Alibaba Cloud Debuts at China Electric Vehicle Hundred People Forum

On March 16, at the China Electric Vehicle Hundred People Forum (2024) high-level forum, Li Qiang, vice president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group and general manager of the automotive energy industry, delivered a speech. He believes that "global layout + intelligent innovation" are driving the development of the automotive industry.

The China Electric Vehicle 100 Forum aims to promote the development of the electric vehicle and intelligent connected vehicle industries. It is an important indicator of the development direction of new energy vehicles and has attracted much attention from the automotive, energy, transportation, technology and other industries.

Among them, the high-level forum is themed "Consolidating and Expanding the Development Advantages of New Energy Vehicles". It invites well-known experts, scholars and important guests from government departments, research institutions and enterprises to focus on industrial transformation trends, explore new paths for industrial development, and discuss forward-looking topics such as industrial development trends, key technologies and industrial ecology.

Li Qiang said: "The transformation of the global automotive industry has just begun. The two major variables that will affect the global automotive industry in the future are global layout and intelligent innovation. The former determines the breadth of business coverage, and the latter is related to the depth of product moat."

Relevant data show that in 2023, global sales of new energy vehicles will exceed 14.65 million units, a year-on-year increase of 35.4%, and the market penetration rate will exceed 16%. Among them, China's new energy vehicle sales reached 9.495 million units, a year-on-year increase of 37.9%. In addition to the Chinese market, new energy vehicle sales in the United States and Europe have also maintained rapid growth. According to statistics from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, 1.203 million new energy vehicles will be exported in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 77.6%.

In the process of helping Chinese automakers to expand overseas, Alibaba Cloud has provided strong support for customers' global business expansion by providing excellent global infrastructure and security compliance capabilities. According to public information, Alibaba Cloud has infrastructure capabilities covering 30 regions and 89 availability zones around the world. It is also one of the cloud service providers with the most authoritative compliance qualifications in the Asia-Pacific region, with more than 130 security compliance certifications worldwide. Therefore, Alibaba Cloud can support automakers to easily realize the cloud-based Internet of Vehicles, cloud-based autonomous driving, and cloud-based sales and service systems.

In the wave of electrification transformation of the global automotive industry, technological innovation has helped China's new energy vehicle industry establish its leading position in the world's largest new energy vehicle market. At present, the new generation of artificial intelligence is leading the all-round transformation of the industry.

Li Qiang believes: "2024 is the first year of 'embodied intelligence'. 'Embodied intelligence' will definitely happen before embodied intelligence and will definitely be born in Chinese car companies. A strong basic model is the key to embodied intelligence."

At present, Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen has open-sourced a total of 6 Base and Chat models of different sizes, including 0.5B, 1.8B, 4B, 7B, 14B and 72B, and simultaneously released the corresponding quantized models of each size model. Through the large model application development platform "Alibaba Cloud Bailian", enterprises and developers can train a dedicated model in a few hours and build a model application in a few minutes.

On January 22, the big model application GPT-BI, created by China FAW and Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen, was first launched. This is also the first big model BI application in the automotive industry. The application accepts natural language queries and automatically generates analysis charts based on corporate data, which can achieve an accuracy rate of nearly 90%.

In order to further unleash the technological dividends of cloud computing, on February 29, Alibaba Cloud announced a price cut on its official website for all cloud products, with an average price cut of more than 20% and a maximum price cut of 55%. This is the largest price cut in Alibaba Cloud's history. This move will facilitate the implementation of large models in various industries, including the automotive industry. Enterprises can use public clouds to quickly pull up huge training and reasoning resources and achieve AI innovation at low cost.

In the future, Alibaba Cloud will continue to leverage the overall technological advantages of "cloud computing + AI" to provide reliable support for China's automotive industry to go global, and promote the industry's continued breakthroughs in electrification, networking, and intelligence.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.