Alibaba has launched RynnBrain, an open-source AI model designed to power robots
Beijing is investing billions into a national AI fund and its broader “AI+” initiative to embed artificial intelligence across the entire economy. Backed by strong state support, domestic chip production, and lower manufacturing costs, China can scale AI solutions rapidly – and analysts say it’s on track to surpass the U.S. in the race for AI dominance. (IMO, it already happened.)
And one of the examples is these 2 news items I read today:
1) Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China’s chatbot race shifts to AI agents
2) and this one is even more important:
Alibaba has launched RynnBrain, an open-source AI model designed to power robots that can see, think, and act in real-world environments.
The move positions Alibaba alongside Nvidia, Google DeepMind, and Tesla in the fast-growing “physical AI” race.
Do you think that not only China, but particularly Alibaba, can possibly win the market?
Their approach is kinda aggressive in that.
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The difference is that China goverment is more involved in the AI race. Just looking at their electricity output, you can tell the U.S needs radical changes in its strategy, perhaps stronger support to AI companies. How could that be done?
On the other hand, Europe's frenetic regulatory practices aren't helping the West; China doesn't need Europe, U.S do.
@danny_quesada well the US is trying to do something with the CHIPS Act, pouring money into Intel and TSMC in Arizona. But you're right, it's still private sector vs state planning. Private companies have quarterly reports and investors breathing down their necks, the Party has five-year plans. In the long run, that plays out very differently
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@danny_quesada + China needs more chips – that sounds like "We need that Taiwan so much"
Makes sense, actually. China is the world's factory. They already have all the assembly lines and robotic arms - the only missing piece is giving them proper 'brains'. If Alibaba can roll out RynnBrain across their warehouses and logistics, they'll get a training dataset that Tesla could only dream of
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@arinam I have seen how China's robots were in some dancing competition. We are so cooked :D