China's Alibaba launches AI model to power robots as tech giants talk up 'physical AI'

China's Alibaba launches AI model to power robots as tech giants talk up 'physical AI'

Nvidia and Google are among a handful of major tech giants developing models for robotics and so-called "phyiscal AI."

Alibaba Releases Robotics Model, CNY Receives Structural Support - China Last Night

Key News Asian equities were mostly higher overnight as Japan and Taiwan outperformed, while Malaysia and Pakistan underperformed. China’s currency, the renminbi (CNY), rose slightly against the US dollar. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index close higher, but off of intra-day highs as regulatory jitters weighed on key names. Meanwhile, Mainland China’s STAR Market, Shanghai, and Shenzhen all closed higher, with the Shanghai near intra-day highs. Health …

Alibaba (BABA) Stock Gains After Launching RynnBrain Robotics AI Model

TLDR Alibaba unveiled RynnBrain, an open-source AI model that enables robots to perform real-world tasks and navigate complex environments like factories and kitchens. The model competes with Google’s Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 and Nvidia’s Cosmos-Reason2, with Alibaba claiming superior benchmark performance. RynnBrain is available on GitHub and Hugging Face in versions ranging from 2 billion parameters to mixture-of-experts configurations. The rel…

Alibaba unleashes AI model to fire up robotics race

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group unveiled an open-source AI model designed to help robots interact with the physical world, stepping up efforts to compete with US rivals in the fast-growing embodied AI space. Developed by Alibaba’s DAMO Academy research arm, the model is designed to enable robots and smart devices to perform real-world tasks by interpreting their surroundings, mapping objects and executing complex actions. Dubbed RynnBrain…

Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. debuted an AI model that can help robots and other devices perform real-world tasks …