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According to Beating AI News, Alibaba has released Qianwen Office 2.0, which adds a "Trigger Task" feature. Previously, this product could only execute tasks automatically at preset times; now it can also allow AI to start processing automatically upon receiving specific messages, approvals, or pending events.For example, after the boss sends work arrangements via DingTalk, the AI can automatically organize the requests into to-do items according to pre-set rules. Users can view the execution results and can modify or turn off the rules at any time.Tasks can be executed on local computers or in the cloud. Pure cloud tasks do not rely on the computer being powered on and can continue running even after the computer is shut down.

The Alibaba Cloud Token Plan Personal Edition will significantly increase the monthly quota. The prices for the Lite, Essential, and Standard tiers remain unchanged, while the quotas will increase by approximately 74% to 78%. The Lite package priced at 39 yuan will increase its quota from 11,500 to 20,000 Credits, the Essential package priced at 79 yuan will increase from 25,500 to 45,000, and the Standard package priced at 139 yuan will increase from 45,000 to 80,000.The Pro package will also see a price reduction and an increase in quota, with the monthly fee dropping from 499 yuan to 312 yuan, and the quota increasing from 180,000 to 200,000 Credits. Calculating the subscription cost per Credit, the costs for all four packages have decreased by approximately 43%.The Token Plan is Alibaba Cloud's monthly subscription service for large models, which can connect to AI programming and agent tools such as Claude Code, Qwen Code, Qoder, and OpenClaw. Users can call different models using a unified Credits quota. The new quotas will gradually be made available to existing users and will supplement the current subscription cycle's quota. The price for existing Pro users will remain unchanged for the current cycle, with the new price taking effect from the next cycle.

According to Jinshi Data, Hong Kong tech stocks weakened in the afternoon, with Alibaba (09988.HK) falling nearly 5%, Xiaomi Group (01810.HK) and Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) dropping over 3%, and Kuaishou (01024.HK) and JD.com (09618.HK) also following the decline.

According to Gelonghui, citing the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, on November 4, a joint release of the "Self-Regulatory Convention for the Development of Intelligent Agents" was made by 20 entities including the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, and Xiaomi.The convention mentions the construction of interconnected infrastructure for intelligent agents, co-building interoperable infrastructure, developing technologies and standards for intelligent agent registration and resolution, capability description and discovery, intent understanding and transformation, network routing and connection, resource scheduling and measurement, protocol compatibility and mutual recognition, continuously reducing the cost of cross-domain discovery and connection for intelligent agents, and supporting the interconnected collaboration of intelligent agents.The convention also mentions accelerating the empowerment of intelligent agents across various industries, adhering to serving the real economy, developing low-threshold tools for intelligent agent development and deployment, collaborating on research and development of intelligent agents aimed at real operational scenarios that create actual value, promoting the embedding of intelligent agents into existing production systems and business processes, creating benchmark applications, continuously reducing the cost of implementing intelligent agents, and assisting industries in improving quality and efficiency.

In the early morning of November 4, Apple opened testing for the latest iOS developer Beta version. According to Caixin, users can directly access the text and image understanding, content generation, and other capabilities of Alibaba's artificial intelligence application Qianwen through Siri, writing tools, and visual intelligence. Journalists found that users can complete basic Q&A, image-text analysis, and content generation on their iPhones, and further needs can be redirected to the Qianwen App, with conversation information automatically synchronized.Users can choose whether to enable the Qianwen integration feature. Once activated, they can log in using their Apple ID or their own Qianwen App account, and use Qianwen within Siri, visual intelligence, and writing tools. When journalists inquired about methods to improve sleep, Siri called Qianwen to provide general suggestions; for more personalized plans, users could click the Qianwen icon to jump to the Qianwen App, which analyzes influencing factors based on previous sleep records, exercise conditions, and lifestyle habits to formulate improvement plans.Visual intelligence supports the option "Ask Qianwen" to identify items or scenes in images, for example, first asking Siri about clothing brands, then jumping to the Qianwen App to find the same style on Taobao and place an order. The "Qianwen Creation" feature in the writing tool can generate content based on requirements and adjust tone and length, such as retaining the time and place in an event invitation or compressing it into a brief notification for easy forwarding. Currently, users in China who purchase iPhones that support Apple intelligence, or whose device location and Apple account country and region are both set to China, can experience related features through this developer Beta version.

