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PulseAugur coverage of Taobao — every cluster mentioning Taobao across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
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Alibaba opens Qwen AI for third-party agents, integrating KFC and airlines
Alibaba's AI model Qwen is being opened up to third-party developers, allowing companies like KFC and China Eastern Airlines to create customized AI agents. These agents will enable users to interact with services throu…
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Tmall Supermarket launches in Hong Kong with next-day delivery
Tmall Supermarket has officially launched in Hong Kong, offering over 80,000 products to local consumers. This expansion aims to enhance the shopping experience by providing next-day delivery for orders placed before 4 …
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China's food delivery market faces rider surplus and lower pay post-subsidy war
A fierce year-long subsidy war in China's food delivery market, involving Meituan, Taobao, and JD.com, has concluded, leaving behind significant financial losses and a surplus of delivery riders. The platforms collectiv…
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Gray market offers cheap, unlimited Claude Opus API access
A gray market has emerged on platforms like TaoBao offering seemingly unlimited access to Anthropic's Claude Opus API at a low cost. This illicit trade provides a cheaper alternative to official channels for accessing t…
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New benchmark E-VAds targets MLLM understanding of e-commerce videos
Researchers have introduced E-VAds, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the understanding capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) specifically for e-commerce short videos. This benchmark addresses the …
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TARQ framework boosts recommendation system pre-ranking with target attention
Researchers have developed TARQ, a new pre-ranking framework for recommendation systems that aims to improve efficiency and effectiveness. TARQ incorporates a Target Attention-like architecture through Residual Quantiza…
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Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max leads Chinese LLMs, AMD begins 2nm chip production
Alibaba's flagship Qwen3.7-Max model has achieved the top spot among Chinese large language models and ranks fifth globally, demonstrating performance comparable to leading models like GPT and Claude. This advancement i…
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Alibaba prioritizes AI-driven instant retail for Taobao and Tmall growth
Alibaba's Chairman and CEO highlighted the strategic importance of instant retail in their shareholder letter, emphasizing its role in acquiring new users and enhancing engagement on Taobao and Tmall. They noted that AI…
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Tmall 618 festival launches with biggest discounts in 5 years
Tmall's 618 shopping festival, beginning May 21st, is offering its largest discounts in five years, with official reductions and coupons bringing prices down to 7.3折 (approximately 73% of original price). Consumers can …
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E-commerce search framework boosts new item sales on Taobao
Researchers have developed a new retrieval framework called GrowthGR for e-commerce search engines to address the issue of prioritizing popular items over new ones. This framework includes a module to predict an item's …
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E-commerce search framework boosts new item sales by 5.3%
Researchers have developed a new retrieval framework called GrowthGR to address the "Matthew effect" in e-commerce search, where popular items are over-represented. This framework aims to balance immediate sales with th…
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Elon Musk's son's tiger bag sparks viral sales in China
A Chinese-made tiger-themed bag, carried by Elon Musk's son during a visit to Beijing, has become a viral sensation and a commercial success. The bag, inspired by traditional Chinese culture, quickly sold out online aft…
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Alibaba integrates Qianwen AI with Taobao for conversational shopping
Alibaba has fully integrated its Qianwen AI assistant with its Taobao e-commerce platform, enabling users to shop using natural language commands. This integration allows for the entire shopping process, from product di…
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Russian e-commerce giant Ozon mirrors China's growth strategy
Russian e-commerce platform Ozon, founded in 1998, has experienced explosive growth since shifting to a platform model around 2018. The company has invested heavily in infrastructure, including over 5 million square met…
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Chery Commercial Vehicle raises capital to 2.5 billion RMB with new investors
Chery Commercial Vehicle (Anhui) Co., Ltd. has increased its registered capital from 2 billion to approximately 2.5 billion RMB. This capital injection was facilitated by the addition of new shareholders, AgBank Financi…
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Taobao integrates AI try-on and Q&A for anniversary sale
Taobao has launched its "Answer and Get Free" event for its 510 anniversary, introducing a new AI-powered virtual try-on feature. The event allows users to participate by guessing numbers based on clues after searching …
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New BITRec framework models behavioral intensity for generative recommendation
Researchers have developed a new generative recommendation framework called BITRec, designed to better model user behavior intensity and transitions. Unlike previous methods that treated all interactions uniformly, BITR…