Alibaba International Group is an established company founded by Jack Ma in 1999, renowned for its diverse business portfolio. This group operates in various industries including e-commerce, cloud computing, digital, and financial technology. Alibaba is one of the world’s leading wholesale online marketplaces where businesses can buy products in bulk from manufacturers and suppliers.
Initially aimed at improving the domestic e-commerce market and perfecting an e-commerce platform for Chinese enterprises, the company now has released an AI translation tool. The new AI model to support translation in various cross-border e-commerce scenarios and everyday communications. The company’s arm says that this tool beats Google and chatGPT.
The current model supports 15 languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Italian. Reports say that the officials plan to expand the number of languages soon and further enhance the translation quality. The main idea of bringing this AI tool into play is to help the bottom line of merchants in the company cause if they are doing better, it means higher returns to the company. This platform has already more than 500,000 merchant users; Sellers in one country could use this tool to create product pages in the language of the target market.
The new version of this model is based only on large language models allowing users to draw more attention to contextual clues such as culture or industry-specific terms. Large language models power artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT which allows mass text to be translated into a particular language. Alibaba’s AI tool is based on its own model like Qwen. this version of the AI tool was used by merchants and have made more than 100 million product listings with it. Qwen is designed for applications and sectors ranging from assistance to other updated versions supporting automobiles to gaming and science, research, etc in Qwen 2.5. These tools also have capabilities in math and coding.
Several other versions of the AI tool such as Qwen Max, and Max 2.5, Tongyi, Qianwen are also released this year. The CEO comments that Alibaba Cloud is investing, with skyrocketing intensity, in the research and development of AI technology and the building of its global infrastructure. The main reason why these tools are relevant to the CEO is because he believes that contextual translation makes it more likely for consumers to decide to buy more from the site and he even tried to prove it with an example of taking a colloquial Chinese proverb and translating it in ChatGPT and it showing a totally different meaning but ALibaba’s tool, Qwen coined it correctly.
Alibaba unit had also launched a campaign to promote its GenAI tools to help merchants tap overseas markets via business-to-business platforms. Till today, this company has released more than 100 open-source artificial intelligence models. It has also introduced a new text-to-video tool powered by its AI models, enabling users to enter a prompt for the AI to generate a video.
Alibaba is one of the biggest cloud computing players in China but internationally, it trails behind Amazon and Microsoft. In an attempt to overpower this by launching more AI tools, Alibaba is hoping to boost its division.
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