{"id":225246,"date":"2025-09-14T04:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225246\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T04:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:04:28","slug":"how-alibaba-builds-its-most-efficient-ai-model-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/225246\/","title":{"rendered":"How Alibaba builds its most efficient AI model to date"},"content":{"rendered":"

A technical innovation has allowed Alibaba Group Holding, one of the leading players in China\u2019s artificial intelligence boom, to develop a new generation of foundation models that match the strong performance of larger predecessors while being significantly smaller and more cost efficient.<\/p>\n

Alibaba Cloud, the AI and cloud computing division of Alibaba, unveiled on Friday a new generation of large language models<\/a> that it said heralded \u201cthe future of efficient LLMs\u201d. The new models are nearly 13 times smaller than the company\u2019s largest AI model, released just a week earlier.<\/p>\n

Despite its compact size, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B is among Alibaba\u2019s best models to date, according to developers. The key lies in its efficiency: the model is said to perform 10 times faster in some tasks than the preceding Qwen3-32B released in April, while achieving a 90 per cent reduction in training costs.<\/p>\n

Emad Mostaque, co-founder of the UK-based start-up Stability AI, said on X that Alibaba\u2019s new model outperformed \u201cpretty much any model from last year\u201d despite an estimated training cost of less than US$500,000.<\/p>\n

For comparison, training Google\u2019s Gemini Ultra, released in February 2024, cost an estimated US$191 million, according to Stanford University\u2019s AI Index.<\/p>\n

\"AlibabaAlibaba says its new generation of AI foundation models heralds the \u201cthe future of efficient LLMs\u201d. Photo: HandoutArtificial Analysis, a leading AI benchmarking firm, said Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B surpassed the latest versions of both DeepSeek R1<\/a> and Alibaba-backed start-up Moonshot AI\u2019s Kimi-K2<\/a>. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A technical innovation has allowed Alibaba Group Holding, one of the leading players in China\u2019s artificial intelligence boom,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,12462,30521,90637,117146,738,9710,74,2013,121907,2722,76062,14105,67156,51954,1671,121909,121908,158,1996,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-225246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-models","10":"tag-alibaba","11":"tag-alibaba-cloud","12":"tag-artificial-analysis","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence","14":"tag-beijing","15":"tag-china","16":"tag-deepseek","17":"tag-gated-deltanet","18":"tag-google","19":"tag-hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology","20":"tag-hugging-face","21":"tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","22":"tag-moonshot-ai","23":"tag-nvidia","24":"tag-qwen3-next-80b-a3b","25":"tag-stability-ai","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-tencent-holdings","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115200672663094148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}