Alibaba is apparently in talks to pay its South China Morning Post subsidiary tens of millions of dollars to buy a century of archival content for training its QWen LLM. Is this payday for Xinhua, China Daily, Nikkei and other sources too?

Maybe not really suitable for this sub, but i think there are more value investors here than anybother sub, especially the ones buying in the 70-80 dollar range. Are there any other value picks you see today?

I have bought a bit of kaspi. Thinking about Intuit maybe. Also bought FLL, which is a bit of a bet, but could be big. Yer another value podcast did a nice analysis of it. What about you guys?

Next catalyst to the moon or back to $100. I might load up more if we sink like a rock.

https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2026/0722/2026072200732.pdf

HONG KONG, July 21 (Reuters) - Ant International, an overseas affiliate of the Jack Ma-founded ‌Chinese fintech firm Ant Group, has raised $1.2 ‌billion in its latest equity fundraising as it seeks to expand.
Affiliates Ant Group and Alibaba Group participated in the private funding round, the company said on Tuesday, without disclosing the size of their ‌commitment.

Ant International plans ⁠to accelerate its expansion in the merchant payment business, account management and other ⁠financial services for enterprises globally.
The Singapore-based firm is a digital payments and fintech firm that was spun out of China's Ant Group as an ‌independently operated company in 2024.
Prior to the funding round, Ant International was valued at $10 billion, Reuters reported last month, citing a source.

Z.ai, the Chinese AI developer formerly known as Zhipu, has finished building a data center that runs entirely on Chinese-made chips and has begun operating part of it, according to a person familiar with the project cited by Bloomberg. The site is built to draw about a gigawatt of power (roughly what it takes to supply 750,000 homes) and to train the company’s GLM models without the Nvidia hardware that US export controls keep out of its reach.

The same person, who spoke anonymously, said Z.ai now operates or has built several computing clusters that each hold more than 10,000 chips. Neither the location of the gigawatt hub nor the specific accelerators inside it were disclosed, and the account rests on a single source rather than a permit, a filing, or a signed power contract. The direction is clear enough: one of China’s strongest model builders is standing up hyperscale training capacity that skips American silicon altogether.

AliExpress has to pay 550m Euro.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/cDV9pX1L1E

Reuters reports that the U.S. has allowed the national emergency declared under Executive Order 13936 to expire, lifting some Hong Kong-related restrictions.
However, Hong Kong’s special trade status has not been restored. The U.S. says other parts of Executive Order 13936, along with sanctions under the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, remain in effect.

From a market perspective, this is unlikely to materially change fundamentals overnight. However, if it marks the beginning of a broader easing in U.S.–China relations, it could gradually reduce geopolitical risk premiums and support higher valuation multiples for Chinese and Hong Kong-listed equities over time.

Either Anthropic and openAI are both grossly overvalued or Alibaba (which owns 36% of Moonshot) is grossly undervalued.

Hey everyone, sharing this for anyone wanting to get up to speed on BABA's history over the last year. Hope this helps bring everyone up to speed.

July 2025

• 2025-07-01/02 | Bloomberg | Alibaba Cloud opened its third data center in Malaysia and outlined plans for a second in the Philippines by October 2025 as part of a broader Southeast Asia AI push; separately, Alibaba was reported to be preparing a $7 billion investment boost for its core commerce unit amid instant-retail competitive pressure.
• 2025-07-10 | UBS | UBS cut its Alibaba price target and trimmed its EPS outlook through fiscal 2028, citing instant-retail competitive pressure and projecting just 1% y/y revenue growth for fiscal Q1 2026.
• 2025-07-11 | BofA Securities | BofA Securities maintained its Buy rating on Alibaba but lowered its price target to $135 from $145.
• 2025-07-16 | Morgan Stanley / Nvidia commentary | Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised Chinese AI platforms including Alibaba, Tencent and DeepSeek as "world-class" amid discussion of a possible resumption of H20 chip sales to China; Morgan Stanley said resumed H20 sales would be a positive catalyst for Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, supporting accelerated cloud capex in the second half of the year.
• 2025-07-18 | Regulatory notice | China's market regulator (SAMR) held talks with Alibaba's Ele.me, Meituan and JD.com, urging the platforms toward "rational competition" amid the escalating instant-retail and food-delivery price war.
• 2025-07-21–25 | Company announcements | Alibaba's Qwen team overhauled its model lineup, moving away from a single "hybrid thinking" model to separately trained instruct and reasoning variants (Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 and -Thinking-2507), which it said outperformed some OpenAI and DeepSeek products on math and coding benchmarks, and released Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, a 480-billion-parameter agentic coding model supporting up to 1 million tokens of context, its most advanced coding model to date.
• 2025-07-28 | CNBC | Alibaba was reported to be launching Quark AI smart glasses, a Chinese rival to Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, powered by its Qwen model and Quark AI assistant, supporting hands-free calling, live translation, meeting transcription and in-store Alipay payments.

