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Alibaba has officially stepped into the wearable technology market with its Quark AI glasses, launching first in China. This move signals the company’s ambitions to go beyond e-commerce and cloud services and expand into consumer hardware. The Quark glasses mark Alibaba’s first major venture into AI-powered wearable devices, putting it...

In an audacious plot twist that could change the economics of artificial intelligence research, Alibaba’s DAMO Academy has revealed a new way to build powerful AI agents while barely using expensive APIs at all. The breakthrough—based on proprietary methods of “offline data synthesis”—could help organizations develop far more advanced AI...

Shares of Alibaba this week reached a four-year high on news that it will team up with Nvidia to create data center infrastructure around the world. The shift is a major step in Alibaba’s expanding push into artificial intelligence (AI) and global technology leadership. A Strategic Leap into AI At...

Shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. rocketed to the highest level in four years on Wednesday after the company revealed a new strategic partnership with Nvidia and announced plans to expand its data center infrastructure around the world. Hong Kong-listed shares rose by close to 10%. American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)...

In a sign of escalating technology competition between the United States and China, Beijing has told its top tech companies to cut off the purchase of American microchips by leading Chinese artificial intelligence companies. The instruction, from China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC), applies to large companies including ByteDance, one of the...

Sept. 13, 2025 – Two of China’s most valuable technology companies, Alibaba Group and Baidu Inc., have leapfrogged the West to train some of the world’s most powerful computers while developing their own chips to do so—a significant step toward technological independence in an intensifying arms race for tech supremacy....

The Chinese tech group Alibaba has introduced a daring new feature to its mapping software: a view of local business ranks so detailed that it may shift the way millions of its users decide on restaurants, shops, service providers, and more. By jumping directly into an area long dominated by...

As part of a push to strengthen its position in the world of AI, Alibaba has just released its most powerful open-source AI coding model yet. Not only is this a significant step for the company, but it’s also a major moment for the open-source AI community, as Alibaba opens...