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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…

Published: September 24, 2025 Reading Time: 2 min read Alibaba teams with Nvidia on “Physical AI,” wiring Nvidia’s stack into PAI—and pledges a $53B, 3-year AI infra buildout to speed embodied-AI apps. Alibaba announced a wide-ranging Physical AI collaboration with Nvidia at the 2025 Apsara (Yunqi) Conference on September 24…

Alibaba shares soared in Hong Kong and U.S. premarket trading on Wednesday after the company said it will invest more in artificial intelligence and rolled out new AI products and updates.  The tech giant's Hong Kong-listed shares jumped over 6%, to reach their highest point since 2021. Total gains over…

At the 2025 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said the company is executing a three-year RMB 380 billion (US$52 billion) plan to expand AI infrastructure and will commit additional funds beyond that. He highlighted Alibaba Cloud’s strategy of keeping its Qwen model open source, positioning it as…

This moment marks a big step toward 0G’s goal of making artificial intelligence available to everyone as a public good. From the start, the network is backed by more than 100 ecosystem partners. This includes well-known names like Chainlink, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Coinbase Wallet, Binance Wallet...Read More

Taobao Instant Commerce, Alibaba’s quick commerce service, and food delivery platform Ele.me will roll out in-store group-buying services starting Sept. 20, piloting in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Jiaxing while initially prioritizing restaurant deals. The service will later expand to major Chinese cities, positioned against Meituan and its Dianping review platform in…