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AI builders wanted: Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hackathon is now open for entries Alibaba

AI builders wanted: Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hackathon is now open for entries

Artificial intelligence is evolving into a driving force behind global innovation, transforming industries like healthcare, finance, and logistics while powering everyday digital interactions. With rapid advancements in large language models, generative AI, and cloud computing, companies are increasingly adopting AI-driven solutions to enhance efficiency and unlock new possibilities. With Southeast…
bubmag
March 17, 2025
DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba’s QwQ Alibaba

DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba’s QwQ

Hands on How much can reinforcement learning - and a bit of extra verification - improve large language models, aka LLMs? Alibaba's Qwen team aims to find out with its latest release, QwQ. Despite having a fraction of DeepSeek R1's claimed 671 billion parameters, Alibaba touts its comparatively compact 32-billion…
bubmag
March 16, 2025
Comment on China online travel market insights Q1 2018, led by Ctrip, Qunar, and Fliggy by Ep. 27: Poking at the Hornet’s Nest: Fake Reviews in China Tech Alibaba

Comment on China online travel market insights Q1 2018, led by Ctrip, Qunar, and Fliggy by Ep. 27: Poking at the Hornet’s Nest: Fake Reviews in China Tech

CIW / Tourism / China online travel market insights Q1 2018, led by Ctrip, Qunar, and Fliggy The transactions of China's online travel market reached US$32.94 billion in the first quarter of 2018. Ctrip and Qunar combined accounted over half of the whole market, followed by Alibaba affiliated Fliggy. Online transportation…
bubmag
March 16, 2025
Unitree robotics opens official store on AliExpress Alibaba

Unitree robotics opens official store on AliExpress

Unitree Robotics, a Chinese robotics company, has launched an official store on Alibaba’s AliExpress, listing several products under the “Big Save” discount campaign. This move aims to expand Unitree’s global reach by leveraging cross-border e-commerce. Founded in 2016, Unitree specializes in developing and manufacturing high-performance quadruped and humanoid robots, along…
bubmag
March 11, 2025
Alibaba Unveils QwQ-32B, a Compact Reasoning Model Rivaling DeepSeek-R1 Alibaba

Alibaba Unveils QwQ-32B, a Compact Reasoning Model Rivaling DeepSeek-R1

This year’s Double 11 shopping festival concluded on Nov. 11. Credit: Alibaba On March 6, Alibaba released and open-sourced its new reasoning model, QwQ-32B, featuring 32 billion parameters. Despite being significantly smaller than DeepSeek-R1, which has 6,710 billion parameters (with 3.7 billion active), QwQ-32B matches its performance in various benchmarks.…
bubmag
March 7, 2025
Alibaba’s Freshippo closes Shanghai membership stores as focus shifts to core business Alibaba

Alibaba’s Freshippo closes Shanghai membership stores as focus shifts to core business

Freshippo has reportedly delayed its planned IPO due to lower valuation Credit: Alibaba On February 28, three Freshippo X membership stores in Shanghai announced that they would cease operations from April 1, while still supporting online orders and delivery. With this closure, only five Freshippo X membership stores remain in…
bubmag
March 6, 2025
Alibaba taps AI for consumer growth, pairs Tmall Genie with Quark Alibaba

Alibaba taps AI for consumer growth, pairs Tmall Genie with Quark

Alibaba is recalibrating its artificial intelligence strategy for consumer-facing businesses. According to independent sources cited by 36Kr, the company’s smart connectivity division is now overseen by Wu Jia, president of Alibaba’s intelligent information business group. Established in 2022, this division, anchored by the Tmall Genie brand, is one of Alibaba’s…
bubmag
January 17, 2025
Cainiao offloads e-commerce duties to Alibaba to double down on logistics Alibaba

Cainiao offloads e-commerce duties to Alibaba to double down on logistics

Cainiao is undergoing a major organizational restructuring to sharpen its focus as a specialized logistics company. The changes aim to reinforce Cainiao’s operational excellence in its core logistics services while transferring e-commerce-aligned responsibilities to Alibaba’s other business groups, 36Kr has learned. A key component of the restructuring involves moving more…
bubmag
January 16, 2025
Chris Billam-Smith targets WBC world cruiserweight championship fight against Badou Jack Alibaba

Chris Billam-Smith targets WBC world cruiserweight championship fight against Badou Jack

Chris Billam-Smith will target Badou Jack and the WBC cruiserweight title in his bid to become a world champion once again. In November, Gilberto Ramirez soundly outpointed Britain's Billam-Smith, winning a lop-sided decision to unify the WBO and WBA titles. But the former champion has recovered from that punishing defeat…
bubmag
January 16, 2025