Alibaba

Alibaba chair says Asian firms can seek growth outside US
[BEIJING] Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai said Asian companies can look to inter-Asia opportunities and the European market for growth as tensions between Washington and Beijing persist. During...

Alibaba Shares Dip Despite E-commerce, AI growth In Q4
Alibaba shares fell Thursday as revenue growth failed to meet market expectations. In the three months ended March, revenue rose 7 percent to 236.5 million renminbi, or $32.5 billion,...

Electric Hearses In Asia Sure Are Different
Read the full story on Backfire NewsElectric Hearses In Asia Sure Are DifferentCall it a cultural thing, because it is, but when we think of an electric hearse what...

Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma implicated in intimidation campaign by Chinese regime
The Chinese regime enlisted Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder of Alibaba, in an intimidation campaign to press a businessman to help in the purge of a top official, documents...

Alibaba rolls out latest flagship AI model in post-DeepSeek race
[BEIJING] Alibaba Group Holding took the wraps off a new version of its flagship Qwen AI model, sustaining the breakneck pace of development that’s characterised China’s artificial intelligence (AI)...

Alibaba chases international AI users with new Qwen upgrades
The expansion, through its Singapore availability zones, shows Alibaba ramping up an aggressive campaign to lure AI users and developers both at home and abroad[BEIJING] Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud...

Alibaba preparing for flagship AI model release as soon as April
[NEW YORK] Alibaba Group Holding is planning to release Qwen 3, an upgraded version of its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model, as soon as this month with competition from...

Alibaba teams up with BMW to develop AI for cars in China
The carmaker is building a new intelligent personal assistant with enhanced voice recognition and trip planning features[HONG KONG] Alibaba Group Holding and BMW will team up to produce artificial...

Reinventing careers: How 4 laid-off Alibaba workers started a popular bun restaurant
On a recent Thursday afternoon, around five or six young people were busily preparing for an evening event at a street-side restaurant in Hangzhou, capital of China's eastern Zhejiang...

Alibaba makes AI model for video, image generation publicly available
CHINESE e-commerce leader Alibaba said on Wednesday (Feb 26) that its video- and image-generating artificial intelligence (AI) model Wan 2.1 is now publicly available – or open source –...

