According to @business, Alibaba will raise its AI development spending to build a complete AI ecosystem that rivals U.S. competitors, a headline that puts near-term investment intensity and guidance in focus for BABA ADR and 9988.HK; source: Bloomberg (@business) tweet and article link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-24/alibaba-to-raise-spending-on-ai-above-50-billion-plan. Alibaba’s AI stack is anchored by Alibaba Cloud and its Tongyi Qianwen large language model, which Alibaba has made available for enterprise use in China; source: Alibaba Group and Alibaba Cloud product and news pages: https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/news and https://www.alibabacloud.com. A key execution variable remains access to advanced AI chips in China, as U.S. export controls restrict supply of leading-edge accelerators, influencing model training and inference scale; source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, October 2023 rules update: https://www.bis.doc.gov. Crypto angle: large-scale AI investment headlines from megacap tech have been tracked by market analysts as catalysts for AI-related crypto sectors; traders may watch AI tokens and majors such as BTC and ETH for sentiment shifts following this news; source: Kaiko Research market commentary: https://kaiko.com/research.