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Alibaba Group’s mission to make it easy to do business anywhere. They "enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell, and operate and improve their efficiencies. We provide the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with their users and customers and operate in a more efficient way."
Together AI Launches Wan 2.7 Video Suite at $0.10 Per Second
Alibaba's Wan 2.7 AI video model hits Together AI with text-to-video now live, image-to-video and editing tools coming soon at competitive pricing.
NVIDIA Deploys Alibaba Qwen3.5 VLM on Blackwell GPUs for AI Agent Development
NVIDIA offers free GPU-accelerated endpoints for Alibaba's 397B parameter Qwen3.5 vision-language model, enabling developers to build multimodal AI agents.
Twitter and Alibaba Enter Global AI Race
Twitter and Alibaba are reportedly integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their businesses. Meanwhile, Gemini co-founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have funded their business with a $100 million personal loan. This week’s Crypto Biz also covers MetaMask's new feature for purchasing cryptocurrency and Alibaba's new chatbot assistant.
Alibaba Enters AI Race with Tongyi Qianwen Chatbot
Chinese e-commerce giant, Alibaba, has announced its own version of a chatbot assistant, Tongyi Qianwen, which will be integrated with its vast ecosystem of tech businesses. The chatbot will be able to communicate in English and Mandarin and perform tasks such as turning conversations into written notes, writing emails, and drafting business proposals. Alibaba's new product has drawn comparisons to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard and Baidu's Ernie.
Alibaba's Ant Group Floats New Digital Bank ANEXT in Singapore
Ant Group, a majority-owned fintech firm of Alibaba Group Holdings has launched ANEXT, a digital bank following a nod from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) earlier this month
Alibaba Vice-Chairman Admits He Likes Crypto
Joe Tsai, the Executive Vice-Chairman of Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group has expressed his likeness for digital currencies in a tweet in which he professed “I like crypto.”
Alibaba Launches NFT Marketplace for Copyright Trading
Alibaba has launched a new marketplace for trading copyright licenses.
Alibaba's Largest E-commerce Platform Taobao Firstly Presents NFT Artworks in Festival Week
China's largest e-commerce website, Taobao, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, exhibited artworks in the form of NFT for the first time in the recent Shanghai Taobao Maker Festival.
China Tightens Regulation on Tech Industry, Sinking Alibaba and Tencent Stocks on Single’s Day
China's regulatory clampdown on the technology industry has resulted in Chinese tech shares' underperforming on the stock market.
Over $3 Trillion USD Subscribed, Largest IPO Ant Group Blowout is Ready
On Oct. 30, Ant Group and China's Shanghai Stock Exchange announced that the subscription amount for Ant Group's IPO now exceeds 19.05 trillion RMB ($3 trillion US dollars).
Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Criticizes Current Financial Regulations
Alibaba founder Jack Ma highlights the importance of fintech innovations over regulations.
Ant Group Chairman Eric Jing: Blockchain Will be the New Standard of the Future Financial Infrastructure
Recently, Ant Group Chairman Eric Jing spoke about the future of financial infrastructure, and that blockchain will become a new standard.
Tech Adoption Fueled by COVID-19, Will Global Blockchain Adoption Be Accelerated Too?
Coronavirus has driven global economies and businesses to the ground, but one industry that has benefitted from the pandemic appears to be the tech sector.
China's Antitrust Agency Urged By the PBOC to Probe Alipay and WeChat Pay
In a move similar to the US antitrust hearing, the People’s Bank of China has prompted the nations top antitrust body to probe Alipay and WeChat
Ant Group Partners with Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo to Enable Access for its New Blockchain Solution—AntChain
Ant Group, formerly known as Ant Financial, the payments arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has launched a new blockchain solution, AntChain. Ant Group has signed an agreement with Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo to enable accessibility of IT leasing services for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) through the AntChain blockchain solution.