Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai said that open-sourcing large language models (LLMs) would spur a surge in artificial intelligence (AI) applications and boost demand for cloud computing, as the company refines the focus of its sprawling business empire after “a period of huge ordeal”. One reason Alibaba has opted to open-source its Qwen models is that it “democratises the usage of AI” and “proliferates applications”, which would contribute to the company’s cloud computing business, Tsai...