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From October 31st to November 2nd, the 2023 Yunqi Conference was held in Yunqi Town, Xihu District, Hangzhou. The theme this time was " Computing, for incalculable value ”. From 2009 to 2023, the Yunqi Conference has become a gathering of new ideas in the entire industry around computing technology innovation. The venue, a racecourse for new technologies and a watchtower for new trends, has an important influence in the global digital technology community. The conference promoted cloud computing to become a new infrastructure in the digital era, and witnessed the transformation of Chinese technology from websites and mobile Internet to cloud computing and AI.
I am honored to have visited this Yunqi Conference as an audience, visited this prosperous and open industrial innovation practice, and witnessed the blooming of thousands of enterprises on the cloud.
Model as a Service (MaaS, Model as a Service)
While attending this exhibition, I deeply felt the impact and significance of the core concept of "Model as a Service (MaaS)". The exhibition closely focuses on computing power and models, displaying the research results and model applications of artificial intelligence developers, model tool manufacturers and artificial intelligence applications from different perspectives, fully demonstrating the impact of advanced intelligent computing power and model basic services on our country The supporting role of AI large model development and ecological construction.
At the 2023 Yunqi Conference, many developers, entrepreneurs, and AI engineers shared their innovative results. Among them, Moda Community, which has attracted much attention from the industry, handed over its “report card” one year after its establishment.
Alibaba's innovation path is always inseparable from one key word - openness.
Alibaba is the only large-scale technology company in China to open source its self-developed large models, and has also created the world's "only" AI model open source community, the Magic Community.
I still remember last year’s 2022 Yunqi Conference. Alibaba Cloud launched the AI large model open source community "Magic". The goal is to promote the development and promotion of artificial intelligence technology and make it more open-source. More people can access and use high-quality models. In this community, developers can upload and share their own developed models, as well as browse and download models shared by other developers. Such sharing can help developers better learn from each other and improve development efficiency and model quality.
Cheng Chen, an operator of Alibaba Cloud Modai community, said that nearly a year after its establishment, the Modai community has more than 2,300 models, more than 2.8 million developers, and more than 100 million model downloads. As the largest AI model community in China, Moda Community has become the premier open source platform for large models in China. Many leading large model institutions, such as Baichuan Intelligence, Zhipu AI, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, IDEA Research Institute, etc., have chosen Moda Community as the first platform for their open source models. The Moda community is model-centric and aims to serve developers. It is committed to making large models within reach and benefiting China's AI developers.
The "Top Ten Scenario Exploration Basic Models and Innovative Applications" in the exhibition demonstrates the driving role of industry basic models in different scenarios. These models not only play an important role in learning, work and life scenarios such as text creation, office assistants, and legal consultation, but also continuously explore innovative applications, and have made progress in improving service efficiency and upgrading experience. Such a display left a deep impression on me and allowed me to see that large models are promoting the evolution of artificial intelligence from single intelligence to general intelligence.
Alibaba Cloud "prototyped" 8 large industry models based on Tongyi and announced the progress on site. At the same time, Zhou Jingren released a one-stop large model application development platform - Alibaba Cloud Bailian. It is understood that by using this platform, developers can develop a large model application in 5 minutes and "refined" it in a few hours. With an enterprise-specific model, developers can focus more on application innovation.
Alibaba Cloud has become the public AI computing power base for China's large models, providing API services for many leading mainstream large models, including Tongyi, Baichuan, AIChatGLM, and Jiang Ziya general large models. This form of integrating large models, providing API services, and supporting the development of enterprise-specific models makes it easier for large models to be integrated and implemented in thousands of industries. This is a key measure to vigorously promote the popularization and application of artificial intelligence technology.
The world's first digital exhibition of Li Bai
The Startup exhibition area in Hall D uses "创业 创新 创造、StartUp, CheerUp" as its core slogan, and expresses Alibaba Cloud's mission of accelerating innovative enterprises through exhibition displays, Maker Song, Boosting and high-quality content. Diversified touch points.
