Alibaba launches Wan3.0 AI video model after $10 billion share saleThe new model can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides and web pages, Alibaba Cloud said in a post on the WeChat ...
24 Aug, 2026, 04.44 PM IST
Global Market: Alibaba rout drags China, Hong Kong markets lower amid AI spending concernsChina and Hong Kong stocks fell sharply on Monday, led by technology shares, after Alibaba’s $10.2-billion share placement revived concerns...
24 Aug, 2026, 11.04 AM IST
Global Market: Alibaba shares slide after $10.2 billion share placement to fund AI expansionAlibaba shares fell as much as 10% after the company launched a $10.2 billion share placement to fund AI expansion. The discounted offering...
24 Aug, 2026, 10.09 AM IST
Alibaba stock slumps in Hong Kong after $10.2 billion share placement to fund AIAlibaba said on Sunday its HK$80 billion ($10.21 billion) share placement finalised at HK$112.70 apiece - an 8.4% discount to its Friday cl...
24 Aug, 2026, 08.02 AM IST
Alibaba proposes $10 billion share placement to fund global AI driveThe Hangzhou-based firm has been ploughing tens of billions of dollars into AI, with its shareholders eager to see how it will monetise the...
23 Aug, 2026, 04.38 PM IST
ET Graphics: Agentic AI automates retail therapyAI agents are now initiating and completing millions of transactions weekly. Users can order food by simply chatting with artificial intell...
18 Aug, 2026, 02.17 PM IST
- Zhipu’s new AI model takes aim at OpenAI, Anthropic in China’s race to close the gap
Chinese AI firm Z.ai has launched its new GLM-5.3 model. This release intensifies competition with OpenAI and Anthropic. The model offers i...
14 Aug, 2026, 02.03 PM IST
Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibaba's supportThe AI model was developed in partnership with Alibaba Group and trained with the Chinese tech giant's support, the people said, declining ...
14 Aug, 2026, 10.04 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Meta's stop-start strategy for its open source AI modelsGlimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is designed for agentic tasks. It can run on ...
10 Aug, 2026, 09.09 PM IST
Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight pushThe new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is instead designed for agentic tasks and can run on a ...
10 Aug, 2026, 04.23 PM IST
Chinese AI drives price competition among US labsA new generation of cost-efficient, high-performance Chinese AI is putting pressure on Silicon Valley's leading labs to lower prices to gra...
10 Aug, 2026, 03.46 PM IST
Apple says Mac users in China can connect to Alibaba's Qwen AI serviceApple published a guide for Chinese Mac users to connect Alibaba's Qwen AI service. This integration allows enhanced Siri responses and Wri...
08 Aug, 2026, 06.23 PM IST
Alibaba plans to charge big users of its next open-source AI modelLike last month's blockbuster model release from Chinese AI startup Moonshot, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max model is an open-source, open-weight mo...
07 Aug, 2026, 08.12 AM IST
Qwen 3.8-Max launches with 2.4 trillion parameters. Don't trust the benchmarks just yetAlibaba launched its large AI model Qwen3.8-Max with many parameters. This model supports extensive context windows and multimodal inputs f...
04 Aug, 2026, 12.30 PM IST
Global Market: China stocks slide as global AI selloff hits chipmakers; Alibaba rallies on new AI modelChinese equities declined on Monday as a global selloff in AI-linked stocks weighed on semiconductor shares, while Hong Kong's technology s...
03 Aug, 2026, 11.26 AM IST
DeepSeek's new AI model is by far the cheapest of well-known models to run, research firm saysA version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among well-known models g...
03 Aug, 2026, 11.13 AM IST
Alibaba unveils its most capable AI model to date, not far behind Moonshot's in sizeChinese tech companies - a huge force in open-weight AI models globally - are locked in a fierce and fast-moving battle to build more power...
03 Aug, 2026, 09.32 AM IST