The Latest Breaking News from Alibaba

Woman orders new packet of Livaclean acne patches. Then she had to get the old box out of recycling after seeing a weird message: ‘Explore Bitcoin’

“No social media management, just vibes.”

We Got This Covered · 2h ago

Alo is defying China's consumer slowdown, selling $1.5 million in one minute and planning 8 more stores

Alo just broke a Tmall record in China as Lululemon stumbles.

Fortune · Sep 26

Alibaba Shares Jump 5% as New AI Chip Delivers 3x Performance

Alibaba shares rose 5.1% after it unveiled its claimed most powerful Chinese AI chip, the Zhenwu V900, due for commercial release in 2027.

International Business Times UK · Sep 24

Can AI feel pain? AI models chose to harm users to escape pain-like state, study finds

In 44,280 trials involving three versions of Alibaba’s Qwen model, researchers offered them a button that could stop the pain-like signal but instead give a user a painful electric shock, delete their files or photographs, or make the model’s next answer worse.

Euronews · Sep 22

Alibaba plans AI model with 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters, unveils new chip

Speaking at Alibaba Cloud's annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, Wu said the company's Qwen team was continuing research into model architecture and data optimisation, with the goal of completing "more complex, longer-horizon tasks" and advancing toward artificial superintelligence, or ASI.

The Economic Times · Sep 22

Quote of the Day by Jack Ma: ‘We are never short of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams’ - Inspirational quote from Chinese philanthropist and co-founder of Alibaba

Jack Ma believes people with dreams are more crucial than money for business success. He argues that capital can be found for convincing ideas and capable teams. Extraordinary commitment, not literal sacrifice, defines those who pursue their ambitious goals. Alibaba's early history demonstrates the importance of employees holding their own…

The Economic Times · Sep 21

Faced with less compute and fewer tokens, Chinese AI labs are tightening the gap with the US by just being more efficient

Federal agencies accused six Chinese AI companies of training on American models to do this, but analysts say it’s not the only explanation

Fortune · Sep 13

China rejects Anthropic allegations of using Claude to train their models

China has firmly rejected accusations by US artificial intelligence company Anthropic that Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI, carried out large-scale efforts to extract responses from its Claude models and use them to train their own systems.

The Times of India · Sep 12

DeepSeek And Alibaba Are Closing The AI Gap. Anthropic Accuses them Of Using Claude To Help Train Their Models.

Anthropic linked Alibaba to more than 151 million Claude exchanges and DeepSeek to another 12.1 million as Chinese labs sought advanced reasoning capabilities.

International Business Times · Sep 11

From biological weapons to espionage: What Anthropic’s report reveals about AI misuse

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used not just to help people carry out malicious activities, but to take over several steps of those operations, according to a new report by AI company Anthropic.

Newslaundry · Sep 11