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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-25 14:20:55

Alibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-23 13:31:14

Sources: China has told Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, suggesting Beijing is close to approving imports (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-02-06 16:35:00

Olympische Winterspiele in Cloud: Alibaba macht Milano Cortina zum KI-Testlabor
Das IOC setzt 2026 auf Alibabas große Sprachmodelle und Cloud-Infrastruktur, um die Winterspiele in Milano Cortina zum KI-Testlabor zu machen.

Olympische Winterspiele in Cloud: Alibaba macht Milano Cortina zum KI-Testlabor
Das IOC setzt 2026 auf Alibabas große Sprachmodelle und Cloud-Infrastruktur, um die Winterspiele in Milano Cortina zum KI-Testlabor zu machen.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-14 06:30:56

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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India partners with Alibaba.com for export push despite past China tech bans | TechCrunch
India turns to Alibaba.com's B2B network of 50 million buyers in 200 countries to help businesses scale global exports.

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2026-02-16 15:46:22

🚀 #Alibaba releases Qwen3.5 — a next-generation multimodal foundation #llm built for the agentic #AI era
⚡ Hybrid architecture combining Gated Delta Networks with sparse Mixture-of-Experts (397B t…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-11-27 10:58:00

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.

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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-12 12:01:41

Alibaba says Qwen generated 120M in orders from Chinese users over the past six days, ahead of the Lunar New Year; Alibaba is giving a ~$3.60 shopping voucher (Juro Osawa/The Information)
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Alibaba’s Holiday AI Shopping Campaign Generates 120 Million Orders
Alibaba Group said its Qwen chatbot app’s AI e-commerce service has generated more than 120 million orders from Chinese consumers over the past six days, since the company last week started giving away free shopping vouchers to the app’s users. Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings have all started offering giveaways and other incentives to promote their AI chatbot apps ahead of the Lunar

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-08 10:55:50

Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
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ByteDance AI phone sparks security fears from Tencent and Alibaba
Experts say bigger concern is TikTok parent trying to rewrite Big Tech market rules

@hllizi@hespere.de
2025-12-08 09:15:06

Attack from, apparently, 47.79.192.0/19 (Alibaba). These requests must somehow be getting through Anubis.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-16 11:35:41

Alibaba debuts Qwen 3.5, adding "visual agentic capabilities" to independently execute tasks, and says it is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-29 13:10:55

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)
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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 ...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-20 07:20:53

Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-09 12:55:39

Alibaba's Qwen temporarily stops issuing coupons due to customer overload, hampering Alibaba's Agentic AI ad campaign; Qwen began offering coupons on February 6 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 04:21:08

Alibaba links Qwen to its online shopping and travel services, including Taobao, Alipay, Fliggy, and Amap, aiming to build a one-stop AI app for its 100M users (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-13 17:40:55

The US DoD published and then deleted a document adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to a list of companies with alleged connections to the Chinese military (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/c80ce7a7-983b-4

US concludes Alibaba and BYD have links to Chinese military
The companies are among a number the Pentagon believes could pose a threat to American national security

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-14 11:55:57

Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed company valued at $22B, plans a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $900M , backed by Alibaba and JPMorgan (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-01 06:51:00

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)
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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-27 18:01:40

DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
scmp.com/tech/article/3341437/

DeepSeek taps Alibaba open-source AI technology to boost OCR performance
The Chinese AI start-up says its latest OCR model delivers stronger performance after adopting an Alibaba-developed open-source model.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-10 10:55:55

Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-10 08:46:03

Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on "red envelope" freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
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China's AI apps wield 'red envelopes' in Lunar New Year fight for users
Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and DeepSeek step up fight heading into 'crucial' holiday season

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-10 19:56:05

Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba have asked Nvidia about placing large orders for H200 chips after Trump's export approval, as they remain concerned about supply (Reuters)
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-30 12:20:35

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)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-05 11:45:29

Sources: Alibaba's Amap will soon launch an AI tool to let restaurants render 3D images by just uploading videos or photos, in a bid to compete with Meituan (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-16 05:55:47

Sources: Chinese AI companies seek to rent compute in Southeast Asia and the Middle East for Nvidia Rubin access, as Zhipu and Alibaba warn of a widening US gap (Wall Street Journal)
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-02 10:15:38

Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M (Reuters)
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-30 06:40:47

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)
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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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-29 11:20:39

Alibaba's Cainiao logistics unit merges with Chinese robovan company Zelos, creating a business sources say valued at ~$2B with a fleet set to hit 20K vehicles (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-27 10:15:34

Alibaba starts selling Quark S1, its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, for ~$537 in China, and plans to release international versions in 2026 (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-27 19:30:36

A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/ab22c799-6370-4

‘It’s been an expensive year’: Meituan counts cost of China’s delivery wars
Competition from Alibaba and JD.com for fast-growing instant retail market has hit the Beijing-based group

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-26 18:40:57

In an October 7 letter, the Pentagon informed lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-09 08:51:35

China says its trade surplus from digital services rose 100% to a record $33B in 2025, boosted by overseas revenue of AI, livestreaming, and e-commerce (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-07 05:51:19

China unveils rules banning major platforms like Alibaba from forcing merchants into discounts or practices seen as disrupting market order, effective February (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-05 09:35:27

A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024 (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/02/world/a…

In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss
A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-04 11:21:05

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
theregister.com/2026/02/04/clo

Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings
: As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-01 06:20:41

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)
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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-27 05:36:05

Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/96fe9898-a3a4-4

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-28 12:30:44

Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 2% to $13.4B and a $2.3B adjusted net loss, worse than $1.9B est., its first loss since 2022, amid a price war with JD and Alibaba (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
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