Qwen App, deeply integrated with multiple core services across Alibaba ecosystem, became the first AI assistant capable of executing large-scale, real-world complex tasks in China. In February, consumer-facing Qwen surpassed 300 million monthly active users across all platforms.

Alibaba Cloud partnered with Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to deploy advanced cloud and AI technologies for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

Alibaba released Qwen3.5, starting with opening sourcing Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (also named “Qwen3.5-Plus”), a natively multimodal foundation model that delivers strong performance in reasoning, coding, agent capabilities, and multimodal understanding, while lowering inference cost for real-world deployment.

AI-native enterprise platform Wukong was launched to bring advanced agentic capabilities directly into business workflows.

DAMO Academy unveiled RISC-V based CPU core, the XuanTie C950, setting a new performance record for the RISC-V architecture.

HappyHorse, a video generation model designed to help creators produce high-quality, cinematic-style video content, and HappyOyster, a pioneering open-ended world model product for real-time world creation and interaction, advanced Alibaba’s specialized models lineup.

Qwen App was fully connected to Taobao’s entire product catalog, with a Qwen-powered shopping assistant launched within the Taobao app.

T-Head debuted the Zhenwu M890, an AI processor for both training and inference that carries high-capacity on-chip memory, strong inter-chip bandwidth, and natively supports FP4 precision.

Qwen3.7-Max was released for agentic workloads and engineered for sustained, multi-step operations. It has achieved top rankings on benchmarks for both agentic enterprise IT tasks and agentic coding.

Alibaba announced a multi-year partnership with the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and UC3 and becomes the official and exclusive AI, cloud computing services, and e-commerce partner of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League for the 2027/2028 to 2032/2033 seasons and of UEFA EURO 2028™.