Recently, Alibaba Cloud announced that the Tongyi Qianwen model has been the first batch of records and officially opened to the public. This is another important event for general large-model products to be opened to the public after Baidu Wenxin's words, Baichuan Intelligence, and SenseTime discussed SenseChat. General-purpose large models refer to artificial intelligence models that can perform well in multiple domains and tasks, and they have strong generalization and generalization, and can learn rich knowledge from massive data and apply them to various scenarios. The general large model is considered to be the key technology to realize the transformation of artificial intelligence from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence, and it is also an important starting point for moving towards general artificial intelligence (AGI).
Alibaba Cloud is Alibaba's self-developed general large model, and its parameter scale has reached 7 billion, surpassing Google's T5 model. It not only supports multiple languages such as Chinese and English, but also supports graphic and text input, has multimodal information understanding capabilities, and has achieved far more performance than the general model of the same scale in mainstream multimodal task evaluation and multimodal chat ability evaluation. Alibaba Cloud also has powerful text generation capabilities, which can generate various types of text content according to the user's instructions, such as news, stories, poems, advertisements, etc. In addition, Alibaba Cloud can also implement zero-sample or small-sample learning, that is, complete specific tasks with some hints or examples without or little labeled data.
Alibaba Cloud's opening up will bring great value and opportunities to the whole society. First, it will lower the barrier to entry for AI development, making AI capabilities easy for more businesses and individuals to acquire and use. Users only need to log in to the official website of Tongyi Qianwen or call the Tongyi Qianwen API through Alibaba Cloud to use large models to complete various complex tasks. Second, it will promote the innovation and application of AI, so that more industries and fields can benefit from the intelligent empowerment of AI. At present, OPPO, Dewu, DingTalk, Taobao, Zhejiang University, etc. have reached cooperation with Alibaba Cloud to train their own exclusive large models or develop large model applications based on Tongyi Qianwen. In the future, Alibaba Cloud will also open source a large-scale version of the large-model with larger parameters for free commercial use by the whole society, and hope to build a large-model open source ecosystem with the whole industry.
The opening of Alibaba Cloud marks the official arrival of the era of large models. In this era, AI will no longer be the preserve of a few professionals or institutions, but will become a public resource shared and participated by all. AI will no longer be a solution to a single domain or task, but a universal tool across domains and tasks. AI will no longer be cold algorithms or code, but will become partners and assistants with temperature and emotions. We have reason to believe that in the era of big models, AI will usher in a new round of change and leap, bringing more convenience and happiness to human society.