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Thursday 12 June 2025

Alibaba staff worked through holiday after DeepSeek breakthrough

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s engineers canceled vacations and worked through the Lunar New Year holiday to play catch up after DeepSeek shocked the global tech industry with its low-cost,...

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Xiaohongshu enters open-source AI arena with dots.llm1 model launch

Xiaohongshu—internationally branded as RedNote—has officially entered the open-source AI landscape, joining a surge of Chinese...

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Chinese tech giants pivot to local memory suppliers as trade tensions persist

China's largest cloud and internet companies are implementing backup supply chain strategies as bilateral trade uncertainties continue. Baidu Inc., Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei have...

Friday 16 May 2025

China's tech giants join forces to accelerate humanoid robotics push

With 2025 being hailed as the inaugural year of the humanoid robot, China's internet giants—Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba—are accelerating their efforts to secure early...

Friday 16 May 2025

Alibaba leans into AI, cloud as commerce growth falters in FY4Q25

Alibaba's fourth-quarter results for fiscal 2025 missed market expectations, sending shares down 7.5% in premarket trading. Revenue rose 7% year over year to CNY236.5 billion (US$32.8...

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Alibaba unveils ZeroSearch, slashing AI training costs by 88% with open-source innovation

Alibaba Group has introduced ZeroSearch, an open-source reinforcement learning framework that simulates search engine functionality, reducing AI model training costs by nearly 90%...

Friday 9 May 2025

Alibaba's Qwen gains ground in Japan, outshines global AI competitors

Alibaba's Qwen artificial intelligence models are making significant inroads in Japan, driven by their open-source framework that encourages customization and rapid innovation, according...

Friday 9 May 2025

Alibaba's Qwen3 AI models dethrone DeepSeek's R1 in open-source ranking

The Qwen3 family of AI models recently released by Alibaba have taken over the top spot from DeepSeek's R1 model on LiveBench's open-source model ranking.

Monday 5 May 2025

CyberLink embraces open-source GenAI as adoption gains steam

With OpenAI and Google rapidly rolling out new AI tools, smaller software firms risk falling behind. CyberLink, however, is taking a different approach, positioning itself as a technology...

Friday 2 May 2025

Xiaomi enters the LLM race with another attempted latecomer coup

Xiaomi has unveiled its first large language model for inference tasks, "Xiaomi MiMo," signaling a bold entry into the competitive AI landscape. Known for its roots in IoT and smartphones,...

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Xiaomi's MiMo punches above its weight, eclipses OpenAI and Alibaba in AI tests

Xiaomi has unveiled its first large language model (LLM) focused on reasoning tasks—MiMo-7B—which has outperformed significantly...

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Model wars escalate: Baidu, Alibaba, DeepSeek race to dominate China's LLM frontier

In the lead-up to China's Labor Day Golden Week, the country's AI sector is experiencing a flurry of large language model (LLM) upgrades...

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Alibaba rolls out latest flagship AI model in post-DeepSeek race

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. took the wraps off a new version of its flagship Qwen AI model, sustaining the breakneck pace of development that's characterized China's artificial intelligence...

Friday 25 April 2025

China reportedly stockpiled US$12B worth of Nvidia H20 chips ahead of US ban

Ahead of the US government's early April export restrictions, Chinese tech giants ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent reportedly preemptively stockpiled up to one million units of Nvidia's...

Wednesday 9 April 2025

Alibaba chases international AI users with new Qwen upgrades

Alibaba Group's cloud division is upgrading its suite of artificial intelligence tools available overseas in a push for more global customers.

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