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Alibaba launches Wan3.0 AI video generation model

Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, its latest artificial intelligence video-generation model, as the Chinese technology group increases investment in AI.
25 August 2026

Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8-Max, its largest AI model yet

Alibaba on Monday unveiled Qwen 3.8-Max, the most powerful model in its Qwen family. The model, which has 2.4 trillion parameters but activates only 95 billion at a time, will be available via Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio, with the open weights to follow next week.
3 August 2026

Alibaba bans Claude Code amid Anthropic feud: report

Alibaba has instructed employees to stop using Anthropic’s Claude Code at work, according to a person familiar with the matter, as per a recent report by Reuters.
5 July 2026

Alibaba launches AI models for robots

Alibaba Group has released its first suite of artificial intelligence models designed for robots, the company said on Tuesday, as it pushes into the growing field of physical AI.
16 June 2026

Alibaba launches new homegrown AI chip

Alibaba has unveiled a new artificial intelligence processor and a flagship large language model engineered specifically for autonomous AI agents.
21 May 2026

Alibaba's Qwen AI can now order food and book trips

Alibaba has launched a new upgrade to its Qwen AI app, enabling it to perform real-world tasks such as ordering food delivery and booking travel within the chat interface.
15 January 2026

Alibaba launches free AI chatbot

Alibaba has launched a free artificial intelligence chatbot called Qwen Chat, making it available through its website and mobile app stores at no cost to general users.
18 November 2025

Alibaba launches its largest AI model: Qwen3-Max

Alibaba, the Chinese company, has recently unveiled its most capable artificial intelligence (AI) model to date, called “Qwen3-Max”, which contains more than 1 trillion parameters, trained on 36 trillion tokens. 
24 September 2025

Alibaba launches open-source AI image editor

Alibaba’s Qwen research group has released an open-source AI model, Qwen-Image-Edit, which enables advanced image editing through text prompts.
21 August 2025

The 'six tigers' that drive China's AI geopolitics

China's four dragons—Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance—play a vital role in nurturing the AI startup ecosystem.
19 August 2025

Alibaba releases open-source AI model for software development 

Alibaba Group has introduced Qwen3-Coder, an open-source AI model designed for software development tasks. The announcement comes amid growing competition among technology companies developing AI coding tools.
23 July 2025

China's Alibaba to invest $50 bn in AI, cloud computing

The gains have been boosted since the Hangzhou-based firm announced robust sales growth last week
24 February 2025

Apple chooses Alibaba as AI partner in China: report

Apple has chosen Alibaba as its artificial intelligence (AI) partner in China, marking a strategic move to regain lost ground in the world’s largest smartphone market. Alibaba Group Chairman Joe Tsai confirmed the collaboration on Thursday at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, as per reports by The Information and Reuters.
13 February 2025

Alibaba releases AI model it claims surpasses DeepSeek-V3

"Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit said
29 January 2025

China's 'Singles Day' shopping spree in spotlight as spending flags

"Singles Day" -- launched by tech giant Alibaba in 2009 -- has ballooned into an annual blockbuster period for retail, with days of discounts luring customers to the country's online shopping platforms.
11 November 2024

Alibaba to pay $433.5 million to settle shareholder lawsuit over monopoly claims

Alibaba denied wrongdoing, saying it entered the settlement to avoid the cost and disruption of further litigation
26 October 2024

Alibaba boosts share buy back as revenues miss estimates

Alibaba's net income was 10.7 billion yuan ($1.51 billion), a decrease of 77 percent
8 February 2024

Alibaba unveils Tongyi Qianwen, an AI model similar to GPT

It will first be integrated into DingTalk, Alibaba's workplace messaging app and can be used to summarise meeting notes, write emails and draft business proposals. It will also be added to Tmall Genie, Alibaba's voice assistant
11 April 2023

Alibaba joins global chatbot race

The announcement comes days after Chinese search giant Baidu said it would complete testing of its AI chatbot in March.
9 February 2023

Daraz Group to reduce 11% of workforce

Daraz Bangladesh will also lay off dozens of employees as part of the plan of its mother organisation, Daraz Group
7 February 2023