Alibaba Cloud, a digital technology business and Alibaba Group’s intelligence core launched Tongyi Qianwen. This new AI model will be applied to Alibaba’s businesses in the near future. to enhance a good experience for users In addition, the company’s customers And developers will have access to this model. to create customized AI features in a cost-effective way
Alibaba Cloud also announced lower pricing options for its cloud core services, such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) and Object Storage Service (OSS), with the introduction of a new ECS instance, OSS Reserved Capacity. (OSS-RC) and OSS Anywhere Reserved Capacity (OSS-ARC) to help companies make computing more accessible. And can take advantage of the opportunities that arise in the modern AI era in China at a reasonable cost.
Daniel Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said: and businesses across all sectors have embarked on smart transformations to stay ahead of the competition. It is a driving force for us to enter a period of technological change. In addition, Alibaba Cloud as one of the world’s leading cloud computing providers Committed to providing more comprehensive computing and AI services and provide more access to enterprises and software developers. for them to gain insights Able to search for new business models for business expansion as well as being able to create cutting-edge products and services for society.”
Applying Tongyi Qianwen to Alibaba’s businesses and building customer-specific models
- Tongyi Qianwen (通义千问 in Chinese) will soon be integrated into all business applications within the Alibaba ecosystem. to enhance a good experience for users Whether it’s corporate communications, intelligent voice assistants, e-commerce, search, navigation. and entertainment This model is capable of both Chinese and English. It will be applied first to DingTalk, Alibaba’s digital collaboration and application development platform, and to Tmall Genie, an internet-based smart home appliances provider. Of Thinking (IoT)
- Enhance DingTalk with Tongyi Qianwen Designed to help work communication more efficient, for example, DingTalk can summarize meeting notes. Turn meeting conversations into text messages, compose emails, and sketch business presentations or promotional campaign plans through simple instructions. And immediately change to a mini application on DingTalk
- Empowering Tmall Genie Tongyi with Qianwen will enable a more dynamic and lively engagement in conversations with users in China, such as developing and telling children’s stories. Provide healthy recipes Offer travel advice and recommend songs suitable for any type of exercise, etc.
Alibaba Cloud also offers customers cloud-based access to Tongyi Qianwen and helps customers build large-scale, customized language models. to encourage enterprises to reap the benefits of AI-powered innovation.
Thorough customization of Tongyi Qianwen based on customer proprietary intelligence. coupled with industry know-how on a secure cloud environment. Enables organizations to build their own customized AI models in the cloud. It is expected that this competency will spark a new wave of customer growth drivers. without the customer having to use a lot of resources and eliminating the costly pre-training process to create various infrastructure models. Tongyi Qianwen is currently available as a beta service to general enterprise customers in China.
In addition, developers will soon have access to Alibaba Cloud’s Tongyi Qianwen to build AI-powered applications of their choice. This will support the AI software ecosystem for all industries. since the logistics to media, finance, manufacturing, energy, retail, and more. Tongyi Qianwen is currently available as a beta API for developers in China to apply for testing.
In addition, various capabilities will be added to Tongyi Qianwen soon, such as image understanding. and converting text to images To provide users with various AI features that are more interesting and efficient.
Jinren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud, said, “Generative AI is powered by large-scale language models. It is leading us into a new and unprecedented era. In this latest AI era, we are able to create additional value for our customers. and wider communities through a flexible public cloud infrastructure and our proven AI capabilities.”
“We see a new paradigm of AI development where cloud and AI models play a key role. We hope to make this paradigm more inclusive. It will help businesses from all industries to transform smartly with ease. and finally Increases business productivity Increase expertise and capabilities while unlocking more exciting opportunities for businesses through innovation.”
Tongyi Qianwen is built on Tongyi, Alibaba’s proprietary pre-trend model framework. It combines various AI models, including those that can turn text into short images and videos. An open source model-as-a-service (MaaS). and comes preloaded with hundreds of AI models, such as the Tongyi-based text-to-image model. For developers and researchers around the world, ModelScope currently has more than 1 million users, 800 models, and more than 16 million model downloads.
More computing is accessible to organizations and students at reasonable prices.
The new ECS Universal instance family, designed for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), offers the same stability as other similar services. But saving up to 40% in cost, it is suitable for SMEs that use web applications and websites, applications used in organizations. and offline data analysis
OSS-RC allows customers to reserve storage in a designated region for one year. This reduces capacity costs by as much as 50% from conventional prices. pay-as-you-go And when customers don’t want to store data in a specific region, they can create an OSS “Anywhere Bucket” to store data in a region selected by Alibaba Cloud. OSS-ARC can reserve capacity for objects stored in OSS. Anywhere Buckets, thus reducing capacity costs by up to 70% over conventional prices. pay-as-you-go
Alibaba Cloud also announced a free trial of key products such as ECS and PolarDB database for up to three months. To make software developers in China more accessible to computing resources, Alibaba Cloud will offer 1,000 free cloud-based training courses. Includes around 500 hands-on trials from real-world business scenarios to give developers easy access to cloud technology.
