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- Benzinga
Alibaba and Douyin Partner In Strategic Move to Dominate China's Midyear Shopping Craze
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s (NYSE:BABA) Taobao and Tmall Group are collaborating with ByteDance-owned Douyin to draw users from the Chinese short video platform, aiming to boost their presence in the mainland’s annual midyear shopping festival. Recently, Alibaba’s domestic e-commerce unit teamed up with Douyin, also known as the Chinese version of TikTok, to assist merchants on the Taobao and Tmall platforms in gaining customers from Douyin’s user base. The collaboration revealed on Monday, intr
- Reuters
Chinese tech giants slash prices of language models used to power AI chatbots
Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu slashed prices on Tuesday of large-language models (LLMs) used to power generative artificial intelligence products, as a price war in the cloud computing sector heats up in China. Alibaba's cloud unit announced price cuts of up to 97% on a range of its Tongyi Qwen LLMs. It was quickly followed by Baidu, which hours later announced that its Ernie Speed and Ernie Lite models would be free for all business users.
- South China Morning Post
Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance heat up price war in China's AI market with steep LLM discounts, putting pressure on start-ups
Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, China's biggest cloud computing service provider, slashed the fees for using its generative artificial intelligence (AI) models by up to 97 per cent, a salvo in a price war that comes a week after ByteDance launched a rival service that costs less than most competitors. The price cuts apply to nine of Alibaba's Qwen self-developed large language models (LLMs), also known as Tongyi Qianwen, said Liu Weiguang, president of public cloud business, at the firm's AI summit
