Data, AI, & Machine Learning
Alibaba Unveils New AI Chip, Plans 20 GW Data Center Buildout
The company is increasing spending on chips, models and computing capacity as it pushes deeper into artificial intelligence.
The company is increasing spending on chips, models and computing capacity as it pushes deeper into artificial intelligence.
Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, its largest artificial intelligence model yet, as Chinese developers intensify efforts to challenge leading US systems with high-performance open-weight models that are cheaper to run.
The Alibaba model is set to compete with established players such as OpenAI's GPT-5, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Claude's Opus 4, among others.