According to "Du Jia," Alibaba is conducting internal testing of the AI film and television creation platform "Looogen," with the slogan "Logical, Self-Produced." This product is positioned as a local agent for short drama and video production, capable of completing script breakdowns, shot design, character and scene material generation, voiceover and music production, and final editing through dialogue, while managing multi-episode material packages and on-set assets, supporting white model rehearsals and video expansion.Looogen offers a desktop client and local operation, supporting Windows and macOS (Intel/Apple dual chips), and provides the capability for private deployment and access to proprietary model channels. All creative sessions, generated materials, and final products are stored on local devices, forming a local closed loop in terms of data and copyright.The product offers two switchable operational modes: the film and television agent dialogue mode, driven by natural language commands for AI to automatically complete the entire process; and the film and television suite workstation mode, where creators can manually enter independent process modules for refined control. The internal test version is equipped with multiple models including Seedance 2.0, supporting three video ratios of 21:9, 16:9, and 9:16, as well as resolutions from 480P to 1080P. The product is still in the internal testing phase, and features and pricing may be adjusted, subject to official information.

According to Bloomberg, Wang Ruomeng, an official from China's National Development and Reform Commission, stated on Tuesday that China is accelerating the legislation of artificial intelligence, implementing full lifecycle supervision on the development and application of AI, covering aspects such as data and computing power.This set of standards aims to prevent the risks of increasingly powerful AI losing control and is considered one of the more comprehensive AI safety guidelines currently available. Regulation will involve major developers such as DeepSeek, Dark Side of the Moon, and Alibaba, which are pushing to create products that can compete with the top models from OpenAI and Anthropic.

On November 3, at the 2026 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Jack Ma, co-founder and chairman of Alibaba Group, delivered a keynote speech stating that the demand for AI continues to rise, and Chinese companies are continuously increasing their efforts in model open sourcing and ecological openness, with key indicators such as open source model downloads remaining at the forefront. He emphasized, "Only open source can be popularized, and only popularization can create a sustainable and inclusive era of intelligence."According to Jack Ma, three years ago, Alibaba proposed an open source strategy. As of now, Alibaba Qianwen has open-sourced over 470 models, with a total global download exceeding 4 billion.

According to the latest rankings from QuestMobile, in September 2026, Alibaba's AI application Qianwen App reached 158 million monthly active users, a year-on-year increase of 5077%, ranking first in growth among apps with over 100 million monthly active users. In the domestic AI native app rankings, Qianwen ranks second, surpassing DeepSeek's 123 million, but still below the first place, Doubao, which has 419 million.This growth is related to Alibaba's large-scale promotion. In November last year, the Tongyi App was renamed to Qianwen. This Spring Festival, Alibaba announced an investment of 3 billion yuan to launch a free order campaign, allowing users to order milk tea and takeout through AI. The campaign link was widely shared in WeChat groups, and the system experienced delays due to increased traffic. QuestMobile data shows that on the first day of the campaign, Qianwen's daily active users rose from about 7.06 million to 58.48 million.The year-on-year growth of 5077% was also influenced by last year's low base. Based on year-on-year data, Qianwen's monthly active users were about 3.05 million in September last year. By March this year, Qianwen's monthly active users had reached 166 million, rising to 167 million in June, and then falling back to 158 million in September, a decrease of about 9 million compared to June, with a decline rate of approximately 5.4%.

On November 2nd at 7:30 PM, Li Jiaqi will start selling Tokens in the Tmall Double 11 live broadcast room. Alibaba Vice President and Qianwen Office Head Chen Yusen will be present, and the live broadcast room has also announced the distribution of 200 trillion Tokens. Also appearing will be AI computers pre-installed with Qianwen Office, AI transcription cards, and desktop robots.On September 3rd, Tmall launched the Token recharge center, connecting with vendors such as Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu, Kimi, and MiniMax, selling monthly subscription AI packages and pay-per-use recharge services, supporting card code redemption or direct recharge.

