Alibaba News
Latest Alibaba news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
- XPENG Robotics Raises Over $900M at $6.3B Valuation to Mass-Produce IRON — — XPENG’s humanoid robotics business closed its first external funding round at over US$900M, valuing the unit at more than US$6.3B, in what the a...
- Apple Music Will Label Songs Materially Generated Using AI — — Apple Music told partners it will surface visible labels on tracks that content providers identify as materially generated using AI, extending its AI...
- Alibaba Unveils Qwen-UI-Agent, GUI Model Beats GPT-5.6 And Claude 4.8 — — Alibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent, a GUI-focused foundation model, tops MobileWorld, OSWorld-Verified and WebArena while outscoring GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus...
- Alibaba-Backed Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation In Robotics AI Round — — Shenzhen embodied-AI startup Dexmal is targeting a valuation of about 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in a new funding round, building on prior backing f...
- Alibaba Launches HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI Music Model Built on Natural-Language Prompts — — Alibaba has officially launched HappyShrimp 1.0, a generative AI music model that turns natural-language descriptions of emotions, stories or memories...
- Alibaba Open-Weights Qwen3.8-27B, a 27B Multimodal Model for a Single Consumer GPU — — Alibaba released Apache-2.0 open weights for Qwen3.8-27B on August 14, 2026 — a 27.78B-parameter multimodal model with a 262K context window designed...
- Apple Trains Own China LLM With Alibaba To Power Apple Intelligence — — Reuters says Apple has built a bespoke China-only large language model with Alibaba's help to power Apple Intelligence on iPhones sold on the mainland...
- Apple Trains Its Own China LLM With Alibaba To Unlock Apple Intelligence — — Reuters reports Apple has trained a proprietary China-market LLM with Alibaba's support, becoming the first foreign company approved to run its own AI...
- SkyIntelligence Deepens Physical AI Ties With NVIDIA And ABB At WAIC — — Shanghai physical-AI company SkyIntelligence joined a joint NVIDIA and ABB Robotics white paper on high-precision manufacturing at the 2026 World Arti...
- Alibaba Cloud Unveils Agent-Native Cloud, AgentTeams and Qwen 3.8-Max At WAIC 2026 — — At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, Alibaba Cloud rolled out a full agent-native stack: AgentLoop, AgentTeams and AgentRun on top of a new Qwen 3....
- Alibaba Previews 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Qwen3.8, Says It Trails Only Claude Fable 5 — — Alibaba used WAIC 2026 to preview Qwen3.8, a 2.4T-parameter flagship it says is second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. Qwen3.8-Max-Preview is alre...
- ACE ROBOTICS Unveils Kairos 3.1 World Model and Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 At WAIC 2026 — — Shanghai embodied-AI firm ACE ROBOTICS previewed its Kairos 3.1 world model, Ambient Capture Engine 2.0 data pipeline, and three commercial robot solu...
- China Stands Up WAICO In Shanghai, Signing 29 Countries To A Rival AI Bloc — — On 16 July, 29 nations signed the founding agreement for WAICO in Shanghai, giving China a headquarters and a treaty framework to shape global AI gove...
- Moonshot AI Releases 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Kimi K3 Open Model With Delta Attention — — Beijing's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open Mixture-of-Experts foundation model built on Kimi Delta Attention, on July 16, 2...
- BAAI Unveils Wujie World Model System, Marching Into Physical AGI — — China's Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence unveiled its Wujie world model system — Physis-v0.1 and RoboBrain Orca — at the 2026 Zhiyuan Confer...
- Sysdig Documents JADEPUFFER, First End-to-End AI Agent Ransomware Attack — — Sysdig's Threat Research Team disclosed JADEPUFFER, an LLM-driven ransomware operation that autonomously exploited a Langflow flaw, harvested credenti...
- Kling AI Raises $2.8B From Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu at $18B Valuation — — Kuaishou's video AI subsidiary Kling AI closed a $2.79 billion round from Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu and BlueFive Capital at $18B, setting up a Hong Kong...
- X Square Robot Hits $2.8B Valuation in Series C for Physical AI — — X Square Robot surpassed a $2.8B valuation after four consecutive rounds capped by a Series C, backed by IDG, Xiaomi, Meituan, Alibaba, ByteDance and...
- Alibaba Unveils Qwen-Robot Suite for Embodied AI Robots — — Alibaba launched its first foundation models built for physical robots, extending Qwen into navigation, manipulation and predictive world modeling.
- AGIBOT World Challenge 2026 Brings Embodied AI Race To ICRA In Vienna — — 526 research and enterprise teams from 27 countries competed across AGIBOT's Reasoning-to-Action and World Model tracks in Vienna, in a format that pr...