Alibaba Accelerates 'AI-Driven' Strategy with Launch of Self-Developed Quark Large Model
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On November 14, Alibaba's Intelligent Information Business Group unveiled its fully self-developed, trillion-parameter Quark large model, which will be applied to general search, healthcare, education, workplace scenarios, and more. The Quark App will undergo comprehensive upgrades leveraging this self-developed large model, accelerating its evolution into an AI assistant for young people's work, study, and daily life.
Commitment to Self-Developed Large Models
The Quark large model is a self-developed multimodal model based on the Transformer architecture. It undergoes daily training and fine-tuning with billions of text and image data points, featuring low cost, high responsiveness, and strong comprehensive capabilities. Additionally, the Quark large model will spawn vertical models in areas like general knowledge, healthcare, and education, providing professional services such as AIGC and intelligent retrieval.
In terms of performance, leveraging its technical advantages in semantic understanding, logical reasoning, and content generation, the Quark large model has achieved excellent results in the latest evaluation of the CMMLU authoritative benchmark.
At the same time, the Quark large model possesses outstanding capabilities in identifying, responding to, and guiding users regarding harmful or false information. In terms of knowledge capabilities, the Quark large model features extensive knowledge coverage, contextual understanding, creative expression, information gathering and integration, and multilingual support. It also has the ability to enhance domain-specific knowledge and retrieval, further improving its cross-domain and time-sensitive knowledge and language understanding. Additionally, the Quark large model has strong literary creation capabilities for writing various types of texts, as well as accurate, reasonable, and coherent conversational response abilities.
Quark's large model capabilities originate from four key advantages: data, industry expertise, knowledge accuracy, and platform infrastructure.
First, Quark's large model possesses a comprehensive Chinese database, enabling better understanding, evaluation, and refinement of Chinese knowledge systems. Second, Quark has independently built and maintains extensive resources including question banks, knowledge points, medical knowledge graphs, books, and publications, accumulating rich data and user scenarios. Third, in areas like general knowledge and writing enhancement, Quark has established a technical system to verify the authenticity of content from indexing to reasoning. Fourth, Quark has assembled a dedicated R&D team of hundreds, focusing on pre-training and fine-tuning large models for vertical fields like search, education, and healthcare.
It is reported that adhering to the self-developed large model strategy aligns with Quark's business goals and serves as the technological foundation for driving product innovation and advancing next-generation search experiences in the Quark App.
Quark to Undergo Comprehensive Upgrade Leveraging Its Self-Developed Large Model
Since the beginning of this year, artificial intelligence technology has been gradually integrated into the product iterations of Quark App. Quark Scanner King can simulate human thinking in complex scenarios, more accurately recognizing, analyzing, and extracting text, formulas, and images to achieve superior scanning results. The newly launched AI-powered natural language search feature in Quark Drive allows users to quickly locate photos, documents, and other cloud-stored materials using only vague keywords or descriptive terms, significantly enhancing search efficiency. As a smart product highly favored by young users, Quark App provides tens of millions of users with cross-scenario intelligent efficiency tools.
It is reported that the Quark large model will first be implemented in information services such as general Q&A and professional search to meet the needs of young people in learning and self-improvement. In the future, the Quark large model will be applied to scenarios like search, smart tools, and asset management assistants, with a series of AI-native applications offering more comprehensive services for young people's work, study, and daily life.
In September this year, Alibaba Group announced two strategic priorities: user-first and AI-driven initiatives, emphasizing increased investment in "technology-driven internet platform businesses" and "AI-driven technology businesses." At the recent 2023 World Internet Conference, Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming predicted that in the foreseeable future, smarter next-generation products will enter people's lives, with AI assistants becoming ubiquitous, serving as helpers in everyone's work, life, and learning.
"The AI era has arrived, and the tipping point for new experiences powered by large models is just around the corner," said Wu Jia, President of Alibaba's Intelligent Information Business Group. He noted that AIGC technology based on large models will bring transformative changes to search products, accelerating the transition to next-generation search. Quark will undergo a comprehensive upgrade leveraging its self-developed large model, and the new version will be unveiled soon.