Alibaba International Station Launches AI Procurement Assistant 'Smart Assistant'


Alibaba plans to purchase tens of thousands of AMD MI308 AI chips, designed for the Chinese market and compliant with U.S. export controls, to meet its AI needs. This highlights Alibaba's focus on AI, though the MI308 differs from Nvidia's H20 in cost-effectiveness and security.....
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-Layered model decomposes static photos into multiple RGBA layers with transparent backgrounds, enabling structured editing akin to Photoshop and overcoming traditional AI's limitations in whole-image redrawing.....
The enterprise information inquiry platform '88Chaz' under Alibaba will launch an App version to enter the enterprise information inquiry market. The App will migrate functions such as enterprise business registration information inquiry, equity structure penetration, and business risk alerts from the web version to mobile devices, making it convenient for users to verify partners' qualifications and understand company backgrounds at any time, filling the gap in mobile enterprise information inquiry services.
Meta plans to release an AI model codenamed "Avocado" in the spring of 2026, which may shift to being closed-source and was trained using Alibaba's open-source model Qwen. The news has attracted market attention, causing Alibaba's stock price to rise.
Alibaba launches Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01, a multimodal AI supporting seamless text, image, audio, and video inputs with real-time streaming for high-quality text and natural speech output in 119 languages.....