ACE Robotics Chairman Wang Xiaogang predicts embodied AI could reach its 'ChatGPT moment' by the end of 2027, driven by world models and environmental data capture. The Chinese startup, founded in Jul…
Ant Group's quarterly profit plunged 91% year-over-year to approximately 1.2 billion yuan ($57 million) for the quarter ending September 30, as the Alibaba-affiliated fintech giant ramps up spending o…
Citi, HSBC, and Standard Chartered have adopted Ant International's AI-powered foreign exchange tool, which uses machine learning to optimize currency trading and reduce costs. The tool, developed by …
Shares in Unitree, one of China's largest manufacturers of humanoid robots, surged by more than 460% on their first day of trading on Shanghai's STAR Market, lifting the company's valuation to around …
OceanBase CTO Charlie Yang outlined the company's roadmap to rival Databricks as an AI data platform at OceanBase Hours in Singapore, arguing that databases can serve as the foundation for AI data pla…
A developer reports that Ling 3.0 Tiny, a model by Ant Group related to Alibaba, now works with llama-cpp via a GGUF file, and it performs fast and accurate tool calling on their MCP server. The devel…
Ant Group's inclusionAI released Ling 3.0 Flash, an open-weights AI model that scores 38 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, making it the smartest open model under 124 billion total…
Anthropic released four operational controls for Claude Managed Agents, including per-session spend caps, region-pinned inference at a 1.1x in-region rate, repository-loaded skills, and a declarative …
A post on r/LocalLLaMA by an Ant Group employee explains why Chinese AI labs release high-quality local models, highlighting four distinct strategies: Alibaba's Qwen focuses on distribution across mod…
Ant Group's embodied AI division Robbyant has begun seeking external funding, aiming to raise about 1.5 billion yuan (US$222 million) in its first round and complete a second round by the end of 2024,…
Quasar, operating as Subnet 24 on the Bittensor network, released a 120 billion-parameter AI model with a 5 million-token context window, but independent analysis found that 96-98% of its weights clos…
Jack Ma-backed OceanBase is seeking to raise 2 billion to 3 billion yuan ($295 million to $443 million) in series A funding to expand into AI database services, according to people familiar with the m…
Ant International, the Singapore-headquartered global arm of Jack Ma's fintech empire, closed a $1.2 billion Series A on July 21, 2026, backed by Ant Group and Alibaba Group, to fund cross-border paym…
Kilo announced that Ling 3.0 Flash, the latest model from inclusionAI (Ant Group), is now available on its platform and free for a limited time. The model features 124B total parameters with only ~5.1…
Ant Group's Ling 3.0 Flash, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 124B total parameters and about 5.1B active per token, is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway free for three weeks through August 3rd. The …
Kata Containers 4.0.0 is now available, introducing a new default runtime built in Rust that offers reduced memory footprint, improved security, and lower latency, while the existing Go runtime is dep…
The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the AoCang S&T Corpus on July 17 at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, drawing on more than 320 petabytes of scientific data, 150 m…
Ant International, the overseas affiliate of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, has raised about $1.2 billion in a fresh equity round to fund its expansion into markets beyond China. The Singapore-based…
Alibaba's mapping lab released ABot-Earth, a generative 3D Earth model that creates 3D Gaussian splats from satellite photos in under ten minutes per square kilometer, pitched as a training ground for…
The China Internet Association released a self-regulatory pact on personal information protection for AI agents at a forum in Beijing, with Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Volcengine, and 27 other internet c…