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1. 14 Oct 2026PolicyMediaChina

   China approves Alibaba AI models for Apple iPhones

   The approval clears a key regulatory hurdle for the long-delayed launch of Apple Intelligence in China. The iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable smartphone, is scheduled for release in China next week.

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2. 24 Sep 2026StatementComputeChina

   Alibaba says Qwen 4 is in training and unveils its Zhenwu V900 AI chip

   China’s largest cloud provider is pairing its own AI chips with larger Qwen models as US export rules limit NVIDIA supply.

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3. 3 Aug 2026Model releaseFrontierChina

   Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, 2.4 trillion parameters, and promises its weights

   Alibaba promised open weights for a Max-class model 19 days after Moonshot released its 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3, so a second Chinese lab has promised open weights above two trillion parameters; the licence terms were not yet published.

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4. 20 May 2026Model releaseFrontierChina

   Alibaba launches Qwen3.7-Max, a proprietary agent model

   Alibaba kept its strongest model closed while releasing smaller Qwen models openly.

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5. 15 Feb 2026Model releaseFrontierChina

   Alibaba releases Qwen3.5 with a 397-billion-parameter open-weights model

   Developers worldwide got a large Chinese multimodal open model covering 201 languages and dialects.

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