Alibaba released the visual-language open model, Qwen2.5-VL. The model demonstrates remarkable multimodal capabilities and serves as a visual agent to facilitate the execution of simple tasks on computers and mobile devices by directing the use of various tools.

Alibaba unveiled its proprietary flagship large language model(LLM) Qwen2.5-Max. As a cutting-edge Mixture of Experts (MoE) model, Qwen2.5-Max demonstrates exceptional strengths in knowledge, coding, general capabilities, and human alignment.

Alibaba announced plans to invest at least RMB380 billion over the next three years to advance its cloud computing and AI infrastructure. This investment will exceed Alibaba’s total AI and cloud spending over the past decade.

Alibaba released a new version of the Quark application, a comprehensive AI assistant powered by Alibaba’s Qwen-based advanced reasoning model. Quark is the first within Alibaba’s general user-facing businesses to fully leverage its proprietary foundation models, and is designed to fulfill the work and life needs of more than 200 million users in China.