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ALIBABA CLOUD ’ S TONGYI QIANWEN PROGRAMME DRIVING ADOPTION OF LARGE-SCALE LANGUAGE MODELS
Alibaba Cloud , the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group , announced the launch of Tongyi Qianwen Partnership Programme , which aims to co-create large language models tailored for different industries with partners . The first batch of industrial models in the programme will cover sectors including petrochemicals , electricity , transportation , hospitality , enterprise services , telecommunications , and finance .
Earlier this month , Alibaba Cloud unveiled Tongyi Qianwen , its latest large language model , and committed to making the new AI model accessible to the company ’ s customers and developers to create customised AI features in a cost-effective way . Since the model was announced on April 11 , over 200,000 beta testing requests were received from enterprises from a broad range of sectors , including fintech , electronics , transport , fashion , and dairy .
“ To cater for the skyrocketing demand for Tongyi Qianwen from different sectors that are keen to accelerate their intelligence transformation process , we are fully committed to working closely with our partners to develop customised , specialised AI models ,” said Daniel Zhang , Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence .
“ Together with our industrial partners , we can deliver more tangible value to enterprise customers to suit their specific business needs .”
Through the partnership programme , Alibaba Cloud will provide underlying technology support , cloud computing , AI and machine learning products and services to participating partners . They can fine-tune Tongyi Qianwen and retrain the model with their proprietary intelligence and industrial know-how in a secure and designated cloud environment .
The co-building models will be available through websites and APIs for enterprise customers and developers to create various applications , such as intelligent customer services , shopping guides , domain-specific virtual consultants , and design assistants .
The initial partners enrolled in the programme include Kunlun Digital Technology , petrochemicals , LongShine Technology , electricity , China Transinfo Technology , transportation , Shiji Group , hospitality , Yonyou Network Technology , enterprise services , AsiaInfo Technologies , telecommunications services and CICC Wealth Management , finance .
Alibaba Cloud also plans to integrate Tongyi Qianwen into all business applications across its ecosystem soon to further enhance the user experience . As one of the latest incorporations , Tongyi Qianwen is currently being integrated into Alibaba ’ s operating system for cars , AliOS , for internal tests . IM Motors , a premium electric vehicle venture backed by Alibaba Group and SAIC Motor , is signed up to be the first auto brand to implement Tongyi Qianwen-powered AliOS in the coming future .
Last week , DingTalk , Alibaba ’ s digital collaboration workplace and application development platform , demonstrated various AI functions powered by the new model , including meeting notes and group chat summaries , as well as creating a mini application on DingTalk by photographing a draft idea written on paper .
Alibaba maintained its position as the third public cloud IaaS service provider globally since 2018 , according to IDC . Alibaba is the world ’ s third leading and Asia Pacific ’ s leading IaaS provider by revenue in US dollars since 2018 , according to Gartner . •
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