Alibaba is testing paid features in Qwen as Doubao’s office strategy raises questions about whether AI apps can turn usage into revenue in China’s AI market.

Reuters reports Alibaba plans to charge large commercial users of its next open Qwen model, testing how open AI can support cloud revenue.

Alibaba has introduced its largest AI model while DeepSeek highlights ultra-low costs, intensifying pressure on providers to deliver more for less.

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8-Max, described as its largest AI model, putting fresh pressure on rivals in China’s fast-moving model market.

Alibaba is making Qwen3.8-Max broadly accessible before a planned open-weights release, a move that could widen access to Chinese AI models.

Alibaba shares rose after reports linked 20,000 Nvidia chips to Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, raising questions about access, controls, and AI infrastructure.

Alibaba has previewed Qwen3.8 and says the model ranks just behind Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5, signaling fresh pressure in enterprise AI.

Ant, Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu are pushing AI work agents for enterprises, highlighting China’s shift from chatbots to workflow automation.

Apple Intelligence has reportedly won China approval via Alibaba and Baidu, opening Apple’s delayed AI rollout in a crucial iPhone market.

ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling AI companion features before new China rules take effect, signaling tighter limits on emotional chatbots.

ByteDance and Alibaba have pulled AI companion features in China, signaling how stricter approval rules are reshaping consumer AI products.

Reports say Alibaba and Tencent backed Kling AI, a move that suggests China’s AI leaders may prefer platform bets over direct video model rivalry.

ByteDance and Alibaba are reportedly disabling some AI agent functions in China, signaling stricter limits on autonomous AI products.

A Moomoo report says Doubao and Qwen may discontinue AI agent features, a sign that consumer AI agent products are being reevaluated.

Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of using thousands of fraudulent accounts to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude AI models at scale.

Chinese companies are embedding AI into cars, robots, and industrial products as the technology shifts toward edge devices.

Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.6-27B outperforms its 15x larger predecessor on most coding benchmarks with only 27 billion parameters.

Alibaba unveiled Happy Oyster, a world model AI capable of generating 3D game environments, marking a major push into interactive AI and gaming technology.

Alibaba confirmed it secretly developed HappyHorse-1.0, an AI video model that debuted at the top of global benchmarks, surpassing rivals with audio-visual synchronization capabilities.

Alibaba and China Telecom unveiled a new AI data center in China featuring 10,000 of Alibaba's self-developed Zhenwu semiconductors for training and inferencing.