This week, Alibaba introduced AI breakthroughs in three key aspects: complex web navigation, enterprise cloud infrastructure, youth education and AI PCs. Important developments include the launch of WebSailorthe next generation of WebAgents that revolutionize complex information search. Full-stack cloud solutions like booming AI business in China liblibai and Minimax; Partnership with HP A Qwen-based smart assistant to enhance your AI PC user experience. Alibaba Cloud Expansion Generation AI competition Encourage creativity among students in Hong Kong and Macau.
Alibaba announces web browsing for AI agent WebSailor
Alibaba has been released WebSailorAI Webagent designed to run Sorted reasoning for complex web navigation and information-seeking tasks.
Despite significant advances in information retrieval and inference capabilities of large-scale language models, many AI web agents still struggle to handle complex tasks as information is vaguely written and scattered across various web pages. For example, for a task that identifies a fictional character called “”Occasionally, he breaks the fourth wall with the audience and has a backstory that includes the help of selfless ascetics. Known for his humor, there was a television show that aired in the 1960s and 1980s with less than 50 episodes.”, Web agents are challenged to accurately and efficiently collect information from vast, fragmented sources.
To address these challenges, WebSailor employs an innovative approach in both data preparation and post-training processes. These include generating novel and advanced tasks through structured sampling and information obfuscation during data preparation, generating two-stage training phases that include rejection of fine-tuning (RFT) cold start, followed by sampling policy optimization (DUPO), replicating the effective and effectiveness of efficient agent augmented learning algorithms.
With this integrated pipeline, the trained WebSailor-72B model outperforms existing open source web agents in some of the most difficult web browsing benchmarks, earning 12 in BrowseComp-en and 30.1 in Browsecomp-Zh.
To further support community research and increase access to models, Alibaba WebSailor-3B model Through Github, Hugging Face, and Alibaba's model studio for global developers. This lightweight yet powerful model allows for seamless single GPU deployment and training, offering performance comparable to the 32B open source model of the BrowseComp-en benchmark.
Alibaba Cloud Strengthens the AI Business in China with Full Stack Solutions
According to research firm Canalys, China's AI boom has accelerated cloud adoption, with spending on cloud infrastructure services rising to $11.6 billion in the first quarter of 2025, up 16% year-on-year. As a leading cloud service provider in China, Alibaba Cloud offers AI businesses a full stack solution from AI models and solutions to cloud infrastructure to meet this growing demand.
liblibaiChina's largest AI content platform, with around 5 million image generations every day, leveraging Alibaba's Tongyi model suite to optimize the operation and inference costs of multi-models. Its 20 million creator community leverages Alibaba's large-scale language model Qwen for rapid improvements, Qwen-VL for style replication, and Alibaba's latest open source video generation model WAN2.1 to generate video clips that last more than 10 seconds. Beyond AI tools, Alibaba Cloud supports platforms with robust cloud infrastructure, databases and big data products to ensure stability at scale.
China's AI startup Minimax Leverage the infrastructure of Alibaba Cloud to manage end-to-end AI development, including data processing, storage, model training, and inference. Optimize augmented learning with Alibaba Cloud's containerized tools, leveraging Alibaba Cloud's cloud computing resources for stable, large-scale model training. Alibaba Cloud's elastic calculation resources scale dynamically to handle fluctuating workloads, ensuring efficient data processing and agent infrastructure requirements for your company.
Alibaba Cloud is a partner with HP to improve the AI PC user experience
Alibaba Cloud and HP have expanded their partnership to promote the development of AI PCs in China. Alibaba's open source large-scale language model Qwen will be integrated into Qwen with 3 billion parameters HP's smart assistant “Xiaowei Hui” Enhance your AI PC user experience. QWEN-driven assistants offer enhanced features such as drafting smart documents and intelligent meeting overviews. The companies will also explore opportunities to optimize cloud edge synergy and expand on-device AI collaboration to more Asia-Pacific markets in the future.
Since 2019, HP has adopted Alibaba Cloud core products, including elastic computing, databases, networking and storage solutions, to increase operational efficiency. Powered by Alibaba Cloud's AI capabilities, HP has also developed an intelligent chatbot to improve customer service. It can generate automated responses, answer calls using context, analyze customer issues through audio or video recording, and provide suggestions for improving service.
Alibaba Cloud expands AI competition generated to encourage student innovation across Hong Kong and Macau
Alibaba Cloud recently launched its second year “Navigating Intelligence with AI & Cloud – Alibaba Cloud Inter-School Generic AI Competition”invite Hong Kong students, first-time Macau to unleash your creativity with AI-powered tools. It aims to empower the younger minds in elementary, middle schools and institutions for students with specific educational needs and to encourage innovation with technology.
Students are encouraged to use Alibaba Cloud's AI tools, such as the large language model Qwen and the video generation model WAN, to design original comics, short videos, or mini programs. Alibaba Cloud also holds specialized workshops to demonstrate practical applications of these tools.
The first inauguration in 2024 attracted 1,430 students from 494 teams from 86 schools, the biggest competition of its kind in Hong Kong. This year, the competition will expand to Macau, expanding opportunities for students to unleash AI-driven creativity.
