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The division, called Noah Ark Lab, issued the statement on Saturday, a day after an entity called HonestAGI posted an English-language paper on code-sharing platform Github, saying Huawei's Pangu Pro Moe (Mixture of Experts) model showed "extraordinary correlation" with Alibaba's Qwen 2.5 14B.

Huawei's AI lab denies that one of its Pangu models copied Alibaba's Qwen

July 08, 2025 9:56 am

While Huawei entered the large language model arena early with its original Pangu release in 2021, it has since been perceived as lagging behind rivals.

The model uses a progressive generation method, where it gradually constructs the image from left-to-right, and top-to-bottom. (Image credit: Qwen blog post)

Alibaba releases Qwen-VLo, its latest AI image model rivaling OpenAI’s GPT-4o

July 01, 2025 8:37 am

Qwen-VLo is said to be Alibaba’s most precise AI image generation model till date as it allows the user to have more control over AI-generated images.

Customers line up at an Apple Store in Shanghai, China, Sept. 23, 2023. White House and congressional officials have been scrutinizing Apple’s plan to strike a deal to make Alibaba’s AI available on iPhones. (Qilai Shen/The New York Times)

Apple’s AI ambitions for China provoke Washington’s resistance

May 18, 2025 9:27 am

There is concern in Washington that an Apple deal with Alibaba would set a problematic precedent.

Jack Ma-backed Ant Group cuts AI training costs using Chinese chips

March 26, 2025 8:20 am

China's Ant Group has been able to use Chinese-chips made by Alibaba and Huawei to create methods that cut AI training costs by 20 per cent.

Alibaba said the new model is accessible via its chatbot service, Qwen Chat.

Alibaba shares surge after it unveils reasoning model

March 06, 2025 3:39 pm

The announcement came a day after the Chinese government pledged increased support for industries including AI.

Alibaba makes AI model for video, image generation publicly available

February 26, 2025 11:19 am

The models are available globally on Alibaba Cloud's ModelScope and HuggingFace platforms.

While large Chinese tech companies like Alibaba have hundreds of thousands of employees, DeepSeek operates like a research lab.

Alibaba releases AI model it claims surpasses DeepSeek-V3

January 29, 2025 5:42 pm

The fact that DeepSeek-V2 was open-source and unprecedentedly cheap, only 1 yuan ($0.14) per 1 million tokens - led to Alibaba's cloud unit announcing price cuts of up to 97% on a range of models

Alibaba cuts pricing of its vision-language AI model by 85% amid fierce competition in China

January 02, 2025 1:26 pm

This is the third time in recent months that Alibaba has slashed the rates of its AI services.

Alibaba accelerates AI push by releasing new open-source models, text-to-video

September 20, 2024 11:39 am

The models aim to cater to a wide array of AI applications across various sectors including automotive, gaming, and scientific research.

Michael Evans, president of Alibaba, made the comments in a meeting with Erdogan, according to a statement from the company's Turkish unit.

Alibaba tells Erdogan it plans to invest $2 billion in Turkey

September 18, 2023 12:33 pm

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan it plans to invest $2 billion in Turkey.

India will be back on negotiating table in 1-2 months seeking a deal, 'saying sorry', says US Commerce Secretary Lutnick

India will be back seeking a deal, ‘saying sorry’, says US Commerce Secretary Lutnick

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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicts that India will apologise and return to the negotiating table within the next month or two to sign a trade deal with the US. He urges India to choose between supporting the US or aligning with Russia and China. Lutnick also criticised India's retaliatory tariffs and calls Prime Minister Modi's meeting with Chinese and Russian leaders "bravado."

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