Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model family helps narrow tech gap between China and US: analysts

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model family helps narrow tech gap between China and US: analysts

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. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. In machine learning, parameters are the variables present in an AI system during training, which helps establish how data prompts yield the…

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Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model family helps narrow tech gap between China and US: analysts

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model family helps narrow tech gap between China and US: analysts

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. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. In machine learning, parameters are the variables present in an AI system during training, which helps establish how data prompts yield the…

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Lightmatter releases new photonics technology for AI chips

Lightmatter releases new photonics technology for AI chips

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Lightmatter, a startup valued at $4.4 billion, on Monday released two pieces of technology aimed at speeding up the connections between artificial intelligence chips. Instead of moving information between computer chips as electrical signals, Lightmatter’s technology uses optical connections and what are known as silicon photonics to move…

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Google, Apple, AMD stock drag the Nasdaq

Google, Apple, AMD stock drag the Nasdaq

In This Story The Nasdaq and other major stock market indexes dipped Wednesday morning after underwhelming earnings reports from Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL-7.46%) and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD-10.21%). Other tech stocks such as Apple (AAPL-1.03%), Amazon (AMZN-2.05%), and Tesla (TSLA-1.77%) were also in the red. Tariffs, interest rates, and market volatility: What they mean…

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