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Alibaba Ships Qwen-Audio 3.1, Cuts Voice API Prices By Up To 95% — Sep 26, 2026 — 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 — Sep 25, 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...Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu V900 AI Chip, Targets 10-Trillion-Parameter Qwen — Sep 23, 2026 — 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 To Lead $300M Round For UniPat AI At $2.5B, Betting On China's AI Evaluation Layer — Sep 11, 2026 — 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 — Sep 8, 2026 — 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 — Sep 5, 2026 — 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 — Sep 1, 2026 — 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.Alibaba Cloud Opens First South America Region With Two Brazil Data Centers — Aug 28, 2026 — Alibaba Cloud has activated its first South American region with two data centers in Brazil, offering local Alibaba enterprise AI and agentic AI servi...Alibaba Unveils Qwen-UI-Agent, GUI Model Beats GPT-5.6 And Claude 4.8 — Aug 22, 2026 — 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 Launches HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI Music Model Built on Natural-Language Prompts — Aug 19, 2026 — Alibaba has officially launched HappyShrimp 1.0, a generative AI music model that turns natural-language descriptions of emotions, stories or memories...Apple Trains Own China LLM With Alibaba To Power Apple Intelligence — Aug 16, 2026 — 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...Alibaba Cloud Unveils Agent-Native Cloud, AgentTeams and Qwen 3.8-Max At WAIC 2026 — Jul 22, 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....PixVerse Closes $439M Series C Extension, Vaults Past $2B Valuation — Jul 15, 2026 — Singapore-based generative video startup PixVerse pulls total Series C to $439 million as Alibaba and other investors back its push into games and rea...Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu M890 AI Chip to Rival Nvidia — May 22, 2026 — Alibaba has launched the Zhenwu M890 AI accelerator and a new Qwen3.7-Max model, deepening China's drive for homegrown alternatives to Nvidia hardware...Unitree Robotics to Launch World's Cheapest Humanoid Robot on Alibaba — Apr 9, 2026 — Unitree Robotics will debut the world's most affordable humanoid robot through Alibaba's platform, sources confirm.