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On March 21, news broke that Alibaba Vice President of Technology Jia Yangqing was about to leave Alibaba to start his own company. The decision seems to have sparked an uproar in the industry, because Jia Yangqing's position in Alibaba cannot be ignored. He was previously the Vice President of Technology of Alibaba Group, leading the research and development of big data computing platforms, and has rich experience in AI technology and deep technical background.
Before joining Alibaba, Jia was an AI scientist at Facebook, and his academic background is strong, with undergraduate and graduate studies in automation at Tsinghua University, and then a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. During his Ph.D., he founded and open-sourced the deep learning framework Caffe, which was later widely adopted by Microsoft, Yahoo, NVIDIA, Adobe, and others.
However, Jia Yangqing's decision to leave Alibaba is undoubtedly a huge blow to the company. His new company, which is positioned to provide large-model infrastructure, has already locked in its first round of funding, which means he will enter the large-model space, which is an area of great concern. In addition to Alibaba, giants such as Baidu, Microsoft, Google, and Meta have all made moves in the field of large models. In particular, Wang Huiwen's project, although there is no clear product, has been valued at as high as $200 million, supported by Wang Xing, founder and CEO of Meituan.
The big model has become a new wave of mobile Internet technology with far-reaching influence. Different from previous waves of technology, such as blockchain, IoT, 5G, metaverse, VR/AR, etc., the impact of large models is more profound because it represents the further development of deep learning and pushes artificial intelligence to a new stage. However, the technical barriers associated with large models are quite high, which puts most entrepreneurs off.
At present, only Baidu is the only Chinese company that truly releases influential large-model products. They launched Wen Xin's words and have begun public testing. Many users have qualified for the closed beta and said that Wen Xin Yiyan has performed well in Chinese recognition and multimodal generation, even surpassing ChatGPT. Google and Meta also have a presence in the big model space, but their products are not yet available to the public. Microsoft's Bing is based on GPT, which makes Baidu the world's first manufacturer to release ChatGPT products of the same level, which Li emphasized at the conference.
However, compared to Baidu, other Chinese tech giants are still some way from the big model space. Tencent has not yet disclosed the relevant moves, while Alibaba's Daniel Zhang said in a recent earnings conference that cloud computing is one of Alibaba's core strategies for the future. He highlighted the combination of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, arguing that this is a critical period in which generative AI is experiencing disruptive breakthroughs. Therefore, Alibaba plans to go all out to build its own AI pre-trained large models and provide the computing power needed to support the emerging models and applications in the market.
Now, with Jia Yangqing's departure, whether Alibaba can keep up with Baidu Wenxin's words has become a matter of concern. The big model space is full of fierce competition, and the giants are looking to achieve breakthrough success in this area. Let's wait and see how the future develops.
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