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BABA · NYSE · last close $122.25 (31 Jul 2026)

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• 3 Aug Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model Model release

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• 24 Jul China regulates anthropomorphic AI services and emergence of facial data licensing marketplace Policy change

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• 22 Jul Study finds no evidence of AI labs optimizing models for pelican-on-bicycle image generation Research publication

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• 17 Jul Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release

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• 16 Jul 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 · 6 hours ago · 47 China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy The Verge · 8 hours ago · 20 Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors Rest of World · 5 days ago · 37 Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay ChinaTalk · 1 week ago · 1 🔮 Will Kimi K3 change the economics of AI? Exponential View · 1 week ago · 30 Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment The Batch · 7 Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Simon Willison · 1 week ago · 44 Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous TechCrunch AI · 1 week ago · 28

Q3 2026

◆ Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal AI model Model release

◆ 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

◆ Satya Nadella discusses dual costs of enterprise AI adoption and raises concerns about AI model distillation practices Other

◆ Security researchers identify vulnerabilities in advanced reasoning AI models through prompt injection and training environment exploitation Security issue

• 3 Aug Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
• 3 Aug China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
• 29 Jul Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors
• 24 Jul Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay
• 23 Jul 🔮 Will Kimi K3 change the economics of AI?
• 23 Jul Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment
• 22 Jul Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
• 22 Jul Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
• 22 Jul The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it
• 21 Jul “Second only to Fable 5:” Alibaba talks the talk with Qwen3.8 without providing any real data
• 21 Jul [AINews] not much happened today
• 20 Jul 7 Consequences of America Finally Losing Its AI Edge to China
• 20 Jul Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages
• 20 Jul Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
• 20 Jul Alibaba previews 2.4 trillion parameter Qwen3.8-Max model for open release
• 20 Jul China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
• 19 Jul Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch
• 16 Jul Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu
• 15 Jul Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
• 15 Jul Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone
• 14 Jul Anthropic alleges Alibaba used 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude data
• 14 Jul OpenAI and Anthropic warn Washington about Chinese distillation of U.S. AI models
• 14 Jul Satya Nadella calls out AI's model-cloning double standard
• 10 Jul Apple Exploring Ways to Run Much Larger AI Models Directly on iPhones
• 8 Jul AI Models Overthink Problems—and It’s a Security Risk
• 8 Jul China closes AI gap with distillation attack
• 7 Jul Alibaba's AI Is a Hit, but Hard to Turn Into a Moneymaker
• 6 Jul Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World
• 1 Jul Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI

Q2 2026

◆ Qwen 3.6 models released as practical open-weight alternatives for local AI development Model release

• 30 Jun Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
• 25 Jun The Sequence AI of the Week #883: Qwen is Getting Into Robotics
• 2 May Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents
• 30 Apr LWiAI Podcast #242 - ChatGPT Images 2.0, Qwen 3.6 Max, Kimi-K2.6
• 24 Apr Accelerate RL rollouts by up to 50% with distribution-aware speculative decoding
• 9 Apr Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 450

Q1 2026

◆ Multiple major AI model releases including Anthropic Sonnet 4.6, Google Gemini 3.1 variants, and OpenAI GPT-5.3 Instant Model release

• 26 Mar Plan, divide, and conquer: How weak models excel at long context tasks
• 5 Mar Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 445

Q3 2025

◆ Alibaba releases Qwen3-Coder, a 480-billion parameter open-source coding model with agentic capabilities Model release

• 22 Sep Qwen3Guard: Real-time Safety for Your Token Stream
• 6 Sep Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch
• 18 Aug Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency
• 4 Aug Qwen-Image: Crafting with Native Text Rendering
• 25 Jul Qwen3-Coder: The Most Capable Agentic Coding Model Now Available on Together AI
• 24 Jul Qwen-MT: Where Speed Meets Smart Translation
• 22 Jul Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World

Q2 2025

• 26 Jun Qwen VLo: From "Understanding" the World to "Depicting" It
• 5 Jun Qwen3 Embedding: Advancing Text Embedding and Reranking Through Foundation Models
• 30 Apr The 4 Things Qwen-3’s Chat Template Teaches Us
• 28 Apr Qwen3: Think Deeper, Act Faster

Q1 2025

• 27 Mar QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence
• 26 Mar Qwen2.5 Omni: See, Hear, Talk, Write, Do It All!

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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