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Alibaba says its mapping app Amap's destination ranking feature hit 400M users since its launch in September; Amap had a record 360M daily users on October 1 (www.scmp.com)
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Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max AI model with more than 1 trillion parameters (indianexpress.com)
11 days ago Alibaba AI

Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares hit a nearly four-year high after CEO Eddie Wu announces plans to increase AI spending beyond the $53B target over three years (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Hong Kong Alibaba AI

Alibaba releases the Qwen3-VL vision models, the Qwen3Guard “safety moderation” models, and three closed-weight models, including Qwen3-Max with 1T+ parameters (simonwillison.net)
11 days ago Alibaba

Alibaba releases Qwen3-Omni, a family of open-source AI models that can process text, audio, image, and video inputs and generate both text and speech outputs (venturebeat.com)
12 days ago Alibaba AI

Sources: Jack Ma has returned to Alibaba's campuses after vanishing from the public eye during China's 2020 tech crackdown, influencing Alibaba's pivot to AI (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago China Jack Ma Alibaba AI

Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, going beyond earlier guidance focused on Nvidia's H20 (www.ft.com)
18 days ago China Alibaba Nvidia

Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, a stronger ban than earlier guidance focused on H20 (www.ft.com)
18 days ago China Alibaba Ban Nvidia

Chinese state media: Alibaba has secured China Unicom as a major client for its AI chips; earlier reports said Alibaba was supplying tens of thousands of chips (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago China Alibaba AI

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B+ via bonds this month for AI and digital infra; with JD.com, their combined 2025 AI capex is projected to top $32B (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Alibaba AI Tencent

Sources: Jack Ma has returned to Alibaba's campuses after disappearing from public view during China's 2020 tech crackdown, influencing Alibaba's pivot to AI (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago China Jack Ma Alibaba AI

How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the government builds a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago China Alibaba AI

Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M+ users globally (www.scmp.com)
22 days ago Alibaba Startup AI

Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their AI models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia (www.theinformation.com)
23 days ago Alibaba AI Nvidia

Alibaba, Baidu begin using own chips to train AI models: Reports (indianexpress.com)
23 days ago Alibaba AI

Alibaba releases Qwen3-Next, a new model architecture optimized for long-context understanding, large parameter scale, and better computational efficiency (www.alizila.com)
23 days ago Alibaba

Alibaba's mapping app Amap launches its own ranking of restaurants, hotels, and tourist destinations, intensifying its competition with Chinese rival Meituan (www.reuters.com)
25 days ago China Alibaba

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (www.cnbc.com)
27 days ago Alibaba Startup AI Robot Shenzhen

Alibaba debuts Qwen3-Max-Preview, its largest AI model with over 1T parameters, showcasing strong benchmark performance; the model is not open source (venturebeat.com)
29 days ago Alibaba AI

Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese tech companies remain keen on Nvidia's AI chips despite Beijing strongly discouraging them from such purchases (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-4 China Alibaba AI Nvidia

Alibaba's shares jumped 19% in Hong Kong on Monday, following strong quarterly results from its cloud computing unit and reports of its new AI chip on Friday (www.cnbc.com)
2025-9-2 Hong Kong Alibaba AI

Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void (slashdot.org)
2025-8-30 China Alibaba AI Nvidia

Sources: Alibaba developed a new AI inference chip to compete with H20; it is manufactured by a Chinese company unlike an earlier AI chip made by TSMC (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-29 China Alibaba AI

Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$34.6B, below ~$35.4B est., and net income up 76% to ~$5.9B, above ~$4B est., as AI demand drives cloud sales up 26% (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-29 Alibaba AI

Filing: Shanghai-based self-driving company Banma aims to spin off from Alibaba via a Hong Kong IPO, reducing Alibaba's stake from the current 44.72% to 30% (www.scmp.com)
2025-8-21 Hong Kong IPO Alibaba Shanghai

Alibaba-backed Z.ai, formerly Zhipu, launches a general-purpose AI agent app, which lets users use natural language to book hotels, order takeaway, and more (www.scmp.com)
2025-8-21 NLP Alibaba AI

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Qwen-Image, supporting modifications of Chinese and English text while preserving font and style (venturebeat.com)
2025-8-20 China Alibaba

A recent UK AI Security Institute study found that LLMs from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Alibaba can shift users' political views in under 10 minutes of conversation (t.co)
2025-8-14 Alibaba AI

Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others gaining global traction spurs US policymakers and companies to respond (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-13 China Alibaba AI

Source: Alibaba's supermarket chain Hema plans to gradually wind down the last of its Costco-like members-only stores in China in a bid to improve profitability (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 China Alibaba

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