How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the local government built a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west
or Hangzhou at all. Waiting for the next Deepseek “surreal” trauma moment, only to repress it soon afterwards... Time to reckon with the new world and rethink our place in it. S.L. Kanthan / @kanthan2...
Xianyu, Alibaba's online second-hand goods trading platform that claims to have 500M+ users, is opening its first bricks-and-mortar store in Hangzhou, China
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Alibaba Q4 beats estimates with revenue up 22% YoY to $16.14B and income of $447M, down 88% YoY due to loss in investments, cloud computing revenue up 58% YoY
HANGZHOU, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group") …
Alibaba Q3: revenue up 41% YoY, its weakest pace in three years, to ~$17B, driven by cloud computing revenue, up 84% YoY at $962M; net income up 33% to $4.5B
HANGZHOU, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2018.
Inside Alibaba's futuristic 290-room FlyZoo hotel where it showcases its prowess in AI and incubates tech it wants to sell to the hospitality industry
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Gliding silently through Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's futuristic “FlyZoo” hotel, black disc-shaped robots …
Alibaba says it will set up a chip subsidiary to make customised AI chips for its cloud and IoT businesses, aims to launch its first AI chip in H2 2019
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) will set up a dedicated chip subsidiary and aims to launch …
Hangzhou, China-based Tunlan Investment launches $1.6B Xiong'An Global Blockchain Innovation Fund, with $400M+ coming from the Hangzhou city government
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At a KFC outlet in Hangzhou, China, Alipay launches “Smile to Pay”, the first commercial system to use facial recognition to identify payers
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At a KFC outlet in Hangzhou, China, Alipay launches “Smile to Pay”, the first commercial system to use facial recognition to identify payers
Ant Financial, which operates the Alipay electronic payment platform used in Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall online shopping sites …
Dream Town, an incubator for 710 startups that was built by the government of Alibaba hometown Hangzhou, shows how China is trying to fuel tech growth
HANGZHOU, China — In Dream Town, a collection of boxy office buildings on the gritty edge of this historic city, one tiny company is developing a portable 3-D printer. Tweets: @mdudas , @nytimesbits ,...