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Alibaba Group Holding is forming a dedicated internal task force headed by CEO Eddie Wu Yongming in a bid to funnel greater resources into its foundational AI model development efforts.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Wu said in a letter to members of the company’s artificial intelligence research lab Tongyi<\/span> that the task force would “jointly coordinate group-wide resources to accelerate foundational model development”.<\/div>\n

“In technology, standing still means falling behind,” Wu said in the letter, which was provided to the South China Morning Post by Alibaba, owner of the SCMP. “Advancing foundation models is a core strategic priority for our future.”<\/p>\n

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The task force will comprise Eddie Wu; Zhou Jingren, CTO of Alibaba Cloud; and Wu Zeming, head of the firm’s food delivery business.<\/p>\n

The letter comes a day after the resignation of Lin Junyang, the technical lead for Alibaba’s flagship Qwen foundational models, which he announced on X, sending shock waves through the global open-source AI community.<\/p>\n

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The logo for Qwen is displayed on a smartphone. Photo: Shutterstock Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lin’s sudden departure, along with recent departures of other senior technical figures, has sparked intense speculation about the future of Alibaba’s AI model development, including whether the Hangzhou-based tech giant will continue open-sourcing its models.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alibaba Group Holding is forming a dedicated internal task force headed by CEO Eddie Wu Yongming in a bid to funnel greater resources into its foundational AI model development efforts. On Thursday, Wu said in a letter to members of the company’s artificial intelligence research lab Tongyi that the task force would “jointly coordinate group-wide…<\/p>\n

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