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This year’s Double 11 shopping festival concluded on Nov. 11. Credit: Alibaba Alibaba’s wholesale platform 1688 announced on March 17 that it will fully remove the “refund only” option starting in late March. Disputes over product quality will now be assessed based on buyer credibility, with eligible cases receiving compensation…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This year’s Double 11 shopping festival concluded on Nov. 11. Credit: Alibaba Manus announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba’s Qwen team on March 11, aiming to integrate all Manus functions into Chinese AI models and computing platforms based on Qwen’s open-source models. Manus founder Ji Yichao recently revealed that its…

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…

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.…

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…

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…