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Artificial intelligence
Sweet surge: Qwen overtakes Yuanbao after Alibaba’s bubble tea campaign
More than 10 million free orders put Alibaba’s AI app in the spotlight amid a high-stakes battle for Spring Festival attention.
6 Feb 2026 - 8:35PM
Alibaba
From chatbots to replays: Alibaba rolls out AI suite for 2026 Winter Olympics
5 Feb 2026 - 2:06AM
Artificial intelligence
China’s chip champion Moore Threads sees beyond silicon with push into AI coding
4 Feb 2026 - 8:10PM
Artificial intelligence
When context is everything, AI models still struggle in the real world: Tencent
Despite rapid advances, today’s top AI models are still “brittle” in messy, real-world environments, according to new Tencent research.
4 Feb 2026 - 7:01PM
Artificial intelligence
‘Value for money’: OpenClaw picks Chinese AI models for cost edge over US rivals
OpenClaw adds Moonshot AI’s Kimi and MiniMax as Chinese open-source AI models gain global appeal for cost and performance.
3 Feb 2026 - 8:00AM
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz
Alibaba unveils US$432 million campaign to push mass-market adoption of its AI as rivalry with Tencent, Baidu and ByteDance intensifies.
2 Feb 2026 - 8:51PM
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Artificial intelligence
China tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba to ramp up AI infrastructure efforts
The two firms’ actions are poised to further intensify the global AI arms race.
30 Jan 2026 - 8:00PM
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba AI chip push hits 100,000 mark, beating local rival Cambricon: sources
The milestone underscores Alibaba’s growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors.
30 Jan 2026 - 7:24PM
Artificial intelligence
China’s cloud giants race to support Moltbot, the ‘AI that actually does things’
Hyperscalers embrace the AI agent, which can execute tasks without step-by-step instructions, but privacy concerns loom large.
29 Jan 2026 - 8:00PM
Semiconductors
Alibaba’s T-Head unit unveils details of AI chip designed to rival Nvidia’s GPUs
The launch of the Zhenwu 810E marks the latest initiative by China’s Big Tech firms to develop a domestic alternative to Nvidia’s AI chips.
29 Jan 2026 - 6:00PM
Artificial intelligence
‘Teach our children well’: Jack Ma urges changes to China’s education in AI era
China’s educators must teach students to ask thousands of good questions, rather than give the same correct answer, Ma says.
28 Jan 2026 - 7:00PM
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Artificial intelligence
Price rises on horizon for Chinese cloud firms after Google, AWS set new rates
Surging AI workloads, memory prices push Chinese cloud providers to consider increases after global peers act.
28 Jan 2026 - 6:00PM
Artificial intelligence
DeepSeek taps Alibaba open-source AI technology to boost OCR performance
The Chinese AI start-up says its latest OCR model delivers stronger performance after adopting an Alibaba-developed open-source model.
27 Jan 2026 - 11:57PM
Artificial intelligence
China’s Alibaba, Moonshot claim latest AI models challenge OpenAI, Google
Alibaba says Qwen3-Max-Thinking is its ‘best model so far’, while Moonshot calls Kimi K2.5 the world’s most powerful open-source model.
27 Jan 2026 - 5:30PM
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba’s Qwen-3 becomes one of world’s first AI models to operate in orbit
The entire Qwen-3 process – from uploading queries to on-orbit inference and sending results back to Earth – took less than two minutes.
28 Jan 2026 - 11:16AM
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Artificial intelligence
Tencent’s Pony Ma teases new AI social feature for Yuanbao app
The Shenzhen-based firm is sharpening its AI strategy and talent pipeline, after acknowledging rivals are reshaping the pace of development.
26 Jan 2026 - 8:24PM
Artificial intelligence
Baidu launches Ernie 5.0 as firm’s AI assistant users reach 200 million a month
The Beijing-based company’s most advanced AI model can process text, images, audio and video.
22 Jan 2026 - 8:30PM
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Google study finds DeepSeek, Alibaba models mimic human collective intelligence
The Google researchers found that the reasoning models generate internal multi-agent debates, which they termed ‘societies of thought’.
22 Jan 2026 - 7:00AM
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba’s upgraded Qwen chatbot app receives warm consumer reception
Qwen’s upgrade transforms the chatbot into a virtual ‘life assistant’, making lives easier for hundreds of millions of consumers.
16 Jan 2026 - 5:45PM
Artificial intelligence
OpenAI sees another ‘seismic shock’ from China as talks swirl of DeepSeek launch
There is heightened anticipation about a potential major DeepSeek release around the Lunar New Year.
15 Jan 2026 - 7:00AM
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba reaffirms open-source AI commitment as it hails successes
‘Building with the community’ is crucial to the success of the Qwen family of large language models, company says.
13 Jan 2026 - 9:30PM
Artificial intelligence
Alibaba’s Qwen family hits 700 million downloads to lead open-source AI adoption
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen family is the world’s most widely used open-source AI system as of January, Hugging Face data shows.
13 Jan 2026 - 5:48PM
Artificial intelligence
China takes confident strides to develop more AI innovation in 2026
‘China’s tech innovation is poised for policy-driven growth in 2026, with AI placed at the centre of the country’s economic agenda,’ NYU’s Winston Ma says.
3 Jan 2026 - 11:00AM
IPO
China’s DRAM giant CXMT plans US$4.2 billion IPO on Shanghai’s Star Market
Listing aims to fund wafer expansion and DRAM upgrades as Beijing drives tech self-reliance.
31 Dec 2025 - 3:38PM
Robotics
Tech giants go prime time in the fight for China’s biggest audience
ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba are in talks over Spring Festival Gala sponsorship packages, as AI rivalry becomes a fight for ad real estate.
29 Dec 2025 - 8:53PM
Artificial intelligence
ByteDance, other major Chinese tech firms lead local consumer AI market: report
ByteDance-owned Doubao remains the country’s top consumer AI app, as DeepSeek’s namesake chatbot takes the No 2 spot.
24 Dec 2025 - 8:31PM
Alibaba
Alibaba deepens ecosystem with Qwen-Amap tie-up for routes, restaurants and more
The integration marks Alibaba’s first full tie-in for Qwen, as the company pushes for more synergy across its sprawling consumer platforms.
18 Dec 2025 - 8:30PM
Artificial intelligence
China’s open-source AI models rival US giants, making engagement urgent: report
The report calls on US actors to engage with Chinese firms as the AI landscape continues to evolve.
17 Dec 2025 - 9:16PM
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