Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Alibaba for the week ending July 24, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category cover image prompt:
A giant glowing red Chinese paper lantern descending like a mothership from a deep cosmic purple-black sky, its silk tassels unraveling into flowing rainbow ribbons of hot magenta, acid yellow, lime, and turquoise that swirl across the frame with starburst sparkles and gold glitter, a single beam of warm stage light pouring down beneath it, with the word Alibaba arcing above in huge fat bubble funk lettering with chrome fill and stacked multicolor drop shadows, 1970s psychedelic Afrofuturist concert poster style, one bold central subject with generous negative space.
This Week in Alibaba News
Here’s a quick AI-generated summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5, based on the headlines and excerpts accompanying this week’s links:
Alibaba's Qwen team teased Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion parameter model it says will go open-weight soon and ranks second only to Fable 5. It also released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a text-to-speech model in Flash (real-time) and Plus (high-quality) versions, with inline tags like [whisper] and [laughs] to steer delivery.
Separately, Alibaba open-sourced its AI chip software stack at WAIC, aimed at reducing reliance on Nvidia's CUDA.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Alibaba
Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon!🌐 With a massive 2.4T parameters, this model is continuously evolving. We believe it’s one of the most powerful model available today, compatible to leading frontier AI models , second only to Fable 5. You don’t have to wait to”
https://x.com/qwen_cloud/status/2078758151390953489?s=20
Introducing the Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS. Our latest text-to-speech model, in two flavors: • Flash: real-time interaction • Plus: high-quality generation What’s new: • Fine-grained inline tags-steer [whisper], [angry], [breaths] & [laughs] • Free-style natural-language”
https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2080270065547809133
Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
https://thenextweb.com/news/alibaba-t-head-sail-open-source-nvidia-cuda-alternative
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