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Sources: Alibaba-backed PixVerse, which develops AI video generation tools, raised a $300M Series C led by CDH; the company says the round values it at $1B+ (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Alibaba AI

Sources: Tencent is developing a top-secret AI agent for WeChat, and has tested using models from Zhipu, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, to compete with Qwen and Doubao (www.theinformation.com)
5 days ago Alibaba AI WeChat Tencent

China's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba, is down 28% since October 2025, shedding nearly $600B in market value (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago China Alibaba Tencent

Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation AI model development, after the resignation of Qwen AI head Lin Junyang (www.reuters.com)
10 days ago Alibaba AI

Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Alibaba

Alibaba releases the open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks (venturebeat.com)
13 days ago Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Alibaba AI

Alibaba debuts Qwen 3.5, adding “visual agentic capabilities” to independently execute tasks, and says it is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago Alibaba

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago China India Alibaba Startup

The US DoD published and then deleted a document adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to a list of companies with alleged connections to the Chinese military (t.co)
30 days ago China Alibaba

Alibaba says Qwen generated 120M+ in orders from Chinese users over the past six days, ahead of the Lunar New Year; Alibaba is giving a ~$3.60 shopping voucher (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-12 China Alibaba

Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-10 Alibaba Robot

Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on “red envelope” freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-2-10 China Alibaba AI Tencent

Alibaba's Qwen temporarily stops issuing coupons due to customer overload, hampering Alibaba's Agentic AI ad campaign; Qwen began offering coupons on February 6 (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-10 Alibaba AI

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (www.theregister.com)
2026-2-4 Alibaba AI Tencent

Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-2 Alibaba AI Tencent

Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon (www.scmp.com)
2026-2-1 Alibaba AI

Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba both plan to release flagship AI models around China's mid-February Lunar New Year holiday, including ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-30 China Alibaba AI

Alibaba's Cainiao logistics unit merges with Chinese robovan company Zelos, creating a business sources say valued at ~$2B with a fleet set to hit 20K+ vehicles (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-29 China Alibaba Logistics

DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (www.scmp.com)
2026-1-28 Alibaba

Sources: China has told Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, suggesting Beijing is close to approving imports (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24 China Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (t.co)
2026-1-20 China Alibaba AI

Sources: Chinese AI companies seek to rent compute in Southeast Asia and the Middle East for Nvidia Rubin access, as Zhipu and Alibaba warn of a widening US gap (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-16 China Alibaba Asia AI Nvidia Southeast Asia

Alibaba links Qwen to its online shopping and travel services, including Taobao, Alipay, Fliggy, and Amap, aiming to build a one-stop AI app for its 100M users (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 Alibaba AI Alipay

Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed company valued at $22B, plans a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $900M+, backed by Alibaba and JPMorgan (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 China Hong Kong IPO Alibaba JPMorgan Shanghai

China unveils rules banning major platforms like Alibaba from forcing merchants into discounts or practices seen as disrupting market order, effective February (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 China Alibaba

Sources: Alibaba's Amap will soon launch an AI tool to let restaurants render 3D images by just uploading videos or photos, in a bid to compete with Meituan (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-5 Alibaba AI

A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-5 China Alibaba AI

Report: China-based Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital, with Alibaba and Tencent participating (www.scmp.com)
2026-1-1 China Alibaba AI Tencent IDG

Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax is seeking to raise $600M+ from its Hong Kong IPO, set for January 2026, and has secured Alibaba and the ADIA as backers (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-30 China Hong Kong IPO Alibaba Startup AI

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