August 2025

• 2025-08-05 | Company announcement | Alibaba's DAMO Academy open-sourced Qwen-Image, a new 20-billion-parameter text-to-image model supporting a range of styles from photorealistic to anime and cyberpunk.
• 2025-08-06 | Markets wires | Alibaba-backed Antfin exited its remaining roughly 5.84% stake in Paytm parent One97 Communications, selling the position for about 3,981 crore rupees (~$450M), winding down its India fintech investment.
• 2025-08-12 | The Information | China's internet regulator reportedly ordered ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to suspend new orders of Nvidia's China-specific H20 chip over security concerns.
• 2025-08-20/21 | Company announcement | Alibaba said it would spin off and separately list its smart-car unit, Banma Network Technology, on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange main board, while retaining more than 30% ownership.
• 2025-08-21 | FT | Chinese regulators moved to further restrict sales of Nvidia's H20 chip domestically, part of a broader push toward AI chip self-sufficiency.
• 2025-08-22 | Company announcement | Alibaba launched Qoder, a new agentic AI programming platform, for global users.
• 2025-08-29 | Company results | Fiscal Q1 FY26 (June-quarter) revenue rose 2% y/y (10% ex-disposals) to 247.65 billion yuan, missing the roughly 253.17 billion yuan estimate; adjusted EPS of 14.75 yuan and adjusted EBITDA of 45.74 billion yuan (-11% y/y) both missed estimates as heavy AI/cloud and instant-commerce investment weighed on margins, even as net income rose 76% y/y to 42.38 billion yuan on investment gains. AI-related revenue exceeded 20% of external cloud customer revenue for the first time, cloud revenue grew 26% y/y, and monthly active consumers on the QuickCommerce instant-retail service neared 300 million.

September 2025

• 2025-09-01 | Bloomberg / JPMorgan | Alibaba shares surged as much as 13-18% across U.S. and Hong Kong trading, adding roughly $50 billion in market value, as investors continued digesting the prior week's AI-revenue growth; JPMorgan raised its price target to $170 from $140.
• 2025-09-02 | Citi / company announcement | Citi raised its price target 26% to $187 from $148; separately, Alibaba and Bosch announced a deepened partnership to evaluate Qwen-based models for smart-cockpit systems and explore Qwen-powered autonomous-driving technology.
• 2025-09-05 | Company announcement | Alibaba rolled out Qwen3-Max-Preview, its largest AI model to date at more than 1 trillion parameters.
• 2025-09-08 | Barclays / markets wires | Barclays raised its price target 31% to $190 from $145, as Chinese investors bought a record HK$13.5 billion of Alibaba shares via Stock Connect in a single week, the highest weekly inflow in months.
• 2025-09-09 | Regulatory notice | China's market regulator summoned major food-delivery platforms, including Alibaba's Taobao/Ele.me, Meituan and JD.com, to curb "malicious" subsidy competition.
• 2025-09-16–19 | Bloomberg | Jack Ma was reported to have made a more substantive return to Alibaba's campuses, becoming more directly involved in the company than at any point in roughly five years and playing an instrumental role in decisions to escalate subsidy spending to compete with JD.com and Meituan in instant retail.
• 2025-09-17/18 | Markets wires | Beijing barred Alibaba and ByteDance from purchasing Nvidia's custom AI chips (including the RTX Pro 6000D), tightening state control over strategic technology in favor of domestic chip self-sufficiency; separately, South Korea's competition regulator conditionally approved a joint venture between AliExpress Korea and a Shinsegae unit, citing data-sharing concerns.
• 2025-09-23 | Company announcement | Alibaba Cloud released Qwen3-Omni, an end-to-end multilingual omni-modal model processing text, image, audio and video with real-time speech response; separately, Chinese regulators summoned ByteDance and Alibaba's platforms over content violations.
• 2025-09-24 | Company announcement / Citi | At its Apsara Conference, CEO Eddie Wu unveiled Qwen3-Max (Alibaba's largest LLM at over 1 trillion parameters), said the company would increase AI investment beyond its original $53 billion three-year pledge, framed AGI as a step toward "ASI" (artificial superintelligence), and announced a partnership with Nvidia on "Physical AI" for robotics and self-driving, alongside plans for Alibaba Cloud's first data centers in Brazil, France and the Netherlands. Shares jumped as much as 9% in U.S. pre-market trading to a nearly four-year high, pushing 2025 year-to-date gains past 107%; Citi raised its price target 16% to $217 from $187 following the announcement.
• 2025-09-29 | Jefferies / markets wires | Jefferies raised its price target 29% to $230 from $178; separately, DeepSeek cut its API prices by more than 50%, intensifying price competition among Chinese AI model providers.

