Now talking about technology and Alibaba Cloud, some people lament that they can't understand it more and more. As the world's "top technology stream", AI big models are obviously the focus of current competition, but Alibaba Cloud regards one thing as more important than self-developed AI big models.
Especially at today's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Zhou Jingren, CTO of Alibaba Cloud, actually put forward: "We must promote the prosperity of China's large model ecology as the primary goal." For domestic AI startups, Alibaba Cloud will give computing power, model Alibaba Cloud will give model, and even provide financial support.
Some people say that Alibaba Cloud's unreserved opening this time is equivalent to invisibly cultivating competitors for itself.
In fact, Alibaba Cloud has built a magic community and taken out more than 300 AI models in one breath to directly open source, but the effect is obvious, which not only lowers the threshold for AI applications, but also attracts more people and more enterprises and developers to flood into the industry.
This is indeed difficult to understand at first glance, but if you jump away from Alibaba Cloud and start from the entire big model ecology, you can see the deep meaning behind it. The open source model and open tools mean that Alibaba Cloud is not only staring at its own acres and threes, it is forging a large model service for itself and assuming the responsibility of a prosperous ecosystem.
Although China's large model is developing rapidly, the threshold is there, and it has become a competition between a few institutions, not to mention that the large model will eventually be applied, more people will not enter, and the development will only be weak. It can be seen that Alibaba Cloud's ecological thing is to make the industry cake bigger and promote the overall high-quality development of China's AI industry.
Therefore, this time it seems that Alibaba Cloud has taken a small step back, but in fact, it is a big step forward for China's AI industry as a whole!
