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Topic: china

The Shanghai waterfront and Pudong skyline
Tech
Monday, 7/20, 01:16 PM

Alibaba says its new model is second only to Fable 5, and published no benchmarks

  • Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, previewed at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, is described by Alibaba as a 2.4-trillion-parameter model ranking behind only Fable 5 among the systems it tested.
  • No benchmark table, model card, license or activated-parameter count accompanied the claim, which leaves it resting entirely on the vendor's own evaluation.
Rows of servers in a data center
Tech 36 d

DeepSeek Is Reportedly Raising $1.5 Billion, With an IPO in View

  • DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that rattled markets last year with cheap, high-performing models, is in talks to raise about $1.5 billion at a roughly $71 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, just weeks after a $7 billion round.
  • The company is also said to be laying the groundwork for an eventual stock listing.

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Container terminal at the Port of Shanghai's Yangshan deep-water harbour
Markets 54 d

China's Industrial Profits Grew 21% in May, but the Pace Is Slowing

  • Profits at China's major industrial firms rose 21.1% in May from a year earlier, a strong headline that nonetheless marks a slowdown from April's 24.7% pace — and masks a sharp split between booming tech and mining and a struggling consumer-facing sector.

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