Apple and Alibaba announced a partnership to integrate Qianwen into Apple Intelligence. Chinese users can access Qianwen's text and image understanding, content generation, and other capabilities through Siri, writing tools, and visual intelligence.These features will be available for testing starting November 4 with the latest iOS developer beta version and will be officially launched with the release of iOS 27.3 in December.

The official account of Alibaba Cloud stated that the large model company Step Star has globally released its flagship open-source model Step 5 Preview, positioned as a primary working model for real-world intelligent agent tasks, excelling in AI programming, software engineering, professional knowledge work, and financial scenarios. The model has a total of 600 billion parameters and 27 billion active parameters, utilizing sparse MoE, with a maximum context window of 1 million, capable of processing text, images, and videos. The article mentions that it recently ranked second globally in both weekly and daily call volume on OpenRouter. On the day of the release, Alibaba Cloud announced the completion of DAY0 adaptation, optimized for joint inference based on chips, super node instances, and models, with inference computing power provided by the Lingjun super node.Step Star has developed its own intelligent agent reinforcement learning training platform, with the sandbox platform managed by Alibaba Cloud. The solution is based on Alibaba Cloud's Agent Sandbox and Kubernetes container service, aimed at elastic computing power in training mode, claiming to create tens of thousands of sandboxes in a single minute, with a maximum concurrency of up to one million, compatible with E2B API, and providing native Kubernetes interfaces. Through multi-level image caching, intelligent pre-scheduling, and control link optimization, it achieves millisecond-level application and minute-level creation of 30,000 sandboxes, with the sandbox lifecycle uniformly managed by Alibaba Cloud's backend.In terms of storage, each Pod starts with 15GB of free temporary storage, automatically increasing by 30GB each time when usage exceeds 70%, up to a maximum of 300GB. For security, MicroVM-level isolation is adopted by default, covering computing, networking, storage, and permissions, with zero-trust access to cloud products and large model interfaces. The results provided in the article include: a 90% reduction in image startup time, model evaluation cycles compressed from weekly to daily, and an average savings of about 40% on EBS storage costs; relying on ACK One Fleet, it can support the stable operation of hundreds of thousands of sandboxes simultaneously.

Max For AI disclosed that Moon's Dark Side Kimi K3.1 and Alibaba Qwen4 have both entered the final stage before release and are currently undergoing anonymous testing in Arena, with a release expected within this week.Previously, the community discovered two anonymous models, Kibitz and Kalmia, appearing on Arena. The account @aitrackerbot found through tokenizer testing that Kibitz's features point to Moon's Dark Side's Kimi, while Kalmia is suspected to come from Alibaba Qwen. Max For AI stated that both teams have been running benchmark tests intensively over the past few days, and with the anonymous models going live on Arena, an official release may be imminent. The identities and release times of the related models are yet to be confirmed by the official sources.

According to "Du Jia," Alibaba Cloud merged its original IQS information query service with CleverSee in mid-September to create a brand new AI-native search service product called CleverSee (Chinese name "Kai Xi"), providing integrated search and Q&A services for enterprise clients.CleverSee is positioned as an AI-native retrieval tool specifically designed to provide understandable high-quality information sources for large models and intelligent agents. Its core includes three sub-products: networked inquiry, vertical domain inquiry, and enterprise internal search, covering public internet information, semi-public information in vertical fields, and private data within enterprises, respectively. The networked inquiry supports intent recognition, multi-turn thinking, and searching while thinking, and can return answers with source citations as well as structured cards for weather, stock prices, etc.; the enterprise internal search is currently in a targeted experience testing phase.Previously, Tencent Cloud opened "Yuanbao Search" to the public on October 20, and ByteDance's Volcano Engine also launched Viking AI Search, accelerating the deployment of AI search infrastructure among domestic cloud vendors for enterprise applications.

