Tag: $Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

Alibaba’s stock was down just over 8% in pre-market trading at 7.40 a.m. ET following the news, off earlier lows.

Alibaba on Tuesday launched the latest version of its artificial intelligence model, as the Chinese technology giant looks to compete with U.S. rivals like Amazon and Microsoft.

Alibaba plans to list its logistics unit Cainiao on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the company the Chinese e-commerce giant said in a regulatory filing Tuesday.

Alibaba needs to be “user first” and “AI-driven,” new CEO Eddie Wu told employees on Tuesday, as he laid out the strategic priorities for the Chinese tech giant.

Shares of Chinese tech giant Alibaba fell 3.5% on Monday, after the company said in a surprise move that outgoing CEO Daniel Zhang will also be stepping down as chairman and CEO of its cloud business.

A gloomy economic backdrop has weighed on Alibaba and other Chinese stocks, with grim factory data Thursday continuing the trend. But there is reason for hope, because the latest release wasn’t as bad as expected and there are other glimmers of resilience.

Alibaba launched on Friday two new artificial intelligence models — Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat — the company says can understand images and carry out more complex conversations.

China’s Alibaba Group Holding reported its strongest quarterly revenue growth in almost two years on Thursday, boosted by a mid-year shopping festival that attracted bargain hunting consumers amid a sober economic environment.

Alibaba ’s cloud unit is bringing Meta Platform’s open-source artificial intelligence model to its clients, in a significant moment for the global AI race.

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U.S.-listed Chinese stocks rose on Tuesday on hopes that authorities’ three-year crackdown on technology companies is coming to a close.

Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares rose 3% Monday amid hopes that the yearslong scrutiny of its financial arm Ant Group is coming to an end.

Chinese technology giant Alibaba on Friday launched Tongyi Wanxiang, an artificial intelligence tool that can generate images from prompts.

Alibaba’s grocery unit Freshippo expanded its number of physical stores in China, the company said on Friday, as the business prepares to spin off from its parent company and go public.

Alibaba Group said in a surprise announcement Tuesday Eddie Wu will succeed Daniel Zhang as its chief executive, a move that will free Zhang to focus on the company’s cloud intelligence business.

Alibaba on Thursday began rolling out its ChatGPT-style technology as Chinese tech giants look to take a lead in the country’s artificial intelligence race.

As famed money manager Michael Burry made headlines boosting bullish bets on stocks including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in the first quarter of this year, other top hedge funds were also piling in.

Chinese stocks have slumped this week amid fears of a new wave of Covid-19 cases, which would risk growth in the world’s second-largest economy and test the decision to reopen the country after lockdowns induced a slowdown last year.

Alibaba announced plans to spin off its cloud division as a separate, publicly-traded company, while the e-commerce titan’s quarterly revenues missed expectations.