Alibaba, Baidu rush to add support for Meta’s Llama 3 on their cloud computing platforms
- Alibaba’s cloud unit has added Llama 3 to its open-source AI models community ModelScope, which offers access to a range of open-source AI models
- Baidu was the first among major Chinese tech firms to step up, offering training and inferencing services for Llama 3 on its Qianfan model-as-a-service platform
Chinese tech firms Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu have rushed to add support for Meta’s Llama 3 large language model (LLM) to their cloud computing platforms, after the technology used to train chatbots like ChatGPT was released last week.
E-commerce powerhouse Alibaba’s cloud computing unit has added Meta’s Llama 3 LLM to its open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models community ModelScope, which offers developers access to a range of open-source AI models.
Separately, Alibaba Cloud extended support for Meta’s LLMs on the Bailian platform, offering free-of-charge training, inferencing, and deploying solutions for a limited time, the company said in a post published to its official WeChat account on Monday, without elaborating on the time frame.
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Bailian is an LLM service platform that provides a suite of tools and services to assist clients in building and training their own models and applications using Alibaba’s cloud computing services.