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Alibaba's Qwen runs on two RTX 3060s — but the default config is 7× slower
Reddit user hit 400 t/s on Alibaba's Qwen3 125B with two RTX 3060s. Started at 36 t/s — an 11× gap, all from one default-config trap.
Alibaba Frames AI Capex as a Three-Year Payback Story
Alibaba FY27 Q1: AI ARR RMB 49.5B (35% of external cloud). CEO Wu claims 3-year capex payback — China's first quantifiable AI ROI anchor.
Alibaba Profit Plunges 75%: A Globally Synchronized AI Capex War Signal
Alibaba quarterly profit crashed 75%+ with $10B capex. Proof hyperscalers entering hypercapex. Builders must recalibrate Qwen, cloud pricing, GPU.
Qwen Teases Midsize Open Model Next Week—China's Open-Source Push Accelerates
Qwen community manager teased a midsize open-source model for next week on Discord, continuing the 2025 release cadence. Community pegs 32B-72B.
Alibaba RISC-V CPU runs 27B Qwen at 30 tps — Nvidia isn't the only bet
Alibaba's XuanTie C950 RISC-V chip ran a 27B Qwen model at 30 tps — no Nvidia required. China's domestic AI stack — chip and model — now works end-to-
Alibaba's 27B Ties GPT-5.6 — Small Models Are Good Enough
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B tied GPT-5.6 Luna at 52 on Artificial Analysis, trailing GLM-5.2 (28x larger) by one point. The "are small models enough?" deba
Qwen3.8-27B benchmarks tie GPT-5.6 — small models can now take on big models
Artificial Analysis scored Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B tying DeepSeek V4 and GPT-5.6 Luna Max. Enterprise private AI deployment economics may be quietly shi
Qwen 3B Downloads: Open-Source AI's Center of Gravity Shifts East
Qwen open-weight models hit 3B downloads in 6 months, surpassing Llama and Gemma. Open-weight's center of gravity shifts east to China—the AI Android
Qwen's 2.4T Model Makes Local AI a Luxury Few Can Afford
Qwen's new model hits 2.4T parameters; weights alone take 1.2TB. Local AI is becoming a luxury — enterprise private deployment just got redrawn.
Apple Adopts Alibaba's Qwen: A Different Solution for China's AI Distribution
Apple Intelligence integrating Qwen on its China site isn't a symbol of "domestic substitution"—it's distribution being repriced within regulatory con
India’s AI Cost Bet Is Shifting Toward Chinese Open Models
Indian startups are using DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot open-weight models to cut AI costs by an order of magnitude, signaling a shift in global pri