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...
Chinese tech giants trade cash for AI buzzChinese tech giants are luring users with cash offers before their reported upcoming releases of competing AI models this month. US media o...
Alibaba to open new data centres; unveils most powerful AI modelAlibaba announced plans to open its first data centres in Brazil, France, and the Netherlands, expanding its global AI infrastructure. Addi...
Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max AI model with more than a trillion parametersAlibaba has unveiled its most powerful AI language model, Qwen3-Max, boasting over one trillion parameters. The announcement, made at the A...
Chinese AI firms form alliances to build domestic ecosystem amid US curbsChinese AI companies are forming alliances to build a domestic ecosystem and reduce reliance on foreign technology amid U.S. export restric...
Urban Company founders sell stock; Alibaba ups AI anteFounders of Urban Company have sold shares in the run-up to the firm's IPO. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Alibaba unveils advanced Qwen 3 AI as Chinese tech rivalry intensifiesAlibaba has launched Qwen 3, an upgraded AI model with hybrid reasoning abilities, amid rising competition in China’s AI sector. The releas...
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...
Tencent releases new AI model, says replies faster than DeepSeek-R1Tencent added that when tested on fields like knowledge, math, and reasoning, Turbo S' capabilities matched DeepSeek-V3, which powers DeepS...
Hiring sprouts in smaller IT cos; Blackstone and Aakash InstituteEven as sector majors retreated, mid and small-cap IT firms and GCCs have stepped up hiring. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
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...
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...
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...
DeepSeek is the primer; here are other Chinese AI chatbots launched recently to take on Silicon Valley titansDeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies like MiniMax, Qwen, and Tencent's Hunyuan3D have showcased China's growing AI power in response to ...
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...