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Alibaba’s Qwen Faces Turmoil as Three Core Technical Leaders Depart Abruptly

Three core technical leaders of Alibaba's artificial intelligence team, Qwen, have simultaneously left the company, sparking significant concern across the global open-source AI community regarding the future continuity of one of China’s flagship large language model projects. Junyang Lin (林俊旸), the technical lead widely regarded as

ChinaBiz Briefing | AI Platforms Battle for Habit, EVs Reshape Southeast Asia, and China's Tech Ecosystem Expands Its Ambitions

China's technology and industrial landscape is undergoing simultaneous disruptions on multiple fronts. Chinese EV brands are systematically dismantling Japanese automakers' last major overseas stronghold. AI platforms are spending billions to acquire users — and discovering that retention is a fundamentally harder problem. And across software, hardware, autonomous driving,

IP as the Last Certainty: How China's Gaming Industry Is Betting on Franchises to Navigate the AI Era

China's gaming industry is entering 2026 with a sharpened conviction: as artificial intelligence disrupts content creation and new entertainment formats compete aggressively for user attention, intellectual property has evolved from a marketing asset into the sector's primary hedge against structural uncertainty. The shift is more than

JinkoSolar Posts First Annual Loss Since A-Share Listing as Solar Price Collapse Deepens Industry Crisis

JinkoSolar has reported its first annual loss since listing on China's A-share market, with a net deficit of RMB 6.786 billion yuan (US$933 million) for 2025, underscoring the severity of a prolonged price collapse that is reshaping the global solar industry's competitive landscape.

Chinese Automakers Carve Into Japan's Southeast Asian Stronghold as EV Shift Reshapes Regional Market

Chinese electric vehicle brands are mounting a sustained challenge to Japanese automakers' decades-long dominance in Southeast Asia, eroding market share across the region's six major economies and forcing a structural reassessment of one of Japan's last remaining automotive bastions outside its home market. Japanese

AI Chatbots Enter Travel Booking Arena, Threatening China's Online Travel Giants

China's two most widely used AI assistants have moved into the online travel booking space, marking what analysts and industry observers describe as the most significant disruption to the country's travel platform ecosystem since the mobile internet era — and raising pointed questions about the long-term

Alibaba Unifies AI Brand Under "Qwen," Launches Smart Glasses at 1,997 Yuan

Alibaba Group has consolidated its fragmented artificial intelligence brand identity under a single umbrella — "Qwen" — while simultaneously unveiling its first AI hardware product, marking a strategic pivot toward building a vertically integrated AI ecosystem as competition for consumer AI access points intensifies in China. The brand overhaul, confirmed

Hello Robotaxi Co-Founder Yu Qiankun on One-Stage End-to-End Architecture and the Push for L4 Leadership

Hello Group's autonomous driving unit is making a bold entry into the robotaxi sector, backed by a one-stage end-to-end technical architecture, a fleet of hundreds of data-collection vehicles, and a co-built 10,000-GPU computing cluster with Alibaba Cloud. In an exclusive interview

The Chinese AI Ecosystem Explained: Structure, Key Players, and Long-Term Trends

What is the Chinese AI Value Chain? The Chinese Artificial Intelligence (AI) value chain is a highly integrated, multi-layered ecosystem comprising over 3,000 publicly listed companies with an aggregate market capitalization of approximately US$10 trillion. Rather than a single monolithic sector, it is a complex supply chain

XPeng Unveils Second-Generation VLA System, Targets L4 Autonomy in One to Three Years

XPeng has launched its second-generation Vision-Language-Action autonomous driving system, marking what the Chinese electric vehicle maker describes as its first decisive step toward full Level 4 self-driving capability — a technological leap that could reshape its revenue model, accelerate overseas expansion, and position the company as a