Theregister4 days agoBusinessOnce Alibaba's main investor, SoftBank sheds remaining stakeSoftBank sells its stake in Alibaba, shifting focus to AI-centric investments and emerging technologies such as Arm's AI chips. [ more ]
Createsend3 days agoBusinessLogistics Report: Dali Probe Targets Earlier Outages; Biden's Tariffs Roil Supply ChainsThe U.S. producer prices index rose 0.5% in April. Alibaba's net profit fell by 86% despite increases in sales and logistics revenue. Surging container freight rates are boosting shipping companies' shares. [ more ]
Theregister1 month agoDevOpsBlueVPS web hosting goes down in AustraliaBlueVPS faces multi-day outage impacting Australian operations; customers offered refunds or server relocations. [ more ]
Theregister2 months agoArtificial intelligenceAlibaba pits people against AI in its annual math challengeAlibaba annual competition now includes an AI challenge alongside the traditional math competition. DAMO Academy offers prizes to top scoring AI models and human mathematicians in the competition. [ more ]
TechCrunch2 months agoArtificial intelligenceAlibaba staff offers glimpse into life of building LLM in China | TechCrunchChinese tech companies are striving to narrow the gap with OpenAI by developing large language models. Daily schedules of researchers at Chinese tech companies mirror those at OpenAI, with intense work regimes and focus on enhancing AI models. [ more ]
Business Insider3 months agoArtificial intelligenceMasayoshi Son made $72 billion betting on Jack Ma's Alibaba. Now he wants to do it again with AI.Masayoshi Son is betting on the success of AI after unwinding his stake in Alibaba. SoftBank is focusing on chip designer Arm and the Vision Funds for AI success. [ more ]
Theregister3 months agoGrowth hackingAlibaba Cloud posts modest growth, thanks to internal buyersAlibaba's own operations drive growth for its public cloud business more than third-party customers. Alibaba is focusing on improving revenue quality by reducing low-margin project-based contracts and increasing investment in public cloud. [ more ]
Creative Bloq4 months agoMarketingYour TikTok dances aren't safe from AI content scrapingAlibaba's AI tool, Animate Anyone, was trained using scraped TikTok videos The tool can generate realistic TikTok-style dance videos based on still images [ more ]