According to the memo, DingTalk will establish a core platform business unit, and consolidate the Wukong and MuleRun teams into a new Wukong organization.
Multiple users claiming to be Alibaba employees said the cuts could range from 30% to 40%, while more extreme claims put reductions in some units as high as 50% or more.
Unlike traditional text-to-video tools that render a fixed output after a prompt, HappyOyster continuously responds to user inputs during generation, allowing scenes to evolve in real time.
Leapmotor said the local assembly setup in Gurun will shorten delivery times, reduce supply chain costs, and improve competitiveness while better aligning the model with local demand.
The company said the system is the first in China to deploy a structured “AI answer plus doctor verification” collaboration model in a consumer-facing application.
The reported departure surfaced just six days after the appointment, prompting speculation about the significance of Alibaba’s latest organizational overhaul.
The agreement, announced on June 8, reflects growing efforts by traditional energy companies to deploy AI across generation, storage and grid operations.
Built on Alibaba’s Qwen large language model, NBA Chat integrates NBA historical statistics and in-depth player data to provide real-time basketball Q&A.
The launch marks a significant shift for Waymo, which has historically relied on modified production vehicles, toward a purpose-built platform designed specifically for fully autonomous transportation.
The launch positions Alibaba among a growing number of companies seeking to develop general-purpose AI models capable of operating in physical environments.
The move will enable companies to create customized agents inside Qwen, defining their own service scope and interactions while offering products and services through natural-language conversations.
Qwen3.7-Plus is the latest addition to the Qwen 3.7 family and is designed to combine perception, reasoning and task execution within a single workflow.
The strongest performance came from premium EV brand Zeekr, which delivered a record 34,377 vehicles in May, up 82% from a year earlier and 8.1% from April.
The campaign, which runs through June 10, brings together more than 100 influencers across 14 countries to host over 100 livestreams featuring more than 60 Chinese brands.
Leapmotor delivered a cumulative 173,658 vehicles in the first five months of the year, still well short of its full-year target of 1 million units set at the start of the year.
Under the partnership, Hikvision will provide end-to-end solutions for Master Kong’s production sites, covering planning, construction, operations and maintenance.
The company’s Mexican subsidiary will deploy dedicated vehicles and establish pickup points at major airports, including Mexico City, throughout the tournament period.
The agreement covers the UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Conference League from the 2027/28 season through 2032/33, as well as UEFA Euro 2028.
Willit comes in sunglasses and photochromic versions. The sunglasses model has already sold more than 1,000 units on Taobao, according to the product page.
However, local authorities attached strict conditions to the sale. The company must also invest at least 2 billion yuan in the project over the next five years.
The launch comes as AI video tools face weak user retention and uncertain monetization on the consumer side, pushing the industry toward enterprise workflows and B2B use cases.
According to platform data, nearly 5.7 million such firms have actively registered and built credit profiles on Sesame Enterprise Credit, up 42% from a year earlier.
That effectively extends the gap between earnings payouts, with employees facing a period of up to roughly 15 months without receiving the consolidated bonus.
The company announced the milestone on May 26 at its AI payment ecosystem conference, describing the platform as the world’s first large-scale commercial AI-native payment infrastructure.
The system combines computer vision and language-based reasoning to detect traffic incidents including debris, illegally parked vehicles and pedestrians entering highways.
The standout performer was Fantasy Westward Journey, which launched more than 20 years ago and reached a record 3.9 million concurrent players on PC during the quarter.
Selected projects can receive as much as 300,000 yuan ($44,242) each for one-year collaboration cycles, with strong-performing projects eligible for continued funding.
Under the agreements, Alibaba.com will provide AI and digitalization training for 10,000 Pakistani small businesses through its AI-powered trade platform Accio Work.
Officials said roughly one in every three Zhejiang residents has used the service, helping reduce average hospital visit times by about 20 minutes. Reported user satisfaction rates reached 98%.
The automaker said it reduced emissions across its vehicle supply chain by 1.476 million tons and achieved its 2025 target of cutting lifecycle emissions per vehicle by 25%.
This rollout comes as companies across sectors from advertising to home appliance increasingly shift toward AI-generated advertising and online engagement tools to boost efficiency and cut costs.
The transition marks a formal changing of the guard at a company whose origins trace back to a struggling township garment factory in Ningbo during China’s early reform-and-opening era in the 1980s.
Alibaba said the model was specifically designed for AI agents and enterprise-grade autonomous workflows, with improvements in coding, reasoning and tool-use capabilities.
The company said the service has already achieved full coverage across the Chinese mainland as well as Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, spanning nearly 500,000 traffic-light intersections.
The approval allows the company to commercially deploy the model under China’s generative AI regulations, which require security and compliance reviews before public rollout.
The companies said they plan to target sectors including spatial design, tourism, cultural heritage preservation, industrial digital twins, film production and gaming.
The company said the data reflects how intelligent driving systems are increasingly becoming standard features for everyday commuting rather than experimental add-ons.
The new system marks what Alibaba described as the e-commerce industry’s first customer service agent capable of completing operational workflows rather than simply answering questions.
The new education platform, introduced under Alibaba’s enterprise AI unit Wukong, integrates AI into four core areas of campus operations: teaching, research, student services and administration.
More than 40,000 guests registered for this year’s event on May 10, coinciding with Mother’s Day and the 22nd edition of Alibaba’s annual open-campus carnival.
Unlike passive interactions that respond only when prompted, the S1 now combines time, location, and environmental cues to provide anticipatory alerts.
The system uses a color-coded format—red, yellow, blue and green—to flag abnormal indicators and distinguish between issues requiring urgent attention and those suitable for routine monitoring.
Travel-related queries accounted for a sharply higher share of total usage, with nearly 90% of users asking for destination ideas and full itineraries.
New-energy vehicle sales across the Geely, Lynk & Co and Zeekr brands climbed to 135,591 units, up 8% from a year earlier and 6.5% from the previous month, accounting for 57.7% of total sales.
Transactions made via overseas bank cards bound to Alipay accounts and through Alipay+ partner wallets both saw strong growth compared with the same period last year.
The company will introduce two models—the Geely E5 electric SUV and the Starray EM-i plug-in hybrid—both of which received five-star safety ratings from Euro NCAP in 2025.
The system is designed for software engineering, operations and data analysis roles, with Alibaba describing it as “production-ready, secure and self-evolving.”
A key pressure point is the rapid expansion of freshly made tea drinks. China now has more than 400,000 such outlets, with chains like Mixue Bingcheng operating about 53,000 stores.
Alibaba Cloud has been positioning itself as a full-stack provider, combining cloud infrastructure with AI services centered on its Qwen models and in-house chips developed by Pingtouge.
Time cited Alibaba’s expanding full-stack AI capabilities—from chips and cloud infrastructure to models and applications—as a key factor behind its inclusion.