BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba ( BABA ) announced on Wednesday its largest artificial intelligence language model to date, the Qwen3-Max, as the company accelerates a push into artificial intelligence technology.

The model contains more than 1 trillion parameters, or variables that determine how an AI system processes information, and shows particular strength in code generation and autonomous agent capabilities, Zhou Jingren, chief technology officer at Alibaba Cloud, said at the company's annual Apsara Conference.