OxValue.AI, a venture from the University of Oxford, utilizes Alibaba Cloud's Qwen-based multimodal AI models to enhance company valuation services through diverse data analysis.

In December 2024, Alibaba Cloud announced plans to collaborate with 100 ecosystem partners by 2025 to develop innovative AI and cloud solutions across various industries.

A whitepaper detailing Generative AI solutions and resources has been released to assist developers in leveraging Alibaba Cloud's offerings.

At its annual developer summit on January 21, 2025, Alibaba Cloud unveiled an expanded suite of large language models (LLMs) and AI development tools aimed at global developers.

Dongliang Guo, Vice President of International Business at Alibaba Cloud, highlighted the company's commitment to delivering advanced AI models and enhanced cloud infrastructure to support developers.

The Alibaba Cloud Container Compute Service (ACS) is now available internationally, simplifying workload deployment using container technology since January 2025.

The Alibaba Cloud GenAI Empowerment Program was launched to assist global developers and startups in creating generative AI applications, providing free cloud credits, training, and marketing opportunities.

New AI development tools introduced include Workflow for task management, Agent for multi-agent collaboration, and RAG for improving generative AI accuracy, with full availability expected by the end of January 2025.

Alibaba Cloud's 9th Generation Enterprise Elastic Compute Service (ECS) is set to launch globally in April 2025, featuring a 20% increase in computing efficiency and up to a 50% performance improvement for high-performance computing tasks.

The new Qwen models, including the Qwen 2.5 series and multimodal AI models, are now accessible via APIs on the generative AI development platform, Model Studio.

Japanese company Axcxept has developed an open-source AI model, EZO, based on Qwen 2.5 LLM, which excels in coding, reasoning, and writing in Japanese, particularly for healthcare and public sectors.

Tongyi Lingma, an AI coding assistant powered by the Qwen 2.5-coder model, offers features such as code completion and debugging assistance to enhance developer productivity.