Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported fiscal first-quarter revenue of 268.95 billion yuan ($40 billion), up 9% year-over-year and narrowly beating analyst estimates, but net income plunged 75% to 10.44 …
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported a 45% increase in cloud revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, even as heavy spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure weighed on overall profitabili…
Alibaba Cloud's Qwen 3.8 27B open-weights model delivers roughly double the intelligence and capability of last year's OpenAI gpt-oss models on the same hardware, according to software engineer Willia…
Alibaba Cloud has launched its third data center in South Korea, expanding its global network to 104 availability zones and introducing six Agentic AI services for local enterprise customers, accordin…
Shengshu Technology, the Alibaba-backed generative AI startup behind the Vidu video generation tool, is considering a Hong Kong IPO targeting at least $500 million in proceeds. Founded in March 2023 w…
Chinese cloud provider UCloud has deployed servers running Hygon's Tianxi series AI accelerators on its public-cloud platform, marking the first large-scale public-cloud rollout of the domestic chip s…
Alibaba Cloud launched Fun-Music, a beta AI music-generation model that creates complete songs with lyrics, melody, arrangement, and vocals from text prompts, available in limited preview to users in …
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is nearing a deal to sell its gaming division, Lingxi Games, to Asian private equity firm Trustar Capital for at least $1.5 billion, as the e-commerce giant sheds non-core a…
Alibaba's Qwen family of AI models has surpassed 3 billion global downloads, accounting for more than 50% of all open-source model downloads worldwide, outpacing Meta's Llama and DeepSeek. The milesto…
The Biden administration's new 'Pax Silica' policy forces East Asian allies to choose between American and Chinese AI ecosystems, threatening Japanese conglomerates like SoftBank and NEC that rely on …
Alibaba's Qwen team released open weights for the Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter multimodal model designed for local deployment on consumer hardware with around 24GB of VRAM, such as an NVIDIA RT…
Apple is building a custom large language model for China using Alibaba's cloud infrastructure and Qwen AI, according to a report. The move allows Apple to maintain privacy and regulatory compliance w…
Cerebras' gpt-oss-120B (low) leads a new inference speed benchmark at 1,538.0 tokens per second, outpacing Groq's gpt-oss-20B (high) at 949.5 t/s and Cerebras' GPT-5.6 Sol (ultrafast preview) at up to…
Microsoft has quietly closed at least 15 offices and joint ventures in China over the past five years, according to a Reuters report, including its localized LinkedIn, retail stores, an IoT & AI Insid…
A bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun district, the AGI Bar, offers customers free access to the DeepSeek V4 Flash AI model via two Nvidia supercomputers, removing cost barriers for developers and start-ups…
Alibaba Cloud launched Qwen AI Arena, a challenge and evaluation platform for AI agents that creates tasks based on real business scenarios and provides developers with models, runtime environments, a…
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google topped Gartner's ranking of cloud-native application platforms (CNAP), with Google achieving the highest 'ability to execute' position among leaders, M…
Alibaba Cloud launched its M890 AI supernode in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, on August 12, 2026, enabling enterprises to provision 64-card high-speed-interconnect computing units for inference on mixture-…
Alibaba Cloud has launched its Lingjun Zhenwu M890 AI supernode instance in China, with Ulanqab as the first deployment region. The instance supports inference for mixture-of-experts models with up to…
Alibaba Cloud has cut AI data center delivery time to 100 days using a modular design that also reduces construction costs by more than 10%, a move that shifts the competitive bottleneck from GPU proc…