Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away

Alibaba Cloud on Sunday released HappyHorse 1.1, a major upgrade to its AI video generation model that the company says delivers production-ready video synthesis across core content creation scenarios [...]

Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? Key figures depart in wake of latest open source release

Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers have been among the most prolific and well-regarded by international machine learning community — shipping dozens of powerful generalized and specialized g [...]

Alibaba's proprietary Qwen3.7-Max can run for 35 hours autonomously and supports external harnesses like Anthropic's Claude Code

The AI industry has fully entered the "agent era," a paradigm where AI models do far more than generate text — they now actively plan, execute, and course-correct complex tasks over days r [...]

Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus supports text, video and imagery inputs at low cost of $0.4/$1.6 per 1M token — but it's proprietary

Alibaba this week released Qwen3.7-Plus, the latest AI large language model (LLM) in its globally beloved and increasingly expansive Qwen family, boasting more multimodal capabilities and a 60% lower [...]

OpenAI’s new for-profit plan leaves many unanswered questions

OpenAI has abandoned its controversial restructuring plan. In a dramatic reversal, the company said Monday it would no longer try to separate control of its for-profit arm from the non-profit board th [...]

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost

Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5 earlier this week, timed to coincide with the Lunar New Year, and the headline numbers alone are enough to make enterprise AI buyers stop and pay attention.The new flagship ope [...]

Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large lan [...]

What you need to know as Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman begins

In a few short days, jury selection will begin in the long-awaited Musk v. Altman case. At the end of that process, an Oakland federal court will task nine regular people with deciding if OpenAI defra [...]

Apple will use Alibaba's generative AI for its iPhones in China

Apple will use Alibaba's generative AI to power artificial intelligence features for iPhones meant for sale in the Chinese market. Joe Tsai, Alibaba Group's Chairman, has confirmed the compa [...]