Apsara Technology Deep-Dive Series is a dedicated series to take a close and professional look at the latest technologies presented at the latest edition of the Apsara Conference (2024), Alibaba Cloud’s annual flagship event.
As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models and applications remain at the top of the agenda for organizations worldwide of all sizes, Alibaba Cloud has introduced a series of new cloud-native solutions and features to provide even more cloud infrastructure efficient, robust and secure. to enable its customers and partners to create next-generation AI models and applications.
Eddie Wu, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, highlighted the transformative impact of generative AI, predicting that it will increasingly permeate the digital landscape. He noted that as the physical world gains AI capabilities, a new generation of products that connect and synergize with the AI-driven digital world will emerge. “Alibaba Cloud is investing, with unprecedented intensity, in the research and development of AI technologies and in building its global infrastructure,” he said during a keynote speech at Apsara .
A strong AI infrastructure is essential for building GenAI applications because it provides the foundation for performance, scalability, security, and innovation. As part of the series, we will begin to explore the key roles of databases (storage, retrieval, management, inference, data fine-tuning and personalization), Big Data platforms (data processing, model training and deployment, analysis and visualization), security. green solutions and data centers, and how they form essential parts of the critical foundation for building GenAI models and applications.