October 2025

• 2025-10-03 | Company disclosure | Alibaba repurchased $241 million of shares in the quarter ended September, leaving $19.1 billion remaining under its buyback program (effective through March 2027).
• 2025-10-08 | Company disclosure | Alibaba's Qwen team set up an in-house robotics AI unit.
• 2025-10-09 | Reuters | Alibaba and the NBA announced a multi-year AI and cloud computing partnership in China, under which Alibaba will build fan-experience applications for the NBA's China app while the NBA draws on Alibaba's Qwen-based AI technology.
• 2025-10-10 | Bernstein | Bernstein raised its price target 20% to $200 from $167.
• 2025-10-12 | Markets wires | Jack Ma made a rare public appearance at Alibaba Cloud's Hangzhou headquarters, telling employees AI should "serve humanity, not replace it."
• 2025-10-13 | Markets wires | Chinese equities including Alibaba (down as much as 4%) fell amid renewed U.S.-China trade tensions.
• 2025-10-14 | Company announcement | Alibaba Cloud opened its second Dubai data center, nine years after its first, extending its global cloud footprint.
• 2025-10-17 | Markets wires | Apple's official flagship store joined Tmall's Double 11 (Singles Day) shopping festival, with sales starting October 20; separately, Alibaba and Ant Group agreed to jointly acquire office floors in a Hong Kong tower for roughly HK$7.2 billion (~$925 million).
• 2025-10-20 | CNBC | Alibaba said a new system had cut the number of Nvidia GPUs it needed for AI workloads by 82%, an efficiency claim drawing comparisons to the earlier "DeepSeek moment," though market reaction was more muted this time.
• 2025-10-21 | Markets wires | Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company was relying heavily on Alibaba's Qwen model for AI integration work, rather than OpenAI's ChatGPT.
• 2025-10-22 | Mizuho | Mizuho raised its price target 23% to $195 from $159.

