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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s cloud services unit extends support in China for Meta’s latest open-source AI model
- Alibaba Cloud added Meta’s Llama 2 large language model to its open-source platform ModelScope, which offers hundreds of deep-learning AI algorithms
- The firm’s tailored services via ModelScope enable Chinese developers using Llama 2 to build their AI applications faster
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Ben Jiangin Beijing
Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing services unit has extended support in China for the next-generation large language model (LLM) – the technology used to train chatbots like ChatGPT – that was launched last week by Meta Platforms as a free artificial intelligence (AI) resource for research and commercial use.
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Alibaba Cloud, the Chinese e-commerce giant’s digital technology and intelligence backbone, has added Meta’s Llama 2 LLM to ModelScope, its open-source “model-as-a-service” platform that makes available more than 700 AI models – covering various fields from computer vision to natural language processing and audio – to local developers. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
The addition of Llama 2 to its ModelScope platform is in line with Alibaba Cloud’s goal to offer LLM start-ups “comprehensive services including model training, inferencing and deployment”, the Hangzhou-based company said on Tuesday in a post published on its official WeChat account. In addition, the firm said it will provide funding and other forms of support to these businesses.
LLMs are deep-learning AI algorithms that can recognise, summarise, translate, predict and generate content using very large data sets.
Alibaba Cloud also said in its post that it has tailored services via ModelScope that would enable Chinese developers that use Llama 2 to design and build their AI applications faster.
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