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Alibaba
July 2026
- Nvidia rival Etched raises $800M with backing from Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund
- Alibaba's Qwen leads global open-source AI community with 700 million downloads
- Alibaba bans Anthropic AI tools for employees after distillation concerns
- China issues 'backdoor' security alert over Anthropic's Claude Code
- China plans limited Nvidia H200 purchases for top AI firms
- Hidden-State Probes Predict LLM Agent Failure Early, Saving Up to 47% Inference Compute
- Chinese Firms Leave Nvidia for Local AI Suppliers, Survey Shows
- Etched emerges from stealth with working transformer-inference ASIC, $800M raised, $1B+ in customer contracts
June 2026
May 2026
- Sberbank seeks Chinese chips for GigaChat AI model under sanctions pressure
- Hackers compromise dozens of popular open source packages in supply-chain attack
- Chinese Grey Market Resells Claude API at 90% Discount via Proxy Networks
- Chinese Humanoid-Robot Startup Robot Era Raises Over $200 Million Led by SF Express
April 2026
- Alibaba's Metis agent reduces redundant AI tool calls by 96%
- China mandates minimum wage and algorithm transparency for 200 million gig workers
- Health data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants found for sale on Alibaba
- Microsoft faces $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over Windows Server cloud pricing
- Researchers propose Train-to-Test scaling to optimize AI compute budgets
- Alibaba reorganizes AI leadership amid strategic pivot to monetization
- Alibaba's Stealth Video AI Model Tops Global Benchmarks
- Alibaba Leads $293 Million Investment in AI Video Startup ShengShu
- Z.ai Releases GLM-5.1 Language Model Under MIT License
- Arcee AI Releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399-Billion Parameter Open Source Reasoning Model
- Chinese Chip Firms Post Record Revenue as AI Demand and US Export Curbs Drive Domestic Boom
- Google Releases Gemma 4 Open AI Models and Switches License to Apache 2.0
- Alibaba Releases Third Proprietary AI Model in Three Days, Sharpening Focus on Profit
March 2026
- Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni Is Proprietary, Marking a Shift Away From Its Open-Source Strategy
- Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM release by Alibaba
- Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-Omni, Claims Omnimodal LLM Surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on Audio Benchmarks
- Ollama now powered by MLX framework for fastest Apple Silicon performance
- Alibaba DAMO Academy Claims 'World's Highest Performing RISC-V CPU' With New XuanTie C950
- Alibaba T-Head Unveils Zhenwu 810E AI Chip Comparable to Nvidia H20
- Cursor Admits New Composer 2 Coding Model Was Built on Chinese AI Kimi K2.5
- Alibaba and Tencent Lose Combined $66 Billion in Market Value as Investors Punish Unclear AI Monetization
- Cursor Admits New Coding Model Built on Chinese Moonshot AI's Kimi
- This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt