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OrganizationAlibaba

Latest ReleaseQwen 3.7 (2026)

TypeMultimodal LLM

Initial Release Year2023

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Alibaba Sells Lingxi Games for $2 Billion to Fund Aggressive AI Pivot and Cloud Infrastructure

Alibaba is selling its gaming subsidiary Lingxi Games to private equity firm Trustar Capital for over $2 billion, exiting in-house game development entirely. The sale reflects Alibaba's strategic shift toward AI and cloud computing, with CEO Eddie Wu targeting $100 billion in AI revenue by 2031 as the company streamlines non-core assets.

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Alibaba Sells Lingxi Games for $2 Billion to Fund Aggressive AI Pivot and Cloud Infrastructure

Business4 sources

Alibaba Earnings Face Critical Test as AI Investments Drive Growth but Crush Profitability

Alibaba reports quarterly earnings on August 20 with investors scrutinizing whether aggressive AI bets can deliver sustainable profits. Qwen AI models have surpassed downloads from Meta and Google, while cloud business growth hit 38% year-over-year. But AI-associated costs slashed operating profit by 84% in the March quarter, raising questions about the company's AI-driven growth strategy.

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Alibaba Earnings Face Critical Test as AI Investments Drive Growth but Crush Profitability

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Alibaba AI Surpasses Meta and Google With 3 Billion Downloads as Qwen Models Dominate Open-Weight Market

Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-27B, a laptop-ready AI model, and released weights for its most powerful Qwen3.8 Max model. The move sharpens competition with Meta in open-weight AI, as Qwen models hit 3 billion downloads globally—outpacing Google's 418 million and Meta's 227 million in 2026.

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Alibaba AI Surpasses Meta and Google With 3 Billion Downloads as Qwen Models Dominate Open-Weight Market

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Apple Builds Custom AI Model for China Market in Rare Partnership with Alibaba

Apple has trained its own large language model specifically for China with support from Alibaba, marking a strategic shift from relying on third-party models. This makes Apple the first foreign company approved to offer a proprietary AI model in China, navigating steep regulatory hurdles as it prepares to launch Apple Intelligence in the coming months.

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Apple Builds Custom AI Model for China Market in Rare Partnership with Alibaba

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Alibaba Plans Revenue Sharing for Major Commercial Users of Its Open-Source Qwen AI Model

Alibaba will require large commercial users of its Qwen3.8-Max open-source AI model to share revenue, following Moonshot's licensing approach. The move marks a shift toward monetizing open-weight designs while keeping smaller deployments free, as Chinese AI firms converge on a freemium business model to fund development amid intense price competition.

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Alibaba Plans Revenue Sharing for Major Commercial Users of Its Open-Source Qwen AI Model

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Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max AI Model with 2.4 Trillion Parameters, Escalating U.S.-China AI Race

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, its most powerful AI model yet, with 2.4 trillion parameters and performance matching Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. The open-weight release intensifies U.S.-China competition as Chinese firms rapidly close the gap with American AI leaders through aggressive releases and cost efficiency.

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Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max AI Model with 2.4 Trillion Parameters, Escalating U.S.-China AI Race

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Chinese AI models spark debate over US leadership as profitability questions loom

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 launch has intensified debates about Chinese AI competitiveness and open versus proprietary models. While Chinese open-weight AI models match US frontier systems at lower costs, companies struggle with profitability. Goldman Sachs suggests labs may start charging licensing fees for model weights, potentially reshaping the economics of open AI.

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Chinese AI models spark debate over US leadership as profitability questions loom

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Old Nvidia GPUs with massive VRAM are dominating local AI inference over newer, faster cards

Computing enthusiasts are discovering that older Nvidia GPUs like the Tesla V100 and RTX 3090 outperform newer cards for local AI inference, thanks to their abundant VRAM. One modder added a $266 Tesla V100 to their gaming PC, achieving 32GB of total VRAM to run a 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second. The trend highlights how memory capacity matters more than raw compute power for running LLMs at home.

Technology4 sources

Old Nvidia GPUs with massive VRAM are dominating local AI inference over newer, faster cards

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Alibaba Stock Surges 5.2% After Unveiling Qwen3.8 Max, Its Most Advanced AI Model

Alibaba stock jumped over 5% on Monday after the company released Qwen3.8 Max-Preview, its most powerful AI model to date. With 2.4 trillion parameters, the large language model ranks second globally behind only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. The company plans to open-source the model, which could accelerate developer adoption across the AI ecosystem.

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Alibaba Stock Surges 5.2% After Unveiling Qwen3.8 Max, Its Most Advanced AI Model

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Alibaba Qwen3.8 AI Model Claims Second Place Behind Fable 5 in Competitive Launch

Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max-Preview with 2.4 trillion parameters at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic's Fable 5. The launch comes days after Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters, pushing Chinese AI companies into the multi-trillion-parameter tier amid ongoing geopolitical tensions over semiconductor access.

Technology7 sources

Alibaba Qwen3.8 AI Model Claims Second Place Behind Fable 5 in Competitive Launch

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Apple Intelligence wins China approval with Alibaba and Baidu partnerships worth billions

Apple Intelligence has secured regulatory approval in China through partnerships with Alibaba's Qwen AI model and Baidu's AI technologies. The Cyberspace Administration of China greenlit the service, ending a two-year delay and opening Apple's AI features to one of its largest markets where sales reached $20.5 billion in Q2. Alibaba and Baidu shares surged 5% and 4% respectively on the news.

Technology4 sources

Apple Intelligence wins China approval with Alibaba and Baidu partnerships worth billions

Technology4 sources

Apple explores PrismML's compression tech to run AI models on iPhone without the cloud

Apple is evaluating technology from PrismML that could shrink powerful AI models from 54GB to under 4GB, enabling them to run entirely on an iPhone. The Caltech spinout's compression approach could reduce Apple's cloud computing costs, enhance privacy, and allow Siri to process more requests locally without internet connectivity.

Technology10 sources

Apple explores PrismML's compression tech to run AI models on iPhone without the cloud

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ByteDance and Alibaba Pull AI Companions as China Enforces Strict Humanlike AI Regulations

China implements the world's first dedicated regulatory framework targeting AI services that simulate human emotions and personalities. ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen are disabling custom agent features ahead of July 15 enforcement. The regulations address concerns about AI addiction, mental health harm, and emotional attachment, with research showing one in seven young adults now uses AI romantic companions.

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ByteDance and Alibaba Pull AI Companions as China Enforces Strict Humanlike AI Regulations

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US-China AI competition shifts as regulation clashes with China's cost-efficient model strategy

The geopolitical AI race between the US and China has entered a new phase where regulatory interventions collide with market realities. While American companies like OpenAI and Anthropic face tightening government controls, Chinese firms are gaining ground through open-source AI models that prioritize affordability and widespread adoption over frontier capabilities. The contest now centers on who can build a sustainable global AI ecosystem.

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US-China AI competition shifts as regulation clashes with China's cost-efficient model strategy

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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of massive campaign to steal Claude AI capabilities with fake accounts

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of orchestrating the largest known distillation attack against its Claude AI models, using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million exchanges between April and June 2026. The US AI company claims the Chinese tech giant brazenly defied Trump administration warnings to illicitly extract valuable AI capabilities without incurring training costs.

Technology18 sources

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of massive campaign to steal Claude AI capabilities with fake accounts

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