Chinese expertise firm Alibaba launched on Thursday new open-source synthetic intelligence fashions and text-to-video AI expertise, intensifying its efforts to compete within the booming space of generative AI.
The open-source fashions, numbering greater than 100, come from Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 household, its newest foundational massive language mannequin launched in May.
Chinese expertise firms, like their U.S. counterparts, have been investing closely in generative AI, with corporations racing to develop sturdy product portfolios and diversified choices.
While opponents equivalent to Baidu and OpenAI have primarily adopted closed-source approaches, Alibaba has embraced a hybrid mannequin, investing in each proprietary and open-source improvement to broaden its AI product vary.
Its new fashions vary from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters – the variables that decide an AI mannequin’s functionality and efficiency – in measurement, providing proficiency in arithmetic, coding, and assist for over 29 languages, Alibaba stated in a press release.
The fashions intention to cater to a big selection of AI functions throughout numerous sectors together with automotive, gaming, and scientific analysis.
Alibaba on Thursday additionally unveiled a brand new text-to-video mannequin as a part of its Tongyi Wanxiang picture technology household, becoming a member of a rising variety of Chinese tech corporations coming into this rising market.
The transfer places Alibaba in direct competitors with world gamers equivalent to OpenAI, which has additionally proven curiosity in text-to-video expertise.
In August, ByteDance, proprietor of TikTok, launched its text-to-video app Jimeng AI on Apple’s App Store for Chinese customers.
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