- Published on December 1, 2023
- In AI Features
Alibaba’s Cloud Business Gets Qwen-ched!
Alibaba’s latest Qwen model can save its failing cloud business.
- By Mohit Pandey
Chinese tech-giant Alibaba is desperately trying to save its cloud business with large language models (LLMs). After releasing Qwen-7B in October, Alibaba recently released Qwen-72B, which has been trained on high-quality data consisting of 3T tokens. Compared to the previous versions, this has a larger parameter size and also an expanded context window length of 32K, with more customisation capabilities.
Not just that, the company also added a smaller language model, Qwen-1.8B, touting it as a gift to the research community. It has a 2k context length and requires only 3GB of GPU memory. Both of the models would be available on Alibaba cloud for its customers and also as open source.
Besides Alibaba, its competitors Tencent, Huawei, and Baidu are also building LLMs and are att
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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