Alibaba.com Launches AI Mode for Agentic B2B Trade
Alibaba.com unveiled AI Mode at CoCreate Europe, integrating agentic AI into its platform to help businesses discover suppliers, optimize sourcing, and automate trade processes.
Generative AI is a branch of artificial intelligence focused on creating new content such as text, images, music, or code based on patterns learned from existing data. It uses deep learning models – especially large language models (LLMs) and generative adversarial networks (GANs) – to produce outputs that closely resemble human-created work. These systems can draft articles, generate artwork, compose music, and even simulate voices or video, transforming industries from media and design to healthcare and education. The power of generative AI lies in its ability to synthesize creativity and automation, but it also raises ethical questions about authenticity, bias, and intellectual property. As the technology evolves, it continues to redefine how humans and machines collaborate in creative and professional tasks.
Alibaba.com unveiled AI Mode at CoCreate Europe, integrating agentic AI into its platform to help businesses discover suppliers, optimize sourcing, and automate trade processes.
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is reportedly preparing to leave the company to start his own AI venture focused on world models, signaling a major shift for Meta’s research division.
Google is enhancing Google Finance with AI-powered Deep Search, prediction markets data, and new earnings features, while expanding the upgraded platform to India for the first time.
British-Polish startup ElevenLabs found one of its top AI researchers working in a call center – a result of its decision to abandon traditional hiring platforms like LinkedIn.
Google is making its seventh-generation TPU, called Ironwood, publicly available as it aims to win more AI infrastructure business and challenge Nvidia’s dominance in model training and deployment.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang clarified remarks suggesting China would win the AI race, saying the U.S. can stay ahead by innovating faster and empowering global developers.
Pinterest is turning to open source AI models to cut expenses and enhance its visual search and shopping tools, even as the company forecasts softer holiday revenue. CEO Bill Ready says the approach will support performance while keeping infrastructure costs in check.
SoftBank and OpenAI establish SB OAI Japan to sell enterprise AI solutions domestically, as the company ramps its own internal use of ChatGPT technology.
Anthropic and Iceland’s Ministry of Education are partnering to deploy Claude to teachers nationwide in one of the world’s first national AI education pilots.
Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA will launch a €1 billion AI cloud in Munich by early 2026, featuring 10,000 Blackwell GPUs and SAP software to power industrial and public sector applications.