On the morning of November 21, the 2024 World Internet Conference "Internet Entrepreneurs Forum" was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province. Alibaba CEO Wu Yongming stated in his speech that the greatest value of AI is not just creating one or two super apps on mobile phones, but driving productivity changes in various industries. Developing AI requires building a thriving ecosystem of technology, products, and markets.
Wu Yongming stated that in the past year, both the to B and to C tracks of AI have made some progress, manifested in the optimization of user experience on the consumer side and the significant improvement of productivity on the industrial side. In the long run, the greatest value of AI is not just creating one or two super apps on mobile phones, but driving productivity changes in various industries. In the process of exploring with industry partners, Alibaba has noticed that the universality of AI, combined with industry domain knowledge and enterprise proprietary knowledge, is gradually forming a super intelligent agent exclusive to each enterprise, liberating the productivity of enterprises from point to line and from line to surface. At present, more than 300000 enterprises have integrated into Alibaba's "Tongyi" big model, using AI to reconstruct business scenarios such as code development, drug research and development, space exploration, and production manufacturing. The industry application experience of AI is rapidly accumulating and accumulating.
In the field of AI big models, Alibaba has always adhered to the open source route. Wu Yongming said, "The industry does not need a hundred basic models, but urgently needs a batch of open-source models of different scales and vertical fields. The open source ecosystem of models can lower the threshold for the development and use of AI in various industries, drive economies of scale, significantly reduce computing power costs, and form a virtuous cycle of AI popularization and inclusiveness. It is reported that as of now, the number of derivative models developed by global developers based on Alibaba's "Tongyi Qianwen" has exceeded 78000, and over 8 million developers have developed and applied models on Alibaba's "Mota" community. In the past year, the price of calling the "Tongyi Qianwen" API on Alibaba Cloud's "Bailian" platform has decreased by 97%.
Wu Yongming believes that if we define AI as a technological revolution and productivity change, we must use standards that match it, and have enough patience and more sustained investment in it. The development of AI requires the improvement and coordination of the entire system, as well as the joint efforts of industry partners to build a prosperous technology, product, and market ecosystem, "said Wu Yongming." The AI ecosystem is growing in applications, and only the growth of the ecosystem can promote the high-quality and sustainable development of AI