Alibaba's Quark AI Surpasses ByteDance's Doubao With 150 Million Monthly Users

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Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holdings (NYSE:BABA) restructured artificial quality (AI) assistant app Quark topped ByteDance’s Doubao to go China’s astir fashionable AI app successful March.

Quark clocked adjacent to 150 cardinal monthly progressive users (MAUs) worldwide, followed by ByteDance’s Doubao and DeepSeek, which had astir 100 cardinal and astir 77 cardinal users, respectively, SCMP reported Monday, citing Aicpb.com.

Alibaba banal is trading higher connected Monday.

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Alibaba antecedently said that Quark had 200 cardinal users. U.S. task superior steadfast Andreessen Horowitz’s March study ranked Quark arsenic the sixth-most fashionable AI app globally by MAU, conscionable down Baidu Inc’s (NASDAQ:BIDU) AI Search and trailing OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s AI-enhanced Edge browser.

In March, Alibaba restructured Quark, powered by the company’s Qwen reasoning models. The app features a elemental hunt box.

Alibaba said it could assistance with world research, papers drafting, representation generation, and more.

Alibaba’s unreality portion is expanding its platform-as-a-service options and enhancing its overseas lineup with its latest proprietary ample connection models, including Qwen-Max and the DeepSeek-like QwQ-Plus reasoning model.

Alibaba and its peers launched successive affordable concern quality tools for developers that outgo conscionable $1 per twelvemonth for individuals since the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek triggered a terms warfare with its claims of offering affordable AI models that could bushed the likes of OpenAI.

Reportedly, DeepSeek tapped Tsinghua University researchers to make a method to amended the reasoning capabilities of large connection models (LLMs) that combines generative reward modeling (GRM) and self-principled critique tuning.

Alibaba Cloud is China’s largest unreality work provider, with implicit one-third of the market.

The banal has mislaid 8% successful worth successful the past 7 days, coinciding with President Trump’s tariffs connected its trading partners, including China.

Price Action: BABA banal is up 5.43% astatine $113.58 astatine the past cheque connected Monday.

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