{"id":506974,"date":"2026-05-28T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/506974\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:43:16","slug":"alibaba-tencent-lead-pivot-from-chatbots-to-embodied-ai-for-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/506974\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba, Tencent lead pivot from chatbots to embodied AI for robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese tech companies are racing to deploy artificial intelligence models into robots, shifting the battleground for generative AI from digital chatbots to physical autonomous systems.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s Qwen3.7-Max model, launched last week, features \u201ctool-calling\u201d capabilities that allow the AI model to act as a digital brain to trigger external software and hardware components. The company said the model could be used to control robots by orchestrating physical actions like navigation, obstacle avoidance and task planning.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tech giant has also released a suite of supporting AI models for robotics, including a robotic gripper agent, a navigation model and a vision-language system designed for physical-world interaction. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This comes after embodied AI start-up Zeroth announced earlier this month that its M1 humanoid had become the first mass-produced robot to integrate Tencent Holdings\u2019 OpenClaw AI agent framework, allowing large language models to interpret human speech and immediately translate them into robotic movements.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The race to integrate AI software with robotics hardware underscores an evolution in AI development.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The launch event for Alibaba\u2019s Qwen3.7-Max model. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9ff6d98a-fb7f-4a4b-ae2d-097904255516_87d91060.jpg\" title=\"The launch event for Alibaba\u2019s Qwen3.7-Max model. Photo: Handout\"\/>The launch event for Alibaba\u2019s Qwen3.7-Max model. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe past few years of large language model development have mainly focused on solving problems in the digital world,\u201d Wu Bangyi, chief data officer at Chinese tech company Tianyu Shuke, was quoted as saying in a Securities Daily report on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese tech companies are racing to deploy artificial intelligence models into robots, shifting the battleground for generative AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[220066,33617,291,19024,289,290,1793,220069,381,209091,18,20366,19,17,220068,220070,10522,82,42952,2636,8437,220067],"class_list":["post-506974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-58-daojia","tag-agibot","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing","tag-carl-berrisford","tag-china","tag-china-academy-of-information-and-communications-technology","tag-eire","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-qwen3-7-max","tag-securities-daily","tag-shenzhen","tag-technology","tag-tencent-holdings","tag-tsinghua-university","tag-ubs","tag-zeroth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116652501685505194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}