Alibaba Group Holding is opening its Qwen AI assistant to major brands, aiming to become China’s next-generation digital gateway for various services from ordering food to flight plans.

Alibaba is set to integrate its Qwen AI model into its Taobao e-commerce platform, enabling new chat-style and agentic shopping experiences for users. This move aims to enhance the shopping process through advanced artificial intelligence.

Alibaba's flagship Qwen app is expanding its services by opening to outside partners, notably integrating China Eastern Airlines flight booking capabilities. This move allows users to book flights directly through the AI-powered application.

China's Alibaba is reportedly reorienting its artificial intelligence strategy to prioritize revenue generation over open-source development, a move that could affect the global developer community reliant on its Qwen models.

The Qwen3.6-Plus, a new artificial intelligence model developed in China, has quickly risen to the top of global usage charts and benchmarks following its debut.

Alibaba Group Holding has introduced a preview of its most powerful artificial intelligence model, Qwen3.5-Max-Preview, which reportedly outperforms Chinese rivals but still trails leading US models.

Alibaba has established an AI task force following the resignation of the lead architect for its Qwen AI model, indicating a strategic reorganization in its AI development efforts.

Alibaba's CEO has confirmed the departure of the company's Qwen AI division head.

Elon Musk expressed astonishment at Alibaba's new Qwen 3.5 AI model, noting its superior performance compared to larger AI giants, despite being significantly smaller.

Alibaba Group Holding plans to launch new smart glasses powered by its artificial intelligence assistant Qwen at the coming MWC Barcelona trade show. On Saturday, a company representative confirmed the launch, adding that both online and offline presales would start on Monday, the first day of the annual trade show, formerly known as Mobile World Congress. Meanwhile, the company, which owns the South China Morning Post, is preparing a diverse product line-up this year for the global market,...

Alibaba has introduced Qwen 3.6-Max-Preview, which it describes as its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date.

A new report indicates that Alibaba Cloud's Qwen family of models captured over 50% of global open-source model downloads as of March, following the release of its Qwen 3.5 series. This finding underscores the significant dominance of Chinese models in the global open-source AI landscape.

Alibaba has introduced its third closed-source AI model, signaling a strategic focus on profitability within its artificial intelligence development.

Alibaba is stepping up its focus on the Qwen Large Language Model (LLM).

Alibaba has reportedly poached a research scientist from Google DeepMind to bolster its Qwen AI initiative, signaling a push in its artificial intelligence development.

Alibaba Group Holding has recruited a research scientist from Google DeepMind to bolster development efforts for its Qwen artificial intelligence models, in an internal restructuring that has seen the departure of previous technical lead Lin Junyang. While no successor to Lin was announced, former Google senior staff research scientist Zhou Hao was joining Alibaba as head of post-training research, replacing Yu Bowen, who also departed this week, two sources said. Zhou, who holds a PhD from t...

Chinese semiconductor designer Moore Threads Technology has announced full-stack compatibility between its flagship MTT S5000 GPU and Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen3.5-series AI models, advancing China’s tech self-reliance efforts.

Alibaba reportedly plans to add its Qwen AI model to its Taobao e-commerce platform to offer agentic shopping experiences to users.

Alibaba is rolling out its Qwen AI across multiple car brands, enabling drivers to use voice commands for features like ordering meals and managing deliveries directly from their vehicles.

This article discusses the implications for investors following Alibaba's (BABA) improvement of its AI model, Qwen 3.6.

Chinese AI models like Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi are increasingly being adopted by US companies such as Cursor, Cognition, Airbnb, and Pinterest, primarily due to their cost-effectiveness and speed, prompting varied responses in Germany.

Alibaba has introduced Qwen3.6-Plus, a new AI model designed to accelerate the deployment of agentic AI for enterprises and within Alibaba's own applications.

Alibaba steps up focus on Qwen LLM China Daily

Sources indicate that the tech lead for Alibaba's Qwen project has resigned amidst a role reshuffle, though rumors surrounding the departure are denied.

The head of Alibaba's Qwen AI unit has stepped down, part of a series of exits from the company's artificial intelligence division.

Alibaba Group has released its newest AI model series, featuring new agentic capabilities, as competition in China's AI space ramps up.