Neowin News Feed for: Alibaba

Report: You can now run local AI models on your phone, but that doesn't mean you should

Ivan Jenic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:30:01 +0000

We've come to the point where you can comfortably run a local AI model on your smartphone. Here's what that looks like with the latest Qwen 3.5. Read more...

China blocks Apple-Alibaba AI venture in retaliation for the US trade war

Hamid Ganji — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:28:01 +0000

Apple's push to bring AI features to iPhones in China has hit the regulatory wall, and sources claim this is China's response to the US trade war. Read more...

The US lawmakers raise concerns about Apple-Alibaba AI venture in China

Hamid Ganji — Sun, 18 May 2025 08:56:01 +0000

Apple's partnership with Alibaba to bring AI features to iPhones in China raises alarms in Washington over security concerns. Read more...

Alibaba releases new visual reasoning model that can see, understand, and think

Paul Hill — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:28:01 +0000

Alibaba has released QVQ-Max, a new visual reasoning model that it says can see, understand, and think about the world. Read more...

Alibaba releases new AI model that can read human emotions

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:00:01 +0000

Alibaba claims that its newly released artificial intelligence model can read human emotions and is a step ahead of ChatGPT. Read more...

Apple Intelligence in China to get a taste of censorship, says report

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:42:01 +0000

Apple finally managed to bring Apple Intelligence to China, but it will have to bend to strict Chinese law to operate. Read more...

Apple and Alibaba partner up to bring support for Apple Intelligence in China

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:44:01 +0000

Apple and Alibaba have worked together to bring Apple Intelligence features to mainland China, where iPhone sales have recently slumped. Read more...

Move over DeepSeek: Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Max surpasses DeepSeek-V3 in benchmarks

Paul Hill — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:06:01 +0000

Alibaba has just released its latest model, Qwen2.5-Max. It surpasses DeepSeek-V3 in many benchmarks and can be tested out now on Qwen Chat. Read more...

Alibaba's Qwen2-VL model achieves state-of-the-art performance in several AI benchmarks

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:48:01 +0000

Alibaba has released the Qwen2-VL family of vision language models, with the Qwen2-VL-72B model achieving state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks. Read more...

Chinese internet giants go on a $5 billion Nvidia shopping spree to power their AI ambitions

Mehrotra A — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 03:10:02 +0000

Nvidia has reportedly received multiple orders from Chinese companies valued at around $5 billion for the purchase of the company's A800 processor to fuel their Artificial Intelligence models. Read more...

TikTok owner reportedly working on a ChatGPT rival chatbot "Grace" as it joins the AI race

Anushe Fawaz — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:28:01 +0000

Chinese tech giant ByteDance Ltd. is working on a ChatGPT-style chatbot. As suggested by a company spokesperson, it is the first sign of the Chinese company stepping into the field of AI. Read more...

Alibaba has developed an LLM AI chatbot for businesses, seeking companies to test it

Paul Hill — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 20:18:01 +0000

Alibaba Cloud is reaching out to businesses to see if they want to try out its generative AI bot. Corporate entities that are interested can check out Alibaba Cloud's WeChat for more details. Read more...

Chinese firm Alibaba to launch its own take on ChatGPT

Justin Luna — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 03:42:01 +0000

After companies like Microsoft, Google, and Baidu announced their take on the popular ChatGPT conversational chatbot, e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced its plans to develop their own AI tech. Read more...

ARM will no longer sell advanced chip designs to Chinese firms amid U.S. export controls

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:46:01 +0000

ARM has determined that it will not be able to sell its latest Neoverse V series chips to Alibaba due to concerns that the U.S. and the U.K. will not approve the necessary export licenses. Read more...

Tencent is developing its own chips, touts efforts in semiconductor R&D

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:44:01 +0000

Chinese tech giant Tencent has revealed that it has a long-term plan for semiconductor chip manufacturing. The company has also reportedly developed three chips till now and plans to develop more. Read more...

China is cracking down on monopolistic businesses, starting from tech giant Alibaba

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 05:56:01 +0000

The Chinese Communist Party has launched an antitrust probe against Alibaba Group, Jack Ma's e-commerce and tech giant. The probe follows the government's recent crackdown on business monopolies. Read more...

Indian court summons Alibaba, Jack Ma on former worker's complaint

Usman Khan Lodhi — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 09:46:01 +0000

An Indian court has summoned Jack Ma, Alibaba's founder, and the firm, in a case in which a former employee alleges he was wrongfully fired after he objected to fake news on UC Web and UC Browser. Read more...

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Xiaomi smartphones are tracking usage habits and browsing data of their owners [Update]

Rajesh Pandey — Fri, 01 May 2020 07:32:01 +0000

Security researchers have discovered that Xiaomi tracks the browsing habits of everyone that uses its Mi Browser or Mint browser including their search queries, browsing history, and more. Read more...

Canalys: Baidu becomes the second-largest vendor in the smart speaker market during Q2

Paul Hill — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:00:01 +0000

The analyst firm, Canalys, has revealed that Baidu is the second-largest vendor of smart speakers, ahead of Google, but behind Amazon. The news is interesting as Baidu only sells speakers in China. Read more...

