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Friday 19 December 2025
US loses ground in open-source AI as Chinese models gain traction
Several experts have raised concerns that while the US maintains leadership in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, it is lagging behind in open-source AI development. American...
Monday 15 December 2025
Meta's next AI model, 'Avocado,' signals shift to closed development

Meta is reportedly developing a new AI model, code-named "Avocado," slated for release in the spring of 2026.

Tuesday 2 December 2025
Alibaba Cloud's global expansion tests geopolitical boundaries
Alibaba Cloud is ramping up its global strategy, pushing aggressively into the Middle East and Southeast Asia to expand its presence in fast-growing emerging markets.
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Singapore's SEA-LION AI model built on Alibaba Qwen signals shift from Meta
Alibaba Group's open-source Qwen model, recognized as a key player in the AI market, now forms the foundation of Singapore's large language model (LLM) SEA-LION. The latest version,...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Alibaba sees no AI bubble in 3 years, may boost capital spending
Alibaba reported strong cloud revenue growth for the quarter ending September 30, 2025, with CNY39.8 billion (approx. US$5.6 billion) in sales, up 34% year-over-year, and external...
Friday 21 November 2025
'Qianwen': Alibaba's answer to ChatGPT
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has formally entered the global consumer-facing AI market, announcing the public beta launch of the Qianwen App, a personal AI assistant built on the company's...
Friday 21 November 2025
Alibaba rebrands AI app as Qwen to challenge ChatGPT
Alibaba has revamped its AI mobile application under the new name "Qwen," aiming to compete head-to-head with OpenAI's ChatGPT by combining shopping, maps, and other functionalities...
Wednesday 12 November 2025
Silicon Valley startups turn to Chinese AI models amid performance and cost benefits
Several Silicon Valley startups and venture capitalists are increasingly adopting Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) models for their products and services, citing practical advantages...
Friday 3 October 2025
Alibaba backs Nvidia's physical AI stack to bridge virtual and real worlds
At the Apsara Conference 2025, Alibaba announced its AI platform will integrate Nvidia's full physical AI software stack into its developer toolkit. More than a technical update,...
Tuesday 5 August 2025
Xiaomi open-sources voice AI model to enter automotive and smart home markets
Xiaomi has launched a 7-billion-parameter version of its open-source voice model, MiDashengLM, which incorporates Alibaba's open-source Qwen 2.5 series. This model focuses on in-car...
Friday 18 July 2025
China’s AI star disappears from home and quietly reemerges in Singapore
Once celebrated as China's most promising AI agent, Manus has plunged into uncertainty after abruptly shifting its headquarters to Singapore and erasing its digital footprint from...
Monday 7 July 2025
Huawei rejects allegations that its Pangu AI model copied Alibaba's Qwen
Huawei has pushed back against claims that its newly open-sourced Pangu Pro MoE 72B model plagiarized Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen-2.5 14B), after a technical analysis flagged unusually...
Friday 27 June 2025
Alibaba Cloud to deploy AI models worldwide with US$52 billion infrastructure push
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group, plans to expand access to its proprietary and third-party artificial intelligence models across more of...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Apple turns to Alibaba for AI push in China, drawing US concern

Alibaba has open-sourced 32 variants of its latest Qwen 3 language models, designed specifically to run on Apple's MLX machine learning...

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...