Alibaba
Alibaba is a Chinese technology company that develops AI models and services through its Tongyi Lab division. Recently, the company released several large language models including Qwen3.7-Max and announced Qwen3.8 (a 2.4 trillion-parameter model), as well as Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a text-to-speech model supporting 16 languages; Alibaba's Qwen chatbot also generated millions of college recommendation reports for Chinese students during the 2024 gaokao exam season. The company has been affected by Chinese regulations on anthropomorphic AI services and has participated in the broader competitive landscape of Chinese AI development alongside rivals like DeepSeek and Moonshot.
Updated 3 August 2026
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Market context
BABA · NYSE · last close $122.25 (31 Jul 2026)
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Price moves around recent events
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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model Model release
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China regulates anthropomorphic AI services and emergence of facial data licensing marketplace Policy change
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Study finds no evidence of AI labs optimizing models for pelican-on-bicycle image generation Research publication
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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open model with 2.8 trillion parameters and 1-million-token context window Open source release
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Latest developments
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
MarkTechPost · 4 hours ago ·
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China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
The Verge · 5 hours ago ·
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Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors
Rest of World · 5 days ago ·
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Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay
ChinaTalk · 1 week ago ·
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🔮 Will Kimi K3 change the economics of AI?
Exponential View · 1 week ago ·
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Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment
The Batch ·
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Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
Simon Willison · 1 week ago ·
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Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
TechCrunch AI · 1 week ago ·
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August 2026
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model Model release
- Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
- China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
July 2026
China regulates anthropomorphic AI services and emergence of facial data licensing marketplace Policy change
Study finds no evidence of AI labs optimizing models for pelican-on-bicycle image generation Research publication
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open model with 2.8 trillion parameters and 1-million-token context window Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model competing with frontier American systems Model release
Apple Intelligence receives regulatory approval to launch in China through partnerships with Alibaba and Baidu Feature update
Anthropic alleges Alibaba used fraudulent accounts to extract Claude model data through API Legal action
- Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors
- Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay
- 🔮 Will Kimi K3 change the economics of AI?
- Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment
- Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
- Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
- The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it
- “Second only to Fable 5:” Alibaba talks the talk with Qwen3.8 without providing any real data
- [AINews] not much happened today
- 7 Consequences of America Finally Losing Its AI Edge to China
- Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages
- Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
- Alibaba previews 2.4 trillion parameter Qwen3.8-Max model for open release
- China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
- Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch
- Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu
- Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
- Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone
- Anthropic alleges Alibaba used 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude data
- OpenAI and Anthropic warn Washington about Chinese distillation of U.S. AI models
- Satya Nadella calls out AI's model-cloning double standard
- Apple Exploring Ways to Run Much Larger AI Models Directly on iPhones
- AI Models Overthink Problems—and It’s a Security Risk
- China closes AI gap with distillation attack
- Alibaba's AI Is a Hit, but Hard to Turn Into a Moneymaker
- Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World
- Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI
June 2026
Qwen 3.6 models released as practical open-weight alternatives for local AI development Model release
- Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
- The Sequence AI of the Week #883: Qwen is Getting Into Robotics
May 2026
April 2026
- LWiAI Podcast #242 - ChatGPT Images 2.0, Qwen 3.6 Max, Kimi-K2.6
- Accelerate RL rollouts by up to 50% with distribution-aware speculative decoding
- Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 450
March 2026
Multiple major AI model releases including Anthropic Sonnet 4.6, Google Gemini 3.1 variants, and OpenAI GPT-5.3 Instant Model release
- Plan, divide, and conquer: How weak models excel at long context tasks
- Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 445
September 2025
- Qwen3Guard: Real-time Safety for Your Token Stream
- Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch
August 2025
- Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency
- Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering
July 2025
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Coder, a 480-billion parameter open-source coding model with agentic capabilities Model release
- Qwen3-Coder: The Most Capable Agentic Coding Model Now Available on Together AI
- Qwen-MT: Where Speed Meets Smart Translation
- Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World
June 2025
- Qwen VLo: From "Understanding" the World to "Depicting" It
- Qwen3 Embedding: Advancing Text Embedding and Reranking Through Foundation Models
April 2025
March 2025
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Qwen · 6 sources
- Develops Qwen3.8-Max · 4 sources
- Integrated with Claude · 2 sources
- Develops Qwen3 · 2 sources
- Develops Qwen 3.8 Max · 2 sources
- Develops Qwen-72B · 2 sources
- Develops Qwen2.5-Coder · 2 sources
- Develops Qwen2 · 2 sources
- Develops Qwen2.5 · 2 sources
- Develops Qwen2.5-Math-PRM · 1 source
- Develops Qwen3.7-Max · 1 source
- Develops Qwen3.8 · 1 source