Alibaba debuts AI tools for phones

HONG KONG: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has released a new artificial intelligence model in its Qwen series that the company says can process text, pictures, audio, and video, and is efficient enough to run directly on mobile phones and laptops.

- EDWIN CHAN

The company said it expects that the new model, now publicly available on Hugging Face and Git Hub, will be used to build so-called AI agents that can, for example, plan a quality improved person navigate their environment through real-time audio descriptions.