Alibaba Group Vice President Xu Zhuhong: multimodal large models are the necessary path to achieve general artificial intelligence

At the 2025 World Mobile Communications Conference in Shanghai, Xu Zhuhong, Vice President of Alibaba Group and Chief Scientist of Intelligent Information Business Group, stated in his speech that multimodal large models are the necessary path to achieve general artificial intelligence, because they can enable AI to understand the world more comprehensively, like humans, by integrating various information such as text, images, audio, and video, and bring unprecedented natural interactions and rich application scenarios.