Alibaba joins Time’s Top 10 most influential AI companies list
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.
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.
The model, introduced on April 27 as part of so-called “gray testing,” is available to selected global creators and enterprise clients via its official website and cloud platform Bailian.
The new cockpit system moves beyond voice recognition to execute complex user requests, marking what the companies describe as a transition toward “agentic AI.”
Revenue in China rose 34.4% year-on-year, outpacing the broader market’s 23.4% growth by more than 10 percentage points.
Li Bin said AI could reshape distribution channels in the travel industry, traditionally dominated by online travel agencies like Ctrip and Booking.com.
On April 23, Qwen announced it is opening its “AI tasking” capability to third-party services, with China Eastern Airlines becoming its first integration partner.
It will appear first in its standalone app before expanding into a broader range of services across the company’s ecosystem, according to the tech giant.
Earlier discussions had suggested a baseline valuation of $10 billion, though negotiations remain ongoing and final terms could still change.
Unlike conventional AI video generators that rely on prompt-based rendering workflows, the system allows users to continuously adjust scenes as they are being created.
The launch underscores a broader ongoing shift in logistics automation from isolated task-based systems toward coordinated, AI-managed operations spanning the full warehouse workflow.