Alibaba
Chinese tech group whose Qwen open models are among the most downloaded, and which runs Alibaba Cloud.
- Revenue
- AI Cloud and Compute Services revenue $7.1B in the June 2026 quarter, up 45% (company)
- Growth
- AI cloud revenue up 45% year on year, a 22-quarter high (company). AI product revenue $1.8B, up triple digits for 12 quarters (company)
- Based in
- Hangzhou, China
- Listed
- Public (BABA)
Qwen has passed 1B cumulative downloads on Hugging Face (reported), which feeds cloud demand.
Group net profit fell 76% to 10.5B yuan in the same quarter (reported).
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Sales more than tripled (H1 2025)
Open profileFrench lab with open and paid models, chosen by European firms that want data kept in Europe.
About $14B valuation (Sep 2025)
Open profileHosts and fine-tunes open AI models on rented GPUs for companies.
About $1B annualised (Sacra estimate, Feb 2026)
Open profileLab that aims to build frontier open-weight models in the US, backed by Nvidia.
$8B after a $2B round led by Nvidia in October 2025. Talks at $25B reported in 2026
Open profileChinese research lab that releases its strongest models as open weights.
About 475M yuan (about $70.7M) in the first seven months of 2026 (The Information, reported)
Open profileRuns the main hub where open models, datasets and demos are shared.
Annualised revenue above $150M, from one unofficial report. The company does not disclose revenue
Open profileChinese lab that makes chat, voice and video models, with most app revenue from overseas subscriptions.
About $30.5M in 2024 (filings, reported). About $53.4M in the nine months to September 2025 (reported)
Open profileChinese lab behind the Kimi chatbot and the Kimi open models.
Annual recurring revenue above $200M in April 2026 (reported)
Open profileChinese lab that makes the GLM models, mostly sold to enterprises, and is now listed in Hong Kong.
About $44.4M in 2024 (filings, reported)
Open profileSources: news.rthk.hk, alibabagroup.com, constellationr.com
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