{"id":451029,"date":"2026-05-20T10:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/451029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:49:11","slug":"alibaba-unveils-new-qwen-model-custom-chips-in-bid-to-become-chinas-ai-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/451029\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba unveils new Qwen model, custom chips in bid to become China\u2019s \u2018AI factory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Speaking at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou, Liu Weiguang, senior vice-president of Alibaba\u2019s cloud computing unit, framed AI as a new form of manufacturing that generates revenue through \u201ctraining and inference factories\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re building is China\u2019s AI factory,\u201d Liu said, describing Alibaba as the only AI and cloud company in the country operating \u201call five layers of the full AI stack\u201d, which bridges chips, agentic cloud, AI models, model service platforms and agentic applications.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During the event, Alibaba announced Qwen3.7-Max, the company\u2019s latest proprietary large language model designed as \u201ca robust foundation\u201d for AI agents.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to Alibaba, the model excels at agentic coding, complex reasoning and \u201clong-horizon tasks\u201d \u2013 complex, multi-step missions requiring continuous decision-making over extended periods. The company said Qwen3.7-Max could autonomously operate for up to 35 hours without performance degradation.<\/p>\n<p>Zhou Jingren, the former chief technology officer of Alibaba Cloud who was recently appointed as the chief AI architect of the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3349428\/alibaba-creates-ceo-led-technology-committee-amid-intensifying-ai-race?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">newly formed Alibaba Group Technology Committee<\/a>, said the model consistently ranked among the top tier on various benchmarks and outperformed all other AI models in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou, Liu Weiguang, senior vice-president of Alibaba\u2019s cloud computing unit, framed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,141661,2948,210863,2939,1463,343,344,1657,133,2938,85,46,210864,4136,1748,210865,5959,134114,125],"class_list":["post-451029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-factory","tag-alibaba","tag-alibaba-cloud-summit","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-google","tag-hangzhou","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-liu-weiguang","tag-nvidia","tag-openai","tag-qwen-max","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-t-head","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}