Alibaba is a Chinese technology and e‑commerce company that also operates cloud and AI service platforms. Recent coverage reports Chinese researchers using Claude and submitting 151 million training queries via Alibaba to produce military drafts; community comparisons of Alibaba’s freely released Qwen‑Next and a 96GB RTX 5090 listing on Alibaba; and Alibaba planning to lead a roughly $300M investment in UniPat AI valued at about $2.5B.
Z.AI returns to Hong Kong amid heavy cash burnBloomberg reports Z.AI returned to Hong Kong's equity market as its lockup expired, reflecting heavy cash burn that is driving the company to pursue fundraising opportunities.
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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