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Alibaba also unveiled several other AI products on Wednesday, including Qwen3-Omni, a multimodal, immersive system useful for virtual and artificial reality applications such as smart glasses and intelligent cockpits. (Image: Reuters)

Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max AI model with more than 1 trillion parameters

September 24, 2025 10:22 am

Alibaba cited third-party benchmarks, such as Tau2-Bench, saying the model outperformed rival products including Anthropic's Claude and DeepSeek-V3.1 in certain metrics.

Alibaba nor Baidu has fully abandoned Nvidia, the report said, with both companies using Nvidia chips to develop their most cutting-edge models. (Image: Reuters)

Alibaba, Baidu begin using own chips to train AI models: Reports

September 12, 2025 11:45 am

Alibaba's AI chip is now capable of competing with Nvidia's H20, according to three employees who have used the chip.

Regulators have repeatedly warned platforms against a "race to the bottom" price competition, leading Meituan, Alibaba and JD.com to release statements in July pledging to curb price wars.

China's e-commerce companies are getting singed by a price war

September 08, 2025 3:01 pm

The likes of Alibaba, Meituan and JD.com have been flooding consumers with discounts and coupons to gain market share in the booming one-hour delivery segment.

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