Alibaba consolidates AI units under new Token Foundry division
The newly created division will report directly to CEO Eddie Wu Yongming, underscoring the company’s intensified focus on AI.
The newly created division will report directly to CEO Eddie Wu Yongming, underscoring the company’s intensified focus on AI.

“Opportunities in this era are unprecedented, but those who fail to advance will fall behind,” Zhou, former provincial science and technology chief, said.

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.

The city’s large-scale audiovisual sector generated 16.28 billion yuan in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, up 15.9% from a year earlier.

Qwen3.7-Max ranked among the top four models overall, breaking what had been a prolonged dominance by Claude-Opus-4.7 and Claude-Opus-4.6.
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The company framed the shift as part of a broader industry transition from model training to inference-driven applications.
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Tuya Smart said Tuya Cobuilder integrates hardware, mobile apps, cloud infrastructure and AI agents into a unified workflow.
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Alibaba said the model was specifically designed for AI agents and enterprise-grade autonomous workflows, with improvements in coding, reasoning and tool-use capabilities.
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The upgrade spans everything from semiconductors and cloud architecture to large language models and inference systems.

DeepSeek’s image understanding feature began a phased rollout in late April 2026 and was made widely available to users on May 9, according to the company.