Alibaba has announced the launch of its flagship AI application, New Quark. Built upon Alibaba Tongyi's leading reasoning and multimodal large models, New Quark is a comprehensively upgraded, boundless "AI Super Box." New Quark boasts powerful reasoning capabilities and enables multimodal interaction, allowing users to interact with AI in real-time. The AI will think and act based on user needs, continuously adjusting strategies to ensure task completion. This innovative design provides users with both convenience and an engaging experience.

On March 13th, Alibaba officially launched its AI flagship application—New Quark. This newly upgraded Quark, built upon Alibaba Tongyi's leading reasoning and multimodal large models, creates a boundless AI Super Box, offering users a brand-new AI experience.

Still lamenting the high barrier to entry for video production and the complexities of post-editing? Fear not! Alibaba's Tongyi Wan team has launched their latest heavyweight model: the All-in-One video generation and editing model—VACE. One of VACE's most striking capabilities is its powerful conditional video generation function. This means you only need to describe your desired scene in text, and VACE will quickly transform your imagination into reality. It's like having a dream film crew at your command, with astonishing efficiency!

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...

On March 11th, the Tongyi Lab team announced the open-sourcing of the R1-Omni model, marking a significant advancement in multimodal model development. This model integrates reinforcement learning with verifiable reward (RLVR) methods, focusing on improving reasoning capabilities and generalization performance in multimodal emotion recognition tasks. R1-Omni's training is divided into two stages. In the cold-start phase, the team fine-tuned the model using a combined dataset containing 580 video clips sourced from Explainable Multimodal Emotion...

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".

Alibaba's AI-powered search engine, Accio, has reached over one million users. New AI features are being added to further enhance its capabilities and empower global trade.

Manus, an AI Agent product from Chinese startup Monica, has recently gained traction on X. Its founder, Ji Yichao, today shared further technical details via social media. According to Ji, Manus is built upon Alibaba's Qwen large language model and leverages various fine-tuned models to achieve its unique functionalities. This revelation has sparked industry discussion regarding Manus's technological origins and further ignited global AI community interest in its potential.

According to the South China Morning Post, Alibaba is aggressively pushing the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, aiming for 100% adoption of AI tools by all merchants by the end of 2025, according to Zhang Kuo, president of Alibaba International Wholesale. Currently, over half of the approximately 200,000 merchants are using Alibaba's AI applications weekly. Launched in early 2024, these AI tools are designed to assist merchants with marketing, product management, customer interaction, and risk control. These measures are part of Alibaba's...

Reports indicate that the National Supercomputing Internet Platform has integrated Alibaba's Qwen large language model, officially providing the QwQ-32B API service. Users can access up to 1 million tokens free of charge, offering a valuable opportunity for developers and researchers. QwQ-32B is the latest open-source inference model from Alibaba's Tongyi team, demonstrating excellent performance. According to multiple authoritative benchmark tests, QwQ-32B's capabilities rival those of a fully-fledged 671B model.

Alibaba has open-sourced Babel, a powerful multilingual large language model capable of supporting 25 languages and impacting nearly 90% of the world's population. This release aims to democratize access to advanced AI technologies globally.

Alibaba has open-sourced its new inference model, Tongyi Qianwen QwQ-32B, enabling users with consumer-grade GPUs to achieve surprisingly high performance. This makes advanced AI capabilities accessible to a wider audience.