Chinese startups raised over $16 billion in Q1 2026, with robotics startups alone pulling in $5.6 billion through 176 deals by mid-May, surpassing all of 2025, as investors shift focus to world models…
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro, an image generation model supporting up to 4.5k tokens of input, text rendering as small as 10px, and native support for 12 languages and 20+ fon…
Alibaba released its latest AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, for free, nearly matching the capabilities of Claude and ChatGPT. The model, part of Alibaba Cloud's Qwen family, has 2.4 trillion parameters and riv…
Alibaba Cloud unveiled Qwen3.8-Max on Monday, its largest AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters and a one-million-token context window, while DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 in public beta on…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. holds a 36% preferred equity stake in Moonshot AI, which paused new consumer subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand hit compute limits, while Alibaba simultaneousl…
TSMC accelerated construction of its 1.4-nanometer fab in Taichung, with trial production targeted for the third quarter of 2027, widening its lead over Samsung and Intel in advanced AI silicon manufa…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model, on July 19, offering it at a 90% discount during preview. The launch comes two days after Moonshot AI unveiled its Kimi K3 model with 2…
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model, which immediately became the highest-ranking Chinese text model on the Arena.AI leaderboard, trailing only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 a…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max on August 2nd, a mixture-of-experts model with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion active parameters, available immediately through QwenCloud with open weights pr…
Alibaba Group Holding has made its next-generation flagship AI model Qwen3.8-Max widely accessible to global users ahead of an open-weights release next week. The 2.4-trillion-parameter model supports…
Alibaba has introduced Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, claiming it matches the performance of top models like Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. The release underscores Alibab…
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts flagship model now live on QwenCloud, delivering autonomous coding for projects spanning 10+ days and handli…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a coding and office-work model, exclusively through its Alibaba Cloud Token Plan on July 19, with an August 3 promotional post calling it 'A Ne…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese lab behind the Kimi models, runs a large share of its training and serving on roughly 20,000 Nvidia H200 chips supplied through a compute agreement with Alibaba Cloud, accordi…
Alibaba's Qwen team announced on July 31st the release of Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash, a speech-recognition service designed to improve domain-term recognition and structured transcript generation. In in…
N8n has added a dedicated Qwen Cloud node, integrating Alibaba Cloud's Qwen model family into its workflow automation canvas with support for text, image, and video actions. The node, available in n8n…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) became mainland China's most valuable listed company after its shares surged over 500% on its Shanghai debut on Jul 29, pushing its market capitalization to 3.3 tri…
SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 on July 29th, a speech-to-speech model priced at $0.08 per minute of audio, a 60% increase from the $0.05 rate for Think Fast 1.0. The model, available via …
Alibaba Cloud released the Qwen2 series of open-source language models, ranging from 0.5B to 72B parameters, with a Mixture-of-Experts variant. The models support up to 128K token context windows and …
Alibaba Cloud announced on July 18 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference three new products for AI agent infrastructure: AgentRun for lifecycle management, AgentTeams for multi-agent orchest…