Alibaba’s effort to carve out a leading position in AI was accelerated by DeepSeek’s splashy debut in January.

Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) has released a new artificial intelligence model, R1-Omni, which is capable of recognizing human emotions through audio and visual cues. This represents a crucial step in achieving artificial general intelligence,

Investing.com -- Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) Group Holding Ltd has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model, R1-Omni, developed by its Tongyi Lab. The latest model has the capability to interpret emotions, marking a significant advancement in the field of computer vision.

China's Manus AI, a viral autonomous agent developed by Tencent-backed startup The Butterfly Effect, is partnering with Alibaba's Qwen team to create a localized version as it gains global attention and draws comparisons to DeepSeek.

The creator of Chinese general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) agent Manus is working with Alibaba Group Holding’s large language model (LLM) team to develop a Chinese version of the application, after it quickly rose to fame over the past few days.

China's Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba's Qwen AI models, a move that could bolster the artificial intelligence start-up's roll-out of what it called the world's first general AI agent.