Airbnb picks Alibaba’s Qwen over ChatGPT in a win for Chinese open-source AI
Alibaba Group Holding’s Qwen AI models are winning over major Western firms like Airbnb, underscoring the growing global…
Jardine Matheson to buy remaining stake in Mandarin Oriental
Jardine Matheson Holdings has agreed to buy the remaining 11.96 per cent of hotel arm Mandarin Oriental International…
Tencent’s hit title Delta Force prompts sharpened focus on shooting games
For more than a decade, Tencent Holdings developer Leo Yao toiled in relative anonymity, churning out one shooting…
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group releases powerful AI model to rival DeepSeek and OpenAI
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has released a new open-source, trillion-parameter large language model (LLM) that boasts stronger…
Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent’s Weixin Pay embrace China’s cross-border payment system
China’s two largest mobile payment services, Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings’ Weixin Pay, have adopted a new…
China set for bumper ‘golden week’ travel rush in boost for economy
China is likely to see a bumper surge in travel bookings for the coming “golden week” holiday –…
Alibaba releases next-generation Qwen3 model as AI rivalry intensifies
Alibaba Group Holding on Friday open-sourced its latest artificial intelligence model, built on the new Qwen3-Next architecture, which…
Alibaba holds wide lead over rivals ByteDance, Huawei, Tencent in China’s AI cloud market
Alibaba Group Holding captured more than a third of China’s artificial intelligence cloud services market in the first…
Alibaba’s Qwen3 and Moonshot’s Kimi-K2 crack top 10 AI rankings, closing in on US models
Two new Chinese artificial intelligence models have broken into a top 10 leaderboard for both open- and closed-source…
Alibaba releases biggest AI model to date to rival OpenAI and Google DeepMind
Alibaba Group Holding continues to scale up its artificial intelligence efforts with the release of its biggest AI…