Alibaba unveils AI models for robots as China’s focus shifts to agents
Alibaba has revealed its first suite of AI models for robots, a move that says as much about where Chinese technology is heading as about the models themselves. The launch came as the industry pivots away from chatbots and towards agents, the systems meant to carry out complex tasks rather than just answer questions.
At the centre is RynnBrain, a system built to help machines understand space, objects, and motion, the perceptual groundwork a robot needs before it can act in the physical world. In a demonstration released by Alibaba’s DAMO Academy research arm, a robot identifies a piece of fruit and places it in a basket, a small task that stands in for a large ambition.
Alongside it, Alibaba announced Qwen3.7-Max, the latest in its proprietary large-language-model line, pitched as a foundation for AI agents.
The company said the model could run autonomously for up to 35 hours without...
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