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Alibaba launches Quark AI Smart Glasses in China; global release set for 2026
Technology | Nov 28, 2025, 01:32 PM ISTAlibaba has launched its new Quark AI-powered smart glasses in China, marking its strongest push yet into consumer AI hardware. Priced from 1,899 yuan (approx. Rs 21,800), the glasses feature the company’s Qwen AI model and integrate with major Alibaba apps.
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Alibaba reveales its new AI model, positioning itself to compete with DeepSeek, OpenAI
Technology | Feb 26, 2025, 05:23 PM ISTAlibaba, one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world, has launched its first reasoning AI model and announced its biggest investment in this field to date.
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Alibaba unveils ChatGPT-style AI model - Tongyi Qianwen
Apps | Apr 12, 2023, 03:34 PM ISTAlibaba Group Holding Ltd introduced Tongyi Qianwen, a massive AI language model similar to GPT that the company plans to integrate into all of its business applications in the near future.
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Alibaba sells nearly half of its direct stake in Paytm at Rs 535.9 per share
Business | Jan 12, 2023, 09:22 PM ISTPaytm's monthly transacting users (MTU) was up 32 per cent from 64 million in December 2021 to 85 million in December 2022. The Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) processed through the platform saw a 38 per cent growth y-o-y in December to Rs 3.46 lakh crore.
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India TV Exclusive: Ali Baba actor Ayush Shrivastava talks about Tunisha Sharma & Sheezan Khan's Rel
News | Dec 26, 2022, 11:30 PM ISTIndia TV Exclusive: Ali Baba actor Ayush Shrivastava talks about Tunisha Sharma & Sheezan Khan's Relationship
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Alibaba to sell shares worth $200 million in Zomato: Report
Technology | Nov 30, 2022, 05:03 PM ISTIt has been reported that Ant Financial and Alipay will bring down their stake in the Deepinder Goyal-run food delivery unicorn Zomato to about 10 per cent from the current 13 per cent. Zomato has reportedly refused to comment when a news agency contacted them.
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Alibaba lays off nearly 10K employees amid poor sales
Business | Aug 07, 2022, 03:00 AM ISTAlibaba reported a 50 per cent drop in net income to 22.74 billion yuan ($3.4 billion) in the June quarter, down from 45.14 billion yuan in the same period last year.
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Alibaba, Antfin sell entire 43% stake in Paytm Mall for Rs 42 crore
Business | May 19, 2022, 04:39 PM ISTAccording to the filing, Paytm E-commerce, the parent firm of Paytm Mall, bought a 28.34 percent stake in Alibaba and a 14.98 percent stake held by Antfin (The Netherlands).
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Jack Ma resurfaces! Alibaba founder spotted after months of China crackdown
World | Jan 20, 2021, 11:09 AM ISTJack Ma's sudden disappearance in November had sparked a chain of controversies, with new reports emerging everyday. It began when Ma had irked regulators with the speech at a business conference in Shanghai attended by some of the regulators he was criticizing.
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Is Jack Ma laying low on purpose? Recent reports claim so
World | Jan 06, 2021, 12:09 PM ISTAlibaba Chairman Jack Ma irked regulators with the speech at a business conference in Shanghai attended by some of the regulators he was criticizing. Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan also was in the audience.
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Alibaba to shut down Xiami music app on Feb 5
Technology | Jan 05, 2021, 07:48 PM ISTAlibaba Group on Tuesday announced that it will close down its streaming platform Xiami music on February 5.
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Where is Jack Ma? Here's what we know so far about Chinese billionaire's disappearance
World | Jan 04, 2021, 10:30 PM ISTAlibaba founder Jack Ma has gone missing, according to a report in The Telegraph, UK. What's appalling is that the Chinese billionaire has not been in the public eye for more than two months. Considered one of China's internet pioneers, Jack Ma's apparent disappearance points fingers at the Chinese government as the two had been locked in a bitter conflict.
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Alibaba founder Jack Ma reportedly missing following conflict with Jinping
World | Jan 04, 2021, 12:02 PM ISTJack Ma was supposed to appear as a judge in the final episode of his own talent shows Africa’s Business Heroes. He, however, did not turn up and later his pictures too were removed from the official website of the show.
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China steps up pressure on Alibaba with anti-monopoly probe
World | Dec 24, 2020, 12:59 PM ISTChinese regulators on Thursday announced an anti-monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, stepping up official efforts to tighten control over China’s fast-growing tech industries.
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Tata may buy majority stake in Alibaba-backed BigBasket
Business | Dec 03, 2020, 11:20 PM ISTTata Group may buy majority stake of upto 80 per cent in India's online grocery store BigBasket which is currently backed by China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
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Alibaba Cloud denies report on data theft of Indian users
Technology | Sep 17, 2020, 09:13 PM ISTAmid India's crackdown on Chinese companies engaged in suspicious activities, Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, on Thursday denied a report on data theft of Indian users.
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Court summons Alibaba, Jack Ma on complaint of spreading fake news on UC Browser and UC News
Business | Jul 26, 2020, 12:12 PM ISTA district court in Gurugram has summoned Chinese E-commerce giant Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma in a case in which a former employee in India says he was wrongfully fired after objecting to what he saw as censorship and fake news on company apps, reports news agency Reuters.
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Alibaba's Jack Ma is no longer China's richest man. Here's who dethroned him
Business | Jun 25, 2020, 03:05 PM ISTAlibaba founder Jack Ma is no longer China's richest man. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Ma Huateng, who is the founder and CEO of Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings (TCEHY), has surpassed Jack Ma as China's richest man with a net worth of $50 billion.
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Alibaba, TikTok, Lenovo among Chinese cos to emerge as global donors during pandemic
World | Jun 09, 2020, 12:32 PM ISTAs the coronavirus spread, the world’s richest communist dug into his deep pockets. Jack Ma, the founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and a member of the ruling Communist Party, helped to pay for 1,000 ventilators delivered to New York in April. Ma's foundation also is giving ventilators, masks and other supplies in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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Alibaba Cloud to invest $28 billion to boost Cloud infrastructure
Business | Apr 20, 2020, 02:14 PM ISTAlibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, on Monday announced to invest additional approximately $28 billion (RMB 200 billion) in the next three years on its cloud infrastructure, focusing on technologies including operating system, servers, chips and network.