{"id":10641,"date":"2025-11-16T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/alibaba-revamps-chatbot-amid-us-panic-over-firms-ai-progress\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:45:27","slug":"alibaba-revamps-chatbot-amid-us-panic-over-firms-ai-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/alibaba-revamps-chatbot-amid-us-panic-over-firms-ai-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba revamps chatbot amid US \u2018panic\u2019 over firm\u2019s AI progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/11\/16\/00ebbb27-c3e3-4430-8f52-e15b9ce49a45_9aa50695.jpg?itok=RfyL0Rg9&amp;v=1763282203\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"10.92\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Alibaba Group Holding<\/span> has begun a revamp of its <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">artificial intelligence<\/span> chatbot in a move to match OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT, according to app store information and media reports, as some observers see &ldquo;panic&rdquo; in Silicon Valley over the Chinese tech giant&rsquo;s rapid AI progress.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1evd7i0 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The new chatbot app, Qwen, an upgraded and renamed version of the previous app, Tongyi, became available on Android and Apple app stores on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba dubbed the updated app the &ldquo;most powerful official AI assistant for its models&rdquo; and &ldquo;the primary entry point for experiencing the latest and most powerful Qwen model&rdquo;, in app-store descriptions. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"10.565789473684\">The company also planned to add agentic-AI features to the app to boost shopping on platforms including the main <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Taobao<\/span> marketplace, Bloomberg reported.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-117a6hs e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tech giant, based in Hangzhou, the capital of eastern China&rsquo;s Zhejiang province, has been pushing adoption and commercialisation of the Qwen series of AI models over the past two years amid the global AI frenzy kicked off by OpenAI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>Alibaba revamps chatbot amid US &lsquo;panic&rsquo; over firm&rsquo;s AI progress<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alibaba Group Holding has begun a revamp of its artificial intelligence chatbot in a move to match OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT, according to app store information and media reports, as some observers see &ldquo;panic&rdquo; in Silicon Valley over the Chinese tech giant&rsquo;s rapid AI progress. Advertisement The new chatbot app, Qwen, an upgraded and renamed version of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/alibaba-revamps-chatbot-amid-us-panic-over-firms-ai-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Alibaba revamps chatbot amid US \u2018panic\u2019 over firm\u2019s AI progress&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}