Sources: China has told Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, suggesting Beijing is close to approving imports
Sources: ByteDance expands its cloud via sales hires and lower prices; IDC: ByteDance had nearly 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, vs. Alibaba's 23%
Deep discounts, vast data and bespoke AI agents fuel new challenge in China's multibillion-dollar enterprise market
Sources: Chinese AI companies seek to rent compute in Southeast Asia and the Middle East for Nvidia Rubin access, as Zhipu and Alibaba warn of a widening US gap
Companies in China scrap for access to Nvidia's latest Rubin lineup while better-funded U.S. competitors are first in line
Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M+ downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatGPT, particularly in China
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads in the week after its relaunch, boding well for a longer-term effort …
Alibaba halves Qwen3-Max's prices, from $0.861 to $0.459 per 1M input tokens and $3.441 to $1.836 per 1M output tokens for API users, amid China's AI price wars
The new pricing strategy reflects heightened competition in China's foundational model market
Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20s required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters
up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192 ACM Digital Library : Aegaeon: Effective GPU Pooling for Concurrent LLM Serving on the Market Rounak Jain / Benzinga : Alibaba Cloud's New ...
Alibaba says its mapping app Amap's destination ranking feature hit 400M users since its launch in September; Amap had a record 360M daily users on October 1
As of June, Amap had 895.5 million monthly active users, making it the fourth biggest mobile app in China by that measure
Chinese state media: Alibaba has secured a high-profile client in China Unicom for its AI chips; prior reports said Alibaba supplies tens of thousands of chips
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has secured a high-profile customer in China Unicom for its AI chips, suggesting …
Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M+ users globally
AIsphere's PixVerse has over 100 million users globally, more than double the number it had at the start of the year
Sources: Alibaba and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their AI models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia
Trouble Ahead for Nvidia? Deborah Sophia / Reuters : Alibaba, Baidu begin using own chips to train AI models, The Information reports Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : Top China silicon figure calls on ...