Who said sports and technology don't intertwine? We asked Alibaba Cloud employees which sport best embodies their work and what they're watching during the
#HangzhouAsianGames
. Here's what they said! 👀
#LifeontheCloud
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
Watch to learn how we supported the restoration and colorization of historical photos and videos from China's first participation in the Asian Games using
#AI
technology.
#HangzhouAsianGames
Take a walk through the
#HangzhouAsianGames
Village with us to see how participants are using sustainable lifestyle web application to accumulate points and redeem limited-edition Asian Games products.
Work Happily, Live Seriously! At our Hong Kong office, we find joy in our work. It is a space not only where we collaborate as a team but also indulge in our hobbies during our breaks, appreciating a healthy balance between work and life.
#LifeontheCloud
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
Aaron McDonald, Founder and CEO of
@Futureverse
, talks about their text-to-music AI generator JEN and the partnership with Alibaba Cloud to bring AI to the music industry.
#AI
#cloudcomputing
#music
To promote a greener
#HangzhouAsianGames
, Energy Expert launched a sustainable lifestyle web application to encourage and reward low-carbon behaviors. William Xiong, VP of Alibaba Cloud and GM of Enterprise Service Cloud, talks about the green solutions at the Games.
Join us in supporting the
#HangzhouAsianGames
! Harnessing the power of our
#AI
model Tongyi Wanxiang, we collaborated with art director Jody Xiong to create an ink-drawing-inspired animation.
Let's cheer for all the athletes!
The
#Apsara
Conference2023 has been a remarkable showcase of innovative technologies, including a suite of domain-specific models built upon Tongyi Qianwen, as well as a digital avatar creation tool and an
#AI
text-to-image tool. Explore highlights:
Within Alibaba Cloud Valley in Hangzhou, unique shared spaces can be found indoors and outdoors. From serene gardens to cozy camping sites, these spaces are designed for relaxation and productivity. 🌱
#LifeontheCloud
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
Xiaomo, our digital avatar who can perform translation between sign language and spoken Chinese, will be supporting the
#HangzhouAsianParaGames
. Bang Zhang, Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba Cloud, talks more about how the technology will make the Games more inclusive.
The
#ApsaraConference2023
, in its fifteenth year, is taking place in Hangzhou. Drawing thousands of participants from across China and globally, the event is showcasing our latest innovations and insights on
#AI
and
#cloudcomputing
.
Proud to be part of bringing the
#HangzhouAsianGames
into the digital age, George Zhang from our Customer Success Center shares his experience supporting technological advancements in major sports events.
#LifeontheCloud
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
Transitioning from humanities to engineering, Iris Li from our Customer Success Center shares her passion for broadcasting technology and how it has led her to contributing to the
#HangzhouAsianGames
.
#LifeontheCloud
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
The
@WBSC
Youth Baseball5 World Cup in Türkiye used our AI-driven sustainability solution, Energy Expert, to calculate carbon footprint and gather valuable data for future operational improvements.
#AI
#Sustainability
#EnergyExpert
We have supported digital transformation of global sports events, delivering seamless digital experiences. Through our cutting-edge technologies and expertise, we are committed to driving innovation, enhancing engagement, and promoting sustainability.
#Innovation
#ESG
As a partner of the
#HangzhouAsianGames
, we are supporting the digitalization of the event, from the Game's core system to cloud broadcasting worldwide. Selina Yuan, our President of International Business, talks about driving a more efficient and sustainable Asian Games.
With the full support of Alibaba Cloud's technology, this year's Asian Games aims to be the most efficient and innovative to date! Stay tuned to learn more.
#HangzhouAsianGames
We announced at the
#2023AlibabaCloudGlobalSummit
a series of new AI products and services to meet the demand for efficient, security-focused
#generativeAI
development from customers worldwide. Selina Yuan, our President of International Business, spoke about the launch.
Alibaba Cloud collaborated with Po Leung Kuk’s social enterprise Tasty ONE this year to launch Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes handmade by individuals with disabilities to support their creation, giving them the opportunity to learn and showcase their work skills.
The
#ApsaraConference2023
saw participants from China and across the globe discovering Alibaba Cloud's latest rollout of innovations. We talked to some participants about which ones piqued their interest! 👀💡
To help the
#HangzhouAsianGames
honor its green mission, Alibaba Cloud launched a sustainable lifestyle web application that rewards participants for adopting low-carbon behaviors, such as reducing food waste.
Watch to learn how the application drives sustainability.
Jingren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud, introduces Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 along with new industry-specific models, marking another significant progress in our pursuit of cutting-edge
#AIinnovation
and our ongoing commitment to fuel
#digitaltransformation
in businesses.
