Alibaba’s effort to carve out a leading position in AI was accelerated by DeepSeek’s splashy debut in January.

Investing.com -- Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) Group Holding Ltd has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model, R1-Omni, developed by its Tongyi Lab. The latest model has the capability to interpret emotions, marking a significant advancement in the field of computer vision.

OpenAI's CEO just revealed a new version of ChatGPT that's supposedly good at creative writing, but it won't replace humans.

China's Manus AI, a viral autonomous agent developed by Tencent-backed startup The Butterfly Effect, is partnering with Alibaba's Qwen team to create a localized version as it gains global attention and draws comparisons to DeepSeek.

The creator of Chinese general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) agent Manus is working with Alibaba Group Holding’s large language model (LLM) team to develop a Chinese version of the application, after it quickly rose to fame over the past few days.

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind Alibaba's Qwen AI models. The two sides will collaborate based on Qwen's open-source AI models and aim to implement all of Manus' functionalities on China's domestic models and computing platforms,