China is building the future of AI, not Silicon Valley, says Alibaba Cloud founderInnovation and not patents should drive organisations. What is needed is the right talent, not expensive talent, he said. He was alluding t...
01 Aug, 2025, 09.40 PM IST
Global AI race intensifies as China closes gap in quality; OpenAI, Google hold strong: ReportChina has been advancing its AI capabilities with the launch of Alibaba's Qwen Series, DeepSeek’s R1, ManusAI and Tencent’s Hunyuan Turbo S...
10 Apr, 2025, 10.21 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: How Meta's Llama 4 stacks up against Chinese AI models Qwen, DeepSeek, and Manus AIMeta has launched Llama 4, its latest open-weight AI models, including Scout, Maverick, and Behemoth, offering advanced multimodal capabili...
07 Apr, 2025, 12.34 PM IST
Alibaba becomes China’s new AI darling with $87 billion rallyAlibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares have jumped 46% since reaching a 2025 low on January 13, adding nearly $87 billion to its market value an...
13 Feb, 2025, 08.56 AM IST
Qwen AI model by Alibaba offers low-cost alternative to DeepSeekResearchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington, including Chinese-American “AI godmother” Li Feifei, have recently p...
11 Feb, 2025, 01.43 AM IST
France's Mistral hails DeepSeek's AI modelThe French firm's own Thursday release, "Mistral Small 3", is "competitive with larger models" including Meta's Llama or Qwen, developed by...
31 Jan, 2025, 04.18 PM IST
Alibaba releases AI model it claims surpasses DeepSeek-V3The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max's release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with the...
29 Jan, 2025, 10.58 AM IST
AI can now replicate itself: How close are we to losing control over technology?A recent study has uncovered that artificial intelligence (AI) systems can replicate themselves, raising concerns about their potential ris...
27 Jan, 2025, 03.47 PM IST
Has the Chinese startup DeepSeek outsmarted Meta and OpenAI? Here's all about its AI platform that was trained on a joke of a budgetDeepSeek, a Chinese AI start-up, has unveiled its latest large language model, DeepSeek V3, a game-changing development in artificial intel...
29 Dec, 2024, 01.39 AM IST
EU AI Act checker reveals Big Tech's compliance pitfallsThe EU had long debated new AI regulations before OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public in late 2022. The record-breaking popularity and en...
16 Oct, 2024, 10.42 AM IST
Samsung replaces Google AI with Baidu AI on Galaxy S24 devices in ChinaErnie AI will offer same Galaxy AI features based on Gemini foundational models, like AI-based real-time call translation, summarisation, a...
26 Jan, 2024, 09.34 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Here are nations at the forefront of GenAI innovationAccording to data science community platform Hugging Face, there has been a rapid influx of new LLMs, with hundreds being announced every w...
27 Dec, 2023, 12.13 PM IST
China lags behind in AI race amid lack of advanced chips, regulations: reportThe arrival of ChatGPT - and a barrage of AL models from US-based tech giants later like Bard, Gemini and LLaMA - forced Chinese tech compa...
10 Dec, 2023, 12.44 PM IST
Alibaba upgrades AI model Tongyi Qianwen, releases industry-specific modelsAlibaba's cloud computing arm at its annual conference in Hangzhou said Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 has "hundreds of billions of" parameters - a ben...
31 Oct, 2023, 09.36 AM IST
As China's AI 'war of a hundred models' gains pace, investors warn of a shakeoutTensions between Beijing and Washington have also weighed on the sector, as US dollar funds invest less in early-stage projects and difficu...
22 Sep, 2023, 09.14 AM IST
Alibaba unveils open-sourced AI model similar to Meta's Llama 2The Hangzhou-based company said it will open-source two large language models (LLM), a type of AI model, named Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat on ...
03 Aug, 2023, 02.09 PM IST
Alibaba's cloud unit brings Meta's AI model Llama to its clientsAlibaba's cloud computing division said it has become the first Chinese enterprise to support Meta's open-source artificial intelligence (A...
26 Jul, 2023, 11.04 AM IST