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This article says that #Qwen is "a large language model developed by #AlibabaCloud and fine-tuned for [#OpenScience] related content."
preprints.org/manuscript/20250

But you can't query it without signing up for an account.
chat.qwen.ai/

And you can't sign up for account without giving a credit card. It offers free (personal) and priced (enterprise) accounts, but you must give a credit card even for the free account. That's when I bailed.

Can anyone say more about how or whether Qwen is fine-tuned for open science?

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@morl99 @Pando nein, #Microsoft's Tochter in #Irland kann und darf dies nicht ohne dass der #Mutterkonzern dafür in #Regress genommen wird.

Ernsthaft, finde einen Fall wo ein Konzern soch erfolgreich gegen #CloudAct wehren konnte...

  • Denn so einen Fall gibt es nicht!

#NotLegalAdvice aber allein das Risiko entsprechender #Massenüberwachung und #Datendiebstahl und nicht-existierender #Rechtsstaatlichkeit (weder müssen Betroffene benachrichtigt werden noch gibt es Rechtsmittel um.die Rechtmäßigkeit anzufechten) machen #Microsoft365 / #Office365 genauso untauglich wie #AlibabaCloud & #WPSoffice [aus der "V.R." China]!

  • Und ich kenne keine*n Jurist*in die für Microsoft die Hand ins Feuer legen! Hab' auch nur value-removing #Reseller gesehen die was anderes behaupten!

Bitte mal rausgehen und den Rasen anfassen, danke!!!

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Alibaba Cloud shakes up the AI scene with **Qwen2.5-Omni-7B!** This cutting-edge multimodal model processes text, images, audio, and video, making it perfect for mobile devices. It's designed for cost-effective AI agents, especially in voice applications for the visually impaired. With a hefty **$53 billion** investment in AI and cloud infrastructure, Alibaba is positioning itself for success in the booming AI market—don’t miss the full story. [Read more](cnbc.com/2025/03/27/alibaba-la) #ArtificialIntelligence #AlibabaCloud #Qwen2 #TechInnovation

CNBCAlibaba launches new open-source AI model for 'cost-effective AI agents'Alibaba Cloud has launched its latest AI model in its "Qwen series," as large language model competition in China continues to heat up.

Today, scrapers from Alibaba Cloud generated 150GB of tarballs on my Forgejo and downloaded 200GB of data. I played whack-a-mole with their IPs when they ignored robots.txt. When I rate limited, they fanned out and came back stronger. Enough. The entire IP range is now being served gibberish from Iocaine.

If you have a legitimate use case from those IP ranges, please email me for consideration for an allow list.