Alibaba News
Latest Alibaba news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
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- Alibaba Ships Qwen-Audio 3.1, Cuts Voice API Prices By Up To 95% — — Alibaba's five-model Qwen-Audio 3.1 stack undercuts ElevenLabs and OpenAI Realtime pricing, adds ASR-Next speaker ID and TTS-Next single-pass mixed au...
- Alibaba Unveils AgentCore And Agent Native Cloud At Apsara 2026 — — At Apsara 2026, Alibaba Cloud unveiled AgentCore, Agent Native Cloud and a stack of new infrastructure - HPN 8.0 Pro, next-gen CPFS and OpenLake - bui...
- CanSemi Tech Sets $918M Shenzhen IPO As China's Chip Push Accelerates — — Guangzhou foundry CanSemi priced its Shenzhen offering at 12.01 yuan a share and pulled in Alibaba, Goodix and Biwin as strategic backers.
- Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu V900 AI Chip, Targets 10-Trillion-Parameter Qwen — — At Apsara 2026, Alibaba unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI chip and outlined Qwen models scaling to 5-10 trillion parameters, with a 20-GW data-center target...
- Alibaba Qwen Ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash With 1M-Token Multimodal Context — — Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash on September 18, 2026 — a native omnimodal model with a 1M-token context, agentic video perception and...
- China's Yuedian Technology Raises Pre-A To Build A Palantir For Chinese Enterprises — — Beijing enterprise-AI company Yuedian Technology, spun out of Minglue's knowledge-graph line, raised tens of millions of yuan Pre-A led by Infotech Ve...
- Alibaba To Lead $300M Round For UniPat AI At $2.5B, Betting On China's AI Evaluation Layer — — Alibaba, Tencent and HSG are lining up a $300 million round for Chinese benchmarking startup UniPat AI at a $2.5 billion valuation — the biggest bet y...
- Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon Join PyTorch Foundation As Ant Group Takes Gold Seat — — Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon joined the PyTorch Foundation as Platinum members and Ant Group as Gold, announced Sept. 8 at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + O...
- MagicLab Joins AliExpress Brand+ At IFA 2026 To Route Humanoids Into Europe — — Suzhou-based MagicLab announced its inclusion in the AliExpress Brand+ curation program at IFA Berlin 2026 on September 4, unlocking Alibaba's Spain,...
- Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Flash With 6B Active Params, Undercuts Rivals By 12x — — The 125B-parameter mixture-of-experts model activates just 6B per token, previews Qwen4 architecture and lists at $0.16 / $0.47 per million tokens.
- LimX Dynamics Files Confidential Hong Kong IPO Targeting Up To $300M — — Shenzhen humanoid maker LimX Dynamics has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO seeking up to $300 million, days after a $200M pre-IPO round from A...
- XPeng Spins Off Dogotix With $900M Seed At $6.3B Valuation — — XPeng Motors carved out its humanoid robotics arm Dogotix on August 24, 2026, closing an initial round of more than $900 million from IDG Capital, Ali...
- Alibaba Cloud Opens First South America Region With Two Brazil Data Centers — — Alibaba Cloud has activated its first South American region with two data centers in Brazil, offering local Alibaba enterprise AI and agentic AI servi...
- 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...