Alibaba releases its third closed-source AI model, signaling a strategic pivot away from open-source to protect proprietary technology and boost profit.

Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group unveiled Accio Work, an agentic AI platform deploying virtual employee squads to automate cross-border e-commerce tasks for small businesses worldwide.

Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.5-Max-Preview, the flagship of its Qwen 3.5 series, which debuted as the top Chinese model on LMArena at 15th place globally, trailing Anthropic and Google, while ranking fifth in mathematics — as the company targets $100 billion in annual cloud and AI revenue within five years.

Moonshot AI targets $10 billion valuation backed by Alibaba and Tencent, just weeks after raising $500 million at $4.3 billion valuation with Kimi chatbot.

Alibaba launches Qwen 3.5 with advanced agentic capabilities, featuring a 397B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture to compete globally.

DeepSeek and Alibaba AI models spreading globally are programmed to present positive views of China while avoiding negative topics, researchers discover.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba announces RynnBrain, a new AI model designed specifically for robotics applications, marking the company's push into physical AI and autonomous systems development.

Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba are set to release new generative AI models, including ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 large language model, heating up the domestic and global competition in the AI sector.