Alibaba ties up with Lee Kai-fu's unicorn as China's AI sector consolidates

South China Morning Post01-03

Alibaba Group Holding's cloud computing business is collaborating with Chinese start-up 01.AI to develop artificial intelligence (AI) models, a sign of consolidation in an increasingly crowded market ...

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