Alibaba Cloud Launches 100 New Open Source AI Models With 29 Languages

Said Jingren Zhou, Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence (photo: Alibaba Cloud)

JAKARTA - During the Apsara Conference, Alibaba Cloud's annual conference, the cloud company from Alibaba Group launched more than 100 of its newest AI models, including Qwen 2.5, to the global open-source community.

The new open-source Qwen 2.5 model is a smarter model and has more powerful capabilities in mathematics and coding, and supports more than 29 languages, which serve a variety of AI applications.

Through the launch of Qwen 2.5, Alibaba Cloud will make more than 100 of its AI models open-source available, covering a wide range of modalities such as language, audio, and visuals, as well as dedicated code and mathematical models.

"Today's open source initiative launch is an important achievement, as it is our biggest investment in open-source to date," Jingren Zhou, Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence said at the conference on Thursday, September 19.

Not only that, Alibaba Cloud is also redesigning their full-stack infrastructure to significantly improve AI's computing performance, which includes green data center architecture, data management, model training, and inference.

The architecture of the new generation of data centers and various other innovative solutions is expected to support the development of a wider, creative AI technology, so that it can help customers and partners create more efficient, sustainable, and inclusive applications.

Jingren that these various updates are designed to provide more comprehensive support for customers and partners to maximize the benefits of the latest technology to build more efficient, sustainable, and inclusive AI applications.