Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai said at VivaTech in Paris (June 17–20, 2026) that the move to generative AI requires "capital, conviction and a willingness to change," underscoring the company's strategic pivot amid the U.S.-China AI race.
June 18, 2026 · VivaTech, Paris · Alibaba
"When the world changes, you have to change yourself"
Chairman Joe Tsai says the generative-AI shift demands three things — capital, conviction and a willingness to transform — while warning against an overheating data-center buildout.
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Things the AI shift requires: capital · conviction · self-change
~30%
Share of Alibaba's internal code now generated by AI
201
Languages supported by Qwen3.5
Qwen3.5 efficiency leap
Stacked blocks = relative efficiency. Each block is 1×.
8× efficiency gain alongside a 60% cost reduction — performance and cost, front and center.
QWEN3.5 · FEB 2026
397B params · 17B active
Hybrid Gated Delta Networks + MoE. Visual agent capabilities. Claims to surpass GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Opus and Gemini 3 Pro on several tasks.
QWEN3.7-MAX · 2026
69.7% Terminal-Bench 2.0
Strong with MCP tool use. AA Intelligence Index of 56.6. Built for agentic workflow execution.
Strengths cited
High performance at low cost
Agentic tool use & workflow execution
Multilingual & Chinese-language tasks
Open-weight strategy as a strength
Concerns noted
Trails top models on general knowledge recall
API access tied to US-China regulation
Trade-off: less hallucination vs factual accuracy
Warnings of an AI data-center bubble
"A race between companies, not between nations."
A pragmatic posture — committing capital while cautioning against overheating — drawn favorably by investors. After DeepSeek R1 emerged, Alibaba engineers worked through the Lunar New Year holiday to keep pace.
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