Alibaba - summary of all the recent tailwinds for the stock
•Alibaba shares look set to extend its exuberant start to the year with a 19% year to date return with a 6% gain over the past five days
•Trending Alibaba call warrant WLWW which has been seeing buying interest this year, has risen 100% from SGD 0.023 to SGD 0.046 as of yesterday, five times more than Alibaba's share price year to date return of 19%
•Trending Alibaba put warrant 9POW (https://warrants.com.sg/tools/livematrix/9POW) is down 49% to SGD 0.049 over the same period
•Just on Monday, Alibaba released its latest AI reasoning model Qwen3 Max Thinking •The model rivals the performance of Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2-Thinking-xhigh in solving science, math and coding questions
•Alibaba had on 15 January announced the linking of its Taobao, Fliggy, and Alipay services to its Qwen AI app, taking its biggest step to build Qwen into a one-stop AI platform for consumers (Bloomberg AskB AI)
•Last week on 21 January, Alibaba announced that it established a 250 million yuan (USD 35.9 million) joint venture with China National Nuclear Power to secure power for AI data centers (Bloomberg)
•The next day, various news outlets reported that Alibaba is planning an IPO for its AI chipmaking unit T-Head
•The IPO process is reportedly still at a very early stage, and Alibaba is said to restructure the unit as a business partly owned by employees before proceeding with the IPO
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