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Alibaba’s 4B Qwen-Drive Tests a More Efficient Path to Autonomous Driving

Alibaba has open-sourced what may be the industry's first vision-language foundation model purpose-built for autonomous driving — and it runs on just 4 billion parameters, a fraction of the scale deployed by most incumbents. Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B integrates 3D perception, visual question-answering, and

ChinaBiz Briefing | Alibaba AI Pricing Shock, ByteDance's $29.6B War Chest

China's technology sector is entering a new competitive phase — one defined less by who builds the most capable model and more by who can fund the infrastructure, monetize at scale, and absorb a punishing cost environment. Thursday's news flow cuts across AI, capital markets, and consumer

Huawei Secures Memory as China’s Smartphone Industry Faces Its Worst Cost Shock in a Decade

Huawei locks in long-term storage supply agreements while rivals scramble; global average selling prices surge 21% to $565; Android shipments projected to fall 21% in 2026 China's smartphone industry is simultaneously navigating its most aggressive product launch season in years and the worst structural cost shock in

CXMT's Fastest LPDDR5X Chip Enters Mass Production, Debuts in Nubia NaviX Ultra

ChangXin Memory Technologies, China's leading DRAM manufacturer, announced Thursday that its highest-speed LPDDR5X memory chip — running at 10,667 Mbps — has entered mass production and will debut in the Nubia NaviX Ultra smartphone, marking the first commercial deployment of a domestically produced chip at that speed tier.

Zhipu Hits Taobao, Moonshot Courts Microsoft for Royalties — China’s AI Race Has a New Scorecard

China's large language model companies are abandoning the growth-at-all-costs playbook, with Zhipu AI opening a retail storefront on Alibaba's Tmall and Moonshot AI negotiating revenue-sharing arrangements with Microsoft, Amazon and Google — a structural shift that signals the sector's transition from

China's AI Capital Race: Why Every Major Player Is Raising Billions at Once

What Is Happening? Within the span of roughly two months in mid-2026, nearly every significant player in China's AI ecosystem — from internet giants to freshly listed foundation model startups — launched major capital raises in near-simultaneous fashion. Alibaba sold 710 million new shares on the Hong Kong

ByteDance Plans 6GW AI Data Center as Inner Mongolia Bet Tops $27.8B

A single infrastructure project in China's wind-swept north is set to concentrate more computing power than most nations possess, as ByteDance doubles down on a capacity race that is reshaping the global AI landscape. ByteDance plans to build a 5-to-6 gigawatt AI data center campus

ByteDance Secures $29.6B Loan, Doubling Down on AI Infrastructure War Chest

The 50% oversubscription on Asia's second-largest dollar loan of 2026 signals that global banks are betting ByteDance's AI ambitions—and its cash machine—will outlast geopolitical headwinds. ByteDance, the world's most valuable private technology company, has closed a $29.6 billion three-year

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Seizes Front-End AI Crown at One-Fifth the Price of Top Rivals

Alibaba Cloud's latest model snapshot tops Code Arena's WebDev leaderboard with a score of 1,691, edging out Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 Max by just three points — while charging developers as little as $2 per million input tokens versus $10 for competing frontier models.

ChinaBiz Briefing | BAT AI Split, Moonshot's $50B IPO, China Auto Crisis, Enflame GPU Debut

China's technology and industrial sectors delivered a dense earnings and capital markets day that cuts across AI strategy, electric vehicles, and semiconductor independence. The common thread: capital is flowing at scale, but monetization timelines remain contested. From BAT's diverging AI bets to a battered auto sector