Alibaba Overtakes Google and Meta With 3 Billion AI Downloads
Open-weight models from China’s Alibaba have reportedly become the world’s top artificial intelligence offerings. The company’s models have…
AI homework tools cut exam scores by 20%, study of 26,000 Chinese students finds
Artificial intelligence boosts homework scores but cuts exam results by 20 per cent, and this “brain drain” effect…
Ant International serves 150m merchants, 2b consumers, bets on AI commerce infrastructure
Ant International, the overseas spin-off of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, has connected more than 150 million merchants…
Demand for AI talent in China outpaces job postings in other ‘new-economy’ sectors
China’s spring hiring season is revealing a sharp surge in demand for artificial intelligence talent as companies speed…
Elon Musk Praised Alibaba’s LLM. Then Its Leader Quit: ‘Bye My Beloved Qwen’ (UPDATED)
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include a response from Alibaba Lin Junyang, head of Alibaba…
Alibaba Unveils Qwen 3.5 AI Model with Agentic Capabilities
TL;DR New Release: Alibaba unveiled Qwen 3.5 on February 16, an AI model engineered for autonomous task execution…
Alibaba Adds Agentic and Payments Capabilities to Qwen
Alibaba has added agentic and payments capabilities to its consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app Qwen App. With new…
China’s lesson for the US: it takes more than chips to win the AI race – South China Morning Post
China’s lesson for the US: it takes more than chips to win the AI race South China Morning PostWhy…
Alibaba to boost AI spending as China tech giant sees AGI as new start
Alibaba Group Holding plans to increase its capital expenditures on artificial intelligence infrastructure from the original 380 billion…
Are AI Agents Ready to Take Over Human Work?
Highlights A Carnegie Mellon study shows that AI agents are not ready for work in the real world.…
Alibaba.com targets 100% AI adoption by merchants in 2025 in global expansion drive
More than half of the roughly 200,000 merchants on Alibaba.com were already using its AI applications on a…