Alibaba unveils $53B AI plan, and it needs plenty of GPUs
Alibaba is investing tens of billions in global AI infrastructure, offering Qwen3-Omni under Apache 2.0, and expanding datacenters worldwide to compete globally.
New Alibaba model Qwen3-Omni heightens competition in multimodal AI
Alibaba released Qwen3-Omni, an open-source, Apache 2.0–licensed multimodal AI that matches or exceeds rivals on benchmarks and enables enterprise deployment without licensing friction.