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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Tech war: Nvidia CEO’s China visit seen as sign of market commitment amid US restrictions

Tech war: Nvidia CEO’s China visit seen as sign of market commitment amid US restrictions

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s surprise visit to Beijing to meet top Chinese officials this week was meant to convey the US chip giant’s commitment to China amid Washington’s tighter restrictions on semiconductor exports, analysts said. According to the official Xinhua news agency, Huang met He Lifeng, the Chinese vice-premier in charge of US-China trade talks,…

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Alibaba’s Quark surpasses ByteDance’s Doubao, DeepSeek as China’s top AI app

Alibaba’s Quark surpasses ByteDance’s Doubao, DeepSeek as China’s top AI app

Alibaba Group Holding’s revamped artificial intelligence (AI) assistant app, Quark, which offers a user-friendly interface, has surpassed ByteDance’s Doubao to become China’s most popular AI app in March, showing its appeal among local users. Quark ranked at the top among Chinese AI apps with nearly 150 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide, followed by ByteDance’s…

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Donald Trump says China dragging TikTok sale deal due to tariffs, ‘If I gave a little cut, they’d approve in 15 mins…’

Donald Trump says China dragging TikTok sale deal due to tariffs, ‘If I gave a little cut, they’d approve in 15 mins…’

United States President Donald Trump on April 6 told reporters that China is holding back on approval for the sale deal for TikTok as a response to his tariffs, AFP reported. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Donald Trump said that China “changed the deal because of tariffs”, and insisted that they would agree…

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