Alibaba introduced its new artificial intelligence model

Alibaba has launched a new model of artificial intelligence that the company says can understand images and carry out more complex conversations than the company’s previous products, as the global race for market leadership in the technology heats up.

According to Hoshio, according to CNBC, this Chinese technology giant has announced that its two new models, named Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, will be open source; This means that researchers, academics and companies around the world can use them to create their own artificial intelligence applications, without the need to spend time and money on training their systems.

Alibaba said that Qwen-VL can answer questions related to various images and create a description of the images.

According to Alibaba, Qwen-VL-Chat also allows for “more complex interaction,” such as comparing multiple image inputs and answering multiple rounds of questions. Some of the tasks that Alibaba says Qwen-VL-Chat can perform include writing stories and creating images based on photos that the user enters, as well as solving math equations shown in an image.

Alibaba shared an example of how AI can help in hospitals. Based on this example, if there is a sign in Chinese at the entrance of a hospital, people can take a picture of it and ask the AI ​​about specific locations in the hospital, and the AI ​​will provide them with answers.

So far, most generative AI models (where the technology generates responses based on human input) have focused on responding to text. The latest version of ChatGPT OpenAI also has the ability to understand images and respond to text just like Qwen-VL-Chat.

Alibaba’s two new models are based on the company’s large tongue model, the Tongyi Qianwen, which was released earlier this year. LLM is an artificial intelligence model that is trained on a huge amount of data and is the basis of chatbot applications.

Th Hangzhou, which has played an important role in the growth and development of Alibaba as a global e-commerce and technology company, has open sourced two more artificial intelligence models this month; It means making it available to everyone for use without any cost. While Alibaba does not charge any licensing fees, it hopes to attract more users to its AI models. The move is part of Alibaba’s strategy to boost growth in the cloud sector and prepare for a public offering.