# Alibaba Cloud
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Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 Claims Gemini‑3‑Pro Parity at a Fraction of the Cost — A Shift from Scale to Efficiency
Alibaba has open‑sourced Qwen3.5‑Plus, a 397B‑parameter multimodal model the company says matches Gemini 3 Pro’s performance while operating with only ~17B activated parameters and much lower inference costs. The model emphasises architectural efficiency, native multimodal pretraining and agent capabilities, and forms part of a flurry of Chinese model launches that shift competition from raw scale to systems and cost efficiency.
China’s Cloud Firms Brace for an AI-Driven Price Shock as Competition Moves Up the Stack
China’s major cloud providers are integrating open‑source AI assistants like OpenClaw while confronting rising upstream costs and surging enterprise demand. Expect selective price increases for AI GPU services, a tighter focus on packaged AI applications, and competition shifting from raw compute to full‑stack offerings.
OpenClaw’s Wild Rise: How a Self‑Hosted Agent Recalibrated the AI Playbook—and the Risk Tradeoffs
An open‑source agent called OpenClaw has popularized always‑on, self‑executing AI workflows by running locally with broad control over devices and services. Its rapid spread exposed a new paradigm—delegated, 24/7 digital labour—that big cloud providers are racing to productize while security experts warn of multi‑layered, systemic risks.
Zhejiang Builds an Offline Hub for China’s Largest Open‑Source AI Community — A Bet on Industrial AI
Zhejiang has opened a 10,000+ sqm developer centre in Hangzhou as the offline anchor for Moda, China’s largest open‑source AI community. Backed by Alibaba Cloud Valley and local government, the centre offers cheap co‑working, technical support for model deployment and a curated pipeline of industry pilot opportunities to accelerate industrial adoption of AI.
Alibaba’s Qwen3‑Max‑Thinking: China’s Latest Push to Match Western ‘Thinking’ Models
Alibaba has launched Qwen3‑Max‑Thinking, a flagship inference model its team says matches top Western 'thinking' models on key benchmarks. The model emphasizes reasoning, instruction following and agent capabilities and is aimed at commercial integration across Alibaba's cloud and services. The announcement underscores China’s accelerating push to develop indigenous, production‑ready large language models, though benchmark claims require independent validation.