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BEIJING - The fifth China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE), scheduled for April 13 to 18 in Haikou, capital of South China's Hainan province, will showcase the latest humanoid robots from leading domestic and international companies, the event's organizers announced on Thursday.

Alibaba Cloud has launched its latest AI model in its "Qwen series," as large language model competition in China continues to heat up.

In the global race for artificial intelligence supremacy, Alibaba, a name once synonymous only with e-commerce, is aggressively expanding its

Chinese cloud computing companies have ramped up efforts to expand their footprint in overseas cloud service markets, as an increasing number of businesses are leveraging the cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies to bolster digital transformation and upgrades.

More than 30 Chinese server manufacturers currently produce these boxes with embedded DeepSeek AI models, according to the CICC report. These include China's largest server maker Inspur, second-ranked H3C Technologies, Huawei and Lenovo, the world's top personal computer vendor.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba said its latest AI reasoning model, QwQ-32B, "rivals cutting-edge reasoning model, e.g., DeepSeek-R1."

Asian equities were mixed overnight as Indonesia outperformed, Taiwan underperformed, and South Korea was closed for Independence Day.

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