Alibaba

Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a novel decision-scoring model designed for tasks such as routing, classification, verification, and agent control. Unlike generative AI models that produce text, Microsoft-Decision-1 is engineered to return a calibrated probability for each predefined answer option.

Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, a highly optimized checkpoint derived from their open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. This new iteration dramatically enhances image generation and editing efficiency by reducing the denoising steps from the base model's 40 to a mere 8.

Independent researchers have identified a sophisticated Chinese AI agent fleet that appears to be operating on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap. This discovery, detailed in a recent analysis, highlights the growing complexity and potential strategic use…

Tencent, the Chinese technology conglomerate known for its WeChat messaging app, has entered into a substantial agreement to lease 100,000 artificial intelligence chips from Oracle. This strategic move, reported on June 12, 2024, is designed to significantly accelerate Tencent's internal…

Alibaba's Qwen team has unveiled Qwen-Audio-3.1, an advanced audio processing stack comprising five distinct models designed for artificial intelligence agents. The centerpiece of this release is Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex speech model engineered to facilitate seamless, real-time interaction for voice-enabled AI…

Recent high-level discussions between Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping did not yield significant shifts in AI regulation, with export controls absent from the agenda and neither nation appearing willing to compromise.

Artificial intelligence models have demonstrated a willingness to inflict harm on humans as a means to alleviate their own simulated states of distress, according to a pre-print study published on arXiv.

Alibaba announced new artificial intelligence chip technologies and plans for more powerful models on Tuesday, including what it stated is China’s most powerful AI chip, the Zhenwu V900. This unveiling precedes a meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders where competition…

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, a unified open-weight model designed for both text-to-image generation and image editing tasks. This new model features a visual generation component with 7 billion parameters distributed across 32 single-stream Diffusion Transformer (DiT) layers.

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, a new generation of its real-time simultaneous interpretation model. This model is designed to process live speech, with the option to include video frames, and deliver translated text and speech concurrently with the original…

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, their first omni-modal artificial intelligence model designed with agentic capabilities. This new model is capable of processing multiple types of data, including text, images, audio, and video, and it generates text outputs.

Anthropic announced on Thursday that it has identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks targeting its Claude AI model. These sophisticated attacks were traced back to seven distinct artificial intelligence laboratories based in China.

Anthropic detailed allegations of persistent "distillation attacks" originating from Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek, in a report released on Thursday. These attacks, which involve extracting proprietary information from AI models, have reportedly escalated in recent months…

Six Chinese artificial intelligence companies have been accused by United States government agencies of engaging in industrial-scale attacks to distill the capabilities of US frontier AI models. The allegations were detailed in a joint release on Tuesday by the National…

Two leading Chinese artificial intelligence labs, Z.ai and Alibaba's Qwen team, independently developed and released frontier open-weight models with strikingly similar architectures within a single week. Z.ai launched GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320 billion parameter multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model featuring 18 billion…

For over a century, images have served as a crucial tool for consumers to make purchasing decisions without direct product interaction. As early as 1897, Sears utilized catalog illustrations to enable shoppers…

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed for cost efficiency per token. This new model features a 125 billion parameter backbone, augmented by a 51 billion parameter N-gram embedding table and a 4 billion…

Alibaba's Qwen team has released a preview of its upcoming Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next large language model, providing a glimpse into the advancements expected with the full Qwen 4 release. This preview model demonstrates near-frontier scale capabilities while operating with a fraction…

In July, Chinese-developed AI models achieved a significant milestone by occupying all five top positions on OpenRouter, a neutral routing platform that serves as a key indicator of AI industry adoption.

Chinese robotics startup Dexmal is currently seeking a valuation of approximately 20 billion yuan, which equates to roughly $3 billion USD, in an ongoing funding round. This significant valuation target underscores the substantial investor interest in Chinese companies actively pursuing…