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ForkLog 10 04.11.2024

Alibaba Reduces Metaverse Division Workforce

Alibaba Group Holding is scaling back its metaverse operations, according to SCMP, citing sources. Dozens of employees from the Yuanjing division, which focuses on digital worlds, have been laid off as part of a restructuring aimed at enhancing organizational efficiency. The cuts have affected the company’s operations in Shanghai and Hangzhou, the publication notes. Yuanjing […]

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ForkLog 14 12.08.2024

Alibaba’s New AI Models Surpass GPT-4o in Mathematics

Alibaba has launched a series of large language models (LLM) focused on mathematics, named Qwen2-Math, which reportedly “outperform GPT-4o and Claude 3.5” in this domain. Today we release a new model series for math-specific language models, Qwen2-Math, which is based on Qwen2. The flagship model, Qwen2-Math-72B-Instruct, outperforms proprietary models, including GPT-4o and Claude 3.5, in […]

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ForkLog 43 07.08.2024

Alibaba Develops AI Video Generator Tora

Chinese tech giant Alibaba is developing Tora, a video generation tool based on Sora. This was reported by SCMP. The tool is being developed on the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture, which underpins the neural network introduced by OpenAI in February. The newspaper notes that experts have created a “trajectory-oriented DiT framework for video generation.” This […]

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ForkLog 17 10.06.2024

Alibaba Unveils New AI Model Qwen2

Chinese tech giant Alibaba announced the release of its new artificial intelligence model, Qwen2. Developed by Alibaba Cloud, it is the next generation of Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen). It includes Tongyi Qianwen LLM (or Qwen), Qwen-VL, and Qwen-Audio. The Qwen2 family comprises a series of five models ranging from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters, trained using […]

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ForkLog 21 26.06.2023

Near Foundation partners with Alibaba Cloud

The Near Foundation, the nonprofit behind the Near Protocol ecosystem, announced a partnership with Alibaba Cloud. CoinDesk reports that the collaboration with Alibaba Cloud's cloud computing division aims to accelerate Web3 initiatives in Asia and the Middle East. As a result, Near Foundation gains access to Alibaba Cloud's regional developer ecosystem to advance the protocol. The company's infrastructure will allow users to run validator nodes in plug-and-play mode.

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ForkLog 20 20.06.2023

Crypto advocate set to become Alibaba’s new chairman of the board

Co-founder Joseph Tsai will replace Daniel Zhang as chair of Alibaba's board.

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ForkLog 16 05.05.2023

Avalanche and Alibaba Forge Partnership to Develop Metaverses

The Avalanche team has agreed to cooperate with cloud provider Alibaba Cloud to create a platform for deploying metaverses.

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ForkLog 12 11.04.2023

Alibaba unveils Tongyi Qianwen, a rival to ChatGPT

Chinese tech giant Alibaba announced the launch of an AI chatbot Tongyi Qianwen.

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ForkLog 16 27.03.2023

Alibaba Cloud to open division for Web3 game development

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud-services provider, announced the launch of a blockchain-laboratory in Japan to create Web3 games, according to a press release.

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ForkLog 18 05.07.2022

Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent to require KYC for NFT buyers

Chinese tech giants Tencent, Baidu, JD.com, Ant Group and others have embraced a 'self-discipline initiative' to curb speculation in the NFT market.

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ForkLog 15 15.12.2021

Media: Alibaba and Huawei plan to enter the metaverse market

Alibaba registered in Beijing a subsidiary Yuanjing Shengsheng, which will test the gaming potential of the metaverse.

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ForkLog 14 27.09.2021

Alibaba to ban sale of Bitcoin miners

From 8 October 2021, Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, will prohibit the sale on its platform of equipment used to mine Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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