Chinese tech giants race to expand AI services market with latest open-standard protocol

Chinese tech giants race to expand AI services market with latest open-standard protocol

Major Chinese technology companies are racing to launch services based on the open model context protocol (MCP), which enables Manus-like artificial intelligence (AI) agents to connect with third-party online tools, data sources and systems – a trend that could expand the commercial adoption of such applications. Alipay operator Ant Group – the fintech affiliate of…

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Alibaba revamps Quark search engine into AI super assistant as China’s tech race picks up

Alibaba revamps Quark search engine into AI super assistant as China’s tech race picks up

Alibaba Group Holding has revamped its web-search and cloud-storage tool Quark into a super artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, signalling the tech giant’s efforts to strengthen its foothold in the emerging field of AI agents. The new version of Quark is powered by Alibaba’s Qwen series reasoning model. It offers advanced capabilities such as a chatbot,…

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