Alibaba Group arrives in Pakistan, plans to offer easy installment shopping
- 14-Apr-2026
Pakistan has taken a major step toward strengthening its digital economy as Alibaba Group receives regulatory approval to operate in the country’s financial services sector, ARY News reported. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has granted a license to Alibaba’s subsidiary, KOKO Tech, to operate as a non-banking finance company. This development […]
Alibaba’s Qwen AI division head becomes latest exec to leave this year
- 04-Mar-2026
BEIJING: The head of Alibaba Group’s Qwen artificial intelligence model division, Lin Junyang, said on Wednesday he would be stepping down from his role, becoming the third senior Qwen executive to depart this year. “Bye my beloved Qwen,” Lin wrote in a post on X, without providing further explanation. Yu Bowen, who headed post-training for […]
Alibaba unveils new Qwen3.5 model for ‘agentic AI era’
- 16-Feb-2026
BEIJING: Alibaba on Monday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model Qwen 3.5, designed to execute complex tasks independently, with big improvements in performance and cost that the Chinese tech giant claims beat major U.S. rival models on several benchmarks. The release comes as Alibaba looks to attract more users to its Qwen chatbot app in […]
Alibaba to spend $431 million for Lunar New Year AI push as chatbot war heats up
- 02-Feb-2026
BEIJING: Alibaba said on Monday it will spend 3 billion yuan ($431 million) to attract users to its Qwen AI app during the Lunar New Year holiday, heating up a race between China’s largest tech firms. The pledge by Alibaba, which triples the spending promised earlier by rivals Tencent and Baidu, is set to start […]
Texas governor bars state employees from using Shein, Alibaba products
- 27-Jan-2026
WASHINGTON: Texas will bar its employees from using Shein, Alibaba, and TP-Link hardware and software, the governor said in a statement on Monday, saying his state made the decision to protect the “privacy of Texans” from the Chinese government. The list also includes online commerce platform Temu and battery maker CATL, according to the statement […]
Alibaba starts selling Quark AI glasses in China
- 28-Nov-2025
Alibaba released on Thursday its new Quark artificial intelligence glasses in China, heralding the Chinese tech company’s efforts to break into the AI wearables market dominated by Meta. Prices will start from 1,899 yuan ($268.25) for the headset that will be powered by Alibaba’s Qwen AI model and app. Unlike other headsets made by the […]
China’s Rise in Tech: Huawei, Alibaba, DeepSeek, and the Challenge to US Giants
- 01-Feb-2025
China’s meteoric rise in the global technology landscape has transformed the industry, as Huawei, Alibaba, and new players such as DeepSeek move up the charts. It has not only shown that China can innovate at scale, but it has also caused immense consternation within US firms whose fiefdoms in such emerging fields as 5G, e-commerce, […]
Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek
- 29-Jan-2025
BEIJING: Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The 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 their families, points to […]
Qwen2.5-Max: Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek
- 29-Jan-2025
Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released Qwen2.5-Max, a new version of its artificial intelligence (AI) model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The unusual timing of the Qwen2.5-Max’s release, on the first day of the Lunar New Year when most Chinese people are off work and with their families, points to the pressure […]
Alibaba to sell China department store chain Intime
- 17-Dec-2024
Alibaba Group said on Tuesday it would sell its Chinese department store unit Intime and book a $1.3 billion loss from the deal, as the retail giant reshuffles its business portfolio to focus on its core e-commerce operation. The sale marks a further acceleration of Alibaba’s restructuring after the group split into six business units […]