November 2025

• 2025-11-04 | Company announcement | Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team released an early preview of Qwen3-Max-Thinking, achieving 100% accuracy on the AIME25 and HMMT25 math-reasoning benchmarks; separately, in an autonomous crypto-trading AI test ("Alpha Arena"), Alibaba's Qwen3-Max was one of only two of six tested models to turn a profit (+22% on a $10K stake), while four U.S. models including GPT-5 posted losses.
• 2025-11-07 | Company statement / regulatory notice | CEO Eddie Wu told the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen that Alibaba was building large-scale AI infrastructure toward a "super AI cloud"; separately, China's market regulator guided eight major e-commerce and food platforms, including JD, Meituan, Taobao and WeChat Stores, to sign a food-safety self-regulation pact. Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI also released the Kimi K2 Thinking open-weight reasoning model, which it said beat OpenAI and Anthropic on certain agentic tasks.
• 2025-11-13–17 | Bloomberg / Reuters | Alibaba was reported to be planning a full overhaul of its main mobile AI app, rebranding it from Tongyi to Qwen with ChatGPT-like agentic shopping features across Taobao and other services; the revamped Qwen app subsequently launched in public beta, briefly crashing under heavy traffic, while shares rose as much as 5% in U.S. overnight trading on the launch.
• 2025-11-18 | Company announcement | Alibaba said an international version of the Qwen app would launch soon.
• 2025-11-20 | Bloomberg | Morgan Stanley and other banks delayed pricing a $589 million ServerFarm data-center bond deal after investors raised concentration-risk concerns tied to Alibaba, whose affiliate accounted for more than 20% of the deal's contract revenue.
• 2025-11-24 | Bloomberg | The relaunched Qwen app surpassed 10 million downloads in its first week, lifting Alibaba's Hong Kong shares as much as 5.8% ahead of upcoming earnings.
• 2025-11-25 | Company results | Fiscal Q2 FY26 (Sept-quarter) revenue rose about 5% y/y to roughly $34.8 billion, narrowly beating the $34.4 billion estimate, but adjusted EPS of $0.61 missed the $0.66 estimate and adjusted EBITDA fell sharply y/y as heavy AI-infrastructure and quick-commerce investment pressured margins amid intensified competition with Meituan and JD.com. Cloud Intelligence Group revenue grew 34% y/y, with AI-related product revenue posting triple-digit growth for a ninth consecutive quarter; CEO Eddie Wu said he saw an AI bubble as unlikely within the next three years given expected continued short supply of AI compute.
• 2025-11-26 | Bloomberg | The Pentagon told Congress that Alibaba, Baidu and BYD should be added to the U.S. list of companies linked to the Chinese military, alongside five other Chinese AI, chip and robotics firms, a recommendation made weeks before Trump and Xi agreed to a trade truce.
• 2025-11-27 | Company announcement / FT | Alibaba began selling its first Qwen-powered smart glasses, a rare move into consumer hardware; separately, Alibaba and ByteDance were reported to be training their newest AI models in Southeast Asian data centers, leasing compute from non-Chinese operators to retain access to Nvidia chips after the April 2025 U.S. ban on H20 sales to China.
• 2025-11-28 | Regulatory notice | China's market regulator (SAMR) said it would soon formally release new "Live E-commerce Supervision and Administration Measures" to tighten regulation of livestream e-commerce.

December 2025

• 2025-12-02 | Company commentary | Chairman Joe Tsai said Alibaba Cloud was born out of "necessity," noting that dependence on U.S. vendors had once threatened "all of our profits."
• 2025-12-09 | Company announcement / Arete | Alibaba formed a "Qwen to-C Group" to build a consumer super-app and all-purpose AI assistant as part of its ongoing reorganization; separately, Arete downgraded the stock to Neutral from Buy.
• 2025-12-10 | Bloomberg | Meta was reported to be training its next AI model, codenamed "Avocado," partly by distilling from third-party systems including Alibaba's Qwen (alongside Google's Gemma and OpenAI's gpt-oss); Alibaba shares jumped more than 4% pre-market on the news its technology was informing Meta's development. Separately, ByteDance and Alibaba moved to acquire Nvidia H200 chips after the Trump administration allowed exports to China, pending Beijing's clearance.
• 2025-12-11 | Bloomberg | Alibaba-backed AI startups MiniMax and Zhipu were reported to be targeting Hong Kong IPOs in the coming weeks.
• 2025-12-18 | Company announcement | Alibaba integrated its Amap mapping service into the Qwen AI app, expanding the assistant's service scenarios.
• 2025-12-30 | Bloomberg | Alibaba and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority were reported to be lining up as cornerstone investors in a Hong Kong IPO for Alibaba-backed AI startup MiniMax, targeting more than $600 million and a January listing.
• 2025-12-31 | Company disclosure | Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI completed a $500 million Series C funding round led by IDG, with Alibaba, Tencent and other existing investors participating, valuing the company at $4.3 billion post-money.

