Company
Alibaba (Qwen)
Alibaba's Qwen team builds the Qwen models — the most-downloaded open-weight AI family in the world.
Alibaba launches Wan3.0 video model with 30-second clips
The model generates synchronised audio in one pass and turns documents into video, days after a $10 billion share sale.
Kimi K3 and the open-weights escalation: what 2.8 trillion parameters actually buys
Moonshot published the largest set of open weights ever released. The benchmark story is genuinely strong; the deployment story is why the frontier labs can still sleep.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of the largest known distillation attack on Claude
The accusation is unusually specific, the venue was a Senate committee rather than a press release, and Alibaba denies all of it. The mechanism — not the numbers — is what makes it matter.
The 2026 open-weight surge, explained
A year of downloadable models that narrowed the gap with the closed frontier — mostly from China.
Qwen and the rise of open-source AI from China
One of the most-downloaded model families anywhere — and the strategy behind it.