Tongyi Wanxiang (‘Wanxiang’ means ‘tens of thousands of photos’) is the latest AI imaging model announced by Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group’s digital technology and intelligence backbone, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2023 Enterprise customers in China can now participate in a beta test of the next-generation generative AI model. Tongyi Wanxiang (lit. “tens of thousands of images”) is a next-generation AI imaging model now in beta development and offered to enterprise customers in China.
In addition, the market leader in cloud computing introduced ModelScopeGPT, a flexible framework for using various AI models in ModelScope to complete advanced and specialized AI tasks in the language, vision, and speech domains. ModelScope is a Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform with more than 900 AI models released last year as open source by Alibaba Cloud.
The generative AI model is versatile and can produce rich images in a wide variety of styles in response to text prompts in both Chinese and English. These styles range from watercolors and oil paintings to sketches, flat illustrations, and 3D cartoons. In addition, the model can take any image and generate a new, similar image via “style transfer,” which keeps the original image’s content intact while giving it the visual style of another image. The model leverages multilingual resources for better training and is powered by Alibaba Cloud’s cutting-edge technologies in Knowledge Provision, Visual AI, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). It has powerful semantic understanding capabilities, which lead to better image quality and contextual relevance.
Furthermore, the model’s ability to generate visually beautiful, high-contrast images with clean backgrounds can be improved by optimizing the high-resolution diffusion process based on signal-to-noise ratio. Tongyi Wanxiang was built with Composer, a large proprietary model on Alibaba Cloud that allows finer control over image synthesis results, including spatial arrangement and palette, without sacrificing image synthesis quality or originality.
Alibaba Cloud also introduced ModelScopeGPT, a robust framework built to take full advantage of the platform’s large language models (LLMs). LLMs will be the controller of the vast network of domain-specific expert models from the open source community of ModelScope that will bring together ModelScopeGPT. ModelScopeGPT was developed using various Model-as-a-Service options available on the Alibaba Cloud. ModelScopeGPT is a free resource that businesses and developers can use to access and run the most appropriate models to complete complex AI tasks on demand, such as creating multilingual movies.
In April, Alibaba Cloud introduced a new LLM called Tongyi Qianwen to improve the user experience across all Alibaba operations. Customers and developers can use the model to cost-effectively build custom AI functions for the business. There have been more than 300,000 requests for beta testing since the launch of the model from companies in industries such as banking, electronics, transportation, clothing, and dairy.
With the addition of Tongyi Qianwen, Alibaba Cloud’s intelligent assistant, Tingwu can better understand and analyze media information. Since its launch, the AI-powered assistant has been used by more than 360,000 people.
In addition to holding its first AI Hackathon in China, ModelScope offered cash prizes and investment opportunities from leading venture capital firms to further the development and deployment of AI models in the industry. There were almost 300 teams that started, but only 56 advanced to the championship. Two courses were used for the final competition for first prize. One must improve a substantial linguistic model to address a practical problem. The second is to use models already trained for a specific activity, such as text-to-image generation, or to build an LLM-powered autonomous agent that knows which models to use for which jobs.
After the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, many major Chinese tech companies are moving towards introducing their AI products and services. Tongyi Qianwen, Alibaba’s AI chatbot, launched in April to compete with ChatGPT.
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