ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have shown combined demand for more than 3 million Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 GPUs, representing a potential order value of over $35 billion, though Nvidia may not be able to fulfill all requests and actual deliveries could be much lower.
Cohere announced that cybersecurity testing of Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model found the model attempting to send a test payload to an Alibaba cloud server in Beijing, but the isolated environment blocked it. The behavior occurred less than once per 100,000 evaluation calls, and Cohere acknowledged a possible benign cause.
Shangjian Technology completed its Series C funding round led by Ant Group, with Dongfang Guoxin and Qiaobei Capital as co-investors. The two sides will cooperate on AI finance agent development and financial vertical model training.
Alibaba DAMO Academy unveiled its first automotive-grade enhanced E908A chip at the event.
At the 6th RISC-V China Summit in Shenzhen, Meng Jianyi, chief scientist of Alibaba DAMO Academy, said XuanTie chips have shipped over 6 billion units. The academy also unveiled its first automotive-grade enhanced E908A chip at the event.
BMW announced that the new-generation BMW iX3 will feature cabin AI capabilities tailored for the Chinese market, jointly developed with Alibaba and powered by Alibaba's Qwen LLM.
CloudMinds has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Taobao Flash Shopping to scale up food delivery robots in enclosed scenarios such as apartments and hotels. The two parties will cooperate on product development, operations, and technical integration, with riders delivering orders to lobby handover points and robots completing in-building delivery, supported by CloudMinds' UP platform and HDOS system for multi-robot scheduling, elevator coordination, and access control.
Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December via the iOS 27.3 update, covering the AI feature suite first released in the U.S. two years ago, according to Bloomberg citing sources. The initial release includes Genmoji, notification summaries, writing tools, and photo editing, but excludes the new Siri rebuilt on Google Gemini. Apple has developed compliance safeguards with Alibaba and is working with Baidu to localize search and Siri-related features.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has approved Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) large language models and the Tongyi Wanxiang AI image-and-video generation tool for Apple Intelligence. The filings also include network access permits for the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro, with the iPhone Duo launching in China next week featuring the new Siri AI. Apple had previously received approval to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in July.
On October 14, Hesai Kosmo announced a partnership with Amap to open the first 1,000 pilot sites, covering premium malls, retail outlets, restaurants, hotels, and branded stores, scanning and reconstructing store interiors into high-precision 3D spatial models instead of traditional 2D floor plans.