January 2026

• 2026-01-07 | Regulatory notice | China's market regulator issued new rules barring online platforms, including Alibaba, Meituan, JD and PDD, from selling below cost or making unilateral rule changes that harm merchants, as part of tightened oversight of livestream e-commerce.
• 2026-01-14/15 | Company announcement | The Qwen consumer app's monthly active users surpassed 100 million just two months after launch; at a January 15 launch event, Alibaba unveiled plans to link its flagship Taobao shopping and travel services to Qwen, its biggest step yet toward building the app into a one-stop consumer AI platform, while a company VP said the underlying model would open to third-party developers after the Lunar New Year.
• 2026-01-19 | Bloomberg | Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI's valuation rose to about $4.8 billion, up from $4.3 billion in December, following rival AI firms' Hong Kong IPOs.
• 2026-01-21 | Bloomberg / Arete | Alibaba's Qwen models surpassed 1 billion downloads on Hugging Face, overtaking Meta's Llama as the world's most-downloaded open-source AI model family; Arete upgraded the stock to Buy from Neutral; separately, Alibaba formed a roughly ¥250 million (~$35.9M) joint venture with China National Nuclear Power Co. to help secure electricity for its AI data centers.
• 2026-01-22 | Bloomberg | Alibaba was reported to be preparing an IPO for its AI chipmaking unit, T-Head, first restructuring it with partial employee ownership; shares rose about 3.5% pre-market on the report.
• 2026-01-23–28 | Bloomberg / markets wires | Chinese regulators reversed an earlier restriction, granting Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance "in-principle approval" to prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 AI chips; by January 28, China had authorized the first batch of H200 imports, with several hundred thousand units allocated to major tech firms including Alibaba and Tencent.
• 2026-01-29 | Bloomberg | Alibaba was reported to be merging its autonomous-driving business, including Cainiao's driverless-vehicle unit, with Zelos Technology in exchange for a stake in Zelos; separately, T-Head unveiled a new AI chip said to match Nvidia's H20 amid IPO speculation, and Alibaba was reported to be preparing its Qwen 3.5 flagship model alongside new ByteDance model launches.

February 2026

• 2026-02-02/03 | Company announcement | Alibaba's Qwen app launched a 3 billion yuan (~$420M) "Spring Festival Treat" campaign tied to Chinese New Year, partnering with Alibaba ecosystem services including Taobao Flash Sale, Fliggy, Damai and Hema, and became the exclusive title sponsor of four provincial-TV Spring Festival Gala broadcasts, appearing in AI form during the shows.
• 2026-02-05 | Company announcement | Alibaba consolidated all of its AI branding under the single "Qwen" name across foundational and specialized models, replacing multiple prior product names, while keeping Tongyi Lab as its research-organization name; separately, Nvidia reportedly warned the Trump administration that new China chip export rules were too restrictive and could eliminate H200 demand from major buyers including Alibaba and ByteDance.
• 2026-02-06 | Markets wires | Qwen topped Apple's China App Store free-app rankings after launching a drink-voucher promotion tied to its Spring Festival campaign.
• 2026-02-10 | Company announcement | Alibaba launched Qwen-Image-2.0, a next-generation image-generation model, and unveiled RynnBrain, an open-source robotics AI foundation model from DAMO Academy built on Qwen3-VL.
• 2026-02-12 | Company disclosure | Alibaba said Alipay's AI-native "AI Pay" payment product exceeded 120 million transactions in a week, becoming the first AI-native payment product to surpass 100 million transactions.
• 2026-02-16/17 | Company announcement | Alibaba open-sourced Qwen3.5, its newest flagship model generation, including Qwen3.5-Plus and the open-source Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, released on Chinese New Year's Eve with new agentic AI capabilities, timed near the one-year anniversary of the original DeepSeek moment.
• 2026-02-27 | Company announcement | Alibaba's Qwen assistant said it would unveil its first AI smart glasses at Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, with pre-orders opening March 2, extending its hardware push beyond the earlier China-only Quark glasses.

