Alibaba Cloud announced the release of Qwen2.5, the latest iteration of its large language model, which has already seen over 90,000 deployments. Jingren Zhou, the Chief Technology Officer, highlighted the diverse and innovative uses of their models in sectors ranging from consumer electronics to gaming.
Zhou expressed enthusiasm for future collaborations, leveraging the burgeoning opportunities in generative AI. The new model, Qwen2.5, boasts substantial improvements in reasoning, code comprehension, and textual understanding, marking a leap forward from its predecessor, Qwen2.0.
Large language models like Qwen2.5 are the driving force behind AI applications similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, trained on extensive datasets to mimic human-like interactions. In a recent comparison by OpenCompass, Qwen2.5 outperformed GPT-4 in linguistic and creative tasks, although it lagged in areas such as knowledge and mathematical reasoning.
The initial release of Tongyi Qianwen in April 2023, following the viral success of ChatGPT, was met with an upgraded version in October that enhanced abilities in complex instruction processing, copywriting, and reasoning. Alibaba Cloud reports that over 2.2 million corporate users have utilized Qwen-powered services, including DingTalk, Alibaba’s workplace communication platform akin to Slack.
In addition to the new model, Alibaba Cloud has contributed a series of Qwen models to the open-source community and has enriched its Model Studio with fresh AI development tools.
The release comes amidst a generative AI race among Chinese tech giants, with Baidu’s Ernie bot surpassing 200 million users and Tencent also entering the fray. This surge in generative AI is also propelling the advancement of humanoid robots in China, potentially revolutionizing factory work and labor-intensive tasks.
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