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Alibaba launches its largest AI model: Qwen3-Max

Alibaba, the Chinese company, has recently unveiled its most capable artificial intelligence (AI) model to date, called “Qwen3-Max”, which contains more than 1 trillion parameters, trained on 36 trillion tokens. 
24 September 2025, 06:47 AM

Alibaba launches open-source AI image editor

Alibaba’s Qwen research group has released an open-source AI model, Qwen-Image-Edit, which enables advanced image editing through text prompts.
21 August 2025, 06:41 AM

The 'six tigers' that drive China's AI geopolitics

China's four dragons—Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance—play a vital role in nurturing the AI startup ecosystem.
19 August 2025, 07:40 AM

Alibaba releases open-source AI model for software development 

Alibaba Group has introduced Qwen3-Coder, an open-source AI model designed for software development tasks. The announcement comes amid growing competition among technology companies developing AI coding tools.
23 July 2025, 07:23 AM

China's Alibaba to invest $50 bn in AI, cloud computing

The gains have been boosted since the Hangzhou-based firm announced robust sales growth last week
24 February 2025, 05:53 AM

Apple chooses Alibaba as AI partner in China: report

Apple has chosen Alibaba as its artificial intelligence (AI) partner in China, marking a strategic move to regain lost ground in the world’s largest smartphone market. Alibaba Group Chairman Joe Tsai confirmed the collaboration on Thursday at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, as per reports by The Information and Reuters.
13 February 2025, 10:20 AM

Alibaba releases AI model it claims surpasses DeepSeek-V3

"Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms ... almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B," Alibaba's cloud unit said
29 January 2025, 07:05 AM

China's 'Singles Day' shopping spree in spotlight as spending flags

"Singles Day" -- launched by tech giant Alibaba in 2009 -- has ballooned into an annual blockbuster period for retail, with days of discounts luring customers to the country's online shopping platforms.
11 November 2024, 05:27 AM

Alibaba to pay $433.5 million to settle shareholder lawsuit over monopoly claims

Alibaba denied wrongdoing, saying it entered the settlement to avoid the cost and disruption of further litigation
26 October 2024, 05:49 AM

Alibaba boosts share buy back as revenues miss estimates

Alibaba's net income was 10.7 billion yuan ($1.51 billion), a decrease of 77 percent
8 February 2024, 11:38 AM

Alibaba unveils Tongyi Qianwen, an AI model similar to GPT

It will first be integrated into DingTalk, Alibaba's workplace messaging app and can be used to summarise meeting notes, write emails and draft business proposals. It will also be added to Tmall Genie, Alibaba's voice assistant
11 April 2023, 04:24 AM

Alibaba joins global chatbot race

The announcement comes days after Chinese search giant Baidu said it would complete testing of its AI chatbot in March.
9 February 2023, 16:03 PM

Daraz Group to reduce 11% of workforce

Daraz Bangladesh will also lay off dozens of employees as part of the plan of its mother organisation, Daraz Group
7 February 2023, 11:03 AM

Alibaba keeps Singles Day sales tally under wraps for first time

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has not released full sales figures for its annual Singles Day event for the first time ever, as a cooling economy dampened demand.
12 November 2022, 08:10 AM

It's official: Alibaba's Daraz finally enters the food delivery market of Bangladesh

Alibaba, the global e-commerce giant, officially enters the Bangladeshi food delivery scene through the acquisition of Hungry Naki in its locally invested venture, Daraz. The confirmation comes after both the parties entered negotiation in early December last year.
4 March 2021, 05:06 AM

New era at Alibaba as Jack Ma rides into the sunset

Jack Ma steps aside as leader of the Alibaba Group, ending a spectacularly successful 20-year run during which the charismatic former English teacher's e-commerce company left a profound impact on China's economy.
11 September 2019, 05:44 AM

Alibaba slams US treatment of Huawei

A senior Alibaba executive slams the United States’ treatment of China’s Huawei Technologies as “extremely unfair”, saying measures by the country to curb the firm’s access to their markets was “very politically motivated”.
25 January 2019, 15:33 PM

Jack Ma, the ‘accidental entrepreneur’, to retire at 54

Alibaba's charismatic co-founder and chairman Jack Ma plans to retire from the Chinese e-commerce giant on Monday to devote his time to philanthropy focused on education, he told the New York Times in an interview.
8 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Alibaba buys e-commerce venture Daraz

Multinational e-commerce company Alibaba acquires Bangladesh’s one of the leading online commerce sites daraz.
8 May 2018, 11:19 AM

Alibaba's AI outguns humans in reading test

Alibaba develops an artificial intelligence model that scores better than humans in a Stanford University reading and comprehension test.
15 January 2018, 11:32 AM