Alibaba Cloud Chief Technology Officer Zhou Jingren: Competition in big model iteration is about the underlying system engineering.

During the 2025 Yunqi Conference, Zhou Jingren, Chief Technology Officer of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, stated in an interview with reporters on September 24 that the rapid release of new products in the field of large models is in line with the current industry trend of "keeping up with each other" in the global AI race. The current development of large models is in the "middle stage", which is a gradual iterative process rather than holding back big moves. The evolution from single-mode to multi-mode is an inevitable trend that requires the integration of various modal knowledge systems. There is still a lot of exploration space in the current multi-modal field, and high-speed releases are aimed at promoting innovative breakthroughs in multi-modality. Zhou Jingren stated that the current development of large models is a competition of iteration speed, with a powerful system behind it involving data, algorithm experiments, distributed training inference, training frameworks, and other collaborative aspects, making it a complex system engineering process. The innovative system of fully linked large models and cloud computing by Alibaba Cloud provides guarantees for innovative breakthroughs in multi-type and multi-parameter scale models.