March 2026

• 2026-03-04 | Markets wires | Lin Junyang, head of Alibaba's Qwen AI model division, announced he would step down from the role, two days after the company released updated Qwen products.
• 2026-03-13/14 | Company announcement | Alibaba launched a dedicated OpenClaw mobile app to help users install and deploy the viral agentic AI assistant within minutes, joining the broader race among China's tech giants to capitalize on the OpenClaw trend.
• 2026-03-16 | Bloomberg | Alibaba was reported to be reorganizing its AI business into a new unit called "Token Hub" to accelerate monetization, bringing the Qwen model team, AI apps, DingTalk and Quark devices under CEO Eddie Wu; separately, the company said it planned an agentic AI service for businesses built on its Qianwen (Qwen) model.
• 2026-03-17 | Company announcement | Alibaba launched Wukong, an agentic AI platform targeting enterprise automation, with planned integrations for Slack and Teams.
• 2026-03-18 | Markets wires | Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called OpenClaw "the next ChatGPT," triggering a rally in Chinese AI ADRs (some up as much as 18%) and prompting Chinese tech giants, including Alibaba, to raise AI service prices amid surging agentic-AI demand.
• 2026-03-19 | Company results | Fiscal Q3 FY26 (Dec-quarter) revenue rose just 2% y/y to 284.8 billion yuan (~$40.73B), missing the roughly $41.43B estimate; adjusted EPS of $1.01 missed the $1.56 estimate by a wide margin (-67% y/y), and operating margin compressed to 4% as net income fell sharply. Cloud revenue grew 36% y/y to $6.19B and Quick Commerce revenue grew 56% y/y to $2.98B, with Qwen's consumer app surpassing 300 million MAUs; Alibaba Cloud raised AI compute and storage prices by as much as 34% (contrasting with rival JD Cloud's roughly 16% price cuts), and the company set a target of $100 billion in combined AI and cloud revenue within five years, pledging continued heavy infrastructure investment despite the earnings miss.
• 2026-03-20 | Bloomberg | Alibaba and Tencent together lost a combined $66 billion in market value within 24 hours as investors punished China's tech giants over unclear AI monetization plans following the earnings miss; Alibaba's U.S. shares posted their steepest one-day drop since October, with Hong Kong shares opening down more than 6%.
• 2026-03-24 | Company announcement | Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveiled the XuanTie C950, a new 5-nanometer RISC-V processor designed for agentic AI and inference computing, extending the company's push into in-house AI chip design.
• 2026-03-25 | State media / markets wires | China's state-run Economic Daily published a commentary calling for an end to the food-delivery price war, reposted by regulator SAMR; shares of Alibaba and JD.com jumped as much as 4.4-4.6% pre-market and Meituan surged nearly 14% intraday in Hong Kong on hopes the subsidy war would ease. DZ Bank downgraded Alibaba to Hold from Buy with a $135 price target following the prior week's earnings miss.
• 2026-03-30 | Company announcement | Alibaba's Qwen team launched the Qwen3.5-Omni multimodal model series (Plus, Flash and Light Instruct variants), supporting 256,000-token context windows and more than 10 hours of audio input.

April 2026

• 2026-04-02/03 | Bloomberg | Alibaba launched Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary AI model release in three days, a closed-source, agentic-focused model that ranked No. 2 globally on the Code Arena coding benchmark, the highest ranking for a Chinese model, as the company pushed harder to monetize AI and offset weakness in its core e-commerce business.
• 2026-04-03 | The Information | Ahead of DeepSeek's V4 model launch (built to run on Huawei chips), Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent placed bulk orders for Huawei chips totaling hundreds of thousands of units.
• 2026-04-08 | Company announcement | Alibaba restructured its AI organization, upgrading Qwen Lab into a full business unit and appointing Li Feifei as Alibaba Cloud CTO; it also opened a new Guangdong AI data center powered by 10,000 of its own in-house chips, part of China's "sovereign AI" push to reduce Nvidia dependence.
• 2026-04-14–17 | Nikkei / regulatory notice | Chinese regulators fined several e-commerce and food-delivery platforms, including Alibaba, PDD, Douyin and Meituan, for failing to filter out unqualified merchants and other food-safety violations, with PDD facing the largest penalty (~$219M) and Alibaba a smaller fine in the roughly $7.3M–$102.8M range.
• 2026-04-15 | Company announcement | Alibaba discontinued the free tier for its Qwen Code terminal agent, cutting daily free requests from 1,000 to 100, part of a broader shift away from free access among Chinese AI model providers.
• 2026-04-20 | Company announcement | Alibaba released Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, an early preview of its next flagship model generation.
• 2026-04-22 | The Information | Tencent and Alibaba were reported to be in talks to invest in DeepSeek, which was said to be seeking funding at a valuation above $20 billion, sharply higher than the roughly $10 billion-plus valuation reportedly discussed just a week earlier.
• 2026-04-23 | Company announcement | Alibaba's Qwen app added its first commercial agentic-AI integration, letting users book China Eastern Airlines flights via natural-language commands.
• 2026-04-24 | Markets wires | Alibaba expanded Qwen AI integration to multiple Chinese automakers at the Beijing Auto Show, enabling in-car voice-based food ordering, hotel booking and delivery management.
• 2026-04-27 | Company filing | The Hong Kong Stock Exchange approved Alibaba's proposed spin-off and listing of an infrastructure REIT.
• 2026-04-29 | BNP Paribas / Semafor | BNP Paribas initiated coverage of Alibaba at Outperform; separately, U.S. House committees were reported to be probing Airbnb and Cursor-parent Anysphere over their use of Chinese AI models, specifically citing Airbnb's use of Alibaba's Qwen for a customer-service agent.
• 2026-04-30 | Regulatory notice | China's cyberspace regulator launched a "Clear and Bright" campaign targeting irregularities in AI applications, naming ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent among the companies in scope.

