Alibaba (China)

Alibaba's June quarter 2026 results, as reported via the corporate press release mirror, confirm that Alibaba Cloud's external revenue growth accelerated to 45% year-over-year, with AI-related product revenue delivering triple-digit growth for the twelfth consecutive quarter. CEO Eddie Wu framed this as driven by the " The same release states that Alibaba recently launched frontier models spanning language, coding, video, audio, image, and music generation, described as delivering top-tier performance, and introduced QwenWork as an enterprise AI workforce agent. While specific model version names, parameter counts, benchmarks, and AP

Alibaba on August 3, 2026 released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal model and the largest in its Qwen family, featuring a 1 million token context window. The model uses a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture that activates only 95 billion parameters per inference, reducing compute costs relative to de The release positions Qwen3.8-Max as a frontier-scale Chinese competitor within striking distance of leading Western models on key benchmarks and available via Alibaba's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork. The model supports multimodal inputs including long documents, video series, and live streams, with showcased capabi

On July 20, 2026, Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max in preview, claiming it is "second only to Anthropic's Fable 5," with 2.4 trillion parameters and an expected open-weight release. The model was made available to try via Alibaba's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork, and shares of Alibaba surged more than 3.5% in overnight t The competitive pressure from successive Chinese frontier releases drove shares of rival model maker Zhipu down more than 45% over five days and MiniMax down nearly 13% over the same window, with MiniMax having lost more than 61% over the prior month. Reporting also indicated that several top Chinese AI startups are pu

In Alibaba's FY2026 Q4 earnings call (May 13, 2026), CEO Eddie Wu reported that group revenue grew 11% year-over-year, Cloud Intelligence Group's external revenue growth accelerated to 40%, and AI-related product revenue achieved triple-digit growth for the 11th consecutive quarter. Wu described the company as at a piv The transcript confirms sustained high-intensity investment in the two strategic priorities of AI plus cloud and consumption, with China e-commerce CMR growing 8% on a like-for-like basis. While the transcript is a third-party republishing rather than a direct product announcement, it documents the latest publicly avai

Alibaba's March-quarter and full-year FY2026 results (filed May 2026 via Business Wire and mirrored on Morningstar) describe meaningful platform-level progress across the DashScope/Qwen stack. Cloud Intelligence Group's external revenue grew 40% year-over-year, with AI-related products contributing roughly 30% of that On the model side, Alibaba reported that its Qwen LLM demonstrated leadership in reasoning and coding, and that it expanded the multimodal portfolio with launches in video generation and world models. For agentic AI, the company shipped multiple enterprise AI agents targeted at office and coding use cases and fully int

Alibaba made Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal model with a 1 million token context window, widely accessible to global users this week, with the open-weights release scheduled for the following week. According to South China Morning Post reporting, the model can ingest long documents, television series, Alongside the model, Alibaba pushed QwenWork, an all-in-one workplace AI agent platform, into public beta as web and desktop apps. QwenWork is positioned directly against Tencent's WorkBuddy, Moonshot AI's Kimi Work, Claude Cowork, and ChatGPT Work, competing in a crowded field where distribution, pricing, and enterpri

Alibaba's SEC-filed earnings release for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, dated March 19, 2026, confirms that the Cloud Intelligence Group's revenue grew 36% with AI-related product revenue achieving triple-digit growth for the tenth consecutive quarter. CEO Eddie Wu highlighted that the Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) p The release also reports that the Qwen consumer interface surpassed 300 million monthly active users, with AI agents performing real-world task execution at scale, and that Qwen has been integrated with consumer ecosystem use cases to drive transactions. While the filing provides no specific DashScope API or Model Stud