Alibaba CEO eyeing bigger AI R&D as company launches 100 new LLM programs

Alibaba Clouddigital technology backbone e-commerce the giant announced the release of more than 100 of its newly launched Qwen 2.5 LLMs to the global open-source community at the opening of the three-day Apsara conference, its annual flagship event, which runs through Saturday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

“Alibaba Cloud is investing more intensively than ever before in AI research and development and building its global infrastructure,” said Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu Yongmingwho also serves as president and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said at the event: “Our goal is to create the AI ​​infrastructure of the future to serve our global customers and unleash their business potential.”

Open source software provides public access to a program’s source code, allowing independent software developers to modify or share its design, repair broken links, or scale its capabilities. Open source technologies have been a huge contribution to China’s technology industry over the last few decades.

Qwen 2.5 is the latest version of Alibaba Cloud’s open source software Tongyi Qianwen LLM family. These models range from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters, offer extended knowledge and greater capabilities in mathematics and coding, and are capable of supporting more than 29 languages. Alibaba Cloud said they support a wide range of AI applications across sectors, from cars AND video games Down science tests.

The latest Alibaba Cloud announcements reflect HangzhouThe UK-based company is trying to keep pace with developments in artificial general intelligence (AGI), a field of research that aims to create software with human-like intelligence and the ability to learn on its own.