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In a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (www.scmp.com)
1 day ago Alibaba

How JD.com is taking on China's food-delivery duopoly with viral stunts, low commissions, and deep discounts, prompting Meituan and Alibaba's Ele.me to respond (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago China Alibaba

Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese AI companies temporarily disabled chatbot functions like image recognition during China's annual college entrance exams (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago China Alibaba AI chatbot Tencent

Sources: Apple and Alibaba's AI rollout in China is being held up by the Cyberspace Administration of China, which has approved 300+ domestic AI models so far (t.co)
22 days ago China Alibaba AI Apple

Sources say Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and other Chinese companies are testing domestic alternatives as they deal with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors (t.co)
27 days ago China Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

Amap, Alibaba's mapping and local services business, introduces a ride-hailing feature on the app's English version, targeting foreign visitors in China (www.scmp.com)
2025-5-25 China Alibaba

Zhejiang, home to Alibaba and DeepSeek, publishes an AI policy that expects companies in the AI supply chain to make $138B+ in total operating revenues by 2027 (www.scmp.com)
2025-5-21 Alibaba AI

Sources: White House and lawmakers are scrutinizing Apple's plan to use Alibaba's AI on iPhones in China, over concerns about data sharing, censorship, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-17 China Alibaba AI Apple

Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$32.8B, below $33B est., and net income up 200%+ to ~$1.7B due to equity investment gains; BABA drops 5%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-15 Alibaba Equity

SoftBank reports Q4 net profit up 124% YoY to ~$3.5B, a surprise profit and above a ~$182M loss est., due to improving valuations of Alibaba, T-Mobile, and more (t.co)
2025-5-13 Mobile Alibaba 4Q

Alibaba's ZeroSearch Teaches AI To Search Without Search Engines, Cuts Training Costs By 88% (slashdot.org)
2025-5-9 Alibaba AI

Alibaba researchers detail ZeroSearch, a technique allowing LLMs to develop advanced search capabilities via simulation, claiming it cuts costs by up to 88% (venturebeat.com)
2025-5-9 Alibaba

Alibaba partners with RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, to allow users on RedNote to directly click on product links to shop on Alibaba's Taobao platform (www.reuters.com)
2025-5-8 Alibaba

Sources: Nvidia told ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and others that it is tweaking its AI chips so they can be sold in China without breaching US export rules (www.theinformation.com)
2025-5-2 China Alibaba AI Tencent Nvidia

Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops (venturebeat.com)
2025-5-1 Alibaba

DeepSeek quietly open-sources Prover-V2 AI, a math-focused, 671B-parameter model using mixture-of-experts, on Hugging Face, one day after Alibaba released Qwen3 (www.scmp.com)
2025-4-30 Alibaba AI Mathematics

Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-29 Alibaba AI

Baidu rolls out Ernie 4.5 Turbo and X1 Turbo, new versions of its flagship foundation and reasoning models, as it looks to take on Alibaba's Qwen and DeepSeek (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-26 Alibaba

Source: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent asked Nvidia to ship ~1M H20s, ideally by the end of May, but the actual number delivered fell short due to new US curbs (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-4-23 Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

Alibaba's AI assistant Quark surpassed ByteDance's Doubao to become China's most popular AI app in March, with ~150M and ~100M MAUs globally, respectively (www.scmp.com)
2025-4-13 China Alibaba AI

Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese companies placed $16B+ in orders for Nvidia's H20 chips in Q1 2025, ahead of a potential US sales ban (www.theinformation.com)
2025-4-3 China Alibaba Tencent Ban Nvidia

Alibaba releases open-source multimodal AI model Qwen2.5-Omni-7B on Hugging Face and GitHub, saying the model can be deployed on edge devices like smartphones (www.cnbc.com)
2025-3-27 Alibaba AI GitHub

BMW partners with Alibaba to use Qwen-powered AI cockpit tech from Alibaba-backed Banma in its upcoming car models for the Chinese market, rolling out next year (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-26 China Alibaba AI

Since DeepSeek-R1's debut, Chinese companies like Baidu, DeepSeek, Tencent, Ant, and Alibaba have been flooding the market with low cost AI services and models (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-26 China Alibaba AI Tencent

Alibaba's Tsai Warns of 'Bubble' in AI Data Center Buildout (slashdot.org)
2025-3-26 Alibaba AI

Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a bubble in data center construction, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-25 Alibaba AI

Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claims better alignment with human preferences and math reasoning than earlier 2.5 VL models (simonwillison.net)
2025-3-25 Alibaba Mathematics

Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a data center bubble, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-3-25 Alibaba AI

Chinese firms like Alibaba, Baidu and DeepSeek are open sourcing AI models to bypass US curbs, decentralize development, and tap global talent for refinement (t.co)
2025-3-19 China Alibaba AI

Sources detail Alibaba's AI pivot, quietly led by Jack Ma after ChatGPT's 2022 launch, but question if it can establish a lead in China's competitive AI race (t.co)
2025-3-17 China Jack Ma Alibaba AI

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