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Alibaba’s Qwen AI Outsmarts Global Peers in Math Benchmarks Alibaba

Alibaba’s Qwen AI Outsmarts Global Peers in Math Benchmarks

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…
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November 5, 2025
Alibaba’s Amap and XPeng team up to build world’s largest Robotaxi aggregation platform Alibaba

Alibaba’s Amap and XPeng team up to build world’s largest Robotaxi aggregation platform

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” —…
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November 5, 2025
Taobao Instant Commerce to launch ‘Taobao Convenience Store’ chain Alibaba

Taobao Instant Commerce to launch ‘Taobao Convenience Store’ chain

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…
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October 31, 2025
Two opposing AI strategies in China Alibaba

Two opposing AI strategies in China

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…
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October 29, 2025
Former Alibaba executive Liu Peng appointed president of Walmart China’s Sam’s Club format Alibaba

Former Alibaba executive Liu Peng appointed president of Walmart China’s Sam’s Club format

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…
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October 28, 2025
Who leads China’s AI cloud race? Alibaba, ByteDance, and Baidu all stake a claim Alibaba

Who leads China’s AI cloud race? Alibaba, ByteDance, and Baidu all stake a claim

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…
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October 27, 2025
Alibaba launches preorders for its first in-house AI glasses, featuring AR navigation and visual payment integration across its ecosystem Alibaba

Alibaba launches preorders for its first in-house AI glasses, featuring AR navigation and visual payment integration across its ecosystem

Alibaba has started preorders for its first self-developed _Quark AI Glasses_. The device is priced at ¥3,699 ($510) for members and ¥3,999 ($550) for regular buyers, with preorders now live on Tmall and deliveries expected in early December. Powered by Qualcomm’s AR1 and BES2800 dual flagship chips, the glasses integrate…
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October 24, 2025