Alibaba makes Sora-style video models open source, as tech giant shows AI capabilities
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing and AI arm of Alibaba, said on Wednesday that it has made the four models of the Wan2.1 series – the latest version of its video foundational model Tongyi Wanxiang – freely available for academics, researchers and commercial institutions worldwide. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
The four models are trained on 1.3 billion or 14 billion parameters, Alibaba Cloud said, adding that they are available for download on its own AI model community, called Model Scope, as well
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DeepSeek’s disclosure of AI technical details praised by open-source community
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek disclosed technical details about its low-cost, high-performance models, refuting allegations that it had misrepresented their costs while drawing cheers from the open-source community.
The Hangzhou-based research firm also made good on a promise that it would start releasing five open-source AI infrastructure projects this week. The company released two projects dubbed FlashMLA and DeepEP on Monday and Tuesday, both aimed at squeezing the best performance from chips for cost-efficient model training and inference
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DeepSeek spurs embrace of open-source AI ecosystem at Shanghai industry event
At the Global Developer Conference, an AI community event hosted in Shanghai over the weekend, open-source developers from around China congregated in a show of exuberance over the possibilities of AI since DeepSeek’s resource-efficient models captured the world’s imagination. Use cases on display included everything from robotics to virtual reality glasses.
“We will further improve the open-source ecosystem, strengthen the service system for open data and open models,