{"id":254029,"date":"2026-01-27T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254029\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T11:07:08","slug":"alibabas-qwen-3-becomes-worlds-first-ai-model-to-operate-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254029\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba\u2019s Qwen-3 becomes world\u2019s first AI model to operate in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alibaba Cloud<\/a>\u2019s Qwen-3<\/a> became the world\u2019s first general-purpose artificial intelligence<\/a> model to be uploaded and operated in orbit, marking a milestone in China\u2019s bid to lead the nascent space-based computing sector.Chinese aerospace start-up<\/a> Adaspace Technology successfully deployed Qwen-3 to a space computing centre in orbit where it executed multiple inference tasks in November, according to company executive vice-president Wang Yabo, who spoke at a conference on Monday, as reported by the Star Market Daily.Alibaba Cloud is the AI and cloud computing services unit of Alibaba Group Holding<\/a>, owner of the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n

Wang said Qwen-3 was deployed in Adaspace\u2019s initial space computing centre that formed part of the firm\u2019s \u201cStar-Compute Project\u201d, a 2,800-satellite network designed to power physical AI and support AI model training and inference.<\/p>\n

The entire Qwen-3 process \u2013 from uploading queries from the ground to performing on-orbit inference and sending results back to Earth \u2013 was completed in less than two minutes, according to Wang.<\/p>\n

Adaspace\u2019s initial space computing centre, which was launched into space in May last year, represented the world\u2019s first AI computing satellite constellation, comprising 12 satellites, according to a Securities Times report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alibaba Cloud\u2019s Qwen-3 became the world\u2019s first general-purpose artificial intelligence model to be uploaded and operated in orbit,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62480,147022,1402,365,8191,8180,363,364,26938,607,147019,147020,47916,33438,111,139,69,147023,147024,147026,37558,14095,147021,4560,145,3040,147025],"class_list":["post-254029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-15th-five-year-plan","tag-adaspace-technology","tag-aerospace","tag-ai","tag-alibaba-cloud","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chengdu","tag-china","tag-frost-sullivan","tag-gunters-space-page","tag-hong-kong-stock-exchange","tag-meta-platforms","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-qwen-family","tag-qwen-3","tag-satellite-industry-association","tag-sichuan","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-star-compute-project","tag-start-up","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-wang-yabo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}