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Friday 14 August 2026
Alibaba Cloud cuts AI data center build time to 100 days, triples global modular capacity
Alibaba Cloud has cut the delivery cycle for large AI data centers to 100 days with its CUBE 5.0 modular architecture, while lowering construction costs by more than 10% and increasing...
Friday 14 August 2026
Alibaba Cloud launches Zhenwu M890 supernode for commercial use
Alibaba Cloud has begun commercial service for its Zhenwu M890 supernode in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, giving global customers an early look at how AI infrastructure is shifting toward...
Friday 14 August 2026
China's video AI dominance paves the way for world model boom

Chinese AI video-generation models are taking the world by storm. This competitive edge is not only disrupting Hollywood, but could...

Thursday 6 August 2026
ByteDance founder shuns AI distillation, wary of more US scrutiny

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming recently said that the company would not use distillation to train its AI models, even if they fall...

Tuesday 4 August 2026
Alibaba unveils biggest Qwen model as DeepSeek deepens China's AI price war
Alibaba Group unveiled Qwen3.8-Max on August 3, calling it its largest and most capable artificial intelligence (AI) model to date, as DeepSeek's low-cost V4-Flash intensified competition...
Wednesday 29 July 2026
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 secures Day 0 support from Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Ascend

China's two major AI computing ecosystems moved quickly to support Kimi K3 after Moonshot AI released the large language model as open...

Monday 27 July 2026
Weekly news roundup: Samsung and SK Hynix favor DDR5, Intel accelerates 18A, Alibaba deepens CXMT ties
AI infrastructure, memory and advanced chipmaking led this week's tech agenda, with Intel, Samsung, SK Hynix, CXMT, Alibaba and Foxconn reshaping capacity and supply chains. Below...
Friday 24 July 2026
Chinese AI labs close gap with Anthropic after Claude Code leak
A springtime source-code exposure reframed the AI race around "harness" and memory engineering rather than raw model scale — and a wave of Chinese models built around exactly...
Friday 24 July 2026
China's AI chip share tops 50%, but Nvidia still rules frontier training

China's AI infrastructure build-out is rapidly lifting demand for domestic accelerators, giving Huawei, Alibaba's T-Head Semiconductor,...

Thursday 23 July 2026
01.AI targets Hong Kong IPO in 2027 with enterprise AI pivot
01.AI, the Chinese startup founded by former Google Greater China chief Lee Kai-fu, said it is aiming for a Hong Kong initial public offering in 2027 after restructuring its offshore...
Thursday 23 July 2026
In-depth: Alibaba builds three-layer AI empire across chips, memory and models
Competition in China's AI industry is moving beyond large language models into chips, memory and computing infrastructure. CXMT's planned IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market has put renewed...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's Z.ai reportedly powers up 1GW data center built entirely on domestic chips

Chinese AI developer Z.ai has completed a giant data center running exclusively on domestically made chips, a milestone in Beijing's...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Alibaba and Huawei muscle into Singapore's AI market: SEA-LION swaps Llama for Qwen

Singapore is Southeast Asia's AI frontrunner. It has also become a proving ground for competing Eastern and Western AI business models...

Monday 20 July 2026
Alibaba open-sources AI chip software, launches Zhenwu cloud supernode service
Alibaba Group's chip design unit, T-Head, has open-sourced the software stack behind its Zhenwu AI processors while extending the platform from individual accelerators into rack-scale...
Monday 20 July 2026
Alibaba pitches Qwen3.8 Max as 'second only to Fable 5' — without the benchmarks to prove it
Alibaba's decision to rank its newest flagship directly against a single American system — describing Qwen3.8 Max as "second only to" Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — underscores...