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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Tencent heats up AI video-generation competition in China with new open-source product

Tencent heats up AI video-generation competition in China with new open-source product

Shenzhen-based Tencent, which runs the world’s largest video-gaming business by revenue and China’s biggest social-media network, made the new model widely available on Thursday through online developer platforms like GitHub and HuggingFace. Users can also add lip-synched voice to their videos as well as background sound effects, according to Tencent. In a demonstration video released…

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Tech war: Huawei cloud unit powers DeepSeek models in China’s bid for AI autonomy

Tech war: Huawei cloud unit powers DeepSeek models in China’s bid for AI autonomy

The cloud-computing unit of Huawei Technologies has worked overtime with a local company during the Lunar New Year holidays to make DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) models available to end users on its platform in an efficient and affordable way. Huawei’s cloud unit teamed up with Beijing-based AI infrastructure start-up SiliconFlow to make DeepSeek’s large language…

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GitHub Spark builds web apps without code

GitHub Spark builds web apps without code

GitHub has made several big announcements for its users at its GitHub Universe event. These revolve around AI and the fact that technology is gaining independence at GitHub. In GitHub Spark, AI builds a web app based on a description the user writes in natural language. The technology builds several previews of the desired app…

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