Alibaba Cloud Launches ModelScope Platform and New Solutions to Lower the Threshold for Materializing Business Innovation
03 November 2022 - 3:45AM
Business Wire
- Hundreds of AI models are made accessible on a brand new
open-source platform
- Key serverless solutions launched to enable better product
deployment and development
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone
of Alibaba Group, started its annual Apsara Conference today by
announcing the launch of ModelScope, an open-source
Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform that comes with hundreds of AI
models, including large pre-trained models for global developers
and researchers. During its flagship conference, the global leading
cloud provider also introduced a range of serverless database
products and upgraded its integrated data analytics and intelligent
computing platform to help customers further achieve business
innovation through cloud technologies.
"Cloud computing has given rise to a fundamental revolution in
the way computing resources are organized, produced and put to
commercial use while shifting the paradigm of software development
and speeding up the integration of the cloud and endpoint
terminals," Jeff Zhang, President of Alibaba Cloud
Intelligence, "As more customers are speeding up with their
cloud adoption, we have been upgrading our cloud-based resources,
services and tools to become serverless, more intelligent and
digitalized in order to lower the barrier for companies to adopt
new technology and capture more opportunities in the cloud
era."
MaaS to create transparent and inclusive technology
community
The ModelScope platform is today launched with over 300
ready-to-deploy AI models developed by Alibaba DAMO Academy
("DAMO"), Alibaba's global research initiative, in the past five
years. These models cover various fields from computer vision to
natural language processing (NLP) and audio. The platform also
includes more than 150 state-of-the-art (SOTA) models, which are
recognized globally as the best in their respective fields for
achieving the results in a given task.
Also made available on the platform are Alibaba’s proprietary
large pre-trained models such as Tongyi, which is capable of
turning text into image with five billion parameters, and OFA
(One-For-All), a six billion-parameter pre-trained model that
excels at cross-modal tasks such as image captioning and visual
question answering. Independent developers have also contributed
dozens of models to the open-source platform to date.
As an open-source community, ModelScope aims to make developing
and running AI models easier and more cost effective. Developers
and researchers can simply test the models online for free and get
the results of their tests within minutes. They can also develop
customized AI application by fine-tuning existing models, and run
the models online backed by Alibaba Cloud, or deploy them on other
cloud platforms or in a local setting.
The launch underscores DAMO’s ongoing efforts and commitment to
promote transparent and inclusive technology by reducing the
threshold for building and running AI models, enabling universities
and smaller companies to easily use AI for their research and in
their business respectively. The community is expected to grow
further with more quality models available on the platform from
DAMO, partners from research institutes and third-party developers
in the near future.
New and upgraded solutions to increase computing
efficiency
Staying ahead of the emerging trend of serverless software
development, Alibaba Cloud is making its key cloud products
serverless to enable customers to concentrate on product deployment
and development without worrying about managing servers and
infrastructure. Essentially, Alibaba Cloud’s updated products focus
on turning computing power into an on-demand capability for
users.
Examples of these are the cloud native database PolarDB, the
cloud-native data warehouse AnalyticDB (ADB) and ApsaraDB for
Relational Database Service (RDS). Leveraging Alibaba Cloud’s
serverless technologies, customers can enjoy automatic scaling with
extreme elasticity based on actual workloads and a pay-as-you-go
billing model to reduce costs. The automatic elastic scaling time
on demands can be as little as one second. The use of updated
database products can help businesses in the internet industry
reduce their costs by 50%, on average, compared to using
traditional ones. Currently, Alibaba Cloud has more than 20
serverless key products in total and is adding more product
categories to become serverless.
Alibaba Cloud also upgraded its ODPS (Open Data Platform and
Services), a self-developed integrated data analytics and
intelligent computing platform, to provide companies with
diversified data processing and analytics services. The platform
can handle both online and offline data simultaneously in one
system, providing businesses dealing with complex workloads with
analytics for business decision-making with reduced cost and
increased efficiency.
ODPS has refreshed global records for big data performance,
according to recent results from the Transaction Processing
Performance Council (TPC), an industry council that sets the
standards for transaction processing and database benchmarking.
Evaluated based on a 100 TB data benchmark, the performance of ODPS
Maxcompute Cluster attained the top score for the sixth consecutive
year. ODPS Hologres Cluster also shown a record-breaking result in
the TPC-H 30000GB decision support benchmark test.
To drive workload collaboration between cloud and local
hardware, Alibaba Cloud has announced the launch of the Wuying
Architecture with a showcase on its applications on the Wuying
Cloudbook. The Cloudbook with dedicated Architecture is designed to
help users access unlimited computing power on the cloud in a more
secure and agile manner while supporting collaboration and
flexibility at a workplace.
About Alibaba Cloud
Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com) is the
digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. It
offers a complete suite of cloud services to customers worldwide,
including elastic computing, database, storage, network
virtualization services, large-scale computing, security,
management and application services, big data analytics, a machine
learning platform and IoT services. Alibaba maintained its position
as the third leading public cloud IaaS service provider globally
since 2018, according to IDC. Alibaba is the world’s third leading
and Asia Pacific’s leading IaaS provider by revenue in U.S. dollars
since 2018, according to Gartner.
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