On November 23, the second Global Digital Trade Expo was held in Hangzhou International Expo Center. This year's Digital Trade Fair has a total of 7 exhibition halls, among which the cutting-edge trend hall is particularly noteworthy. The museum showcases over 50 AI models, represented by Alibaba's "AI Family Photo", showcasing how the wave of intelligence is changing our work and life.
AI Flying Together: Open Ecology+Digital Infrastructure
At the Frontier Trend Museum, more than 50 AI models from both domestic and foreign countries competed in the same arena, showcasing their unique abilities as the Eight Immortals cross the sea. Looking at the exhibition content, it can be seen that the AI big model is accelerating its implementation and application, changing the global digital economy and various industries. And what drives the development of AI is the "two wings": an open and prosperous AI ecosystem, and an increasingly improved digital infrastructure.
In the Alibaba exhibition area, the "Tongyi Family" AI big model application is arranged in a row. Based on Alibaba's self-developed "Tongyi Qianwen" big model, they have achieved high intelligence in 8 fields such as programming, law, and health. With the help of large model applications, "small programs like 'Snake Eating' can be generated in one minute".
It is worth noting that an open source and prosperous AI ecosystem is taking shape. In November last year, Alibaba released the AI open-source community "Magic Ta", which quickly became an important position in the industry. 80% of China's large model research and development institutions regard Magic Ta as the first platform for model open-source. In just one year, Magic Tower has gathered 2.8 million developers and over 2300 high-quality models, with model downloads exceeding 100 million.
The carrier of ecology is the platform. At the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference held on November 8th, Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming proposed: "Facing the AI era, Alibaba needs to become an open technology platform enterprise that serves AI innovation in the whole society." Currently, half of the country's major models are running on Alibaba Cloud. Wu Yongming said that Alibaba needs to build a solid foundation for the training of AI in the entire industry and the use of AI in society. At this year's China Computing Power Conference, Alibaba Cloud's self-developed "PAI Lingjun Intelligent Computing Service" won the "Annual Breakthrough Achievement Award". PAI Lingjun "is a computing infrastructure service created by Alibaba Cloud specifically for AI computing, providing a full process engineering platform and intelligent computing power for AI development.
New generation digital technology stimulates business vitality
In addition to providing AI big model services to the whole society, Alibaba is also applying AI big model to upgrade its entire product line internally. The combination of next-generation digital technology and increasingly mature offline infrastructure networks has unleashed strong commercial vitality.
In the digital trade exhibition area, Alibaba's Taotian Group summarizes the comprehensive application of AI technology on Taobao and Tmall with "Big and Small Kings+4 A+4 K". The experience area of "Alibaba Mom Wanxiang Laboratory" set up on site has aroused great interest from the audience. This product is open to Alibaba merchants on a daily basis, but it allows every user to intuitively experience the magic of AI. Experiencers can quickly generate model images at zero cost with just a few simple clicks. The booth manager introduced that so far, more than 100000 Alibaba merchants have used this product, effectively saving costs. Taking clothing small businesses as an example, they can choose models and scenes at will, and they can buy 20 new clothes at once without incurring any costs. One piece of clothing can save about 1000 yuan compared to the original one, a total of about 20000 yuan. On average, it only takes 30 seconds to produce product images in bulk
The exhibition area also showcases 1688's digital factory 3D light customization service - "Wow Customization". 1688 is a source factory direct sales platform under Alibaba. After 24 years of development, it has covered 57 primary industry categories such as raw materials, industrial products, and clothing. It has reached over 70% of the domestic industrial belt and helped 600000 small and medium-sized enterprises complete the digital transformation of their factories. In recent years, 1688 has combined digital technologies such as AI to develop and create platform tools and innovative scenarios such as industrial product standard libraries, origin maps, and 3D light customization. The "Wow Customization" service displayed on-site allows buyers to clearly express their personalized product needs through cutting-edge technologies such as 3D and generative AI. Relevant orders will be delivered to digital factories with matching production capacity; After receiving the order, the factory efficiently completes the production and fulfillment of the order through flexible quick return capability. This service truly achieves personalized ordering on the buyer side and quick return of zero inventory on the factory side, making it a vivid case of two-way interaction between the industrial internet and the consumer internet.
Cainiao is the world's largest cross-border e-commerce logistics enterprise, with a total of over 1.5 billion cross-border packages transported in the past year, serving over 100000 merchants and brands. With its end-to-end global logistics capabilities and technological innovation, Cainiao continues to upgrade its cross-border express delivery solutions. This year, it launched the "Global 5-Day Delivery", reducing the delivery time from China to major overseas destination countries to 5 working days. At present, this service capability has covered 8 countries and regions, becoming the flagship service in the global cross-border e-commerce logistics field.