➀ Alibaba Cloud's Qwen family of large artificial intelligence models is the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem.

➁ Tongyi Lab, at the core of Alibaba's Artificial Superintelligence roadmap, is composed of some of China's brightest young talent.➂ Lin Junyang, leader of Qwen's open-source initiatives, has a humanities background and advocates for open-source communities.

➃ Liu Dayiheng, a lead engineer, introduced Qwen 3, a major AI model released in May.

➄ Hui Binyuan, a child prodigy, joined Alibaba in 2021 and conducted research on AI models understanding tables and charts.

➅ Bai Shuai, a lead engineer, achieved industry-leading scores on key benchmarks with Qwen3-VL.

➆ Xu Jin, the tech lead of Qwen's audio and multimodal capabilities, has interned at Apple, Microsoft Research Asia, and Baidu.

➇ Wu Chenfei, leading the Qwen-Image multimodal models, was a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia before joining Alibaba.

➀ China aims to capture 40% of its domestic AI chip market in 2024, led by local players like Huawei's Ascend series, Cambricon, Alibaba's Hanguang 800, and Baidu's Kunlun chips;

➁ Global competitors such as Intel, AMD, Google (Trillium TPU), AWS (Trainium), and Meta (MTIA) are advancing their own AI processors, intensifying pressure on Nvidia;

➂ Imec's proposal for reconfigurable AI processors could disrupt current development paradigms, potentially challenging the strategies of major AI chip designers.

➀ Apple has partnered with Alibaba to provide AI features for the domestic version of iPhone users, according to The Information.

➁ The two companies have jointly developed AI features for domestic use that have been submitted for review by domestic authorities.

➂ Apple tested various AI models from Chinese developers starting in2023 and initially chose Baidu as the main partner, but the cooperation was canceled due to Baidu's failure to meet Apple's standards.