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Meeting the AI industry’s demand “requires super-scale infrastructure and full-stack technology accumulation”, Wu told the audience at Friday’s opening of the 2025 World Internet Conference, an annual industry gathering in the town of Wuzhen in eastern Zhejiang province. The event will run through Sunday. Wu, also chairman of the company’s…

Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said at the 2025 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen that the company is investing heavily in large-scale AI infrastructure and developing a “super AI cloud” to provide leading AI services for global developers. He added that over 20.7% of developers on Alibaba’s ModelScope (“Moda”) community come…

TLDRs; Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max-Thinking achieved perfect scores in AIME and HMMT, marking China’s first flawless AI math performance. OpenAI’s GPT-5 Pro also self-reported perfect results, setting up a new East–West rivalry in reasoning AI. Verification concerns linger, as Alibaba’s results lack third-party validation or evidence of closed-book testing. API access opens…

Alibaba’s mapping and mobility unit Amap has formed a global ecosystem partnership with Chinese EV maker XPeng to integrate XPeng’s L4-level Robotaxi fleet into its platform. The partnership marks the industry’s first model combining a mobility platform with factory-built Robotaxis and demonstrates Amap’s effort to apply its “spatial intelligence” —…

Alibaba-owned Amap is preparing to enter the robotaxi sector with plans to expand globally, according to a report by Sina Tech, a Chinese technology media outlet. The initiative is described internally as a strategic-level business that will become a key growth driver for the company. Amap, a major provider of…

Credit: Alibaba Taobao Instant Commerce, Alibaba’s quick commerce unit, is set to launch a new retail brand called “Taobao Convenience Store” (our translation), LatePost reported. The stores will operate 24 hours a day and offer around 10,000 SKUs across categories such as groceries, snacks, alcohol, electronics, baby products, and beauty…

In recent years, Chinese actress Rosy Zhao Lusi (趙露思) has seen her popularity soar, solidifying her status as the new Ratings Queen through hit dramas such as Hidden Love and Love’s Ambition . Last year, while filming Almost Lover , she was hospitalized due to illness. It was revealed that…

Qwen3-Max achieved third place globally on LMArena with over 1 trillion parameters, scoring 69.6 on SWE-Bench Verified and surpassing certain GPT-5 DeepSeek cut API prices by over 50% with V3.2-Exp, reducing output costs from ¥12 to ¥3 per million tokens Price wars intensified across Chinese tech giants : Alibaba slashed…

Walmart China has appointed former Alibaba executive Liu Peng as president of its Sam’s Club format, effective immediately, the company announced on October 27. Liu will report directly to Christina Zhu, President and CEO of Walmart China. Jane Ewing, who has been serving as acting president of the Sam’s Club…

Toward the end of September in Hangzhou, the rivalry between Alibaba and ByteDance over dominance in artificial intelligence cloud services filled the city with palpable tension. During Alibaba Cloud’s annual Apsara Conference, visitors could hardly miss the massive Volcano Engine ads blanketing Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport and Hangzhou East Railway…