has today because it has always believed in the future, in Internet technology, and in...

Alibaba's cloud computing division has just released a new AI model, Qwen2-VL. The power of this model lies in its ability to understand visual content, including images and videos, and can even analyze videos up to 20 minutes long in real time, which is quite powerful. Compared with other leading advanced models (such as Meta's Llama3.1, OpenAI's GPT-4o, Anthropic's Claude3Haiku, and Google's Gemini-1.5Flash), it ranks second in third-party benchmarks...

On August 27, Quark, the intelligent information business group of Alibaba Group, released a newly upgraded PC application. This version comprehensively upgraded key functions such as AI search, AI writing, AI PPT, and AI file summary. After the AI search function of Quark PC was launched on the App, it has now been synchronized to the PC and equipped with more powerful model capabilities to achieve faster interaction speed. Quark AI is significantly ahead of industry standards in the speed of first word appearance and pronunciation, and can quickly provide accurate answers. In addition, the three-column interface design makes the display of pictures, texts, videos and other information clearer, allowing users to…

Alibaba Group recently released its first quarter performance report for fiscal year 2025, in which Alibaba Cloud performed particularly well. The financial report shows that Alibaba Cloud's revenue increased by 6% year-on-year to 26.549 billion yuan, AI-related product revenue achieved triple-digit growth, and public cloud business also achieved double-digit growth. Adjusted EBITA profit increased by 155% year-on-year to 2.337 billion yuan. Alibaba Cloud said it will continue to invest in customers and technology, especially in AI technology and infrastructure, to drive the adoption of cloud computing in AI applications and maintain its market leadership. In open source…

Recently, Alibaba launched a new open source voice model Qwen2-Audio based on its Qwen-Audio. This model not only performs well in voice recognition, translation and audio analysis, but also achieves significant improvements in functions and performance. Qwen2-Audio provides a basic version and a command fine-tuning version. Users can ask questions to the audio model through voice, and recognize and analyze the content. For example, users can ask a woman to say a paragraph, and Qwen2-Audio can determine her age or analyze her emotions; if a noisy voice is input…

Recently, Alibaba launched its latest speech synthesis model, CosyVoice, which shows us a beautiful blueprint for future human-computer interaction with its amazing realism and flexibility. This model can not only generate voices that conform to specific genders, ages, and personalities, but also simulate the natural characteristics of human speech, such as laughter, coughing, and breathing. What's more exciting is that it can even add emotions and styles to the generated voices, making AI's expressions more colorful. But CosyVoice is just the tip of the iceberg in Alibaba's voice technology. It is combined with another model called SenseVoice...

Alibaba's Alitongyi announced on July 31 that it will open its AI big model designed for the Olympics for free. The model not only has professional knowledge in the Olympic field, but also integrates Chinese-French translation functions. Users can use this service for free through the Tongyi APP. The AI big model has been specially trained for the Olympics and can quickly answer various questions related to the Olympics. Whether it is event knowledge or athletes from various countries and event history, users only need to ask simple questions to get detailed and professional answers. During the viewing process, if you encounter problems with the rules of the event, AI can provide detailed answers. In addition, users can also take pictures...

Alibaba International Digital Business Group issued an announcement announcing the launch of an artificial intelligence conversational procurement engine, which is expected to debut in September this year. According to the statement, the engine focuses on B2B e-commerce business and aims to change the global procurement process of small and medium-sized enterprises to make it more intuitive and efficient. Alibaba officials said that this new service will integrate all e-commerce platforms, focus on understanding natural language and converting it into professional procurement requests, and can also predict procurement needs and provide suggestions. ▲ Source: Alibaba International Digital Business Group (AIDC) is responsible for Alibaba Group's cross-border e-commerce, international retail,...