We announced the general availability of Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Salesforce Platform on Alibaba Cloud starting December 18, 2023. to help businesses meet evolving market demands. Learn more:
Hangzhou Asian Games becomes the first-ever “Asian Games on the cloud”. Its core systems hosted on Alibaba Cloud facilitate an intelligent, efficient and sustainable operation and serve over 100,000 registered users globally.
Learn more:
#cloudtechnology
Alibaba Cloud's reading
#AI
model, Tongyi ZoneWit, empowers users with knowledge processing capabilities. The tool can manage large volumes of documents, handling up to 1000 pages and over 1 million words of highly specialized language.
Yitian Xu talks about finding himself at the forefront of innovation as a Solutions Architect at
#AlibabaCloud
. Working with a globally diverse team and using cutting-edge technologies to tackle business challenges has helped him grow personally and professionally.
In collaboration with
@unitedwomen_sg
(UWS), we are pleased to launch our inaugural 'RiseHERs in Cloud' programme, dedicated to provide nearly 1,000 talented young women with robust academic training and practical expertise.
#Technology
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming industries beyond art and creativity. Watch to learn how it's applied in renewable energy, helping companies make more accurate forecasts.
#MachineLearning
#RenewableEnergy
Bosco, our Head of Business Development (Financial Sector) in Hong Kong, reflects on how Alibaba Cloud's
#openminded
working culture fosters young
#leaders
, allowing him to empower his team to achieve their goals.
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
#LifeontheCloud
Leo Liu, VP of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International, highlights Alibaba Cloud's adaptation of its cloud services to foster
#innovation
in the North Asian business landscape, emphasizing the significance of cloud computing and large model services in the era of
#AI
.
Jessica, our Partner Solutions Architect, talks about the learning and growth opportunities that have defined her experience working as a woman in tech in Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong.
#LifeontheCloud
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
Alibaba’s intelligent platform
#DingTalk
unveiled an enhanced edition designed to improve the operational efficiency of the
#HangzhouAsianGames
. DingTalk for Asian Games connects stakeholders across all stages of the sports event lifecycle – from organizers to volunteers.
With a built-in
#AI
assistant powered by Alibaba Cloud's large model Tongyi Qianwen and a low-code platform supporting customizations, DingTalk's capabilities expand beyond workplace efficiency to managing events like the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Learn more:
This year at the
#ApsaraConference2023
, we created VIP tickets that are compostable. Each ticket contained seeds that could be planted to grow herbs or cherry tomatoes! 🌱
#greeninitiative
To foster inclusive and innovative application development of generative AI, we're releasing a comprehensive set of new products to assist customers in creating their own Generative AI applications in a more efficient, security-focused, and cost-effective manner.
Alibaba Group’s Global Mathematics Competition announced its 2023 winners earlier last week. In the five years since its launch, the competition has attracted more than 250,000 participants from over 70 countries and regions.
At Alibaba Cloud, we continue to innovate cloud computing technology to maximize energy efficiency while ensuring users have high-quality cloud services. In FY2023, Alibaba enabled 6.86 million tons of CO2e Scope 3+ emissions reduction through green cloud computing.
From Fliggy to Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, Lusha Chen, Business Development Manager at Alibaba Cloud International, talks about the opportunities and teamwork that defined her career.
#LifeontheCloud
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
At Alibaba Cloud, we are committed to building a
#sustainable
future by means of technology innovation and transition to clean energy. Discover how our self-built Zhangbei Data Center has contributed to local high-quality sustainable development since its establishment in 2016.
As a university partner of Alibaba Cloud Academic Empowerment Program, UTAR in Malaysia has access to cloud computing and e-learning resources that empower students and teachers with extra industry knowledge. Watch to learn more.
#AAEP
We're excited for 2024! Watch to hear some of our New Year's resolutions, from living greener🌳to increasing productivity📱, we will make this year the best one yet.
Xiaomo, our digital avatar who can perform translation between sign language and spoken Chinese, will be supporting the
#HangzhouAsianParaGames
.
Bang Zhang, Research Engineer at Alibaba Cloud, talks more about how the technology will make the Games more inclusive.
At the
#ApsaraConference2023
, Jingren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud, announced LLMs Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 and new industry-specific models to help businesses unlock the transformative potential of generative AI across sectors.
Read more:
#CloudsTopMinds
#AI
Continuously striving for improvement, Yosano Masahiro, Chief Solutions Architect at Alibaba Cloud Japan, talks about growing with the local business and how he finds inspiration through fostering connections with colleagues.
#LifeontheCloud
Boost your
#cloudcomputing
skills by joining our Academy Classroom Training:
A combination of presentations and hands-on labs will introduce you to cloud skills and best practices.
