Chinese AI models festoon Spring Festival a year after DeepSeek shockWith DeepSeek set to launch its next-generation V4 model soon, according to tech news site The Information, many other Chinese AI firms hav...
15 Feb, 2026, 09.49 AM IST
A year on from DeepSeek shock, get set for flurry of low-cost Chinese AI modelsOne year after Chinese startup DeepSeek rattled the global tech industry with the release of a low-cost artificial intelligence model, its ...
12 Feb, 2026, 12.33 PM IST
Alibaba to spend $431 million for Lunar New Year AI push as chatbot war heats upThe pledge by Alibaba, which triples the spending promised earlier by rivals Tencent and Baidu, is set to start on February 6. It will invo...
02 Feb, 2026, 11.25 AM IST
Alibaba to plan IPO for AI chipmaking unit T-Head: ReportAlibaba's US-listed shares rose 4.6% premarket after the report. As a first step, Alibaba plans to restructure the unit as a business partl...
22 Jan, 2026, 05.55 PM IST
Alibaba starts selling Quark AI glasses in China, enters global wearables raceAlibaba has entered the AI wearables market with its Quark glasses, aiming to challenge Meta's dominance. Priced from 1,899 yuan, these gla...
27 Nov, 2025, 11.31 AM IST
Alibaba's cloud business revenue soars 34% driven by AI boomChina's Alibaba Group posted a 34% jump in revenue from its cloud business in its most recent quarter, buoyed by the boom in artificial int...
25 Nov, 2025, 10.17 PM IST
Alibaba unveils major consumer AI upgrade with new Qwen chatbotThe new free app, based on its Qwen large language model, is available as a mobile application and website. It has entered public beta test...
18 Nov, 2025, 04.55 PM IST
Alibaba launches AI chatbot service in renewed consumer pushAlibaba has introduced a new AI chatbot within its Quark app, aiming to boost its consumer reach in China’s crowded AI market. Using its Qw...
23 Oct, 2025, 10.36 AM IST
Has Chinese AI sensation DeepSeek lost its mojo to rivals? Delays in R2 launch raise big questions amid fierce rivalryChina’s AI darling DeepSeek, once hailed as a symbol of tech independence, is suddenly facing a reality check. Its bold push to ditch U.S. ...
18 Aug, 2025, 06.00 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
China's Baidu releases new AI model to compete with DeepSeekIn a post on WeChat, Baidu announced the launch of its latest X1 reasoning model -- which the company claims performs similarly to DeepSeek...
16 Mar, 2025, 04.38 PM 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
Alibaba launches advanced AI model Qwen2.5-Max to rival GPT-4Chinese tech and e-commerce giant Alibaba on Wednesday announced the release of Qwen2.5-Max, an advanced artificial intelligence model that...
30 Jan, 2025, 09.15 AM IST
AI dragons are here; Indian cities & data centre boomHappy Thursday! Days after DeepSeek rattled the world, Alibaba enters the AI race with its new and low-cost Qwen 2.5 model. This and more i...
30 Jan, 2025, 07.36 AM IST
Chinese AI firms woo OpenAI users as US company plans API restrictionsChatGPT maker OpenAI is planning to block access to technology used to build AI products for entities in China and some other countries, Ch...
25 Jun, 2024, 06.58 PM IST
Chinese AI startup 01.AI looks to raise $200 million01.AI drew recognition in the open-source LLM community in November, when its Yi-34B model became the first Chinese LLM to top the leaderbo...
14 Dec, 2023, 05.07 PM IST
China's Alibaba, South Korea's Naver launch GPT rival AI modelsChinese internet giant Alibaba has launched new artificial intelligence (AI) models that can understand images and perform more complex con...
26 Aug, 2023, 05.00 PM IST