Alibaba unveils new Qwen model, custom chips in bid to become China’s ‘AI factory’

May 20, 2026

Alibaba Group Holding unveiled a sweeping suite of new artificial intelligence products spanning models, cloud infrastructure and chips on Wednesday, positioning itself to become China’s “AI factory” as autonomous agents gain prominence. Speaking at the Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou, Liu Weiguang, senior vice-president of Alibaba’s cloud computing unit, framed AI as a new form of manufacturing that generates revenue through “training and inference factories”. “What we’re building is China’s...

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