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An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative "off-label" uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyrev…

What’s next for AlphaFold: A conversation with a Google DeepMind Nobel laureate
“I’ll be shocked if we don’t see more and more LLM impact on science,” says John Jumper.

Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3341860/

Alibaba AI chip push hits 100,000 mark, beating local rival Cambricon: sources
The milestone underscores Alibaba’s growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors.

US-Regierung will Alibaba, Baidu und BYD als „chinesische Militärfirmen“ listen
Die US-Regierung führt eine Liste mit Unternehmen, die Chinas Militär helfen. Darauf sollten auch Alibaba, Baidu und BYD stehen, meint das Pentagon jetzt.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Alpha Blondy:
🎵 Apartheid Is Nazism
#AlphaBlondy
https://open.spotify.com/track/1UZfe0ISrROu1oHmecYnj3

Forgotten Fighters: American Anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
https://albavolunteer.org/2017/08/forgotten-fighters-american-anarchist-volunteers-in-the-spanish-civil-war/

Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on "needle-in-a-haystack" tests for 30-minute videos (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/qwen3-vl-can-scan-two-hour-…

Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model. The data shows the system excels at image-based math tasks and can analyze hours of video footage.

Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba both plan to release flagship AI models around China's mid-February Lunar New Year holiday, including ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-alibaba-…

ByteDance, Alibaba to Launch New Models in Race for AI Supremacy in China
The battle for AI dominance in China is reaching new heights. Tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba Group are both poised to release their next flagship AI models around the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February, in what could be the most consequential battle in the country’s tech sector. ByteDance ...

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax is seeking to raise $600M from its Hong Kong IPO, set for January 2026, and has secured Alibaba and the ADIA as backers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/alibaba-…

Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B , with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/94663caf-6c98-4883-b3f0-cc763a3b95ff

Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

China’s Moonshot AI raises US$500 million in latest funding round: report
The Kimi AI model developer is now valued at US$4.3 billion, with cash reserves worth US$1.4 billion.