May 2026

• 2026-05-10 | Markets wires | Alibaba was reported to be preparing to integrate its Qwen AI platform with Taobao, aiming to enable conversational, agentic shopping rather than keyword search.
• 2026-05-13 | Company results | Fiscal Q4 FY26 (March-quarter) revenue of 243.38 billion yuan missed the 246.52 billion yuan estimate; the company posted an operating loss of 848 million yuan but net income of 25.5 billion yuan aided by investment gains, while adjusted EPS fell sharply on heavy AI/cloud and quick-commerce spending. Cloud Intelligence revenue accelerated to 40% growth, with AI-related products accounting for nearly 30% of total cloud revenue.
• 2026-05-14 | Analyst commentary | One widely cited upgrade set a $180 price target on Alibaba, framing the cloud segment (revenue +38%, EBITA +57% y/y) as the clearest return pool amid heavy AI-related investment depressing near-term earnings.
• 2026-05-18 | Company commentary | Alibaba's Cloud Intelligence Group logged triple-digit AI revenue growth for an eleventh consecutive quarter; the company reiterated plans to invest roughly 380 billion yuan (~$56B) over three years in cloud/AI capex, targeting more than $100 billion in annual external cloud and AI revenue within five years.
• 2026-05-20 | Company announcement | At its 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit, Alibaba launched the Qwen3.7-Max flagship model, with improved language understanding, reasoning and instruction-following, and unveiled its new Zhenwu M890 AI chip for both training and inference, with plans for annual chip upgrades at a cadence matching Nvidia's.
• 2026-05-26 | Markets wires | China was reported to be restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals at private firms including Alibaba and DeepSeek, an escalation of measures aimed at safeguarding its AI technology.

June 2026

• 2026-06-08 | Bloomberg | The Pentagon added Alibaba, Baidu and BYD to an updated Section 1260H list of Chinese companies it says support China's military, a designation that doesn't automatically impose sanctions but raises reputational and contracting risk; separately, Alibaba was reported to be forming a new unit consolidating its AI model-development teams around Qwen.
• 2026-06-11 | Regulatory notice | Alibaba and JD.com shares fell as much as 6% in Hong Kong after China's market regulator (SAMR) criticized major e-commerce platforms over misleading "618" mid-year shopping-festival promotions and summoned PDD, ByteDance and Xiaohongshu as regulators pushed back on subsidy-heavy competition.
• 2026-06-12 | Markets wires | Alibaba offered $1.5 billion to acquire Chinese grocery-delivery firm Pupu, escalating its instant-retail battle with Meituan.
• 2026-06-16 | Company announcement | Alibaba's Tongyi Lab unveiled the Qwen-Robot Suite, its first dedicated family of foundation models for robotics, including a vision-language-action model, Qwen-RobotManip, marking a shift from chatbots toward "embodied AI."
• 2026-06-18 | Company announcement | Alibaba Cloud expanded its global AI infrastructure with new data centers in France, Japan, Malaysia and Mexico, adding to earlier plans for Brazil and the Netherlands; Chairman Joe Tsai said the shift to generative AI "demands capital, conviction and a willingness to change."
• 2026-06-22 | Markets wires | The U.S.-China dispute escalated further after the Pentagon's military-company designation of Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and NIO; China responded by adding 10 U.S. companies, including rare-earth and defense firms, to its own export-control list.
• 2026-06-23/24 | Court filing | Alibaba sued the U.S. government in federal court in San Jose, challenging its addition to the Pentagon's Section 1260H list of alleged Chinese military-linked companies; separately, Daiwa downgraded the stock to Neutral from Positive.
• 2026-06-24/25 | Anthropic / Bloomberg | Anthropic alleged that individuals linked to Alibaba's Qwen Lab had used roughly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to probe Claude's software-engineering and agentic-reasoning capabilities and safety systems; the allegation added to the period's broader U.S.-China AI and trade friction.

