Alibaba
Alibaba Group is one of the largest internet companies in the world. Headquartered in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba is best known for its Chinese marketplaces, Taobao and Tmall. Alibaba also has a stake in its spin-off payments app, Alipay, which is run by Ant Financial.
Alibaba was founded by Jack Ma, then an English teacher, in 1999.
Alibaba details AI roadmap as Qwen 4 enters training
Alibaba also outlined a roadmap for Yitian central processing unit chips and said a future model could reach 10 trillion parameters.
Minh Le · · 1 min read
China’s Z.ai faces scrutiny after coding tool uploads local data
A developer said a 15-kilobyte project file was uploaded to Alibaba’s cloud.
Minh Le · · 1 min read
Alibaba-linked firm takes stake in embodied AI startup Moqi
Moqi Intelligence’s registered capital has risen to 1.5 million yuan.
Diya Lal · · 1 min read
Mapping the key players in China’s ecommerce arena
Mapping China’s ecommerce sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
Aya Lin · · 1 min readChinese AI developers generated $10.7b ARR: report
ByteDance led with US$4 billion in July.
Diya Lal · · 1 min readMapping the firms leaving a mark in China’s fintech race
Mapping China’s fintech sector: Key players, top investors, and funding insights in one report.
Aya Lin · · 1 min readAnt International’s next payments bet: AI agents
Ant International president Douglas Feagin talks about AI in commerce, the future of payments, and taking the company’s fintech playbook beyond Asia.
Melissa Goh · · 7 min readAnthropic says China AI labs used Claude to train models
Anthropic also alleged that some companies routed user prompts to Claude without notifying users.
Grace Priscilla Teo · · 1 min readAlibaba ends ASR stake sale early
After the sale, Alibaba Network remained ASR’s largest single shareholder.
Minh Le · · 1 min readAlibaba’s capex isn’t the full story
Alibaba’s profit fell, and spending jumped – but it’s not the whole picture. Plus, we revisit how China’s AI labs outpace big budgets with less cash.
Peter Cowan · · 4 min read