Nvidia is trading. A few days after investing in Intel’s $5 billion stake and a whopping $100 billion in Openai, the GPU manufacturer has now entered into a partnership with China’s Alibaba.
Alibaba said Wednesday it is integrating NVIDIA’s AI development tools for spaces connected to the cloud platforms of robotics, autonomous vehicles and AI. The Chinese e-commerce giant offers NVIDIA’s physical AI software stack. This allows you to build 3D replicas of your real environment and generate synthetic data that can be trained to robotics, self-driving cars, or smart spaces such as factories and walks.
The financial terms of the transaction have not been revealed, but this marks a critical collaboration as it brings together the world’s most important developers optimized for AI models with the leading cloud services and AI model developers.
This agreement is because Alibaba focuses on building more AI businesses along with its major e-commerce businesses. The company said on Wednesday that spending on AI Tech has risen beyond its previous $50 billion budget, outlining plans to launch its first data centres in Brazil, France and the Netherlands. It also builds more data centers in more countries and expands its presence in 91 locations in 29 regions around the world.
Alibaba announced the latest iteration of Qwen 3-Max, the Qwen family of large language models. The company claims that the model is “the largest and most capable model ever”, trained on 1 trillion parameters and is suitable for coding and agent use.
