Alibaba Expands Qwen AI Ecosystem With New Hardware
Alibaba is aggressively expanding its Qwen AI ecosystem by releasing advanced multimodal models and cutting prices to challenge closed competitors. The latest development involves the company unveiling new dedicated AI hardware at the Apsara Conference to support its growing software suite.
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Alibaba unveils new AI hardware at Apsara Conference
Alibaba showcased a range of AI‑powered devices at its 2026 Apsara Conference, all linked through the Qwen ecosystem. The centerpiece, Qwen Book, is an agentic computer that runs on Alibaba’s Qwen…
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Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with five speech models and price cuts
Alibaba’s Qwen AI team released Qwen Audio 3.1, a suite of five models covering speech‑to‑text (ASR), an enhanced ASR‑Next, text‑to‑speech (TTS), a diffusion‑based TTS‑Next, and a real‑time…
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Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation
Alibaba's Qwen AI team released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open‑weight image generation and editing model with 7 billion parameters. The team says it outperforms most closed models on its own benchmark,…
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