Articles tagged Alibaba

95% of China's 128,000 first-quarter short dramas are AI video. A generated minute costs 90% less than shooting the same scene with actors.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next lands twelve times cheaper than Qwen3.8-Max, with benchmarks aimed at DeepSeek and Claude Opus 4.6.

Wan 3.0 doubles Alibaba's maximum AI video length and takes PDFs, web pages and slide decks as input. Thirty seconds at 1080p costs six dollars.

Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0: 27 billion parameters, 262,000 tokens of native context, already live on Hugging Face and ModelScope.

Qwen 3.8 Max ties Claude Opus 4.8 at 56 points, yet a task costs $1.14 against $0.86 on Kimi K3 and its hallucination rate climbs to 40%.

Qwen 3.8 carries 2.4 trillion parameters and a preview at 10 percent of standard price, with no published benchmark behind the claim.

Alibaba tags Claude Code as high-risk software and bans it for employees starting July 10. In-house tool Qoder takes over.