Alibaba is one of China’s largest technology companies and, through Alibaba Cloud, a major force in artificial intelligence. It develops the open-weight Qwen model family and offers AI services across cloud computing, e-commerce, and enterprise software. This hub gathers news and explainers about Alibaba’s AI models, products, and strategy.
OpenAI and Google confirmed to the Financial Times that they supply AI services to Singapore units of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, all listed by the Pentagon as Chinese military-linked companies.
Read more →China's new regulations targeting AI services that simulate human relationships take effect July 15, forcing ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen to disable personalized companion agent features used by hundreds of millions of people.
Read more →Alibaba is banning employees from Anthropic's Claude Code effective July 10 after Anthropic revealed that accounts linked to Alibaba's Qwen lab ran 28.8 million unauthorized interactions with Claude in what the company called its largest ever distillation attack.
Read more →Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) is Alibaba Cloud's family of open-weight AI models — covering language, code, vision, audio, and more — and the world's most-downloaded AI model series as of 2026.
Read more →Alibaba's Qwen team released a language world model that learns to predict agent environment states across seven domains, offering a new approach to training AI agents without live systems.
Read more →Anthropic told US senators that operators linked to Alibaba used nearly 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly copy Claude's capabilities into Alibaba's Qwen model — calling it the largest known attack of its kind.
Read more →Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen-AgentWorld, a family of open-source language world models that predict how digital environments respond to AI agent actions, with its 397B variant outscoring GPT-5.4 on the new AgentWorldBench benchmark.
Read more →Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba-linked operators ran 25,000 fraudulent accounts and conducted 28.8 million exchanges with Claude — calling it the largest known AI distillation attack in history.
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