#CareerGrowth
Do you kick off your day with a coffee or a pastry? Where do you prefer working out? Here's a look inside the minds of Alibaba Cloud employees, watch to hear what they said! 👀
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#LifeatAlibabaCloud
A majority of Philippine businesses are planning full-scale cloud migration in the next two years, with more than 9 in 10 expecting to increase their cloud investment in 2023, according to "The Next-Generation Cloud Strategy in Asia", a survey commissioned by Alibaba Cloud.
Level up your cloud skills with free training through Alibaba Cloud Academy. Register for October sessions now:
These programs combine presentations and practical labs so you can learn the industry's best practices.
#CareerGrowth
#CloudComputing
Alibaba Cloud is committed to developing technologies that stimulate green and inclusive growth for businesses, particularly for MSMEs, empowering them to achieve
#sustainable
development in the new digital era.
Learn more:
#ESG
Learn how Alibaba Cloud's digital innovation products are helping companies boost energy efficiency and manage carbon emissions. Watch the full video:
#ESG
#CarbonNeutrality
Alibaba Cloud launched two open-source large vision language models, Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, that can comprehend images, texts, and bounding boxes in prompts and facilitate multi-round question answering in both English and Chinese.
Learn more:
In the past year, not only did we reduce our PUE from 1.247 to 1.215 and transition from 21.6% clean energy consumption to 53.9%, but we also helped our clients reduce emissions via cloud migration.
Read more on Alibaba's 2023 ESG Report:
#ESG
Organizations are embracing the cloud-native era to provide developers with a consistent environment to build new technology while improving existing ones. Cloud security has become more important than ever before.
#CloudComputing
We are teaming up with Veolia, a French
#sustainability
solution provider, to help Master Kong, an F&B giant in China, turn its plastic bottles into recycled PET pellets then manufactured to storage boxes.
Learn more:
#Recycling
In our latest contribution to the open-source community, we're open-sourcing our 7-billion-parameter Large Language Models, Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat, through ModelScope and Hugging Face.
Read more about our latest news:
#AI
#LLM
Class of 2024, we are hiring! Here's the chance to start your
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
- apply now on our Career Page:
Hot tip: If you know someone at Alibaba Cloud, ask them about their experience working here. You might score a referral!
#CampusRecruitment
At this year's
#VLDB
, a total of 17 papers from Alibaba Cloud, DAMO and collaborators were selected at the conference alongside other prominent research institutions and tech companies. This marks an international recognition of our research efforts in the cloud database space.
We are opening access to the 72 bln and 1.8 bln parameter versions of Tongyi Qianwen and also making more multimodal LLMs freely available including Qwen-Audio and Qwen-Audio-Chat for research and commercial purposes.
Read more about our latest news:
Early-stage detection of pancreatic cancer has been challenging, Alibaba Group’s DAMO Academy has developed an
#AI
-powered tool that can screen for early signs of pancreatic cancer.
Read More:
Ken Xu, our Senior Solutions Architect, talks about how e-sports became more than just a hobby, shaping his personal and professional growth.
#Esports
#LifeontheCloud
Originally built to support Alibaba's internal communication needs, DingTalk is now an enterprise collaboration super app that helps businesses improve productivity and streamline workflow.
Learn more:
#Technology
#Productivity
Get ready for the Apsara Conference, our annual technology event, from October 31st to November 2nd this year. Dive into cutting-edge
#technology
and discover the future of
#innovation
with us.
Explore our tech innovations:
#ApsaraConference2023
Elaine, Head of Marketing UKI & Nordics at Alibaba Cloud, talks about how she finds meaning at work. Leading global projects and connecting with international colleagues and clients have contributed to Elaine's fulfilling
#LifeontheCloud
.
Great job to Joyce and Robert, our student placements at Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong this year, who gained valuable workplace experience. We're excited to see your bright future in the tech industry. 💪💼
#YouthEmpowerment
#LifeontheCloud
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
Alibaba Cloud's Function Compute was evaluated across 40 criteria from current offering, strategy, and market presence. Alibaba obtained the highest score in the Current Offering category.
Learn more:
#FaaS
#AlibabaCloudFunctionCompute
Alibaba's DingTalk is expecting to launch a new version with LLM-supported functions by the end of Sep 2023. The AI upgrades can assist users in drafting job ads, screening candidates, and even aiding teachers in evaluating student performance.
Learn more:
Derek Wang, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence GM for Singapore, South Asia & Thailand, discussed how businesses can reduce carbon emissions with the help of cloud migration and technology like Alibaba Cloud's Energy Expert to achieve Green Plan 2030 targets.