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NAB launches trial of Alipay, full rollout on the cards in early 2019

Boyd Chan — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 09:30:01 +0000

Having shared its strategy earlier in the year, National Australia Bank will roll out support for Alipay to its point of sale terminals next year after conducting a pilot with selected merchants. Read more...

Apple's iPhone models were the best selling phones on Singles Day

Paul Hill — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:58:01 +0000

It has been revealed that Apple beat Huawei and Xiaomi in phone sales during Alibaba's annual Singles Day event. It made more than $14 million (RMB100 mil.) in sales but the exact amount is unknown. Read more...

Alibaba plans to establish chip subsidiary as part of cloud and IoT efforts

Ruel Revales — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:52:01 +0000

Alibaba is setting up its own company that will make customized AI inference chips. That chipset is expected to launch in the second half of 2019 as part of the firm's cloud and IoT businesses. Read more...

Alibaba's Jack Ma to retire, successor announced

Sharath Ravishankar — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:08:02 +0000

Chinese conglomerate Alibaba has announced that its founder, Jack Ma, will be stepping down as chairman next year. He is to be succeeded by the company's present CEO, Daniel Zhang. Read more...

Google invests $550 million in Chinese online retailer JD.com

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:48:02 +0000

Google is reportedly investing $550 million in Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com in an attempt to expand its efforts in the Asian market, though it's still unclear how this will be done. Read more...

Alibaba to buy full control of delivery startup Ele.me in a $9.5 billion deal

Jay Bonggolto — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:54:01 +0000

Alibaba is buying all the remaining outstanding shares of Ele.me as part of the Chinese e-commerce giant's efforts to further deepen its stake in the country's food and local services delivery market. Read more...

Alibaba's Tmall sets new Singles' Day $1.5bn record

Paul Hill — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:32:01 +0000

Alibaba's Tmall has set a new record for sales on a Singles' Day. The firm managed to make $1.5 billion worth in sales in just three minutes and one second, a whole 56 seconds quicker than in 2016. Read more...

Chinese retailers aim to be greener on Singles' Day

Paul Hill — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 21:14:01 +0000

With Singles' Day quickly approaching, some Chinese online retailers have addressed how they plan to reduce the impact on the environment of the humongous shopping spectacle set to take place. Read more...

China cracks down on VPN vendors, targets Alibaba and other retailers

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:58:01 +0000

The Cyberspace Administration of China has cracked down on major VPN vendors, instructing them to carry out a complete cleanup of harmful information and "submit a rectification report by a deadline". Read more...

Alibaba is going to start selling luxury cars from a vending machine in China

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:48:02 +0000

Once the building-sized vending machines are setup towards the end of 2017, customers can make their choices and payments using their phones, and receive their new car from the fully automated system. Read more...

Alibaba unveils its smart speaker; The Tmall Genie will soon be available for $73

Stergios Georgopoulos — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:56:01 +0000

The Tmall Genie, Alibaba's digital smart speaker powered by the AliGenie voice assistant, is launching in a limited beta on July 17 for ¥499 ($73.39) with general availability slated for August 8. Read more...

Alibaba is reportedly preparing to launch an Amazon Echo rival for the Chinese market

Stergios Georgopoulos — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 12:40:01 +0000

In a move to compete with Amazon for the lucrative Chinese e-commerce market, Alibaba will launch a smart speaker targeting domestic customers, allowing them to shop online through voice commands. Read more...

Alibaba fires four cybersecurity employees after hacking its system to hoard mooncakes

Justin Luna — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:32:01 +0000

As China celebrates its mid-autumn festival, the demand for its mooncakes skyrockets. This led four Alibaba employees to hack the company's system, to bring in more cakes to them for free. Read more...

Report: Verizon to acquire Yahoo in $5 billion deal

Justin Luna — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 06:56:01 +0000

Verizon is getting ready to announce its purchase of struggling company Yahoo by Monday, according to sources close to the matter. It will take over the company's core business for $5 billion. Read more...

Microsoft and Alibaba sign deal to fight piracy in China

Brad Sams — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:10:01 +0000

Microsoft's relationship with China has always been a bit strained; on the one hand, the country has a massive economy, but on the other, Windows is pirated heavily in this region. Read more...

Alibaba and Philips team up to make the 1440p Philips i966 smartphone

Steven Johns — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:16:01 +0000

Alibaba, also known as the "Amazon" or "eBay of China," has teamed up with Philips to create their flagship YunOS-powered smartphone, which has some pretty interesting specs. Read more...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba plans US debut

Jett Goldsmith — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 06:23:37 +0000

Alibaba, the massively popular Chinese e-commerce company which specializes in business-to-business and retail trading, has revealed that they will be planning a US debut under the domain 11main.com. Read more...

Google responds to Acer controversy, says its for their own good

Tyler Holman — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:42:11 +0000

Google has a surprising response to the controversy surrounding supposed threats it made towards Acer for planning to release a device running Aliyun, a Chinese fork of Android: it's for your own good Read more...

Acer pull device launch press conference following Google “concerns”

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:43:28 +0000

Google have officially flexed their Android muscles. We're not talking about a new version of the OS or new features, but instead strong-arming Acer into pulling a device from launch. Read more...