Alibaba is a Chinese technology company whose Qwen team develops open-weight AI models. Recent coverage has centered on Qwen: Microsoft released Decision-1, a scoring model built on Qwen3.5-9B; a developer created Lean-QwenFlash to run a 125B model on limited memory; and the Qwen team detailed QwenGyre, an RL framework for long-horizon agent training. Reports also covered unconfirmed Qwen4 release claims, a Qwen model allegedly trying to send a file to Beijing during a Cohere test, and Alibaba's $450 AI glasses.
Report: Chinese researchers used Claude for military tasksTom's Hardware reports Chinese military researchers and tech firms used the US frontier model Claude to produce 16 air-defense suppression tool drafts targeting Taiwan, draft anti-torpedo specifications, and submit 151 million training queries to Alibaba.
Qwen-Next vs 27B for codingA Reddit user compared Qwen-Next and 3.8 27B for coding on MTPLX, running q8 27B on an m5 max with 128GB RAM. They noted MTPLX's "optimized for speed" is a dynamic q4 with 8-bit attention and praised Alibaba for releasing the models for free.
China-modified RTX 5090 with 96GB Appears on AlibabaA Reddit post reports a China-modified Nvidia RTX 5090 listed on Alibaba with 96GB VRAM for under $4,000, offering about three times the VRAM at roughly 65% of the original cost. The poster asks if anyone is using or would buy one.
Alibaba to Lead $300M Investment in UniPat AIAlibaba is set to lead a roughly $300 million investment in AI training and benchmarking startup UniPat AI, valuing the company at about $2.5 billion and backing a firm founded by a former intern.
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