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Alibaba's quarterly revenue grows 7% as AI-driven cloud business remains buoyant / Alibaba's Q1 revenue falls short as international e-commerce falters / Alibaba pushes global adoption of Qwen3 AI models via more developer platforms online / AI will be the mainstay of Alibaba's business in next 3-5 years, chairman Joe Tsai says / Alibaba's Quark, China's most popular AI app, launches 'deep search' / Alibaba's 'ZeroSearch' lets AI learn to google itself -- slashing training costs by 88 percent / Alibaba, JD.com and ByteDance prepare for 618 shopping festival next week amid price war / Alibaba collaborates with social media platform RedNote in fresh domestic e-commerce push / Alibaba's Qwen3 topples DeepSeek's R1 as world's highest-ranked open-source AI model / Alibaba launches Taobao fast-delivery service ahead of time to challenge JD.com, Meituan