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Alibaba Group Holding’s open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months, eclipsing Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc. and domestic peers to become the world’s No. 1 artificial-intelligence model.

Apple is tackling one of iPhone's biggest competitive gaps

Apple takes more control of its China AI push.

Apple has reportedly developed its own AI model for the Chinese market with support from its in-country partner, Alibaba Group.

The move would make Apple the first foreign company approved by Beijing to offer a proprietary AI model in China

Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) has trained its own large language model specifically for the Chinese market with assistance from Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), Reuters reported on Friday, signalling a change in the technology giant’s approach to introducing artificial intelligence services in China. The development could give Apple greater control over its AI technology as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese users.

Z.ai Co. is set to upgrade its flagship AI model, adding to a series of Chinese open-weight offerings seeking to outcompete Anthropic PBC and OpenAI.

Alibaba Group Holding stock has delivered a 49.2% gain over the past three years, yet valuation checks suggest the market price may still sit below an intrinsic value estimate based on a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) approach and on earnings multiples that both screen the shares as undervalued. That mix of a solid medium term return with indications of a discount is drawing attention to what is currently priced in around Alibaba’s AI push and the legal and regulatory issues now in...

Alibaba’s release of the Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B open weights is not a surrender to the open-source ethos; it is a calculated exercise in platform capture. By abandoning the permissive Apache 2.0 license used for previous iterations in favor of a restrictive, custom Qwen3.8-Max License, Alibaba is drawing a hard line around the commercial value of its frontier-class […]

Alibaba (BABA) closed the most recent trading day at $125.22, moving 2.06% from the previous trading session.

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JB Global Capital, an investment firm, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The fund declined 12.1% in Q2, largely driven by Alibaba, its largest holding. However, since inception on January 3, 2023, the fund has returned 109.7%, compared with 94.4% for the S&P 500. Additionally, please […]

JB Global Capital, an investment firm, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The fund declined 12.1% in Q2, largely driven by Alibaba, its largest holding. However, since inception on January 3, 2023, the fund has returned 109.7%, compared with 94.4% for the S&P 500. Additionally, please […]

JB Global Capital, an investment firm, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The fund declined 12.1% in Q2, largely driven by Alibaba, its largest holding. However, since inception on January 3, 2023, the fund has returned 109.7%, compared with 94.4% for the S&P 500. Additionally, please […]

Alo confirmed its China entry in June, part of a broader international push into a category blending sportswear with everyday clothing.

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Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) plans to introduce a revenue-sharing model for commercial users of its upcoming Qwen3.8-Max open-source AI model. The company aims to monetize open-weight AI deployments through royalties paid by businesses that use Qwen3.8-Max in commercial products and services. This move makes Alibaba the first Chinese AI lab to formally tie open-weight model usage to a royalty-based revenue framework. As large language models start to reshape how software and services...

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SE's OpenAI partnership could expand Shopee's AI-powered discovery, seller tools and automation as it works to improve engagement and efficiency.

For much of the last two years, Apple (AAPL) has been attempting to convince investors that artificial intelligence will be the next big motivation for people to update their gadgets. But one of its most recent efforts in AI is not aimed against Silicon Valley or even the U.S. It’s happening in ...

Meta (NASDAQ:META) shares rose 2. 4% on Monday following the launch of Muse Glimmer, a compact artificial intelligence model with 30 billion parameters that is designed to operate on a single GPU.

The brand’s e-commerce launch follows the opening of its events-booking platform on Wechat Mini Program and the appointment of a new brand ambassador, the Chinese K-pop star Ningning of Aespa.

Investing.com -- Meta’s stock popped 2.4% this morning following the launch of Muse Glimmer, a highly efficient, 30-billion-parameter AI model capable of running on a single GPU. Positioned as a lightweight, distilled version of the more powerful Muse Spark 1.2, Glimmer is tailor-made for "agent-like" tasks—think schedule management, rapid prototyping, and file organization. By releasing the model weights for free on Hugging Face, Meta is directly countering the permissive licensing strategies o

Muse Glimmer is designed to run locally on everyday computers as Zuckerberg pushes harder for open-weight AI.

Apple has published a guide explaining how eligible Mac users in mainland China can connect Alibaba's Qwen artificial-intelligence service to ‌the U.S. tech giant's Siri digital assistant and Writing Tools feature. The Mac-specific arrangement ‌could help Apple compete in China's AI PC market, where it has been losing market share as domestic ​manufacturers such as Lenovo have promoted locally developed AI features. • Qwen is Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba's family of generative-AI models, which can create text and images and analyse documents, photos and other material in response to user prompts.

Alibaba is pioneering a revenue-share model on open-weight Qwen3.8, the first Chinese lab to formalize monetization beyond API pricing. Tests whether Max-class performance can command deployment royalties.

The Trump administration’s contradictory AI policies undermine its goal to beat China in the AI race, Sam Bresnick writes.

The company plans to require large commercial users of Qwen3.8-Max to share a portion of revenue, following a similar move by Moonshot AI

ByteDance is reportedly developing a new AI model that may rival the scale of Anthropic’s advanced Mythos system, in a bid to close the gap with leading U.S. AI companies. The Chinese tech giant is training an AI model with...

Alibaba (BABA) plans to demand revenue share from major users of the next version of its Qwen open-s