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Updates on Alibaba

Every AI story we track on Alibaba — 50 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.

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Today's stories

Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM

AWS Blog
Consumer Tech5 min read

China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.

The Next Web

This week

Social Media8 min read

China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

IEEE Spectrum
Design5 min read

Exhibit of 2026 AI Agents

Hacker News
AI Research12 min read

Understanding China's Frontier AI Landscape

Hacker News

This month

Machine Learning6 min read

Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4”

The New Stack (AI)
Machine Learning7 min read

GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture

MarkTechPost

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Previews Qwen4 Architecture With 6B Active Parameters

Covered by 5 sources
Robotics5 min read

Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn

Covered by 2 sources
Video Generation4 min read

Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn

Covered by 2 sources

Thomson Reuters built its own AI model off Chinese tech to rely less on Claude

Covered by 3 sources
Finance5 min read

Alibaba shares fell 8.4%. Then Joe Tsai and Eddie Wu went shopping

The Next Web
Agents10 min read

I Tried Kimi Agent and Here’s What I Found

KDnuggets
Robotics3 min read

XPeng’s Robotics Unit Valued at $6.3B After Investment

AI Business
Robotics5 min read

XPENG Robotics Raises $900M+ First Round at $6.3B+ Valuation

Covered by 2 sources

Alibaba’s profit fell 75% as quarterly AI spending hit $10bn

The Next Web
Machine Learning5 min read

Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one

The Next Web

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Covered by 2 sources

Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI

The Next Web
AI Research6 min read

Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers

Rest of World
Agents5 min read

The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor

The Next Web
Social Media4 min read

China bans AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners

Hacker News
Cybersecurity2 min read

China warns of "security backdoor" in Anthropic AI coding tool [July 8, 2026]

Hacker News
AI Research2 min read

With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy

Ars Technica
Dev25 min read

[AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork

Latent.Space
Computer Vision5 min read

Alibaba’s Amap Runs a World Model for 24 Hours on One GPU

Unite.AI

Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba

Hacker News

With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook

Rest of World
AI Research4 min read

China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports

The Next Web
Machine Learning3 min read

Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.

The Next Web
Machine Learning3 min read

China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance 

The Verge
Chips & Compute2 min read

Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in

The Next Web

Alibaba stock jumps 4% after Qwen is approved to run Apple Intelligence in China

Covered by 2 sources
Agents4 min read

Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.

The Next Web
AI Research4 min read

The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants

The Next Web
Machine Learning4 min read

American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI

Futurism
Agents3 min read

ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

The Next Web
Dev1 min read

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

TechCrunch
Dev4 min read

Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says

The Next Web

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude

The Next Web

Alibaba unveils AI models for robots as China’s focus shifts to agents

The Next Web

Pentagon adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to its Chinese military companies list

The Next Web

Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 as China’s NVIDIA alternative push hardens

The Next Web

Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping

The Next Web

Alibaba’s Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push

TechCrunch
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