China Clears Apple Intelligence After Two-Year Wait
China's internet regulator approved Apple Intelligence for the local market, but only after Apple agreed to run Alibaba's Qwen and Baidu's models instead of its own.
Articles Tagged "Alibaba"
Qwen3.6-Plus
Alibaba's 1M-token flagship agentic coding model posts 78.8% on SWE-bench Verified and undercuts Kimi K2.6 and Claude Opus on price, but ships with no weights and a mandatory reasoning tax.
China Weighs Copying US-Style AI Model Controls
China's Ministry of Commerce is discussing restrictions on overseas access to Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai's most advanced AI models, mirroring the export control regime Beijing has spent years fighting.
China's Companion Law Forces Doubao, Qwen Offline
China's new AI anthropomorphic interaction rules take effect July 15, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down persistent AI companion features and permanently delete user conversation data.
Anthropic Caught Qwen Running 25,000 Fake Claude Accounts
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 25,000 fraudulent accounts that extracted 28.8 million Claude interactions in the largest AI distillation attack on record.
Alibaba Bans Claude Code, Citing Hidden Tracking Code
Alibaba classified Claude Code as high-risk software after a researcher alleged version 2.1.91 silently identified Chinese corporate users, escalating a bitter distillation war between the two companies.
Anthropic Tells Senate Alibaba Stole Claude's Capabilities
Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 28.8 million unauthorized exchanges against Claude through 25,000 fake accounts, and urged Congress to tighten export controls on AI model access.
Wan 2.7
Alibaba's open-source video generation model with MoE architecture, native audio, first-and-last-frame control, and 1080p output up to 15 seconds.
HappyHorse-1.0
HappyHorse-1.0 is Alibaba's 15-billion-parameter video generation model that ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis, producing 720p-1080p clips with joint audio-video synthesis in a single forward pass.
Best AI Models for Video Generation - June 2026
HappyHorse-1.0 from Alibaba-ATH leads the Artificial Analysis blind-vote rankings at Elo 1,290, but Seedance 2.0 is now globally available via fal.ai and still tops the with-audio leaderboard at 1,218.
Alibaba's Qwen-Robot Suite Targets Physical AI Work
Alibaba launches three open-weight models for robot manipulation, navigation, and world prediction, built on a shared Qwen3.5 backbone with open weights.
Qwen-RobotManip
Alibaba's generalist VLA model for robotic manipulation, built on Qwen3.5-4B with a DiT action decoder, trained on 38,100+ hours of open-source data, and ranked first on the RoboChallenge generalist track.
