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Alibaba to ban employees using Claude Code from July 10 as US-China AI rivalry escalates

July 07, 2026 9:10 am

Recently, US-based Anthropic is said to have covertly rolled out a Claude version with embedded spyware to track whether users are based in China or affiliated with Chinese companies.

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 to integrate Qwen AI with Taobao, launch agentic shopping

May 10, 2026 9:51 am

Inside Taobao, ⁠Alibaba will ⁠launch a Qwen-powered AI shopping assistant, which includes tools for virtual ⁠try-ons ‌and 30-day price tracking.

Alibaba's overloaded AI chatbot stops issuing coupons, asks shoppers for patience

February 10, 2026 8:59 am

The chatbot added that shoppers would still have time to redeem their ‌coupons, which will remain valid until February 28.

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.