In April, Alibaba launched its large language model (LLM) called Tongyi Qianwen. Tongyi Qianwen allows AI content generation in English and Chinese and has different model sizes, including seven billion parameters and above. While Alibaba might not earn licensing fees from open-sourcing its technology, the distribution will help the company get more users for its AI model. This comes at a time when China's biggest e-commerce company is looking to boost its cloud computing division through investments in AI, targeting cloud computing as a critical future area for profitability and growth. Offering a good LLM for AI apps development is a potential competitive advantage for cloud computing players.

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Persons: Alibaba, Tongyi, Alibaba hasn't Organizations: Artificial Intelligence, U.S, Microsoft Locations: Shanghai, China, Alibaba, Hangzhou