- Former leader of Alibaba Group Holding Limited's BABA M6 model DAMO Academy Intelligent Computing Lab joined TikTok parent ByteDance's AI Lab to participate in the R&D of language generation model.
- Yang Hongxia quit Alibaba in September 2022 for personal and family reasons, Pandaily reports.
- Reportedly, Hongxia is in a leading position within the language generation model team and reports directly to Yang Zhenyuan, vice president of ByteDance.
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- Hongxia was the technical director of M6, a super-large-scale multimodal pre-training model in Alibaba's DAMO Academy.
- M6 is a universal AI model with multimodal and multi-task capabilities, proficient in designing, writing, and developing questions and answers has broad application prospects in e-commerce, manufacturing, literature and art, scientific research, and other fields.
- Alibaba first released M6 in March 2021, and it was the first sizeable multimodal model with 100 billion parameters in China.
- Subsequently, it changed to trillion parameters with 480 GPUs. It successfully trained a 10 trillion model within ten days based on 512 GPUs with the same parameter scale as GPT-3, with an energy consumption of only 1%.
- By the end of 2022, Alibaba Cloud Moda Community had opened up over 300 AI models, including the M6 and Tongyi.
- Hongxia's joining of ByteDance suggests the company's attempts to nail large model development. The ByteDance Search Department leads the company's language model team.
- Currently, the team size is about ten people. The intelligent creation team under the Product R&D and Engineering Architecture Department is leading the picture model team.
- Reportedly, the image generation model's progress is progressing well, and ByteDance proposes combining it with Douyin, CapCut, and other products.
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