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Alibaba Cloud is an AI company. Chinese multinational technology company with major AI research through Alibaba Cloud and the Qwen family of language models. This page tracks 137 recent news stories about Alibaba Cloud, curated from 30+ sources and updated every 15 minutes.

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Manulife Hong Kong and Alibaba Cloud Sign Strategic Partnership to Accelerate and Scale AI Innovation
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Manulife Hong Kong and Alibaba Cloud Sign Strategic Partnership to Accelerate and Scale AI Innovation

Two of Asia's financial and technology heavyweights are joining forces to embed artificial intelligence directly into insurance products, a move that could reshape how millions of customers across the region manage risk and claim payouts. Manulife's decision to partner with Alibaba Cloud signals a broader pivot by traditional insurers to abandon incremental AI adoption in favor of wholesale digital transformation, potentially accelerating the timeline for automation of jobs across Asia's financial sector. The partnership also represents a rare alignment between a Western-listed insurer and China's cloud infrastructure, at a moment when geopolitical tensions typically push such collaborations to the margins.

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Rio de Janeiro’s city council just dropped a frontier model. The week keeps getting stranger. "Wait what? Rio 3.5 Open 397B, developed by IT company of Rio de Janeiro's city government is now SOTA open source and even outperforming Qwen 3.7? What is happening today. Never heard of them before."

https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2065911865390063791

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How We Built an Autonomous eCommerce SuperApp for Nigeria’s Informal Economy Using Qwen
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How We Built an Autonomous eCommerce SuperApp for Nigeria’s Informal Economy Using Qwen

by Emmanuel Ezeji — A build-journey for the Global AI Hackathon with Alibaba Cloud — Track 4: Autopilot Agent

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Alibaba Cloud opens Johor cloud region

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I Went Looking for the Best Local LLM for Coding in 2026.
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I Went Looking for the Best Local LLM for Coding in 2026.

by Andrus — In February 2025 I wrote a guide on running DeepSeek R1 locally, then quietly stopped using it within two weeks. Qwen 3.6 made me try…

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BABA Stock Heads For Fifth Week Of Loss: Alibaba Reportedly Makes $1.5B Play For Pupu Amid China Regulatory Scrutiny

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Alibaba unveils new Tongyi Qianwen AI language model
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Alibaba unveils new Tongyi Qianwen AI language model

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, unveils on Friday its open-source 72 billion-parameter version of Tongyi Qianwen. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Alibaba...

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Where You Put the Instruction Matters More Than What It Says
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Where You Put the Instruction Matters More Than What It Says

by Raj Kundalia — An experiment comparing system prompts, user prompts, and tool descriptions across Claude and Qwen

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Can the Post - 90s New Leader Fix DingTalk's "Old Loopholes"?

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I scaled test-time compute for Qwen-3.6-27B and Gemma-4-31B to surpass Claude Mythos in code optimizations and speedups.

The scaffold uses ~25-40x more compute on the original baseline model to attempt the same problem. I put it into max mode by setting the branches exploration breadth to 5, iterative corrections loop...

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Alibaba Cloud’s Johor region launch comes packaged with an agentic AI push in Malaysia
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Alibaba Cloud’s Johor region launch comes packaged with an agentic AI push in Malaysia

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Wang Jian, founder of Alibaba Cloud: I firmly do not believe that AI will replace humans.

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Some contrived tests comparing the accuracy of different Gemma and Qwen quantizations

I mostly ran these tests for myself, because the published KLD numbers are hard to interpret, and you cannot compare 9B-Q4 vs 4B-Q8, for example. But I'm happy to share the results with anyone...

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How I Created an AI Movie for Free Using Qwen: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to AI Filmmaking
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How I Created an AI Movie for Free Using Qwen: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to AI Filmmaking

by TanyaGupta — From generating characters and maintaining consistency to solving voice issues and merging scenes into a complete sci-fi thriller, here’s…

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New model on huggingface

https://huggingface.co/prefeitura-rio/Rio-3.5-Open-397B A qwen finetune. Looks pretty even with qwen 3.7 plus, except it's actually open source. Disclosure: I work as a researcher for the city...

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Alibaba to aggressively increase investment in AI
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Alibaba to aggressively increase investment in AI

Alibaba recently inked partnership with US consumer electronics company Apple to roll out AI features for iPhone users in China. Moreover, it has unveiled its latest AI model, Qwen 2.5-Max, which ...

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CAICT Joins eSurfing Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Other Firms to Launch Token Cloud Service Quality and Empowerment Evaluation Initiative

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Alibaba Cloud Founder Opines AI Has Profound Long-term Impact on Science but Unconvinced It Will Replace Humans

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Alibaba's DingTalk ousts founder CEO after AI overhaul exposes management rift

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Alibaba Cloud?

Alibaba Cloud is Chinese multinational technology company with major AI research through Alibaba Cloud and the Qwen family of language models.

What is Alibaba Cloud's official website?

Alibaba Cloud's official website is https://www.alibabacloud.com/.

What is the latest news about Alibaba Cloud?

As of today, there are 137 recent stories about Alibaba Cloud. Recent headlines include: Rio de Janeiro’s city council just dropped a frontier model. The week keeps getting stranger. "Wait what? Rio 3.5 Open 397B, developed by IT company of Rio de Janeiro's city government is now SOTA open source and even outperforming Qwen 3.7? What is happening today. Never heard of them before."; Where You Put the Instruction Matters More Than What It Says; How I Created an AI Movie for Free Using Qwen: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to AI Filmmaking. Updated every 15 minutes.

Who works at Alibaba Cloud?

Notable people at Alibaba Cloud: Zhou Hao (Head of post-training research).