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America can’t win by targeting Alibaba
Financial Express Delhi
|November 21, 2025
IT WAS SUPPOSED to be a good week for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The tech giant released its revamped Qwen app to users in China, with plans to roll out the ChatGPT-like tool internationally later on.
The company’s family of artificial intelligence (AI) models have proven extremely popular with global developers, but the release of the all-in-one app signalled its boldest push yet into the consumer market. The new Qwen platform goes beyond conversational AI, the company said, and can generate a full research report or produce a PowerPoint presentation in seconds. For now, Alibaba is offering it up for free—a move that could potentially pose a threat to Silicon Valley leader Open AI, which reportedly earns 70% of its annual revenue from consumers using ChatGPT.
But that news was largely overshadowed by a Financial Times report alleging Alibaba provides tech support for Chinese military operations according to a White House memo shared with the news outlet. The company has denied the claims as completely false and questioned the motivation behind the anonymous leak.
This story is from the November 21, 2025 edition of Financial Express Delhi.
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