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Alibaba is reported to be selling its gaming studio, Lingxi Games ("Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition"), for at least $1.5B to fund its AI buildout. The rest of the trending items in this list are largely unrelated community chatter about Qwen 3.8 model performance and settings.

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Key Takeaway Alibaba’s gaming unit Lingxi Games is being sold for at least $1.5B to help finance its AI efforts.
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AI funding shift studio sale Qwen community chatter alibaba group alibaba cloud
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Tom's Hardware · 22h ago
Alibaba is selling its gaming studio for at least $1.5 billion to help fund AI buildout, mirroring Micron's exit from consumer business — dumps entire stake in Lingxi Games, which made 'Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition'
simonwillison.net · 23h ago
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

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  • Alibaba is selling its gaming studio for at least $1.5 billion to help fund AI buildout, mirroring Micron's exit from consumer business — dumps entire stake in Lingxi Games, which made 'Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition' Tom's Hardware
  • Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things simonwillison.net
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wccftech.com

DeepSeek's Peak-Hour Pricing Betrays Where Its Users Really Live, Calming US Fears of a China AI Takeover, Even As Alibaba's Qwen Models Bury Meta On Hugging Face

DeepSeek's surge windows fall between 09:00 and 16:00 Beijing time — a tell that most demand still sits inside Asian time zones.

23h ago Rohail Saleem
gameworldobserver.com

Report: Alibaba to sell gaming division for over $2 billion | Game World Observer

It is allegedly going to be acquired by the investment firm Trustar Capital.

1d ago admin
heise.de

Lokale KI ausprobiert: Das leistet Qwen3.8-27B

Alibaba hat die Gewichte seines Modells Qwen3.8-27B veröffentlicht, klein genug für bezahlbare Grafikkarten. Der Abstand zu Spitzenmodellen schrumpft.

2d ago Jan Mahn
heise.de

Eigenes KI-Modell für China von Apple mit Hilfe von Alibaba

Wie schon bei Google Gemini geht Apple offenbar im Reich der Mitte vor: Das Unternehmen trainiert eigene Modelle mit externer Technik – hier ist es wohl Qwen.

4d ago Ben Schwan

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Alibaba bans Claude Code as a security risk

Alibaba bans Claude Code as a security risk

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Alibaba unveils AI models for robots, amid shift from chatbots to agents

Alibaba unveils AI models for robots, amid shift from chatbots to agents

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Can you copy an AI just by talking to it?

Model distillation is a common technique used by AI companies to build variations of their models, especially smaller, faster options. But no company would be okay with a rival using their model to train the competition. But that's what Anthropic alleges. The fake accounts supposedly asked Claude a ton of very complex and detailed questions related to its advanced software engineering and agentic reasoning features. The responses filled in a picture of the model's workings, accelerating Alibaba's own development of competing AI systems, Anthropic claimed. The conundrum is obvious. Large langua

Anthropic says Alibaba may have copied Claude just by asking questions
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