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Alibaba Releases Two Open-Weight Language Models for Math and Voice Chat
Alibaba released two open-weight language model families: Qwen2-Math, a series of LLMs tuned for solving mathematical problems; and Qwen2-Audio, a family of multi-modal LLMs that can accept voice or text input. Both families are based on Alibaba's Qwen2 LLM series, and all but the largest version of Qwen2-Math are available under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Ant Group Open Sources Privacy-Preserving Computation Framework
Alibaba financial arm Ant Group has open sourced SecretFlow, its privacy-preserving framework, with a specific focus on data analysis and machine learning.
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Alibaba Announces 10 Billion Parameter Multi-Modal AI M6
Alibaba has created an AI model called Multi-Modality to Multi-Modality Multitask Mega-transformer (M6). The model contains 10 billion parameters and is pretrained on a dataset consisting of 1.9TB of images and 292GB of Chinese-language text. M6 can be fine-tuned for several downstream tasks, including text-guided image generation, visual question answering, and image-text matching.
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Alibaba Cloud Uses Dapr to Support Its Business Growth
In a recent blog post, Sky Ao, a staff engineer at Alibaba Cloud, details how Alibaba Cloud uses the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) to support its business growth. As Alibaba's business rapidly grows while also purchasing other companies, a clear need to support multiple programming languages across varying cloud environments rises. To support this need, Alibaba chose to use Dapr.
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Deploy Salesforce on Major Public Clouds with Hyperforce
In a recent press release, Salesforce announced Hyperforce, a new capability allowing customers to deploy Salesforce on major public cloud platforms Azure, AWS, Google, and Alibaba. With Hyperforce, the company redesigned the Salesforce architecture to provide a more scalable platform for its global customer base.
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Alibaba Cloud Expands Their Presence in the EMEA Region with UK Data Centers
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, announced the opening of two new availability zones in the United Kingdom. With the addition of these availability zones, Alibaba is increasing its presence in the EMEA region.