Alibaba Group has launched a new version of its AI assistant app that will be powered by its own flagship Qwen AI reasoning model.

The launch comes as its latest effort to gain an edge amid growing competition in AI application front, further intensified by the emergence of DeepSeek.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unveiled a new version of its AI assistant mobile app that incorporates its latest in-house model, another in a series of product rollouts intended to help the company keep pace with Chinese artificial intelligence rivals.

Alibaba Group unveiled a new version of its AI assistant, as the race to offer the top generative AI chatbot heats up in China. U.S.-listed Alibaba stock was slightly lower in early trading. The update to Alibaba's Quark AI assistant is the first version to be fully powered by Alibaba's custom artificial intelligence models.