In recent years, the wave of global scientific and technological innovation has risen and fallen, and countries have invested a lot of resources to make breakthroughs in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing. In this scientific and technological race without gunpowder, China is gradually establishing its leading position with its strong technological strength and continuous innovation ability. Recently, Alibaba's latest open-source Qwen2-72B large model topped the Huggingface open-source model rankings, once again sparking heated discussions around the world. Foreign netizens expressed their shock and admiration, "China is amazing! "China's science and technology are good!" and so on. So, what's really going on behind the scenes?
The beginning and end of the event
In the early morning of June 27, 2024, Clem, co-founder and CEO of Huggingface, a world-famous open source platform, released a remarkable news on social platforms: Alibaba's latest open-source Qwen2-72B instruction fine-tuned version has successfully topped the Huggingface open-source model rankings. This news immediately sparked widespread attention and heated discussions in the technology community, especially in countries such as Japan and South Korea, where netizens expressed their admiration and shock for China's AI technology.
In order to ensure the fairness and authority of the list, Clem and his team used 300 pieces of H100 high-performance hardware to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth evaluation of more than 100 mainstream open source large models around the world. The evaluation covers a variety of large models including Qwen2, Llama-3, Mixtral, Phi-3, etc., and the test items cover strict benchmark test sets such as BBH, MUSR, MMLU-PRO, GPQA, etc. In the end, Alibaba's Qwen-2 72B model stood out, beating out Meta's Llama-3 and France's Mistralai's Mixtral as the new king. This achievement not only demonstrates Alibaba's hard core strength in the field of AI, but also fully proves China's important contribution and leadership position in the global open source model.
Alibaba's technological prowess
Alibaba's achievements are not accidental, but the result of its long-term continuous investment and innovation in the field of AI. As early as 2021, Alibaba has begun to lay out the field of artificial intelligence, and is committed to achieving breakthroughs in basic research and cutting-edge technologies through the establishment of scientific research institutions such as the Damo Academy. The success of the Qwen2-72B model is the culmination of Alibaba's long-term accumulation in the fields of deep learning and natural language processing.
Alibaba's Qwen series of large models have received wide attention and praise since their launch. Qwen2-72B not only ranks first on the list, but also ranks third in its basic version, and the ninth and tenth places are the Qwen1.5 basic and Chat versions that Ali previously open-sourced. This series of achievements not only demonstrates Alibaba's hard core strength in the field of AI, but also fully proves China's important contribution and leadership position in the global open source model. In fact, Qwen2-72B's multilingual capabilities have also been highly praised around the world, especially in countries with multilingual environments such as Vietnam and India, and users have said that its performance is not inferior to GPT-4 at all.
In addition, the Qwen2-72B is also impressive in the professional field. For example, in the medical field, the Qwen2-72B can provide more accurate answers than professional medical LLMs without special prompts, which is not only appreciated by ordinary users, but also highly recognized by industry experts. It is this comprehensive and outstanding performance that enables the Qwen2-72B to stand out from the fierce competition and become the focus of global attention.
The reaction of foreign netizens
The success of Qwen2-72B not only shocked the tech world, but also sparked widespread discussion and buzz on social media. Netizens in Japan, South Korea and other countries have expressed their admiration and shock for China's AI technology. A Vietnamese netizen said on social media platforms that he was amazed by Qwen-72B's multilingual ability, and its performance was not inferior to GPT-4 at all. There are also overseas fans who introduced Qwen-72B's hidden skills, saying that it can provide more accurate answers than professional medical LLMs without special prompts, which is a miraculous performance.
Not only ordinary users, but also industry bigwigs have spoken highly of this "Oriental AI power". After the release of Huggingface's ranking results, Tanishq, research director at StabilityAI, said that he had long believed that China was extremely competitive in the field of open source large models, and that he found it ridiculous to think that China was lagging behind, believing that China was actually in a leading position. These evaluations are not only an affirmation of Qwen2-72B, but also a recognition of China's scientific and technological strength.
Social environment and technological development
The success of Alibaba's Qwen2-72B comes against the backdrop of increasingly fierce global technology competition. In recent years, China has made remarkable achievements in scientific and technological innovation, especially in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, etc., and a large number of scientific and technological enterprises and scientific research achievements with international influence have emerged. The Chinese government also attaches great importance to scientific and technological innovation, and has introduced a series of policies and measures to encourage enterprises to increase investment in R&D and promote the transformation and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements.
With this favorable social environment and policy support, Chinese technology companies have increased their investment in cutting-edge technologies and constantly pursued technological breakthroughs and innovations. As a representative of Chinese technology companies, Alibaba has not only taken a leading position in the domestic market but also demonstrated strong competitiveness on the international stage through continuous technological innovation and open cooperation. The success of Qwen2-72B is a microcosm of the continuous breakthroughs made by Chinese technology companies in the global technology competition.
point of view
The success of Qwen2-72B is inseparable from Alibaba's long-term continuous investment and innovative spirit in the field of AI. This also reminds us that scientific and technological innovation is an important embodiment of the country's comprehensive strength and a key driving force for promoting social progress and economic development. Only by constantly pursuing technological breakthroughs and innovations can we remain invincible in the fierce international competition.
The rise of China's science and technology has also brought new opportunities and challenges to the development of global science and technology. Openness and cooperation are the main theme of today's scientific and technological development, and only through international cooperation and exchanges can we achieve win-win development. Alibaba's open source model not only serves China, but also provides powerful tools and platforms for developers around the world, and this spirit of openness and sharing is worth affirming and promoting.
In the context of increasingly fierce global technology competition, Chinese technology enterprises need to continue to maintain the spirit of innovation, increase R&D investment, and promote technological progress and industrial upgrading. At the same time, the government should continue to increase support for scientific and technological innovation, create a good environment for innovation, and provide a solid guarantee for the development of scientific and technological enterprises. Only in this way can China's science and technology occupy a more important position on the global stage and realize the transformation from a "catcher" to a "leader".
conclusion
In short, Alibaba's Qwen2-72B topped the Huggingface rankings, which is not only the glory of Chinese technology companies, but also the embodiment of the influence of China's AI technology on a global scale. We believe that in the near future, more excellent domestic AI models will emerge to contribute to the development of China's science and technology and the progress of global science and technology. As foreign netizens lamented: "Who dares to say that China is backward!" "At a critical juncture, Jack Ma and Alibaba once again demonstrated the strength of Chinese technology. Let's look forward to the bright future of China's AI and applaud the brilliant achievements of China's science and technology!