Chinese tech giants place their bets on homegrown alternative to ChatGPT and Bard.

Alibaba’s surprise move to fully spin out a potentially transformative $12 billion cloud business is causing a stir. Did the Chinese e-commerce leader bow to market or political realities?

The company, which aims to ride a surge in demand driven by AI applications, will cut the price of its cloud services by as much as half.

Alibaba to invest $1 billion in Turkey, which has long been the hub connecting Middle Eastern and European trade.

The group blasted China's biggest tech company and its biggest independent data center operator for emissions opaqueness and dearth of renewable commitments.

With more big international players on board, the foundation's new head of technology sees signs of "state of the art moving forward."

The outlay is equivalent to about half its entire fiscal 2019 revenue.