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3 days ago | 
scmp.com | Ben Jiang
Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding has announced a breakthrough in reducing the cost of training artificial intelligence (AI) models for search by nearly 90 per cent, as companies strive to enhance AI capabilities while reducing development expenses. Researchers at Alibaba introduced a new approach called ZeroSearch, which improves AI models’ search capabilities through simulations without the need to interact with actual search engines, according to a research paper published last week.
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5 days ago | 
scmp.com | Ben Jiang
Alibaba Group Holding’s artificial intelligence (AI) app Quark has introduced a “deep search” function, as Chinese tech companies strive to redefine search engines in the AI era. Unlike conventional search engines that rely on keywords, the “deep search” feature leverages Alibaba’s Qwen AI models by combining reasoning capabilities with online search to deliver accurate responses to complex queries, according to Quark.
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6 days ago | 
thestar.com.my | Ben Jiang
Beijing is allocating tens of millions of US dollars in subsidies to stimulate growth in the city’s artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain, using entirely domestic technologies, as China invests heavily in its technological self-reliance drive.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Ben Jiang
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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Ben Jiang
Artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has acknowledged the significant role that a technical solution from Tencent Holdings played in addressing a persistent issue in its system, highlighting the local open-source community’s contribution to China’s AI advances. DeepEP, a code library for inter-chip communications, attained a “huge speed boost” by using a technical solution from Tencent’s network platform department, according to Zhao Chenggang, an AI infrastructure engineer at DeepSeek.
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1 week ago | 
scmp.com | Ben Jiang
Alibaba Group Holding’s newly released Qwen3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models has overtaken DeepSeek’s R1 to become the world’s top-ranked open-source model, according to the industry’s latest benchmark tests.
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thestar.com.my | Ben Jiang
Alibaba Group Holding’s third-generation Qwen3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models appears to have narrowed the gap between the United States and China in this field, while cementing the company’s leadership position in the global open-source community, according to analysts and reports. Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s cloud computing unit on Tuesday unveiled its much-anticipated Qwen3 family, consisting of eight enhanced models that range from 600 million to 235 billion parameters.
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2 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Ben Jiang
Alibaba Group Holding’s third-generation Qwen3 family of artificial intelligence (AI) models appears to have narrowed the gap between the United States and China in this field, while cementing the company’s leadership position in the global open-source community, according to analysts and reports. Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s cloud computing unit on Tuesday unveiled its much-anticipated Qwen3 family, consisting of eight enhanced models that range from 600 million to 235 billion parameters.
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2 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Ben Jiang
Chinese start-up DeepSeek quietly open-sourced a new specialist artificial intelligence (AI) model on Wednesday, just a day after Alibaba unveiled the third generation of its Qwen family, as competition heats up in the race to advance generative AI capabilities. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek uploaded its latest open-source Prover-V2 model to Hugging Face, the world’s largest open-source AI community, without making any announcements on its official social media channels.
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2 weeks ago | 
scmp.com | Ben Jiang
The competition between China and the US over foundational artificial intelligence (AI) models has intensified, with Elon Musk teasing his company’s Grok 3.5 model hours after Alibaba Group Holding unveiled its new Qwen3 models to widespread interest from developers. On Tuesday, Alibaba released the third generation of its Qwen family of AI models, with multiple versions, each featuring a different number of parameters.
