Alibaba International Station Launches AI Procurement Assistant 'Smart Assistant'

Alibaba International Station has announced the launch of its new AI-powered procurement assistant, "Smart Assistant." This tool includes a range of features such as image search, RFQ (Request for Quote), and communication tools, aimed at enhancing the procurement efficiency of global small and medium-sized enterprises, particularly when purchasing Chinese goods. This innovative assistant offers global buyers a more convenient procurement method, leveraging smart search and communication tools to help users find the products they need more quickly. Additionally, the RFQ feature allows users to supplement information or match product images in one go, thereby improving procurement efficiency.

DAMO EAGLE, an AI model for esophageal cancer launched by Alibaba DAMO Academy: detects early cancer with non-invasive CT scans without intubation

Alibaba DAMO Academy and hospitals released AI model DAMO EAGLE for esophageal cancer screening. Using only non-contrast CT, it detects esophageal cancer and early lesions without invasive imaging. Validated on 80,000+ cases in 3 countries, with 90% sensitivity and 99.2% specificity; published in Nature Medicine.....

Qwen4 has entered training, Alibaba announces the evolution roadmap of 10 trillion parameter models

On September 22, the Yunchi Conference in Hangzhou opened, and Alibaba announced the progress of large models: Qwen4 has entered training, and the subsequent parameter scale is planned to expand to 5 trillion to 10 trillion; recursive self-improvement enters training, reasoning, and chip coordination; multimodal matrix upgrade, a new video generation model will be released in November. Liu Dayi Heng said that scaling is an important path toward ASI.

Alibaba Appoints Liu Dayi Heng as Head of the Qwen Project

Alibaba has appointed senior AI researcher Liu Dayi Heng as the head of the Tongyi Qianwen large language model project. This change comes after multiple rounds of organizational restructuring, further clarifying the management structure of the Qwen team. The Yunqi Conference opened on Tuesday, and the official list of guests displayed Liu Dayi Heng's image prominently, second only to Group Chairman Eric Yang and Chief Executive Officer.

Alibaba Launches Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: Native Multimodal, Million-Context Audio Cost Cut by 98%

The Alibaba Qwen team has launched the native multimodal model Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, which supports four types of input: text, image, audio, and video, with a context window of up to 1 million Tokens. It achieves an average improvement of over 25% across 29 benchmarks compared to its predecessor. The most significant change lies in its processing approach: instead of simply concatenating speech and image recognition, it natively integrates multimodal understanding and AI agent capabilities at the model level.

Alibaba Launches New Qoder: Upgraded from AI Programming Tool to Intelligent Agent Workstation for Everyone

Alibaba launched Qoder, upgrading its AI coding IDE into an agent workbench centered on coding. Users state goals in natural language; it understands context, plans, calls tools, executes and verifies, with visibility, adjustment or takeover throughout. In one year, over 6M users and 100K enterprises. The new version reflects three collaboration paradigm shifts.....