Alibaba unveils AI chip to enhance its cloud services
Alibaba Group has developed a new chip that specialises in machine-learning tasks and which will be used to enhance services for its cloud computing division.
Alibaba Group has developed a new chip that specialises in machine-learning tasks and which will be used to enhance services for its cloud computing division.
Hong Kong's political unrest is posing a dilemma for Alibaba Group on the timing of its planned US$15 billion listing in the city, with sources saying China's biggest e-commerce company is now considering several timetables.
The global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market has grown 31.3 per cent in 2018 generating US$32.4 billion in revenues according to research firm Gartner.
Salesforce will be the sole enterprise CRM product suite sold by Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba as part of a strategic partnership between the two companies announced today.
Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) should create new ambassador positions to serve Silicon Valley and China’s tech giants, says Liberal candidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma in a report released today.
NAB has become the first of Australia’s big four banks to support the Alibaba Group-backed Alipay mobile payment platform.
Australia – and Sydney in particular – cemented its global reputation as a quantum computing powerhouse this week, by hosting two major international conferences.
Etsy, eBay and Alibaba remain critical of the government’s model for GST collection on low-value imported goods but have indicated that at this stage they don’t intend to follow in Amazon’s footsteps and implement a geoblocking system.
Odourless fish oil and dairy products are among the first products to be ordered from Australia using Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba’s blockchain based ‘Food Trust Framework’.
Chinese tech giant Baidu is establishing a quantum computing institute and has appointed UTS Professor Runyao Duan as its inaugural director.
Alibaba Cloud is working with a number of its customers to roll out the company’s visual search service.
E-commerce giant Alibaba today announced a project to combat counterfeit and fraudulent food products that will include work on a blockchain-inspired pilot model that would be used by supply chain participants.
Alibaba’s cloud business has launched its first data centre in the southern hemisphere, with the company’s range of cloud services available from a Sydney data centre since late last week.
By deciding to shed its Internet business, Yahoo is moving to take on a different business focus. But its future remains murky.
It was always going to be big, but the day-long "Singles Day" promotion on Chinese online shopping site Alibaba on Wednesday smashed previous records, with millions of people participating and $US14.3 billion worth of goods sold.