Alibaba launches an open source AI model for ‘profitable agents’

Alibaba Cloud launched his latest AI model on his “QWEN series” on Thursday, since the competition of large language models in China continues to heat up after the “deep moment.”

The new “QWEN2.5-OMNI-7B” is a multimodal model, which means that you can process entries, texts, images, audio and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech responses, according to a advertisement on the Alibaba Cloud website.

The company says that the model can be implemented in Edge devices Like mobile phones, offering high efficiency without compromising performance.

“This unique combination makes it the perfect basis to develop agents of agile and profitable ones that offer tangible value, especially intelligent voice applications,” said Alibaba.

For example, it could be used to help a person with visual disabilities to navigate their surroundings through real -time audio description, the company added.

The new model is open source on platforms that embrace the face and github, following a Growing trend in China After Depseek made its open source r1 advance.

The open source generally refers to the software in which the source code is available free on the web for possible modification and redistribution. In recent years, Alibaba Cloud says it has more than 200 generative models.

In the midst of China AI AI accelerated by Deepseek, Alibaba and other generative competitors of AI they have been launching new and profitable models and products at an unprecedented rate.

Last week, Chinese technological giant Baidu released A new multimodal fundamental model and its first model focused on reasoning.

Alibaba, meanwhile, debuted its updated artificial intelligence model QWEN 2.5 at the end of January and launched a remake of its assistant tool of the quark earlier this month.

The company has strongly committed to its artificial intelligence strategy, announcing last month a plan Invest $ 53 billion in its cloud computing infrastructure in the next three years, exceeding what it spent in space during the last decade.

Kai Wang, a senior capital analyst at Morningstar, told CNBC that the great Chinese technological players such as Alibaba, who build data centers to meet the computer needs of AI, in addition to building their own LLM, are well positioned to benefit from the rise of AI after the depth of China.

Alibaba also won a great victory for his AI business last month when confirmed with which the company was associating Apple To implement the integration of AI for iPhones sold in China.