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Alibaba (Qwen / Tongyi Lab)

Alibaba (Qwen / Tongyi Lab)

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AutoTrust AI releases JEV-27B, an open decision model mirroring closed rival Jev

New Capabilities

Provided the frozen Qwen3.8-27B backbone

A Singapore lab says it reproduced the decision behavior of a $10-billion-valued rival with about nine hours of training on a single GPU. AutoTrust AI released JEV-27B on September 29, an open-weights model that answers yes/no, multiple-choice, and 0-to-5 rating questions in one forward pass and returns a calibrated probability for each option.

Updated 2 hours ago

XPeng robotics unit raises $900 million at $6.3 billion valuation

Money Moves

Strategic investor in XPeng robotics round

XPeng's robotics business has raised over $900 million at a valuation above $6.3 billion, the largest single-round private financing in China's embodied AI industry. IDG Capital led the round, with Tencent and Alibaba joining as strategic investors.

Updated Aug 25

Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max as open weights, undercutting US model pricing

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Shipped Qwen3.8-Max open weights under a new, more restrictive license

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max weights landed on Hugging Face on August 12, nine days after the API launch. The download is smaller than promised: it skips the 1-million-token context and image input of the hosted model, and the 27-billion-parameter version has not shipped.

Updated Aug 14

Apple builds its own AI model for China with Alibaba

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Apple's China AI partner and model-training supporter

For nearly two years, Apple could not turn on its AI features in China. Chinese law bars foreign firms from running their own generative AI models, so Apple had to lean on local partners. Now it has trained its own model, and Beijing has signed off.

Updated Aug 14