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 August 14, 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 Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A single pale porcelain medallion floating on perfectly still misty water, its surface finely etched with a stylized qilin curled nose to tail into a closed circle, one thin thread of warm gold light catching its rim, vast negative space of soft dawn mist and deep indigo fading at the edges, the bold title text Alibaba set large and clean in the open sky above, photorealistic magazine-cover minimalist fine-art still life, quiet symmetry, soft diffused dawn light.
This Week in Alibaba News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, an open-weight model with 2.4 trillion parameters, 95 billion active at a time, and a 256K context window. It is aimed at coding and long-running agent work. Together AI is hosting it, and vLLM said it supports the model from day one on NVIDIA and AMD hardware.
Separately, Reuters reported that Apple is training its own AI model for China with Alibaba's support.
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
Apple trains own AI model for China with Alibaba support, Reuters reports By Investing.com
https://au.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/apple-trains-own-ai-model-for-china-with-alibaba-support-reuters-reports-4599519
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B is now live on Together AI. The Qwen Team’s latest flagship model is built for coding and long-horizon agent workflows, with 2.4T parameters and a 256K context window. 🧵”
https://x.com/togethercompute/status/2087649685129318585
🎉 Congrats to @Alibaba_Qwen on Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, one of the largest open-weight models released to date. 2.4T params, 95B active, 512 experts. Day-0 support in vLLM, verified on @NVIDIA and @AMD hardware. A ready-made 4-bit checkpoint per vendor, both out of the box:”
https://x.com/vllm_project/status/2087571359413281049
Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B · Hugging Face
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
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