What’s Next in the Pipeline at Alibaba Cloud; Why AI Will Transform the World and More!
We’re serving up a tasty acronym salad in this month’s Digital Digest, where you’ll find the latest news on AI, LLMs and SMEs from across the Alibaba ecosystem.
Start by sinking your teeth into the latest AI updates from Alibaba Cloud, which unveiled infrastructure enhancements, model updates and more at its annual Apsara Conference.
Demand for these products is rising. The cloud computing company’s LLM Tongyi has just topped 300,000 customers via its generative AI platform Model Studio, up from 90,0000 users in May.
“AI will take over the digital realm and transform the physical world,” said Alibaba Cloud CEO Eddie Wu in his keynote address at Apsara.
We’re inclined to agree, considering the far-ranging impact of AI in the last month alone.
Alibaba’s AI-powered cancer detector is changing the game by screening for early signs of malignancies (earning Alibaba a spot in the top 10 of Fortune’s 2024 Change the World list in the process).
Meanwhile in e-commerce, AI-infused shopping is merging realities to take consumers on a wild ride — literally. The latest Taobao Vision Pro app allows users to virtually sit in the driver’s seat of a Xiaomi SU7 and accelerate to speeds of 140 mph.
Dig into these stories and more below ??
The 2024 Apsara conference featured 400 forums exploring the latest industry trends from autonomous driving to artificial general intelligence. In between sessions, participants were invited to interact with virtual avatars, humanoid robots, and more.
Missed out on the action? Alizila has got your back. We scoured the Apsara exhibitions and panels to bring you the latest innovations from Alibaba Cloud.
Eddie Wu, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, kicked the event off with a keynote speech outlining the future of AI development.
“One can envision an AI-driven digital world interconnected with a physically capable world, significantly boosting global productivity and revolutionizing the operational efficiency of the physical world,” he said.
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Fortune has named Alibaba Group to its 10th annual Change the World list, which recognizes the world’s top companies leading innovation and social impact through profit-driven operations.
Alibaba earned its spot for a ground-breaking tool developed by its research arm DAMO Academy that makes diagnosis of cancerous malignancies faster and more cost-effective.
Fancy a new set of wheels? A recent update by Taobao means test drives are just a click away for Chinese consumers, who can now experience driving an electric sedan from their sofas using an Apple Vision Pro headset.
Taobao and Xiaomi Auto, a subsidiary of Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi, jointly developed the extended-reality experience, which is the first virtual test drive product in the world available for consumer use.
Small and medium-sized enterprises around the world have an increasingly sunny outlook on their business prospects, a survey commissioned by Alibaba.com shows.
More than half of SMEs (52%) said they were working to source new, exciting or innovative products with online B2B marketplaces like Alibaba.com , which clocked a 69% year-on-year jump in orders during the first week of September.
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