Like Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Studio – but with the added fun of geopolitical risk
Modelscope was launched in 2022 and is broadly comparable to services like Amazon Web Services' Bedrock or Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Studio. All are essentially libraries of foundation models from a variety of sources, offered in a form designed to ease the job of plumbing them into apps built on their respective cloudy hosts.
While the service has previously been accessible from anywhere – it's a cloud, after all – like its Western rivals Alibaba Cloud offers a text-heavy user experience. Your correspondent has plenty of experience applying online translation tools to Chinese text, and can report they regularly produce some odd artefacts that would not delight developers.
Alibaba Cloud is number three by cloud revenue share – behind AWS and Azure but sometimes beating out Google – in some of its target markets across Asia, but is not a major player elsewhere.
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