When you walk into Hall D, you will see the highlight:The world’s first digital exhibition of Li Bai
This exhibition was jointly created by China Yangbo and Alibaba Cloud, bringing together the power of many technological innovation companies in the Alibaba Cloud entrepreneur community to recreate Li Bai and his poetic world through digital human technology, XR technology and AIGC technology.
The exhibition is presented at four levels: characters, atmosphere, interaction and performance.
- Inthe first level of character display, through the interactive digital human created by Zhongke Deep Intelligence, the audience can interact with Li Bai across the millennium. Communicate and experience the wonderful experience brought by interactive devices.
- Inthe second-level atmosphere display, through the cooperation of companies such as Computational Aesthetics, Pickup Intelligence and Zhipu AI, AIGC was demonstrated The interactive artistic conception of the prosperous Tang Dynasty created by technology allows AI to break the boundaries of creativity.
- Inthe third level of interactive display, through virtual reality and augmented reality technology, the audience can let Li Bai enter their time and space, and Interact with Li Bai through technologies such as speech recognition, natural language processing, and computer vision.
- Finally, inthe fourth level of performance, the interpretation team presented Li Bai’s life story through a flash mob performance, allowing the audience to Immerse yourself wholeheartedly in Li Bai's world.
The creativity and presentation of this digital exhibition are impressive. It combines advanced digital technologies, such as digital human technology, XR technology and AIGC technology, to present Li Bai and the culture of the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the audience in a vivid way. This exhibition format not only increases the participation and interactivity of visitors, but also allows them to have a deeper understanding of Li Bai and the era in which he lived. Through the combination of digital technology and culture, Alibaba Cloud has demonstrated the possibility of integrating technology and culture, bringing people a more colorful visiting experience. I believe that such digital exhibitions will play a positive role in promoting the inheritance and innovation of traditional culture.
I am watching Digital Intelligence China in Yunqi
Based on Alibaba Cloud’s basic products, technologies or solutions, through booths, innovation roadshows, Maker Song, Boosting and other diverse activities, 20 technological innovation companies have exported advanced technologies such as AIGC, The exhibition shows the vigorous industrial innovation and application practices of small and medium-sized enterprises, creating a cloud ecological jungle where everything grows and everything is renewed.
Digital native - Internet innovation Focusing on the theme of intelligence, based on the game AI research and operation of full-link intelligence, audio and video content and distribution intelligence, and core business of life services In the four directions of cloud and enterprise services, intelligent solutions on the cloud, a number of industry leading companies are invited to jointly demonstrate scenario-based applications supported by cloud native and AI capabilities.
Integrated car and cloud - Intelligent Travel Demonstrates full coverage of intelligent manufacturing, autonomous driving, remote operation and maintenance, intelligent network connection, intelligent marketing, intelligent cockpit and intelligent charging The automotive intelligent solutions of the industry chain help the automotive industry achieve technological innovation, comprehensive digital operations and intelligent business decision-making.
FAW Group brought the GPT-X large model developed based on the Alibaba Cloud large model. According to the person in charge, this model combines the dual characteristics of the automotive industry and the "Hongqi" brand, and builds a large-scale model based on China's FAW Cloud native technology architecture and data base. Model layering capabilities reshape business models in various fields and achieve efficiency growth.
Visiting the Yunqi Conference, I deeply felt Alibaba’s opportunities and technological innovation in the AI era. Alibaba demonstrates the opportunity to use large model capabilities to reconstruct the ecosystem.
To borrow a sentence from Mr. Cai Chongxin: " Without openness, there will be no ecology, and without ecology, there will be no future. At the same time, we must always climb the peak of technology. Only by standing at the more advanced and more advanced Only with stable technical capabilities can we have greater confidence for opening up.”
From the past to the present, continuous innovation is Alibaba’s unchanging technological nature. Now, facing the next decade, Ali has stood on a new starting line. It is expected that Alibaba will continue to climb technological peaks and make greater contributions to the open ecosystem.