#ESG
#EnergyExpert
In today's digital economy, cloud computing is fundamental. At Alibaba Cloud, we prioritize efficiency and low-carbon computing power, building our own clean cloud and enabling other organizations to reduce emissions.
Read more on Alibaba's 2023 ESG Report:
Alibaba Cloud’s large AI models ranked high in a wide range of indicators, including general, innovation, and industry service capabilities, according to the latest report from the International Data Corporation.
More on our latest news:
#MachineLearning
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen-VL-Chat can understand both image and text input in English and Chinese, enabling it to interpret and answer questions about images, such as assisting non-Chinese speakers who can't read signs in Chinese.
Learn more:
#AI
#LLM
Futureverse has partnered with Alibaba Cloud which combines
#AI
music solution expertise with secure and scalable computing capabilities to drive further development and establish industry standards for high-performance AI infrastructure and robust security measures.
We're incredibly excited to announce that we’ve collaborated with
@alibaba_cloud
to bring high-performance computing technology to our AI music platform, JEN.
Why do you think it's important for
#AI
researchers to support the open-source community by sharing their code and models? 👩💻
Trending this week on
@huggingface
is our open-source model of Qwen-7B, the 7B-parameter version of our
#LLM
Tongyi Qianwen.
💡 Interview Tip: Other than practicing answers to common interview questions, having a solid understanding of your strengths is an important part of interview preparation.
#LifeontheCloud
#CareerAdvice
Meet Yohana, a Software Engineer at DANA Indonesia, who attended Alibaba Cloud Academy training courses to enhance her cloud and tech skills, boosting her efficiency at work.
#AlibabaCloudAcademy
#TechSkills
#CareerGrowth
Alibaba Cloud ranks No. 1 in China's big data platform market (for public cloud services) for the third consecutive year, according to a recent report by the IDC. With our remarkable market share, we have established a significant lead in the market.
#CloudServices
With effect on Sept. 10, 2023, Daniel Zhang will transition from the role of Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group to lead Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group as its Chairman and CEO.
Click to read the full update:
By partnering with different stakeholders, from government agencies to event organizers, Alibaba Cloud is using its Energy Expert platform to help Singapore achieve its green plan. Watch the full video on Alizila:
#ESG
#EnergyExpert
#Sustainability
Joe Tsai, Chairman of Alibaba Group, delivered the opening remarks at the
#ApsaraConference2023
today.
“We aim to be the most open cloud in the era of AI. We hope that through this cloud, it will become easier and affordable for everyone to develop and use
#AI
."
Our text-to-image
#AI
, Tongyi Wanxiang, will allow businesses to develop various styles of art and detailed images through text prompts.
Read more:
#GenerativeAI
On Olympic Day this year, we hosted a two-day sports festival "Stay Active- Enjoy Sports Together" at Cloud Valley, our headquarters in Hangzhou. Alibaba Cloud employees participated in a series of challenges, celebrating health and wellness.
Read more:
We unveiled our latest AI image generation model, Tongyi Wanxiang, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2023. The cutting-edge generative AI model is now available for testing by corporate customers in China.
Learn more:
#GenerativeAI
Energy Expert, our AI-driven sustainability solution, was used to measure and analyze carbon emissions from the venue construction and operation of the Olympic Esports Week Singapore 2023. Watch to learn more.
#Sustainability
💡 Interview Tip: At job interviews, we may be so focused on highlighting our successes that we forget to talk about our failures. Here is why it's important to tell your full story.
#LifeontheCloud
#CareerAdvice
Happy
#InternationalCoffeeDay
! ☕ At Alibaba Cloud Valley in Hangzhou, coffee lovers can find a variety of cafes to fuel creativity and collaboration- and get their caffeine boost!
Dongliang Guo, our VP of International Business, Products and Solutions, talks about how his multi-national team maintains team spirit beyond borders.
#LifeatAlibabaCloud
#GlobalTeam
WBSC 🤝 Alibaba Cloud
🔝🖐️WBSC partners with Alibaba Cloud for Sustainability Drive. The WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup will be the first event to implement Alibaba Cloud’s sustainability initiatives.
@AlibabaGroup
#YouthB5WorldCup
➡️
Harnessing Alibaba Cloud's technologies,
#Gangwon2024
enhances the experience for staff, volunteers, and global sports fans. Our scalable and secure cloud infrastructure optimizes efficiency of the Games' major operation platforms.
Eric Wan, VP of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International, GM of Alibaba Cloud Middle East, Turkey & Africa, spoke at
#COP28
China Pavilion, highlighting how Alibaba Cloud's data centres are leveraging cutting-edge
#technology
to fulfill more decarbonization achievements.
#ESG