According to informed sources, Apple is collaborating with Chinese tech giant Alibaba to develop AI features for iPhone users in China. This news marks a new development in Apple's partnership in the AI field within the Chinese market. Over the past few months, Apple has been actively assessing multiple potential partners, including Tencent, ByteDance, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, with the aim of creating AI features for the domestic iPhone model. After thorough consideration, Apple ultimately chose to partner with Alibaba.

Recently, Huggingface, the world's largest open source AI community, released the latest Open LLM Leaderboard. The results show that all ten of the top-ranked open source large models are derivative models that have been fine-tuned based on Alibaba Tongyi Qwen's (Qwen) open-source model. This achievement marks Qwen's dominant position in the open-source AI field and further enhances its global influence. The Open LLM Leaderboard is widely...

Recently, Alibaba Group welcomed a heavyweight figure - the globally top AI scientist Xu Zhuhong (Steven Hoi). Xu Zhuhong will serve as Vice President of Alibaba Group, specifically responsible for the development and promotion of foundational research and application solutions related to multimodal foundational models and Agents in the AI To C business field.

Recently, Alibaba has welcomed a heavyweight figure in the field of AI. According to industry insiders, a top global artificial intelligence scientist has officially joined Alibaba and will focus on the research and application of foundational large models for AI To C business in the future. This scientist has over 20 years of experience in both industry and academia, with significant achievements in the field of multimodal AI, having led the publication of over a hundred top papers on large models.

Alibaba Cloud Tongyi has open-sourced a new visual model Qwen2.5-VL, launching three sizes: 3B, 7B, and 72B. The flagship model Qwen2.5-VL-72B won the championship in visual understanding across 13 authoritative evaluations, surpassing GPT-4o and Claude 3.5. According to Alibaba Cloud's official introduction, the new Qwen2.5-VL can analyze image content more accurately and support breakthrough video understanding of over 1 hour. This model can search for specific events in videos, and provide insights on...

Recently, Zhejiang University and Alibaba DAMO Academy jointly released a remarkable study aimed at creating high-quality multimodal textbooks from educational videos. This innovative research not only provides new ideas for training large-scale language models (VLMs) but may also change the way educational resources are utilized. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, the pre-training corpus of VLMs mainly relies on visual-text pairs and visually intertwined data. However, much of this current data comes from the web, where the correlation between text and images is weak, and the knowledge density is relatively low.

Today, the Alibaba Cloud Tongyi team officially released the new mathematical reasoning process reward model Qwen2.5-Math-PRM. This model offers two sizes, 72B and 7B, with performance significantly outperforming similar open-source process reward models, especially excelling in identifying reasoning errors. The 7B version of Qwen2.5-Math-PRM astonishingly surpasses the widely popular GPT-4o, marking an important step in Alibaba Cloud's research and development of reasoning models.

The Alibaba Qwen team recently published a paper titled 'Lessons Learned from the Development of Process Reward Models in Mathematical Reasoning' and introduced two new models in the Qwen2.5-Math-PRM series, featuring 7B and 72B parameters respectively. These models break through the limitations of the existing PRM framework in mathematical reasoning, significantly improving the accuracy and generalization ability of reasoning models through innovative techniques. Mathematical reasoning has long been a major challenge for large language models (LLMs), especially regarding errors in intermediate reasoning steps.

Recently, Alibaba Damo Academy launched a multi-modal large language model named Valley 2, designed for e-commerce scenarios. It aims to enhance performance across various fields and expand the application boundaries of e-commerce and short video scenarios through a scalable vision-language architecture. Valley 2 utilizes Qwen 2.5 as its LLM backbone, paired with the SigLIP-384 visual encoder, incorporating MLP layers and convolution for efficient feature transformation.

Recently, Transsion Holdings has partnered with Alibaba Cloud to integrate the Tongyi Qianwen model into the AI phone PHANTOM V Fold2 launched by Transsion's tech brand TECNO, successfully creating a deeply localized 'practical AI.' This phone features a specific AI button, allowing users to invoke the edge-side large model with one click, enabling smooth multi-round AI conversations even in offline environments, as well as functions such as document and call summarization. Transsion and Alibaba Cloud have carried out extensive technological innovations on this phone based on MediaTek chips, including model optimization.

On January 7, 2025, Beijing Zero One Everything Technology Co., Ltd. refuted recent online rumors regarding 'Alibaba acquiring Zero One Everything'. The company clearly stated that these rumors are untrue and denied the related false statements. Zero One Everything emphasized that its collaboration with Alibaba Cloud is based on deep cooperation in technology, computing power, business, and talent, rather than an acquisition relationship.

Today, China Central Television announced that Alibaba Cloud has become the exclusive partner for cloud computing and AI for the Spring Festival Gala, enabling Chinese people worldwide to watch the Gala online. This marks the first time in the history of the Spring Festival Gala that a technology partner has been introduced. Reference for the image: The image is generated by AI, authorized by service provider Midjourney. Alibaba Cloud will provide cloud computing and AI technology support for the Spring Festival Gala, helping Chinese people globally to watch the event online. Currently, Alibaba Cloud operates 85 availability zones across 28 regions worldwide, making it the largest cloud service provider in China and the first in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Qwen team recently announced the open-source release of their latest multimodal reasoning model, QVQ, marking an important step forward in the capabilities of artificial intelligence in visual understanding and complex problem-solving. This model is based on Qwen2-VL-72B and aims to enhance AI reasoning capabilities by combining language and visual information. In the MMMU evaluation, QVQ achieved a high score of 70.3, demonstrating significant performance improvements over Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in several math-related benchmark tests.