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The latest news on Eddie Wu Yongming, CEO of Alibaba Group, including China business and technology news.
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is given a tour of Unitree by CEO Wang Xingxing. Photo: DPA
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Germany’s Merz meets China’s tech vanguard, including Alibaba and Unitree CEOs

Hangzhou visit reflects Germany’s attempt to work further with the engines of China’s digital and robotics economy.

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China tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba to ramp up AI infrastructure efforts

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba reaffirms open-source AI commitment as it hails successes

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Meta sees role reversal as it adopts Alibaba’s Qwen to train AI models

Throughout 2023 and 2024, Chinese firms keen to catch up with the US used Meta’s Llama to help them build their own models.

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The Qwen logo is seen in this illustration taken, January 29, 2025. Photo: Reuters
China Future Tech briefing

AI | China chases superintelligent AI without sci-fi movie risks

AI systems with human-level intelligence, or higher, offer the promise of solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges but the risk of humans losing control.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba names AI-lab leader Zhou Jingren as new group partner

He will join the 17-member Alibaba Partnership, which steers the company’s course and includes co-founders Jack Ma and Joe Tsai.

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba creates new unit to push consumer use of its Qwen AI models

Significant organisational change underlines company’s determination to turn the Qwen chatbot into a ‘super app’.

Alibaba has been driving the adoption and commercialisation of the Qwen series over the past two years amid the global AI surge. Photo: Reuters
Alibaba

Alibaba to lead AI capital spending among Chinese firms amid strong demand

The group’s intention to boost AI-related capital outlay reflects its aim to spearhead China’s efforts in the race for global AI leadership.

Alibaba

Alibaba posts 5% rise in quarterly revenue on AI, cloud momentum

‘We have entered into an investment phase to build long-term strategic value in AI technologies and infrastructure,’ CEO Eddie Wu Yongming says.

DeepSeek

China’s DeepSeek makes rare comment, calls for AI ‘whistle-blower’ on job losses

Remarks by CEO Liang Wenfeng’s delegate highlight potential dangers of race to build superintelligent systems.

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Founders and top executives of companies collectively known as China’s “six little dragons” of AI attend the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen. Photo: Reuters
Alibaba

Alibaba doubles down on ‘super-scale’ computing infrastructure for AI sector

Alibaba’s ‘super AI cloud’ will have the required technology to meet the industry’s massive computing demand, CEO Eddie Wu Yongming says.

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Alibaba Group Holding CEO Eddie Wu Yongming speaks at the opening of the World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit on Friday. Photo: Reuters
E-commerce

Alibaba boosts instant commerce drive with US$281 million convenience store plan

A network of Taobao-branded partner convenience stores is expected to roll out in more than 200 cities across the mainland.

China’s private sector

A token of intent: Doubao’s data surge cements ByteDance’s AI ambitions

A surge in activity on ByteDance’s Doubao model shows how rapidly AI tools are entering daily life in China.

Alibaba

US, China leaders will avoid ‘race to the bottom’: Alibaba’s Joe Tsai

Chairman of Chinese giant also says winning in the AI race is about attaining the largest model adoption.

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai appears at a game of the NBA team he owns, the Brooklyn Nets, in Macau on October 10, 2025. Photo: AP Photo
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China’s lesson for the US: it takes more than chips to win the AI race

The AI war is increasingly waged among ‘hyperscalers’ – companies with full-stack capabilities across software, hardware and applications.

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The US and China are intensifying investments into AI. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Alibaba

Alibaba’s Qwen lab sets up robotics team, showcasing its AI ambitions

The announcement suggests the Chinese tech giant is accelerating its development in the field of AI-powered hardware.

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai says US-China AI competition is not ‘winner takes all’

Speaking on a podcast, Tsai said the winner in AI should not be defined as ‘the strongest AI model’, but on ‘who can adopt it faster’.

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Alibaba

Alibaba’s Amap hits record 360 million users as ‘golden week’ begins

The surge in usage comes as Alibaba enhances Amap’s capabilities to compete with food delivery giant Meituan in the local services sector.

Vehicles cross the Second Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province, on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba transfers AI scientist Steven Hoi to Tongyi Lab, boosting Qwen efforts

At Tongyi Lab, Hoi is expected to help further develop Qwen, the world’s largest open-source AI ecosystem.

Artificial intelligence

Moonshot AI’s Kimi chatbot offers ‘agent mode’ for creating websites, slides

The feature is available on Kimi’s official website for international users but remains in beta testing for users in mainland China.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba integrates Nvidia’s AI robotics tools on cloud platform

The partnership is a positive signal for Chinese companies to use AI in developing robots and humanoids, analyst Tilly Zhang says.

Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud services unit and Nvidia unveil latest AI collaboration. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba: latest AI model Qwen3-Max rivals best from OpenAI, Google

Alibaba Cloud announced the Qwen3-Max model, with over 1 trillion parameters, just hours ahead of the annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou.

Qwen3-Max is not open-sourced but is accessible through Alibaba’s cloud computing platform. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Alibaba

Alibaba’s AI investment and Cathie Wood’s endorsement send shares to 4-year high

Prominent US fund manager buys US$16.3 million worth of shares in a vote of confidence for the firm’s focus on AI and on-demand delivery services.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba to boost AI spending as China tech giant sees AGI as new start

Group’s infrastructure spending will exceed the US$53 billion already promised, CEO Eddie Wu says at conference.

Semiconductors

Alibaba-developed AI processor on par with Nvidia’s H20 chip, CCTV report shows

The broadcast offers fresh evidence that Chinese developers are designing advanced chips that could replace imports.

T-Head is the semiconductor design unit of Alibaba Group Holding. Photo: T-Head
Alibaba

Alibaba enters robotaxi market with investment in Ant Group-backed Hello

The investment comes as Chinese and US tech giants are competing to make driverless taxis a commercial reality.

Hello’s first robotaxi, the Hello Robot1. Photo: Handout
Huawei

Human-level AI to propel tech progress in the next decade: Huawei

The Chinese tech giant also projects a 100,000-fold increase in global computing power by 2035.

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Alibaba

Amap, Alibaba’s answer to Google Maps, sees millions test new ranking service

Amap Street Stars uses AI algorithms to rank mainland destinations including restaurants, hotels and tourist attractions.

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