Technology
Asia Pacific
SME/Startup
"Alibaba Cloud has helped us enter international markets such as Greater China, ASEAN, and ANZ. Leveraging Alibaba Cloud's industry expertise and global reputation, we are able to meet both local and international ISO standards for data security and service SLAs."
Gerinna Wang
Founder and CEO of X-Verse Technologies
About X-Verse Technologies
The X-Verse design and creativity ecosystem is a collaborative, automated platform that connects creators and stakeholders in real-time, making creation more accessible and executable. As a pioneer in ASEAN, X-Verse is leading the way in utilizing AI agents and multimodal HCI (Human Computer Interaction) for design and creativity generation.
X-Verse has also invested in a cutting-edge technology-driven platform that offers a collaborative experience for creators and stakeholders alike. X-Verse incorporates innovative technologies, including large language models, AI-driven workflows, and multimodal human-computer interactions, to maintain its position as an industry pioneer.
Challenges
Operating in Asia with an international footprint covering Greater China, ASEAN, and ANZ, X-Verse faced the challenge of finding a reliable cloud service partner to ensure seamless connectivity across these diverse regions and globally. As a startup, X-Verse strongly emphasizes managing capital expenditure (CAPEX) wisely, seeking solutions that offer flexible cloud hosting services at an economical cost. Lastly, X-Verse uses large language models in its services, so it wanted a reliable, open-sourced LLM.
Why Alibaba Cloud
X-Verse selected Alibaba Cloud for several compelling reasons. Firstly, Alibaba Cloud's extensive international presence and strong reputation, particularly in China, provide a secure framework to meet local ISO standards, ensuring compliance with rigorous data security and service level agreements (SLAs).
Secondly, Alibaba Cloud's Qwen 1.5/2.0 offers one of the industry's leading open-source large language models (LLMs), with capabilities such as Chinese language operations, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and text-to-image functionalities. Its transformative potential can help X-verse to revolutionize traditional search and content creation methods.
Lastly, Alibaba Cloud's flexible cloud hosting services provide X-Verse with an economical choice.
Architecture
X-Verse utilized various solutions from Alibaba Cloud, including Universal Type U1, a versatile instance type of Elastic Compute Service (ECS) offering scalable computing power for diverse workloads, and Object Storage Service (OSS), Alibaba Cloud's robust storage solution providing secure, scalable, and cost-effective object storage for enterprises and developers.
It also implemented Elastic Block Storage (EBS), a reliable block-level storage offering high-performance and low-latency access for applications running on Alibaba Cloud. Additionally, it used a Dynamic Content Delivery Network (DCDN), which accelerates content delivery with high efficiency and low latency across global networks, enhancing the user experience.
Furthermore, X-Verse leveraged Qwen 1.5-72B (open-source), a cutting-edge large language model (LLM) on Alibaba Cloud, trained on extensive multilingual data to empower advanced natural language processing and generation capabilities.
Key Results
Partnering with Alibaba Cloud enabled X-Verse to transform business operations in the following ways:
Transforming Knowledge Acquisition Experience: X-Verse utilized Alibaba Cloud's AI technology, including large language models (LLMs) and AI, to transform the ideation ecosystem. This transformation streamlined knowledge gathering and the entire chain of content management from content creation and analysis to distribution, offering customers a comprehensive information repository covering text, images, and videos. X-Verse also leverages LLM to conduct real-time searches to acquire knowledge (image, text, video) and provide mind-mapping guidance to end users. Its mind-mapping agentic workflows facilitated better organization of ideas and guided actionable steps, significantly enhancing content quality and efficiency.
Improving Decision-Making Efficiency: By integrating large language models and pre-built agentic workflows for information processing, X-Verse helped end users achieve significant improvements in decision-making processes. This innovation reduced the time and costs traditionally associated with multiple search and decision steps. X-Verse's agentic workflows guided customers seamlessly from information retrieval to execution and booking, optimizing design processes and making design more intelligent and efficient.
Fostering Innovative Thinking Approach: X-Verse pushed the boundaries of imagination and creativity through AI to transform the fields of smart sales and marketing. By harnessing intelligent data analysis and machine learning, X-Verse tries to deepen business understanding of market dynamics and consumer demands, shaping robust sales and marketing strategies accordingly.
Looking Forward
The rapid evolution of AI is driving digital transformation across all industries. The potential for generative AI adoption in the design and creativity ecosystem is immense. Digital intelligence is revolutionizing how we interact with the world, making us more productive and enabling smarter decision-making.
X-Verse's collaborative design and creativity ecosystem, combined with Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure and large language model solutions, introduces groundbreaking methods for knowledge acquisition, execution, and seamless connectivity among all stakeholders in the design and creativity ecosystem.
Looking ahead, this partnership will further drive digital transformation, unlocking vast opportunities for generative AI adoption within the design and creativity ecosystem.
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X-Verse Technologies leveraged Alibaba Cloud's Elastic Compute Service (ECS) integrated with Alibaba Cloud's Large Language Model, such as Qwen1.5, to deliver services to end customers.
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