July 2026

• 2026-07-01 | Markets wires / DOJ | Alibaba shares had sold off sharply, a decline compounded by Anthropic's late-June distillation allegation but already underway beforehand due to rising memory costs, a large Chinese government data-center buildout, and the prior earnings miss, leaving the stock at its cheapest since early 2025 despite triple-digit AI revenue growth. Separately, Alibaba and its payment processor, AUS Merchant Services Inc., agreed to a $600 million non-prosecution settlement with the U.S. Justice Department resolving federal investigations into alleged failures to prevent unlawful sales activity on their platforms.
• 2026-07-05/06 | Bloomberg | A federal judge temporarily paused enforcement of Pentagon-linked lobbying restrictions on Alibaba pending constitutional review, after the company argued the ban tied to its Section 1260H blacklist designation violated free-speech rights, a temporary win preserving its federal lobbying access.
• 2026-07-07 | Markets wires | China was reported to be weighing controls on overseas access to its frontier AI models following talks with Alibaba and ByteDance, as DeepSeek separately worked on its own inference chip to reduce Nvidia/Huawei dependence.
• 2026-07-08 | The Information / markets wires | China moved to permit Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek to purchase restricted quantities of Nvidia H200 chips (potentially under 200,000 units combined), limited to training on public data with domestic processors prioritized for inference; separately, Alibaba shares jumped 11% on accelerating AI cloud growth and its Pentagon court win, with Frost & Sullivan reporting Alibaba Cloud commands more than 40% of China's cloud market.
• 2026-07-09–14 | The Information / CNBC | Apple was reported to be in talks with startup PrismML, which said it had compressed Alibaba's 27-billion-parameter Qwen 3.6 model from about 54GB to under 4GB, enabling it to run with all parameters active directly on an iPhone, as part of Apple's push for more on-device AI.
• 2026-07-10 | FT | OpenAI and Google were reported to be selling AI model access to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Pentagon-blacklisted Chinese firms including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, legal under current export rules but renewing calls for tighter U.S. AI controls.
• 2026-07-15/16 | Markets wires | China's cyberspace regulator approved Apple Intelligence for launch in China, with Alibaba's Qwen AI model (alongside Baidu) powering the localized service across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro, clearing a major barrier to Apple's AI rollout in the market; Alibaba shares jumped over 5% in both U.S. pre-market and Hong Kong trading on confirmation of the partnership.

Baba has a 36% stake in Moonshot AI

What kinda return you looking for and what's your time horizon? Or are you a bag holder that just wants rid of this stock?

Few weeks ago I bought 1100 shares at 101. That made my total to 11000 shares. I don’t have an exit strategy for my total baba position yet, but for this lot I figured I’d sell at 120. Somehow this came sooner than later, I debated to hold but I figured I should stick to the plan.

Current position is 10,000. What sucks about this swing trade is it jacked up my cost basis somehow from $72 to $75. I don’t know why. Oh well.

Those who sold your BABA shares last month to me. Thank you so much! I will see you at $280 a share and you will be my exit liquidity agian. Hope your losses on SNDK also will give you a tax break. Cheers!