Alibaba Group has launched an artificial intelligence model named R1-Omni, which is capable of recognizing human emotions and is available for free download. This move aims to compete with OpenAI. R1-Omni, developed by Synonym Labs, can infer a person's emotional state through video analysis and describe their clothing and environment, thereby enhancing computer vision capabilities. This model is an upgraded version of the previously open-sourced model HumanOmni.

PANews reported on March 13 that according to Bloomberg, Alibaba Group launched an artificial intelligence model R1-Omni that can read human emotions and made it available for free download in an effort to compete with OpenAI. The model is seen as a competitor to OpenAI's GPT-4.5, which can recognize emotional clues in text but is expensive (US$200 per month).
 Developed by Tongyi Lab, R1-Omni can infer a person's emotional state through video analysis, and describe their clothing and surroundings, enhancing computer vision capabilities. This model is an upgrade of the previous open source model HumanOmni.

Alibaba has launched the emotion recognition AI model R1-Omni, challenging OpenAI.