Alibaba's Intelligent Information Division Launches Quark Large Model, Quark App to Upgrade as AI Assistant


The AI assistant Dou Bao App under ByteDance successfully overtook Alibaba's Qwen and Ant Group's Afu, securing the top position on the rankings. This achievement is closely related to Dou Bao's high exposure and user interaction activities during the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. On February 16, Dou Bao announced a collaboration with the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. According to its disclosure, the number of interactions of Dou Bao AI reached as high as 1.9 billion on the eve of the Spring Festival, demonstrating strong user appeal.
Alibaba to release Qwen3.5, a new AI model with architectural innovations for improved performance and flexibility, enhancing its influence in smart tech.....
China Eastern Airlines partners with Alibaba's Qianwen and Fliggy to become the first airline in China to fully integrate consumer AI. Passengers can book flights and receive subsidies via voice commands, shifting from search to conversational service, streamlining ticket purchases. Future plans include expanding 'flight+' and lifestyle services.....
ByteDance's AI assistant Doubao joins the Spring Festival marketing campaign as a partner for the 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, launching the 'Doubao Celebrates New Year' event. It offers over 100,000 tech prizes integrated with its AI model, such as Unitree robots and DJI drones, instead of traditional cash red envelopes.....
Alibaba's new generation foundation model Qwen3.5 is about to be released and has already submitted a code merge application to HuggingFace. The model uses a new hybrid attention mechanism and may natively support visual understanding. It is expected to open-source at least 2B dense models and 35B-A3B MoE models, and is expected to be officially open-sourced during the Spring Festival.