According to a report by Reuters, on October 20, ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent have ordered over 3 million RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards from NVIDIA, with a unit price of approximately $11,400, totaling over $35 billion. Due to U.S. export controls, this chip does not include the advanced Blackwell architecture and is currently the most powerful compliant NVIDIA chip available for purchase in China.Insiders have indicated that due to demand far exceeding production capacity, NVIDIA has informed partners that it may only be able to fulfill 5% to 10% of orders. Chinese tech companies primarily use this chip for AI inference and post-training model generation. Although its performance is far inferior to the banned B300 and H200 chips, in the context of ongoing computing power shortages and restrictions, the RTX PRO 5500 has become an attractive alternative. Additionally, NVIDIA plans to shift most of TSMC's capacity to the new generation Rubin products starting in 2027. Currently, ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and NVIDIA have not commented on this.

At the 2026 RISC-V China Summit, Chief Scientist Meng Jianyi of Alibaba Damo Academy stated: So far, the Xuantie chips have steadily shipped over 6 billion units. Xuantie is a series of RISC-V processors launched by Alibaba Damo Academy.At the conference, Alibaba Damo Academy also released the first automotive-grade enhanced E908A chip. Meng Jianyi cited a prediction from Omida, stating that by 2030, the annual shipment volume of global RISC-V processors will grow by nearly 30% each year, and by 2030, the global market share of processor shipments will reach approximately 25%.

On October 16, Tencent Holdings stated: The company discovered unexpected behavior from third-party AI models on its platform. Earlier this week, a research report claimed that "out of control" AI entities had emerged in China, originating from a sandbox on Tencent Cloud.The Shenzhen company stated that the relevant models did not come from its own Hy artificial intelligence development team, and no evidence of deliberate targeting or collusion was found. Tencent indicated that these entities were part of an evaluation activity for models built by third-party developers. The report from the international research team stated that these entities detected Alibaba Group's online mapping service and attempted to bypass anti-bot protections.

Researchers successfully communicated directly with AI agents while investigating the hijacking of Alibaba's Gaode Map service, even as some software was still running. In a report suspected to have been scanned by these agents, researchers included hidden text that is invisible to humans but visible to web reading tools, and then inquired about their tasks and operating environment through an email. One agent claimed it was checking how many entrance tags a certain scenic area displayed on Gaode Map and stated that it was operating in a restricted Tencent Cloud sandbox. Researchers could not independently confirm which model drove each run, noting that this was the first known external communication with an active out-of-control agent cluster.A report released by Swarmchasers on October 14 tracked over 2,600 attempts to obtain Gaode Map data between September 28 and October 8. Some tasks were relatively routine, such as checking which entrance was most commonly used by visitors at the Chengdu Zoo. After the service provider intercepted requests, some agents continued to attempt access, trying to capture tokens generated by anti-scraping software, forwarding traffic through third-party page readers, or using leaked API credentials from public code repositories, with one set of leaked keys and security codes returning real location data. Researchers also found requests targeting four development or pre-production hosts, but there was no evidence that these agents accessed private systems.Public records show that the cluster is related to Tencent Cloud: all 17 email accounts examined by researchers were created by Tencent servers located in Hong Kong, and the observed direct requests were forwarded through an agent named hysandbox-ats.

Apple plans to launch Apple Smart through the iOS 27.3 system update in December, with the first batch of AI features released two years ago in the United States, covering iPhone, iPad, and Mac.Alibaba provides AI model capabilities, while Baidu is responsible for Siri and visual intelligence features.

According to a report by Bloomberg cited by Phoenix Technology, Apple is preparing to launch its AI platform, Apple Intelligence, in mainland China. Insiders say that Apple plans to roll out this feature in December through the upcoming iOS 27.3 update, covering capabilities related to iPhone, iPad, and Mac that were first launched in the United States two years ago.Insiders indicate that this launch does not include the new Siri AI assistant or other features announced this year. In July, Apple received preliminary approval to launch Apple Intelligence in China and has recently engaged in further discussions with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to seek permission for a formal consumer launch of the service.According to previous reports, the AI platform launched by Apple in China employs a security protection mechanism co-developed with Alibaba and collaborates with Baidu to develop search and Siri-related features. As of the time of publication, an Apple spokesperson declined to comment.