Chinese technology company Alibaba released on Thursday new open-source artificial intelligence models and text-to-video AI technology, intensifying its efforts to compete in the booming area of generative AI.

Alibaba is hoping its latest AI offerings may tempt customers around the world to sign up to its cloud services.

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A step toward advanced AI capabilities. The Qwen 2.5 models, according to Alibaba, have enhanced capabilities in mathematics and coding. These AI models are train

Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) released over 100 open-source artificial intelligence models, as its Cloud unit's annual flagship event, Apsara kicked off on Thursday. The Chinese tech giant also unveiled a new text-to-video tool based on its AI models.

Revealed at the company’s Apsara Conference, the new model series follows the release of the company’s foundation model Tongyi Qianwen, or Qwen, last year. Since then, the Qwen models have been downloaded more than 40 million times across platforms such as Hugging Face and Modelscope.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has unveiled over 100 new open-source AI models and a text-to-video generation tool.