Alibaba’s Qwen-Image-2.0 doubles compression and cuts generation steps from 40 to 4
Alibaba’s technical report on Qwen-Image-2.0 lays out how the team squeezed more efficiency out of both training and…
Alibaba’s Qwen family captures over 50% of global open-source downloads, report finds
Alibaba Cloud captured more than 50 per cent of global open-source model downloads as of March following the…
Alibaba Unifies AI Brand, Goes All-In On ‘Qwen’
Alibaba Group Holding Limited is consolidating its AI efforts under a single brand while expanding its tools and…
Alibaba AI Wizard Who Warned of US-China Tech Gap Steps Down
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — The architect of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s chief AI model has quit his post, a…
Alibaba’s Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push
Alibaba’s Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the…
China’s tech giants pursue AI, semiconductor talent in US as competition intensifies
The overseas hiring spree underscores these “big tech” firms’ growing ambitions to build up their skilled workforce in…
China’s AI crossroads: 3 divergent paths in the race for dominance
On a crisp January afternoon, the Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre, just a stone’s throw from Tencent Holdings’ headquarters,…
Alibaba’s Qwen tops 120 million orders in 6 days amid China’s AI shopping battle
Chinese consumers placed over 120 million orders on Alibaba Cloud’s flagship artificial intelligence app Qwen within six days,…
Tech war: China takes confident strides to develop more AI innovation in 2026
That release was a fitting reminder to the world, especially during the peak of the Christmas holiday season,…
China’s Qwen and DeepSeek edge out US AI models in Christian values benchmark
Chinese artificial intelligence models from Alibaba Cloud and DeepSeek have edged out US-developed models to feature in the…
China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after initial ChatGPT shock
Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from Tsinghua University, to provide briefings on…
Role reversal: Meta adopts Qwen as Chinese AI becomes industry foundation
When US tech giant Meta Platforms released its flagship Llama family of artificial intelligence models in February 2023,…