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Alibaba unveils major restructuring around AI and cloud

Alibaba released its fiscal first-quarter 2027 results on Thursday before U.S. markets opened, pairing the earnings report with a sweeping organizational overhaul that consolidates its sprawling empire around two priorities: artificial intelligence and cloud computing.

Alibaba’s Qwen AI models hit 3 billion downloads, passing Meta and Google

Alibaba has open-sourced the weights of its Qwen3.8 model series, including its flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max and the smaller Qwen3.8-27B, as cumulative global downloads of the Qwen model family surpassed 3 billion — making it the most downloaded open-weight AI model…

Alibaba opens Qwen developer platform as it monetizes AI ecosystem

Alibaba Group Holding unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal AI model, marking a return to open-sourcing its top-tier models after keeping several recent flagship releases proprietary earlier this year. The company simultaneously introduced a revenue-sharing model for commercial users and opened…

Apple connects Siri to Alibaba’s Qwen AI for Mac users in China

Apple has published a guide detailing how eligible Mac users in mainland China can connect Alibaba's Qwen artificial intelligence service to Siri and the Writing Tools feature, marking the first concrete rollout of a partnership that received regulatory approval in…

Alibaba launches 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8, claims it rivals top AI models

Alibaba announced on Saturday the launch of Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter large language model that the company says is "second only to Fable 5" in overall performance. A preview version, Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, is already available to developers through Alibaba's Token Plan…