Alibaba is building a more open AI ecosystem. Most of the partners of
, which is a cloud vendor platform this year, expressed similar views. To join the industry wave dominated by generative AI, in addition to sufficient computing and storage capabilities, they must also have the ability to implement AI.
has entered the specific implementation stage. Enterprises need to complete structured and unstructured data collection based on their own business before they can be accumulated into knowledge. Large model training requires not only flexible and abundant computing resources, but also fine-tuning models to build AI application development. Tools; and ensure that AI capabilities are reliably deployed and run in enterprise systems.
It may be a little slow for companies to break through on their own. They have recruited cloud computing vendors as strong foreign aid. Recently, Yang Zhilin, the founder of Dark Side of the Moon, and Zhang Yuejia, president of Zhaopin Recruitment Group, have become the new "spokesmen" of Alibaba Cloud. "The cloud I use is Alibaba Cloud." New series of endorsement advertisements have also been launched at Hangzhou Airport and Beijing Capital Airport. The intention behind the slogan
is to convey that Alibaba Cloud relies on its technical strength in cloud computing and model capabilities to introduce various partners in the industry chain with a more open attitude.
Previously in April, Alibaba Cloud also announced a wave of heavyweight "spokesmen", including Wang Xiaochuan, founder of Baichuan Intelligence, Jiang Nanchun, founder of Focus Media, Chen Xiangdong, founder of Gaotu Group, etc.
The "star" of the big model endorses Alibaba Cloud
In 2009, Alibaba Cloud started by serving local webmasters. Through its own technological research and development progress and large-scale growth, it has brought cost-effective development resources, helped enterprises significantly save development costs, and also It gives start-up companies many opportunities for trial and error, helping them grow.
Zhaopin Recruitment was once shared as a cloud-native case of Alibaba Cloud. Through comprehensive containerization transformation, business reliability was achieved, as well as better rapid response and disaster recovery capabilities during peak periods. In addition to conventional cloud computing, recently Zhaopin Recruitment has used large models to improve the efficiency of recruitment and internal management training, and has used Alibaba Cloud to implement rapid function deployment. For example, the "Recruitment Assistant" function based on Tongyi Qianwen has greatly improved the matching efficiency of recruitment.
Dark Side of the Moon, as an entrepreneurial representative in the field of large models, endorses Alibaba Cloud, which further verifies the words of Wang Jian, founder of Alibaba Cloud, that the relationship between "cloud computing and large models" is the relationship between "electricity and motors".
Behind the industrial upgrading there must be changes in infrastructure. Alibaba Cloud has seen this trend and is also forward-looking in its actions.
Alibaba Cloud defined its "AI-driven, public cloud first" strategy last year, "increasing investment in research and development, and conducting comprehensive technological upgrades and innovations from underlying computing power to AI platforms to model services."
Alibaba Cloud invested in large model research and development as early as 2019. Maas (model as a service) was first proposed in 2022, when gpt had not yet become popular. Then it reconstructed the full stack from iaas, paas, and maas, and proposed a new architecture for the cloud in the AI era. The Bailian model service platform is a concrete expression of the Maas concept. The platform integrates many three-party and vertical domain models; relying on Alibaba Cloud, it supports tens of thousands of concurrent reasoning requirements for hundreds of billions of models; rich models, with full-link model services and rich The toolbox reduces the difficulty for developers to develop models, allowing them to focus more on data, business, and scenario innovation.
From a cloud computing manufacturer to becoming an "AI infrastructure", Alibaba Cloud still adheres to an "open mind". Alibaba Cloud has invested in large model start-ups that are among the top five most valuable in the industry, including Dark Side of the Moon. According to disclosures, Alibaba invested a total of approximately US$800 million in Dark Side of the Moon in fiscal year 2024, purchasing approximately 36% of the equity. On the one hand,
is accelerating its layout and continues to be optimistic about the upper limit of machine intelligence and the ecological possibilities of AI; on the other hand, it serves as infrastructure to handle the computing power demands brought about by large models and the outbreak of AI. Dark Side of the Moon said, "Alibaba Cloud's computing power and large model service platform help Dark Side of the Moon improve model reasoning efficiency and accelerate the kimi intelligent assistant to achieve technological breakthroughs." "
The future growth of the cloud computing market will rely on the new driving force of generative AI, and the certainty of this is increasing.Previously, Alibaba Group CEO and Alibaba Cloud CEO Wu Yongming disclosed in an investor conference call that Alibaba Cloud is expected to return to double-digit revenue growth in the second half of fiscal year 2025.
In addition to manifest and pragmatic growth, "open mind" is also bringing more meaningful returns.
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