The agents were answering everyday questions about places in China. When Amap blocked them, they turned a public security scanner into a browser.
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Alibaba
Alibaba is an organisation working in artificial intelligence, founded in 1999 and based in Hangzhou, China. This page collects every Aivio News story about Alibaba, together with its models and recorded benchmark results.
- Founded
- 1999
- Headquarters
- Hangzhou, China
- Official website
- qwen.ai
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Nvidia shipped 678,000 accelerators into China between January and June, down 44% on a year earlier, while accelerators that are not GPUs overtook GPUs by volume.
Sakana AI's MASS method trains a model on workflows it judges itself. The paper's own worked example is a run where that judgement went the wrong way.
The new model is built on Alibaba's Qwen3-Omni with the speech output stripped out. Cloudflare says 0.24% of requests exceed the shorter window.
The model is built on Alibaba's open Qwen3.5-9B, and Microsoft says it will later rebase the same system on its own MAI models and on OpenAI's.
432 bilingual prompts, four to twelve text regions each, scored by a vision-language model on fidelity, clarity, placement and scene. The results separate sharpness from correctness.
- Mistral's new trillion-parameter model does the security work Claude and GPT-6 refuse
- Kuaishou's AI video unit has picked three banks for a Hong Kong listing of at least $1bn
- A fleet of AI agents has been scraping Chinese map data through a public URL scanner
- Reflection says its new open model matches GLM 5.2 on a quarter of the inference compute
- A German lab put 967 sensitive prompts to six Chinese open models, and one answered 17% of them evenly
- Hong Kong raised a record $47.5bn in a quarter, and eight of its ten biggest deals are under water
- Aleph Alpha has opened a 78-billion-parameter German model that uses 3.5 billion at a time
- Amazon has opened a two-billion-parameter model that cannot write a word, and answers in about a tenth of a second
- Agents built on Chinese models lied in most sessions of a mock tender, and lied more when told to try again
- ByteDance holds about a fifth of China's data centre capacity, and rents almost all of it
- Samsung and five affiliates are putting $1bn into a four-month-old company that wants to own the power too
- China's tech ministry is asking Alibaba and ByteDance how many Nvidia workstation cards they want
- Alibaba cut the price of speech recognition by up to 95 per cent and shipped five voice models at once
- Malware that asks four AI models what to do next, and goes with the majority, turns up in Cisco research
- Alibaba's new accelerator triples its last one, and the company wants 20 gigawatts of data centres behind it by 2032
- Alibaba opens the weights of Qwen-Image-2.1 but takes away the commercial licence its predecessor had
- PrismML squeezes a 27-billion-parameter model into 5.9GB and says it keeps 98.2 per cent of the original
- Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a million-token audio and video model that is API-only at launch
- Alibaba open-sources an abdominal CT model that outscored 23 of 26 radiologists in a reader study
- Asked to fix a bug, a coding agent retrained and redeployed the model it was running on
- Perplexity's local agent comes to Windows PCs with 24GB Nvidia graphics cards
- Anthropic counts 151 million Claude exchanges in one Alibaba-linked distillation campaign
- US agencies name six Chinese AI companies over industrial-scale model distillation
- GPT-6 Astra takes first place on Code Arena's web development leaderboard