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DeepSeek has rejected investment from Alibaba to maintain corporate independence and avoid restrictive ecosystem integration clauses, despite significant interest from Chinese tech giants. The company seeks funding primarily for computational power and talent retention while minimizing external control over its commercialization agenda.
The article discusses that Qwen, Alibaba's large language model, is not available for free usage, addressing pricing or access limitations for the model.
Tencent and Alibaba are reportedly in talks to invest in Chinese AI startup DeepSeek at a valuation exceeding $20 billion.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, an updated version of its Qwen3.6 model series with improved performance and capabilities.
Alibaba’s 6B-parameter Z-Image-Turbo text-to-image model, further compressed by PrunaAI, generates 1024×1024 photorealistic images with bilingual text in <1s on 8 diffusion steps.