China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
… The Chinese company said it will release the weights for Qwen3.8-Max next week. …
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China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
… Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is a 2.4 trillion parameter model and “continuously evolving.” Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic disclose exact parameter counts for their leading systems. …
Apple Intelligence approved in China.
… To navigate local regulations, Apple is tapping domestic tech giants, integrating Alibaba’s Qwen and Baidu’s AI models to power the experience for Chinese users, as reported last year. …
America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI
… Days later, Chinese tech titan Alibaba followed with a preview of Qwen3.8. …
Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better AI browser
… Whereas for us, we are just looking at more just browser experience, user experience.” Users can choose which AI model they want to use in Smart Window, including Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, OpenAI’s oss-gpt-120b, Alibaba’s Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, or their own local AI models. “We’re loo… …
The AI giants’ new problem: open AI
… Kyle Miller, a senior research analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, made a similar point, citing Alibaba’s large family of Qwen open-weight AI models in China as an example of how deeply embedded an open system can become across an industry. …