The company has announced plans to invest 380 billion yuan in artificial intelligence-related infrastructure over the next three years
[BEIJING] Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba announced QWEN3-MAX, the largest AI language model in history, on Wednesday (September 24), doubled AI as its core business strategy.
Alibaba's most powerful model to date includes over a trillion parameters or variables that determine how an AI system processes information, demonstrating the special strength of code generation and autonomous agent functionality.
Autonomous Agent functionality means that AI systems require fewer human prompts than chatbots such as ChatGPT, allowing them to make decisions and take action independently towards the goals set by human users.
Alibaba cited third-party benchmarks such as the Tau2-Bench, saying the model is superior to rival products including Humanity's Claude and Deepseek-V3.1 in certain metrics.
Alibaba has made AI a priority along with traditional e-commerce operations. Earlier this year, the company announced plans to invest 380 billion yuan ($69 billion) in AI-related infrastructure over the next three years as competition intensifies between Chinese technology companies to develop sophisticated AI capabilities.
During the meeting, Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said the company had not specified a price, but it would increase its spending even more.
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“The speed of AI industry development is far above our expectations, and the industry's demand for AI infrastructure is far above our expectations,” Wu said.
The company released three Qwen models in April.
Also, Alibaba announced several other AI products on Wednesday. This is a multimodal, immersive system useful for virtual and artificial reality applications such as smart glasses and intelligent cockpits. Reuters
