Tag: Alibaba

Huawei’s new AI chip brings in ByteDance, Alibaba

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Customer testing of Huawei’s new AI chip, designed to challenge Nvidia in the China market, has gone well and big tech giants including ByteDance and Alibaba plan to place...

Manus AI partners with tech giant Alibaba’s Qwen team

Posted on   |  by Eduardo Baptista, Gu Li and Brenda Goh
China’s Manus AI has announced a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba’s Qwen AI models, a move that could bolster the artificial intelligence startup’s roll-out of...

China: COVID-19 and AI healthcare response

Posted on   |  by Philippa Jones
COVID-19 has proven an ideal testbed for an industry very much in its infancy. Diagnosing the virus requires lung CT scans to identify GGO (ground glass opacity), a key...

China’s USD crypto rival looms

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
China is set to launch a digital version of its currency, backed by its central bank. The new blockchain based central bank digital currency (CBDC) has the potential to...

Alibaba ramps up local presence

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Many people would be familiar with Alibaba from its famous Singles Day event, which generated around $40 billion in sales in 2018. Less well known is the company’s emphasis...

Facebook’s long march to China

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Facebook has been bending over every which way to somehow get back into China after the country’s so-called Great Firewall was significantly jacked up in July 2009, blocking western...

McGowan preps innovation plan

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan will release an updated state innovation policy by the end of the year, but has cautioned against any expectations of large new spending programs....

Jack and the data-driven giant

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Mid-way through the world’s biggest shopping festival seems a weird time to declare that Alibaba is no longer an eCommerce company, but that’s the argument that Alibaba Group chief...