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In an interview with a Sequoia Capital podcast last week, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott reiterated his belief that the "law of scale" of large language models (LLMs) will continue to drive progress in artificial intelligence, despite suspicions among some in the field that progress has stagnated. Scott played a key role in Microsoft's $13 billion technology-sharing agreement with OpenAI. "Others may disagree, but I don't think that scale has reached a critical point of diminishing returns," Scott said. "I want people to understand that there is a...

At the 2024 Shanghai World Artificial Intelligence Conference today, Alibaba Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren announced the latest progress of Tongyi Big Model and Alibaba Cloud Bailian Platform: In the past two months, the download volume of Tongyi Qianwen open source model has doubled, exceeding 20 million times; the number of customers served by Alibaba Cloud Bailian has 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 Big Model series at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference. At that time, we announced that the Tongyi core model would be open source. Today, Tongyi...