Experience Taobao’s VR App, How Alibaba.com Supports MSMEs, Fusing Music and AI with Lang Lang, and More
Welcome to the July edition of Alibaba's Digital Digest, where we decode the biggest e-commerce and AI updates of the last month.
Exciting news from Taobao, which became the first Chinese online retailer to launch an app on Apple’s Vision Pro VR headset.
Taobao and Tmall Group as a whole has been leading the charge in digital retail innovation thanks to the Qwen large language model, which powers a host of AI tools for merchants.
But big platforms aren’t the only ones making moves with AI.
Over a quarter of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) use AI daily, according to a recent survey by Alibaba.com. These businesses saw a 37% boost in product exposure thanks to the platform’s AI tools and accepted 70% of its AI-generated suggestions.
AI is also transforming the world of music, classical pianist Lang Lang shared in an interview with Alizila, which you can watch here or continue scrolling to read.
Last but not least, let’s talk about Alibaba Cloud. Its new language model series, Qwen2, topped the charts for open-source LLMs when it launched last month.
Happy reading, and stay tuned for more updates on how these developments continue to shape the e-commerce landscape!
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E-commerce marketplace Taobao released an updated version of its e-commerce application for the Apple Vision Pro, which went on sale in Mainland China on June 28.
Taobao became the first Chinese online retailer to introduce an application on the virtual reality headset when it launched a beta version of Taobao Vision Pro in April.
Taobao and Tmall Group is Alibaba’s core e-commerce division and has also become a locus of digital retail innovation fueled by large language model (LLM) Qwen.
With China’s second-largest shopping festival wrapping up, we take a closer look at how AI is reshaping the digital journeys of merchants and consumers alike on Taobao and Tmall.
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More than a quarter of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) globally use artificial intelligence on a daily basis, according to a recent survey from B2B marketplace Alibaba.com.
These companies, ranging in size from one to 250 employees, saw a 37% increase in product exposure as a result of Alibaba.com AI tools and accepted 70% of the optimization suggestions they produced, per the report.
Does the future of music lie in the realm of artificial intelligence? World-renowned musician Lang Lang grappled with this question during a recent interview with Alizila.
In his search for an answer, the classical pianist turned to AI music generator JEN, developed by New Zealand-based company Futureverse and trained on an Alibaba Cloud platform.
The latest language model series from Alibaba Cloud topped rankings for open-sourced LLMs shortly after launching, thanks to its enhanced performance and improved safety alignment.
The Qwen2 model series encompasses a number of base language models and instruction-tuned language models with sizes ranging from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters, as well as a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model.
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