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Alibaba Cloud’s new ads tout AI computing power with endorsements from major clients
- Alibaba Cloud and rivals are gunning for a market that is expected to expand faster this year, thanks partly to popularity of generative AI
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Wency Chenin Shanghai
Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing unit on Monday launched a new advertising campaign in China featuring top executives from start-up Moonshot AI and online recruitment platform Zhilian Zhaopin, amid fierce competition in the local market.
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The ads – currently displayed at airports in Beijing and Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province – promoted the market leader’s capability of supporting artificial intelligence (AI) development at well-known Chinese companies with the slogan, “Alibaba Cloud is the cloud I use”.
In one ad, Yang Zhilin – founder of Moonshot AI, one of the country’s top start-ups dubbed the “new AI tigers” – praised Alibaba Cloud’s “robust computing power” and large-model service platform for enhancing the efficiency of its Kimi model.
Alibaba, owner of the South China Morning Post, is a major backer of Moonshot AI, having spent around US$800 million to acquire a 36 per cent equity interest in the start-up. Kimi Chatbot, launched last October and powered by Moonshot AI’s self-developed model, is seen as one of China’s most promising answers to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Another ad showed Zhang Yuejia, group president at Zhilian Zhaopin, crediting Alibaba Cloud for helping the firm quickly adopt large AI models in human resources applications.
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