Alibaba Cloud has launched its first data centers in France, expanding its European presence to meet growing demand and support data sovereignty initiatives. This move positions the company to offer AI services across the region.
Alibaba Group Holding has launched its first AI models for robots, the Qwen Robot Suite, developed by Tongyi Lab. This suite aims to enable machines to perceive, reason, and interact with physical environments, marking a significant step into "embodied AI."
Chinese police have dismantled a months-long smear campaign targeting e-commerce platforms Alibaba and JD.com. Chengdu Xiaoben Culture Media, hired by an unnamed company, allegedly created fake images and false information to harm the platforms' reputations and operations.
China's market regulator summoned major e-commerce platforms like Alibaba, JD.com, and Pinduoduo over marketing malpractices, including misleading ads and inadequate rule disclosures, as the "618" shopping festival approaches. This is part of an effort to curb "involution-style" competition.
Alibaba's Qwen app is opening its ecosystem to third-party agents, with KFC, Luckin Coffee, Mixue Group, and China Eastern Airlines among the first to test the feature. Users can interact with these agents for services like ordering food or planning travel.
Alibaba's Partnership Committee includes Group CEO Eddie Wu Yongming and Jiang Fan, CEO of the e-commerce unit. The CTO, born in 1982, is a key architect of Alibaba's tech infrastructure and is now focused on AI development.
Alibaba's MuleRun, a one-stop AI agent platform, aims to offer a safer alternative to OpenClaw, providing AI services across research, coding, and more, available in 43 countries.
Code Arena, a benchmark by researchers from UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and Carnegie Mellon, evaluates AI models' ability to create complete web applications from scratch, with rankings based on blind user votes reflecting real developer preferences.
Alibaba's chairman Joe Tsai and CEO Eddie Wu Yongming stated in a shareholder letter that the addressable market for full-stack AI providers like Alibaba is expected to grow exponentially. They also noted that China is building its "AI factory" through Alibaba's cloud computing unit.
Alibaba's senior VP Liu Weiguang described AI as a new form of manufacturing at the Alibaba Cloud Summit, calling their operations "China's AI factory." The company also launched Qwen3.7-Max, a new LLM for AI agents.
Chinese tech firms are leveraging AI to transform the internet from a manual click-and-scroll experience to a more intuitive, conversational one, aiming to streamline online services like search and shopping.
Alibaba and Tencent are increasing capital expenditure on AI, focusing on Chinese-made chips to alleviate supply chain issues, with Alibaba targeting cloud services and Tencent prioritizing internal demand.
Alibaba's shares rose sharply in Hong Kong and New York after reporting strong Q1 growth driven by AI products and cloud computing, despite missing revenue estimates.
Alibaba Group projects AI-driven annualised recurring revenue to hit $4.42 billion by year-end, with AI products expected to generate over 50% of cloud-computing revenue within a year, driven by triple-digit growth in AI-related products for the 11th consecutive quarter.
Alibaba projects AI revenue to reach 30 billion yuan ($4.42 billion) by year’s end, with AI products expected to generate over 50% of cloud-computing revenue within a year, driven by triple-digit growth in AI-related products for the 11th consecutive quarter.
Alibaba Group Holding is integrating its flagship AI assistant Qwen into its biggest e-commerce platforms, betting that the future of online shopping lies in fluid conversations rather than rigid search terms. Using the Qwen app, shoppers are able to find, compare and purchase products from Taobao and Tmall’s 4-billion-item inventory via text or voice chat, Alibaba said in a statement on Monday. Taobao has also launched a Qwen-powered shopping assistant, which was trained on the platform’s...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is preparing an overhaul of how local consumers shop online, betting that the next trend will feel more like chatting with an artificial intelligence chatbot rather than typing keywords into a search bar, according to a source. Users of the company’s flagship AI assistant Qwen – one of the most popular in China – would soon be able to use natural language to “talk” with the chatbot app to find and buy items listed on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is preparing an overhaul of how local consumers shop online, betting that the next trend will feel more like chatting with an artificial intelligence chatbot rather than typing keywords into a search bar. Users of the company’s flagship AI assistant Qwen – one of the most popular in China – would soon be able to use natural language to “talk” with the chatbot app to find and buy items listed on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall shopping platforms,...
In China, computing facilities have emerged as a new form of infrastructure over the past two years, sparking an arms race among cities and technology companies to build 10,000-card computing clusters. These clusters – which link 10,000 or more artificial intelligence accelerator chips – enable faster iteration of AI capabilities and significantly reduce model training times. Domestic champions, from tech giants such as Huawei Technologies and Alibaba Group Holding to graphics processing unit...
Time magazine has included three Chinese companies – Alibaba Group Holding, ByteDance and Zhipu AI – in its inaugural "10 Most Influential AI Companies of 2026" list, marking the first AI-specific sub-list under its Time100 ranking. The list features six US companies and one French company (Mistral AI), highlighting how AI has become a defining force in the global economy. Alibaba's Qwen models have surpassed 1 billion downloads, with the company emphasizing open-source strategies to drive adoption.
Alibaba's research arm Damo Academy has developed an AI model called Coca that detects early-stage colorectal cancer from CT scans with 86.6% sensitivity and 99.8% specificity. In tests on over 27,000 people, the model identified five previously missed cases and outperformed 10 radiologists by 20.4%, offering a non-invasive alternative to colonoscopy.
Alibaba Group plans to spin off Jiaxing Park, a key Cainiao logistics facility in Zhejiang province, into a publicly listed REIT managed by CICC Fund. Analysts say the move will help the e-commerce giant unlock value from mature infrastructure while redeploying capital into higher-growth opportunities. The proposal awaits regulatory approval from the Shenzhen Exchange and CSRC.
Alibaba Group Holding gained approval from the Hong Kong stock exchange to proceed with a proposed spin-off of a warehouse park in mainland China, two years after the tech giant withdrew the listing plan of its logistics arm Cainiao. The e-commerce giant said it could separate an infrastructure real estate investment trust (Reit) and list it on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, with the underlying asset being the Jiaxing Park, a logistics and warehousing infrastructure hub in eastern China’s Zhejiang...
Alibaba's Qwen app has partnered with China Eastern Airlines in its first external collaboration, enabling users to complete full flight booking processes – from search and seat selection to check-in – through a natural-language chat interface. The deal marks a significant expansion of Alibaba's agentic AI capabilities beyond its own ecosystem into real-world services, supporting the company's massive AI investment strategy. Alibaba pledged 380 billion yuan ($55.6 billion) to AI and cloud over three years in early 2025.
