Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-0902 Tops Code Arena, Beats Claude Opus 5
Alibaba's refreshed Qwen3.8-Max-0902 model has taken the top spot on Arena.ai's Code Arena coding leaderboard, narrowly outscoring Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.
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Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an Early Qwen4 Preview
Alibaba has open-sourced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125-billion-parameter model that previews the architecture behind its coming Qwen4 family and trains far more cheaply than its predecessor.
Read more →Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-27B, an Open Model That Runs on One GPU
Alibaba's Tongyi Lab released Qwen3.8-27B, a 27.8-billion-parameter open-weight model that beats its predecessor on coding and reasoning benchmarks while fitting on a single high-end GPU.
Read more →Apple Trains Its Own AI Model for China With Alibaba's Help
Apple has trained a proprietary AI model for the Chinese market with Alibaba's support, becoming the first foreign firm cleared to run its own AI system in China, Reuters reports.
Read more →What Is Ant Group — and Why Is It Building AI Models?
Ant Group runs Alipay and grew out of Alibaba. Here's what it actually does, why it's tied to Alibaba, and why a payments company now builds its own AI models.
Read more →Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter AI Model
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal model it calls second only to Anthropic's Claude, though no benchmarks have been published.
Read more →China Approves Apple Intelligence, Powered by Alibaba's Qwen
China's internet regulator cleared Apple Intelligence for release, with Alibaba's Qwen model powering the assistant's text and image features on iPhones sold in the country.
Read more →OpenAI, Google Supplied AI to Pentagon-Blacklisted Chinese Firms
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 AI Companion Rules Force ByteDance and Alibaba Shutdowns
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 Bans Claude Code After Anthropic Exposes 28M-Interaction Distillation Attack
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 →What Is Qwen? Alibaba's Open AI Model Family Explained
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 Releases Qwen-AgentWorld to Simulate AI Agent Environments
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 Accuses Alibaba of Record-Scale AI Distillation Attack on Claude
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 Open-Sources AI World Model That Tops GPT-5.4 on Agent Tasks
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 Accuses Alibaba of Using 25,000 Fake Accounts to Clone Claude AI
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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