AI agent tool Manus announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen to launch a Chinese version. This collaboration will leverage Tongyi Qianwen's open-source model and utilize domestic computing platforms to implement Manus' full functionality, aiming to provide Chinese users with a more convenient and efficient AI application experience. Manus is a project incubated by the startup Monica.im, founded in July 2023, which focuses on developing consumer-oriented AI tools and browser extensions. The founding team...

Against the backdrop of rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, research and applications of AI large models are booming. Recent developments from various companies and institutions in this field have garnered significant attention. Firstly, Nvidia's price-to-earnings ratio before the launch of ChatGPT attracted considerable attention on Wall Street, with experts suggesting this might foreshadow a repeat of Apple's success story in 2008. Meanwhile, Yu Feng, CIO of Guotai Junan Securities, stated that the rise of AI large models will propel the securities industry into an era of "intelligent cognition".

On August 30, 2024, Alibaba Damo Academy's Tongyi Qianwen team announced a significant update to its latest achievement—the Qwen2-VL model. The Qwen2-VL model has achieved remarkable improvements in image understanding, video processing, and multilingual support, setting new benchmarks for key performance indicators.

In the early hours of today, Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen team released the Qwen2 series of open-source models. This series includes pre-trained and instruction-tuned models in five sizes: Qwen2-0.5B, Qwen2-1.5B, Qwen2-7B, Qwen2-57B-A14B, and Qwen2-72B. Key information indicates that these models show significant improvements in parameter count and performance compared to the previous generation Qwen1.5.