Timeline
Deployed RecGPT-V3 on Taobao, achieving +3.97% GMV improvement and 52.4% cost reduction
Alibaba released RynnBrain 1.1 on Hugging Face with 2B, 9B, and 122B-A10B MoE models for robot manipulation.
Released Accio Work, autonomous AI agents for supply chain management
Announced Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion parameter open-weight model
Tencent negotiating majority stake in Manus at $2B valuation
Introduced MIPI, a new RL objective for LLM post-training via MIPU framework
Launched Hunyuan Hy3, a 295B MoE model with 21B active parameters, claiming 90% agent task resolution
Qwen-RobotNav model released by Alibaba's Qwen Team
Open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory, a long-term memory system for AI agents
Launched preview of flagship AI model HY3 with 295B parameters.
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Evidence (12 articles)
Leadership Shakeup at Alibaba's Qwen AI Team Signals Strategic Pivot
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