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Early last week in the Chinese tech hub of Hangzhou, a slick, larger-than-life video screen beamed out four words that would drive tech giant Alibaba’s stock to historic levels and signal a shift in China’s approach to artificial intelligence: “Roadmap to Artificial Superintelligence.” During his 23-minute keynote address at the…

The stock is still in a deep hole versus its 2020 peak following a years-long selloff on regulatory crackdowns, internal upheaval and faltering Chinese consumption. Domestic price wars in the food-delivery space that briefly interrupted the recent rebound remain a concern as well. By Bloomberg  October 3, 2025, 8:07:37 AM…

Even as drizzle lingered over Hangzhou, the energy around artificial intelligence inside Yunqi Town was undiminished when this year’s Apsara Conference opened on September 24. Eddie Wu, CEO of Alibaba Group and chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, delivered the keynote speech, outlining his vision for artificial superintelligence…

One Causeway Bay is being launched into a feeble Hong Kong office market (Image: Kohn Pedersen Fox) Alibaba Group is in talks to buy the top 13 floors of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group’s soon to be completed Causeway Bay commercial tower in a HK$7 billion ($900 million) deal which…

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Hoi joined Alibaba in January as chief scientist of its Intelligent Information Platform, which oversees consumer-facing businesses including the group’s chatbot, UC Browser and Quark search engine. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. At the time, he was tasked with leading multimodal foundation model research, agent-related studies and applied…

Published: September 29, 2025 Reading Time: 2 min read Ecovacs partners with Alibaba Cloud to bring Qwen AI to Deebot—on-device voice, VLM co-dev, and an agent platform spanning R&D to service. On Sept. 28, 2025, Chinese home-robot maker Ecovacs reached a full-stack AI partnership with Alibaba Cloud that spans compute,…

Analysis Alibaba this week opened an AI war chest containing tens of billions of dollars, a revamped LLM lineup, and plans for AI datacenters in Europe. But it also prompted a flurry of questions over how it will achieve all this in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape, when critical resources…

Yunfeng Financial is stepping up its Web3 initiatives. On September 17, its wholly owned subsidiary issued a real-world asset (RWA) tokenization product backed by fund-of-funds (FOF) units. This was the company’s first independently managed RWA project, supported by its in-house blockchain team. Previously, Yunfeng Financial’s investment in the Pharos public…

Alibaba Cloud yesterday announced its first datacenters in Brazil, France, and The Netherlands, plus expansion of its presence in five other countries outside China. The cloudy offshoot of giant e-tailer Alibaba already operates 91 availability zones in 29 regions, 14 of which are in China – a market in which…