In the early morning of July 27, the Paris Olympic Games officially opened. Alibaba Cloud fully supported the Paris Olympic Games to achieve a historic breakthrough: cloud computing surpassed satellite for the first time and became the mainstream broadcast method of the Olympic Games. It is expected that a total of 11,000 hours will be used, and more than two-thirds of the live broadcast footage of the event will be passed through Alibaba Cloud distributes globally. The International Olympic Organizing Committee stated that this is another major technological advancement since the satellite television broadcast of the Tokyo Olympics began in 1964.

Bach, President of the International Olympic Games, praised that Alibaba Cloud's cutting-edge technology is helping broadcast agencies around the world convey the magical charm of the 2024 Paris Olympics. The widely used Alibaba AI technology is taking the Paris Olympic broadcasts to new heights.

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How does Alibaba Cloud technology help the Paris Olympics?

During the Paris Olympics, the OBS Cloud jointly built by Alibaba Cloud and Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS) became an important infrastructure for the global broadcast of the Paris Olympics. Based on Alibaba Cloud's global public cloud infrastructure, Olympic live broadcast signals can be transmitted from Paris to more than 200 countries and regions around the world.

At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, cloud computing supported Olympic broadcasts for the first time; at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, more than 22 rights-holding broadcast agencies used cloud computing to distribute live signals. At this year’s Paris Olympics, 54 broadcast agencies used cloud computing.

In the past, the live broadcast signals of the Olympic Games mainly relied on satellite and traditional optical cable transmission. These facilities are expensive and require hardware to be deployed in advance, and some smaller broadcast agencies cannot make temporary changes to their broadcast plans. In recent years, with the development of cloud computing technology, cloud broadcasting has gradually been used in Olympic events. Broadcasting agencies in various countries can achieve faster and better broadcasting effects at lower costs. A wider range of cloud broadcasts further reduces economic costs and promotes the development of broadcast production in a more efficient, intelligent, and environmentally friendly direction. The International Broadcast Center (IBC) area of ​​this year's Paris Olympics is 13% smaller than that of the Tokyo Olympics and 23% smaller than that of the 2016 Rio Olympics. The organizing committee has provided 44% less power to the IBC compared to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 72% less than the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Zhang Dazhi, CSC Director of Alibaba Cloud's Overseas Business Customer Success Center, said that at the Tokyo Olympics, a rights-holding broadcast agency arrived at the scene very late, and it was impossible to complete the broadcast task using traditional methods. However, with the help of cloud technology, the organization quickly achieved global transmission, and the entire event live broadcast was very stable.

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Alibaba Cloud’s determination to be all in AI

Alibaba Cloud started the research and development of large models as early as 2019, and proposed the concept of MaaS (Model as a Service) in 2022, leading the industry. In order to achieve this goal, Alibaba Cloud has carried out a full-stack reconstruction, from the underlying computing power (IaaS) to the AI ​​platform (PaaS) to the model service (MaaS), comprehensively covering all aspects of the technical architecture.

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In terms of technical strength, Alibaba Cloud has launched multiple versions of Tongyi large models through continuous technological innovation, including Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, 2.1 and the latest Tongyi Qianwen 2.5. These models have surpassed GPT in terms of comprehensive performance -3.5, even catching up with GPT-4 in the Chinese context. In addition, Alibaba Cloud also released the Qwen1.5-110B model with 110 billion parameters, becoming one of the most powerful models in the open source field.

User experience seems to better illustrate the true level of the model. According to statistics, the number of daily calls to Tongyi's large model has exceeded 100 million. The number of enterprises served by Alibaba Cloud exceeds 90,000, and the number of enterprises served by DingTalk exceeds 2.2 million. The cumulative downloads of Tongyi's open source model have exceeded 7 million, becoming China's largest open source model. The most popular large model for enterprises.

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Alibaba Cloud's technical layout is not limited to language large models, but also covers multi-modal large models and industry large models. Tongyi Qianwen's visual understanding model and Tongyi Qianwen's code large model are at the top of the major benchmark lists, demonstrating Alibaba Cloud's powerful capabilities in different application scenarios.

In order to better serve enterprises, Alibaba Cloud has comprehensively upgraded the Bailian platform, making it easier to use and open from model development, application development to computing power base. Alibaba Cloud has introduced more models and is compatible with open source frameworks such as LlamaIndex. Enterprises can freely replace capability components to adapt to their own systems. Bailian platform provides flexible and open enterprise-level search enhancement services, allowing enterprises to quickly build RAG applications with "5 to 10 lines of code".

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At the enterprise application level, Alibaba Cloud supports enterprises to call, fine-tune, train and develop exclusive large models. Alibaba Cloud's Bailian platform provides enterprises with full-link model services from data management, model tuning, evaluation to deployment. Users can flexibly call computing power on demand, visualize the training process, automatically evaluate model quality and compare it with other models. Compared.

Alibaba Cloud actively promotes the development of the open source ecosystem and promotes the innovation of more developers and enterprises through open cooperation. The open source model provides enterprises and developers with more choices, avoids dependence on a certain product or technology, and also promotes application innovation to the greatest extent.

IDC data shows that in the actual application development process, the proportion of enterprises adopting open source models and commercial models is 51% and 49%.

Zhou Jingren believes that open source’s contribution to the entire technology field is undoubted. The open source model gives enterprises and developers more choices. You don't have to worry about being tied to a certain company's product or technology line. At the same time, you can also use different models freely for application innovation to the greatest extent.

After Tongyi announced that it would join the ranks of open source in August last year, it has been firmly committed to the open source route and has successively launched more than ten models along the "full-mode, full-size" open source route.

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