Founded in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is a leading cloud computing and artificial intelligence company. Leveraging its proprietary Apsara Cloud operating system, Alibaba Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of cloud services based on a three-tiered architecture of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) to customers worldwide. Alibaba Cloud is the largest provider of public cloud services in China and Asia Pacific. With its large scale and strong foundation in IaaS and PaaS infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud provides enterprises with high-performance and low-cost computing resources, and platform services for large-scale model training, fine-tuning, and inference. Alibaba Cloud aspires to become the most open cloud computing company in the AI era. Alibaba Cloud’s proprietary LLM Qwen is one of the world’s leading LLMs, and has open-sourced Qwens of different sizes with multimodalities, supporting more enterprise customers to realize their AI-driven innovation.
