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  Alibaba Shares Rise By Over 7% After Launch Of DeepSeek competitor

  Alibaba shares surged more than seven percent in Hong Kong trade on Thursday after the Chinese tech giant launched an artificial intelligence model it says can compete with DeepSeek, this year's surprise tech star.

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  Tencent’s AI Bot Passes DeepSeek as China’s Favorite on iPhones

  Tencent Holdings’s Yuanbao became the most downloaded iPhone app in China this week. It overtook DeepSeek to claim the position. With this, Tencent has stolen a march on rivals like Alibaba and Baidu, which have made bigger bets on AI than the Shenzhen company.

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  Alibaba Releases Open-Source Wan 2.1 Suite of AI Video Generation Models, Claimed to Outperform OpenAI’s Sora

  Alibaba released a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) video generation models on Wednesday. Dubbed Wan 2.1, these are open-source models that can be used for both academic and commercial purposes. The Chinese e-commerce giant released the models in several parameter-based variants. Developed by the company’s Wan team, these models were first i...

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  China's Tech Giant Alibaba To Invest $50 Billion In AI, Cloud Computing

  Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Monday it will spend more than $50 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud computing over the next three years, a week after co-founder Jack Ma was seen meeting President Xi Jinping.

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  Apple Confirmed to Partner With Alibaba in China for AI-Powered Apple Intelligence Features: Report

  Apple’s partnership with Alibaba was reportedly confirmed on Thursday. As per the report, Alibaba chairperson Joseph Chung-Hsin Tsai confirmed the news at the recently concluded World Governments Summit 2025 held in Dubai. The Chinese e-commerce giant will reportedly offer its artificial intelligence (AI) models and infrastructure to power Apple ...

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  Apple Reportedly Working With Alibaba to Bring Apple Intelligence Features to China

  Apple has reportedly partnered with Alibaba to co-develop artificial intelligence (AI) features for its iPhone and other devices in China. As per the report, the Cupertino-based tech giant went through multiple AI-focused companies before finally selecting Alibaba. The duo have reportedly co-developed several AI features that cater to Apple’s Chi...

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  Alibaba Releases Qwen 2.5 AI Model, Claims It Surpasses DeepSeek-V3

  The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max's release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on not just overseas rivals, but also its domestic competition.

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  Alibaba Launches New AI Model; Claims It Can Beat DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Llama

  Alibaba has launched a new version of its AI model, Qwen2.5 Max, claiming it performed better than DeepSeek's AI, OpenAI's GPT-4o and Meta's Llama.

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  Alibaba Releases AI Model It Claims Surpasses DeepSeek-V3

  The Jan. 10 release of DeepSeek's AI assistant, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, as well as the Jan. 20 release of its R1 model, has shocked Silicon Valley and caused tech shares to plunge

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  Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases QVQ-72B Open Source Vision AI Model in Preview

  Alibaba’s Qwen research team has released another open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. Dubbed QVQ-72B, it is a vision-based reasoning model that can analyse visual information from images and understand the context behind them. The tech giant has also shared benchmark scores of the AI model and highlighted that on one specific test, it...

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  In Rare Speech, Jack Ma Pushes For AI, Sees Its Use In Future For Ant Group

  Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma voiced confidence in its affiliate Ant Group's future, seeing significant opportunities in artificial intelligence for the fintech giant, at a rare public appearance since China halted its planned IPO in 2020.

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  Alibaba Researchers Unveil Marco-o1 AI Model As Another Reasoning-Focused Competitor to OpenAI’s o1

  Alibaba recently introduced a reasoning-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model dubbed Marco-o1. The model is similar to the QwQ-32B large language model, which is also optimised for tasks requiring advanced reasoning capabilities, however, one important distinction is that the Marco-o1 is a smaller model and is distilled from the Qwen2-7B-Instr...

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  Alibaba Releases QwQ-32B Reasoning-Focused AI Model in Preview to Take on OpenAI’s GPT-o1

  Alibaba released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model on Thursday, which is said to rival OpenAI’s GPT-o1 series models in reasoning capability. Launched in preview, the QwQ-32B large language model (LLM) is said to outperform GPT-o1-preview in several mathematical and logical reasoning-related benchmarks. The new AI model is available to dow...

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  Alibaba Accelerates AI Push by Releasing New Open-Source Models, Text-to-Video AI Technology

  Alibaba has unveiled new open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models and text-to-video AI technology. The release includes over 100 open-source models from the Qwen 2.5 family, Alibaba's most recent foundational large language model launched earlier this year.

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  China Firm Launches AI "Life Assistant" That Can Order Food, Hail Taxis

  The fintech firm backed by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made a foray into products powered by artificial intelligence after announcing a "life assistant" mobile app.