Recently, a research team jointly launched an open-source AI image generation model named Meissonic. Surprisingly, this model uses only one billion parameters while being able to generate high-quality images. This compact design gives Meissonic the potential to enable localized text-to-image applications on mobile devices. The technology behind this model involves a research team that includes Alibaba, Skywork AI, and researchers from various universities. They employed a unique transformer architecture and innovative training methods, which allow

Recently, a research achievement by a joint team from Sun Yat-sen University and Alibaba Cloud attracted widespread attention in the scientific community, published in the prestigious international journal 'Cell'. This groundbreaking study utilized advanced cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology to successfully discover over 160,000 entirely new RNA viruses, significantly expanding our understanding of the viral world. The deep learning algorithm developed by the research team, LucaProt, played a key role in this exploration. This powerful AI tool performed in-depth analysis on 10,487 RNA sequencing data sets worldwide.

Following OpenAI's GPT-4 achieving remarkable results in traditional mathematics assessments, the research teams from Peking University and Alibaba have jointly launched a brand new evaluation benchmark - Omni-MATH, aimed at assessing the reasoning abilities of large language models at the level of the Olympic mathematics competitions. This initiative not only provides a new standard for evaluating AI mathematics capabilities but also opens up new avenues for exploring AI's potential in advanced mathematics. The unique design of Omni-MATH includes a database of 4,428 competition-level mathematics problems.

At a recent press conference, Alibaba International's AI team unveiled its latest development, the multimodal large model Ovis. This innovative AI technology undoubtedly brings new opportunities across various industries. Ovis boasts powerful image understanding and data processing capabilities that are refreshing. Ovis's multimodal ability is exceptionally strong, allowing it to handle various data types such as text and images, showcasing excellent comprehensive strength. Compared to traditional large language models, Ovis not only understands text but also conducts in-depth analysis of non-text information such as images.

As the wave of technology sweeps across the globe, generative AI has undoubtedly become a focal point. However, Wu Yongming from Alibaba has presented a deeper insight: the true value of generative AI goes beyond creating dazzling applications; it lies in fundamentally changing the way we interact with the physical world. Wu keenly pointed out that people often fall into the thinking trap of 'overestimating short-term effects while underestimating long-term impacts' in the face of a new technological revolution. This phenomenon is particularly evident in the current fervor surrounding generative AI, with the public generally focusing on the immediate tangible effects that AI can bring.

The 2024 Yunqi Conference opened grandly in Hangzhou, with Alibaba Group CEO and Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group Chairman and CEO Wu Yongming delivering a keynote speech. During the conference, Alibaba announced a series of groundbreaking releases, including the launch of the next-generation open-source model Qwen2.5, which outperforms Llama405B and firmly holds the position of the 'strongest open-source large model'.

At the 2024 Hangzhou Cloud Habitat Conference, Alibaba Cloud announced the newly upgraded Tongyi Lingma. The upgraded Tongyi Lingma can now quickly complete multiple development tasks such as understanding requirements, breaking down tasks, writing code, fixing bugs, and testing with just a few sentences. Before the upgrade, Tongyi Lingma could only perform basic auxiliary programming tasks. This advancement greatly benefits developers, allowing them to develop an application from scratch in just a few minutes, with an increase in development efficiency by several dozen times! It is reported that since the launch of Tongyi Lingma, it has successfully been adopted by many well-known enterprises, including

Alibaba Group's Tongyi announced that its latest developed AI video generation large model - Tongyi Wanxiang AI Video Generation, is officially online. This technology, with its powerful visual dynamic generation capability, can quickly generate video content with various artistic styles and cinematic quality based on text prompts.

During the opening ceremony of the 2024 Yunqi Conference held today, Wu Yongming, director and CEO of Alibaba Group, as well as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Group, delivered a speech sharing profound insights on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He revealed that over the past year, the call price for the Tongyi Qianwen API on Alibaba Cloud's Bai Lian has dramatically dropped by 97%, with the cost of calling one million tokens now as low as 0.5 yuan, and Alibaba Cloud will continue to strive to reduce costs.

The Tongyi Qianwen team announced the official open source of the latest member of the Qwen family, the Qwen2.5 series language models, three months after the Qwen2 release. This marks one of the largest open source releases in history, including the general language model Qwen2.5, as well as the Qwen2.5-Coder and Qwen2.5-Math models specifically designed for programming and mathematics.

Alibaba's Tongyi is set to unveil its video generation large model at the upcoming Yunqi Conference, attracting significant attention from the industry. Currently, the Tongyi App channel and Tongyi Wanxiang PC version have quietly launched the 'Video Generation' entry, although the functionality is not yet open and users can only make reservations. According to page information, this new video generation large model is independently developed by Alibaba's Tongyi Laboratory, featuring two main creation modes: 'Text-to-Video' and 'Image-to-Video', allowing users to generate corresponding video content from text or images. This launch will undoubtedly bring new opportunities for content creators.

Connectly.ai, an AI service company aiding retailers in selling on messaging platforms, secured $20M in Series B funding led by Alibaba. The funds will expand its platform and increase San Francisco staff to 80 by year-end. Founded by Stefanos Loukakos, the platform integrates services like WhatsApp and SMS for personalized customer engagement, aiming for 100% revenue growth in 2024.....

On the occasion of Alibaba's 25th anniversary, the company's founder Jack Ma delivered an inspiring speech on the internal website. Ma emphasized that Alibaba's success is attributed to its unwavering commitment to idealism, belief in the power of the market and the value of innovation, and the conviction that only companies that create genuine value for society can endure.

Alibaba Group's Tongyi Qwen QwenLM project has encountered an unexpected takedown of its Github page, resulting in a 404 error message when users try to access it. Project leader Lin Junyang responded in a social media post, stating that the team has not disappeared and is in communication with officials to resolve the page takedown issue. Despite the team's efforts, the page remains inaccessible. It is worth noting that the team recently released the Qwen2-VL model, which has excelled in processing video content up to 20 minutes long, surpassing multiple authoritative evaluation metrics for multimodal models, with some metrics even exceeding those of GPT.

Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Large Model platform has launched a free 'PPT Creation' feature, simplifying the PPT production process through independent research and development. It supports intelligent content generation, beautiful design, and smart arrangement. Users only need to input text or upload documents for the system to automatically generate outlines and create content. The design relies on the Tongyi Wanxiang visual large model to ensure high relevance between images and themes. This feature offers various templates to meet needs such as work reports, academic presentations, and daily sharing. In addition, the Tongyi web version has upgraded its 'Real-time Recording' and 'Reading Assistant' features.

Alibaba's cloud computing division has released the new AI model Qwen2-VL, which possesses strong capabilities to understand visual content. It can analyze videos lasting up to 20 minutes in real-time, summarize the video content, answer related questions, and provide online chat support. In third-party benchmark tests, Qwen2-VL surpassed several metrics including Meta's Llama 3.1, OpenAI's GPT-4o, Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku, and Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash.