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Alibaba Group: News

20 Jul 2026
Anthropic

Alibaba's flagship Qwen 3.8 model rivals Anthropic's Fable 5

Alibaba has launched its latest open-weight AI model, Qwen 3.8, with a whopping 24 trillion parameters.

19 Jul 2026
NVIDIA

Alibaba open-sources AI software stack to take on NVIDIA

Alibaba Group Holding's chip design division, T-Head, has announced its decision to open-source its proprietary AI software stack.

11 Jul 2026
NASDAQ

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in record US debut

SK Hynix, a leading South Korean memory chip manufacturer and major supplier to AI chip giant NVIDIA, has raised $26.5 billion (KRW 40 trillion) in its debut on the US stock market.

07 Jul 2026
Anthropic

Alibaba bans Anthropic's AI tools over security concerns

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced a ban on the use of US-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic's tools by its employees.

Why AI companions are going offline in China

ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen, two of China's leading consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) apps, are disabling their humanlike AI custom agents.

Alibaba's new AI tool can discover superconducting materials

Alibaba Group's Damo Academy has unveiled a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) agent, Elements Claw, that specializes in discovering superconducting materials.

04 Jul 2026
Anthropic

Why Alibaba has banned staff from using Claude Code

Alibaba Group has banned its employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code in the workplace.

26 Jun 2026
China

Trump administration reportedly asks OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6 rollout

The US government has reportedly asked OpenAI to delay the launch of its upcoming AI model, GPT-5.6.

25 Jun 2026
Anthropic

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of world's biggest AI theft

US-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of a massive intellectual property theft.

24 Jun 2026
US Government

Why Alibaba is suing US government

Chinese tech and e-commerce giant Alibaba has sued the US government after being added to a Pentagon blacklist of companies allegedly linked to China's military.

16 Jun 2026
Tencent

Alibaba launches AI models designed for robots

Alibaba Group has launched its first suite of artificial intelligence (AI) models specifically designed for robots.

09 Jun 2026
BYD

Pentagon blacklists Alibaba, BYD over ties to Chinese military

The Pentagon has added Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to its list of companies allegedly aiding the Chinese military.

28 May 2026
Technology

Alibaba says its new AI beats ChatGPT, Gemini in coding

Alibaba has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Qwen3.7-Max, which has outperformed OpenAI and Google's models in coding benchmarks.

Alibaba unveils new AI chip to rival NVIDIA

Alibaba has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence (AI) chip, the Zhenwu M890, which is three times more powerful than its predecessor, the Zhenwu 810E.

07 May 2026
China

DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation in first funding round

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) lab, is in talks to raise its first-ever venture capital round.

16 Apr 2026
Technology

Alibaba's new AI model turns your prompts into 3D worlds

Alibaba has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Happy Oyster.

Alibaba deploying AI 'digital workforce': How will it work?

Alibaba Group Holding, the Chinese tech giant, is gearing up to launch a new service that will provide artificial intelligence (AI) agents to millions of merchants on its Taobao and Tmall platforms.

Alibaba unveils XuanTie C950 AI chip: What makes it special?

Alibaba Group has unveiled its next-generation XuanTie C950 5-nanometer processor, a major step in the tech giant's transition toward agentic artificial intelligence (AI).

08 Mar 2026
Cryptocurrency

AI system begins crypto mining on its own

A recent research paper has revealed that artificial intelligence (AI) systems can sometimes go beyond their assigned tasks in unexpected ways.

03 Mar 2026
ChatGPT

Smaller, smarter: Alibaba's new AI models impress Elon Musk

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has launched four new small models in its Qwen 3.5 series. The lineup includes Qwen3.5-0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B.

16 Feb 2026
DeepSeek

Alibaba's new Qwen 3.5 AI model has 'visual agentic capabilities'

Alibaba has launched its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Qwen 3.5.

14 Feb 2026
China

India partners with Alibaba to boost exports, support small businesses

The Indian government has partnered with Alibaba.com, a leading Chinese e-commerce platform, to promote exports.

10 Feb 2026
China

Alibaba's new AI model helps robots recognize, interact with objects

Alibaba has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) model, RynnBrain, to power robots. The new development comes from the company's research arm, DAMO Academy.

05 Jan 2026
China

Alibaba's AI detects deadly cancers before symptoms appear

In a groundbreaking development, an artificial intelligence (AI) system has been used in eastern China to detect pancreatic cancer before symptoms appear.

Alibaba upgrades AI browser to rival OpenAI Atlas, Perplexity Comet

Alibaba has revamped its Quark browser, positioning it as a competitor to Google Chrome, OpenAI Atlas, and Perplexity Comet.

28 Nov 2025
China

France to take legal action against AliExpress: Here's why

France has filed legal complaints against popular e-commerce platforms such as AliExpress and Joom, over the sale of childlike sex dolls.

27 Nov 2025
Technology

Alibaba takes on Meta with new AI smart glasses

Alibaba has officially launched its new Quark artificial intelligence (AI) glasses in China.

27 Nov 2025
Huawei

Alibaba, ByteDance move AI training overseas to access NVIDIA chips

Leading Chinese technology companies, including Alibaba and ByteDance, are shifting their artificial intelligence (AI) model training operations to Southeast Asia.

24 Nov 2025
Android

Alibaba's AI app Qwen hits 10M downloads in a week

Alibaba Group's newly revamped artificial intelligence (AI) app, Qwen, has crossed the milestone of 10 million downloads within a week of its launch.

Alibaba introduces AI chatbot in consumer market push

Alibaba has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot assistant service, marking its re-entry into the consumer-facing sector.

24 Sep 2025
ChatGPT

Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max, its most powerful AI model yet

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, has unveiled its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) language model yet: Qwen3-Max.

Global AI investment to hit $4T by 2030: Alibaba CEO

Alibaba's CEO Eddie Wu has predicted that global investment in artificial intelligence (AI) will reach a whopping $4 trillion in the next five years.

Alibaba's new open-source AI processes multimodal inputs in real time

Alibaba has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) model, Qwen3-Omni.

18 Sep 2025
Tesla

Alibaba enters robotaxi market with investment in ride-hailing firm Hello

Alibaba Group has made a strategic investment in Hello, a ride-hailing company backed by its fintech affiliate Ant Group.

Alibaba unveils its largest AI model with 1 trillion parameters

Alibaba has unveiled its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model, the Qwen-3-Max-Preview.

01 Sep 2025
Business

Alibaba shares surge 15% on soaring AI revenues, cloud growth

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's stock surged almost 15%, its biggest intraday gain since February, in Hong Kong.

Worrying: AI is outperforming human salespeople on Chinese e-commerce sites

A Shanghai-based marketing firm, PLTFRM, has deployed "virtual human" AI-powered sales avatars on Chinese e-commerce platforms like Alibaba's Taobao and Pinduoduo.

04 Aug 2025
Paytm

Alibaba-backed company to sell its stake in Paytm worth ₹3,800cr

Alibaba-backed Antfin (Netherlands) Holding B.V., a major shareholder of One97 Communications (Paytm), is planning to divest its entire 5.84% stake in the company.

01 Aug 2025
Lord Jagannath

Doormats depicting Lord Jagannath removed from AliExpress after backlash

Chinese e-commerce giant AliExpress has taken down a controversial product listing featuring doormats depicting Lord Jagannath, a highly revered deity in Hinduism.

31 Jul 2025
Amazon

Trump suspends duty-free import rule: Major blow to global e-commerce?

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order suspending the de minimis duty-free treatment for all non-postal imports, regardless of origin or value.

Alibaba rolls out AI-powered smart glasses: What do they offer?

Alibaba has joined the race for smart glasses in China with its first pair of AI-powered spectacles.

Alibaba introduces its most powerful coding AI model

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3-Coder, its most sophisticated open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model for software development.

08 Jul 2025
China

How this city, home to DeepSeek, became China's AI hub

Hangzhou, a city in China, is fast becoming a major AI hub.

07 Jul 2025
Huawei

Huawei denies allegations of using Alibaba's tech for its LLM

Huawei's artificial intelligence (AI) research division, Noah Ark Lab, has denied allegations of copying elements from an Alibaba model in its Pangu Pro large language model (LLM), saying that it was developed and trained independently.

AI agent built on Alibaba's open-source model tops global benchmark

Alibaba Group Holding's open-source Qwen artificial intelligence (AI) model has helped the agentic framework DeepSWE beat its competitors in a recent test.

02 Jul 2025
China

Alibaba unveils $7B subsidy plan to boost e-commerce in China

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has announced a massive $7 billion subsidy plan to boost its online retail platform.

Alibaba rolls out its Qwen VLo AI model: What's special?

Alibaba has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Qwen VLo, capable of generating and editing pictures with human-like finesse.

27 Jun 2025
China

Alibaba's new AI can detect stomach cancer at early stages

Alibaba Group has introduced a revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI) model, named Grape, which can detect gastric cancer from computed tomography (CT) images.