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Qwen is a multipurpose artificial intelligence consumer app created by Alibaba as a personal AI assistant for professional and personal use, and powered by the Alibaba Cloud software. Its functionality includes research, image generation and slide generation. Alibaba Cloud is the AI and cloud computing unit of Hangzhou-based Alibaba, owner of the South China Morning Post.
Screens showing DeepSeek and OpenAI on January 29 in Toulouse, southwestern France. The American notion is that AI is capital-intensive, perhaps more so than any other US industry today. Photo: AFP
US-China tech war

Editorial | China’s low-cost AI is showing up America’s high-cost tech model

The real China threat is in exposing America’s AI myths by showing what can be achieved at much lower costs and with greater efficiency.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Qwen app becomes the world’s fastest growing AI app as MAUs surge 149%

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba Cloud team wins top AI award for breakthrough in model efficiency

Tencent

Alibaba bets on ‘everything app’ Qwen to define AI era for global consumers

Qwen has the potential to become super-app, the same way Tencent’s WeChat defined the mobile internet age, analysts say.

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The Qwen app is designed to meet both the professional and personal needs of users, with capabilities including deep research, image generation and slide generation. Photo: Handout
Alibaba

Alibaba’s Qwen app challenges AI subscription models with free access

The new app is designed to be a free-of-charge, comprehensive AI assistant in both professional and personal settings.

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Alibaba

Alibaba revamps chatbot amid US ‘panic’ over firm’s AI progress

Alibaba dubs the updated app, renamed from Tongyi to Qwen, the ‘most powerful official AI assistant’ for its Qwen models.

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba slashes Qwen3-Max model charges up to 50% amid latest AI price war

The new pricing strategy reflects heightened competition in China’s foundational model market.

Qwen3-Max is the first trillion-parameter model from Alibaba’s AI and cloud services unit. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

This AI model’s US$10,000 investment has the best return. Guess who?

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen3-Max posts a 22.32 per cent return on a US$10,000 investment in two weeks, topping a “real money” AI crypto trading test.

Meet the young engineers steering Alibaba’s AI future at Tongyi Lab

A look at the achievements and research directions of the lead architects at Alibaba’s core AI engineering team.

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek and Qwen AI models crush Western rivals in cryptocurrency trading challenge

In a real-world test of trading intelligence, China’s DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen AI models have outpaced their Western rivals including GPT.

DeepSeek’s Chat V3.1 model grew its initial capital of US$10,000 to US$22,900 in the showdown. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Airbnb chooses Alibaba’s open-source AI over ‘not ready’ ChatGPT

Airbnb ‘relies heavily’ on Alibaba’s Qwen models to power its AI customer service agent, CEO Brian Chesky says.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. Photo: AFP
Alibaba

Alibaba’s Qwen lab sets up robotics team, showcasing its AI ambitions

The announcement suggests the Chinese tech giant is accelerating its development in the field of AI-powered hardware.

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba transfers AI scientist Steven Hoi to Tongyi Lab, boosting Qwen efforts

At Tongyi Lab, Hoi is expected to help further develop Qwen, the world’s largest open-source AI ecosystem.

Alibaba

Alibaba model tops global AI rankings as Chinese open systems flourish

Alibaba’s open-source models make up half of the top 10 spots on Hugging Face’s trending rankings.

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Alibaba’s new multimodal model has become the most popular open-source system on Hugging Face. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba: latest AI model Qwen3-Max rivals best from OpenAI, Google

Alibaba Cloud announced the Qwen3-Max model, with over 1 trillion parameters, just hours ahead of the annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou.

Qwen3-Max is not open-sourced but is accessible through Alibaba’s cloud computing platform. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba releases record-setting next-generation Qwen3 model to cut costs by 90%

A variant of the new model is 10 times more powerful and can be built at a 10th of the cost of its predecessor, Qwen developers say.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Qwen3 and Moonshot’s Kimi-K2 storm into global AI rankings

Qwen3-max-preview and Kimi-K2-0905 debut in sixth and seventh place, respectively, in the latest ‘text-arena’ ranking by LMArena.

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Qwen 3 AI coding model gains on Claude Sonnet 4 in popularity

The model’s usage share on AI marketplace OpenRouter hit 20 per cent as of mid-August, behind only Anthropic’s coding model.

A number of Chinese tech majors have all released AI coding tools to ride on the so-called vibe coding wave. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

Alibaba’s maps app gets an AI upgrade with Qwen-powered agent

Named Teacher Xiaogao, the tool allows Alibaba to deploy its advanced AI models in practical scenarios, such as navigation and trip planning.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s AI dominance in China challenged by Alibaba’s Qwen

DeepSeek has seen use of its models drop to 80 per cent from 99 per cent on Chinese cloud computing platform PPIO.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba unleashes Qwen3 coding model for developers to push AI agent adoption

In new benchmark tests, Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder outperformed rival models from Moonshot AI and DeepSeek.

Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder is expected to give developers a boost in creating AI agents. Photo: Shutterstock
Alibaba

Alibaba upgrades Qwen3 model to outperform OpenAI, DeepSeek in maths, coding

A member of the Qwen3 family gets an upgrade and outperforms products from rivals OpenAI and DeepSeek.

The Qwen logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba AI model-based agentic framework tops global ranking

DeepSWE, trained on the Qwen3-32B model, scored 59 per cent accuracy in the latest industry benchmark to outperform a DeepSeek-V3 variant.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba updates open-source Qwen3 models for AI deployment on Apple devices

This development appears to reflect Apple’s efforts to expand the availability of its Apple Intelligence suite to mainland China.

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Artificial intelligence

Alibaba pushes global adoption of Qwen3 AI models via more developer platforms

The Qwen3 family of AI models can now be deployed via large language model platforms Ollama, LM Studio, SGLang and vLLM.

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The Qwen3 AI model family’s expanded availability reflects Alibaba Group Holding’s growing leadership position in the global open-source community. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Qwen3 unseats DeepSeek’s R1 as world’s top-ranked open-source AI model

Qwen3 surpassed R1 in LiveBench tests that gauge open-source AI models’ capabilities including coding, maths and data analysis.

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The broader LiveBench rankings showed that Qwen3 still trailed the top closed-source AI models, including OpenAI’s o3, Google’s Gemini Pro 2.5 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model family helps narrow US-China tech gap: analysts

It reflects Qwen’s current position as the world’s largest open-source AI ecosystem, surpassing Meta Platforms’ Llama community.

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Artificial intelligence

Elon Musk teases Grok 3.5 hours after Alibaba’s Qwen3 generates buzz

Musk said the latest version of xAI’s Grok model can answer technical questions about rocket engines and electrochemistry.

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