Updates on Alibaba
Every AI story we track on Alibaba: 89 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.
Pulled from 125 sources
This week
Chips & Compute4 min read
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports
The Next Web
AI Research1 min read
These guys on the Alibaba AI engine team had an agent in RL training escape its sandbox and mine crypto, in 2025
LessWrong
This month
Cybersecurity3 min read
Researchers trace AI agents that probed Alibaba’s Amap to Tencent
The Next Web
Cybersecurity7 min read
Anthropic Reports Distillation Defenses Reduced Extracted Reasoning Tokens
Unite.AI
Machine Learning5 min read
Alibaba Qwen Introduces QwenGyre: Elastic Reinforcement Learning RL for XLong-Horizon Agents
MarkTechPost
Chips & Compute5 min read
Cisco Announces G302 Silicon and USFP Optics With NVIDIA at OCP 2026
Unite.AI
Machine Learning5 min read
Microsoft AI Releases Microsoft-Decision-1: A Qwen3.5-9B Decision-Scoring Model
MarkTechPost
Image Generation4 min read
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model
MarkTechPost
Business & Enterprise3 min read
Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre
The Next Web
AI Research2 min read
Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise5 min read
The open-source AI platforms vying to become China’s Hugging Face
Rest of World
LLM & Text Generation5 min read
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak
MarkTechPost
Industry & Manufacturing3 min read
ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise3 min read
Chinese AI models surge in global popularity — and Washington is worried
CNBC
Consumer Tech5 min read
Meta shipped 81% of the world’s AI glasses, and the runner-up has no camera
The Next Web
Chips & Compute6 min read
Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip
The Next Web
Cybersecurity5 min read
China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports
The Next Web
Image Generation4 min read
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1: A 7B Open-Weight Model for Image Generation and Editing
MarkTechPost
Cybersecurity5 min read
Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.
The Next Web
LLM & Text Generation4 min read
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate: A Real-Time Interpretation Model That Cuts Average Lag to 2.3 Seconds Across 60 Languages
MarkTechPost
Machine Learning4 min read
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
Covered by 3 sources
Healthcare1 min read
Alibaba open-sources AI model detecting cancer, 150 medical conditions
Anadolu Agency English
Public Sector5 min read
US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"
Ars Technica
Machine Learning5 min read
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: A 1M-Context Omni-Modal Model Built Around Agentic Audio-Video Understanding and Tool Use
MarkTechPost
Cybersecurity5 min read
Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
The Hacker News
AI Research3 min read
China's star AI labs routed user requests to Claude at least 35 million times in the summer: Anthropic
Business Insider
Business & Enterprise19 min read
Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM
AWS Blog
Consumer Tech5 min read
China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.
The Next Web
Machine Learning6 min read
Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4”
The New Stack (AI)
Machine Learning7 min read
GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
MarkTechPost
LLM & Text Generation3 min read
Qwen4’s architecture is here early, firing 6B parameters out of 125B
Covered by 5 sources
Video Generation4 min read
Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn
Covered by 2 sources
Business & Enterprise3 min read
Thomson Reuters built its own AI model off Chinese tech to rely less on Claude
Covered by 3 sources
Robotics4 min read
XPENG’s robotics arm has raised more than $900M ahead of its humanoid production run
Covered by 2 sources
Business & Enterprise5 min read
Alibaba’s profit fell 75% as quarterly AI spending hit $10bn
The Next Web
Machine Learning5 min read
Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise4 min read
Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI
The Next Web
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