Alibaba's Tongyi APP announced the launch of a special AI tool - "Star-chasing AI". This is the first AI picture book tool in China that cares for autistic children, and provides customized AI picture book services for families of autistic children free of charge. This AI tool uses multiple services of the Tongyi big model based on Alibaba's self-developed Modelscope-Agent framework, and can generate a story outline from a sentence to a complete audio picture book. "Star-chasing A!" is different from most AIGC products. In order to facilitate the understanding of Xingbao, its pictures are simple, the characters are prominent, and the speech style is plain and direct. This AI tool can...

The United Nations held the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. Alibaba reached a strategic cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) Digital Health Cooperation Center to promote DAMO Academy's AI cancer screening technology to the world. Alibaba said that in China, DAMO Academy's AI cancer early screening technology has provided services to more than 6 million people, covering screening of pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, intestinal cancer, gastric cancer, liver tumors and other diseases. Internationally, it has reached a strategic cooperation with the Ministry of Health of Antigua and Barbuda. After the signing of this agreement, the WHO International Cooperation Center for Digital Health will provide services in channels, markets, implementation, etc.

Tongyi Renxin is an artificial intelligence service platform for the medical and health field under the Alibaba Group. This platform uses advanced AI technology to provide users with professional, accurate and effective medical and health information answering services. Through technologies such as natural language processing and deep learning, Tongyi Renxin can understand and answer users' questions about diseases, symptoms, drugs, report indicators, etc. Tongyi Renxin functions Ask reports: Users can ask questions about medical reports, and the platform will provide relevant explanations and information. Ask symptoms: The platform can help users understand and explain different medical symptoms, and provide...

Alibaba recently announced the open source release of Qwen1.5-110B, the first 100 billion parameter model in the Qwen1.5 series. The model is comparable to Meta-Llama3-70B in basic capability evaluation and performs well in Chat evaluations, including MT-Bench and AlpacaEval 2.0. Main content: It is reported that Qwen1.5-110B is similar to other Qwen1.5 models and uses the same Transformer decoder architecture. It includes group query attention (G…

Alibaba Research Team recently launched AtomoVideo high-fidelity image-to-video (I2V) framework, which aims to generate high-quality video content from static images and is compatible with various text-to-image (T2I) models. ▲ Image source: AtomoVIdeo team paper AtomoVideo features are as follows: High fidelity: The generated video is highly consistent with the input image in terms of details and style Motion consistency: The video moves smoothly, ensuring temporal consistency without abrupt jumps Video frame prediction: Through...

Tech Planet reported that Alibaba has established an AI e-commerce team and is currently building an AI e-commerce product "Huiwa" for merchants and influencers. It has already started an invitation test for a small number of Taobao merchants. It is reported that this product will improve the creative efficiency of Taobao, Tmall merchants and influencers in generating marketing copy and training exclusive AI models, so that products can be quickly promoted. Public information shows that the main developer of Huiwa is Hangzhou Lianfan Information Technology Co., Ltd., and industrial and commercial information shows that the company is held by Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. 100%. Pinduoduo…

MobileAgent is an autonomous multimodal AI agent developed by Alibaba that can simulate human operation of mobile phones. It is a pure visual solution that does not require any system code and completely understands and operates mobile phones by analyzing images. Features: Reliance on pure visual solutions: MobileAgent understands and operates mobile phones by analyzing images without any system code. This increases versatility and flexibility, enabling it to operate applications without access to underlying code or data permissions. Independence from XML and system metadata: No reliance on XML files and system metadata…

On November 10, at the 2023 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit Internet Entrepreneur Forum held yesterday, Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming delivered a speech. Wu Yongming said that Alibaba is about to open source a large model with 72 billion parameters, which will be the largest open source large model with the largest number of parameters in China. This is not the first time that Alibaba has open sourced a large model. In August of this year, Alibaba launched two open source models, Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat, which are the Tongyi Qianwen 7 billion parameter general model and dialogue model. In September of this year, Alibaba also open sourced the Tongyi Qianwen 14...