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Alibaba Cloud recently announced the KaryaWAN AI Challenge, a nationwide initiative designed to accelerate AI adoption, spark creative innovation, and nurture Malaysia’s next generation of digital talent. Backed by the National AI Office (NAIO), the program reflects a shared commitment to strengthening the country’s AI ecosystem.

In order to elevate the AI experience in China, Apple has decided to partner with Alibaba to use its AI technology to support Apple Intelligence in China. This was confirmed by Alibaba's chairman, Joe Tsai at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

Since the launch of the DeepSeek-V3 model on January 10 and the R1 model on January 20, the tech world, including Silicon Valley, has been stunned by DeepSeek's supposedly cheaper and more effective capabilities.  In response, local competitors in China raced to upgrade their AI models. Two days after DeepSeek-R1 was introduced, ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, updated its main AI model and claimed it outperformed OpenAI's o1 model in AIME tests.

Tech giant Alibaba has announced that it will roll out its own artificial intelligence (AI) product to rival ChatGPT. Called Tongyi Qianwen, the chatbot will be integrated across the company’s businesses.

Today, Alibaba Group announced that its AI-driven logistics solution, EasyDispatch is now available in Malaysia. On top of that, Alibaba Cloud has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Global Track and EasyParcel to drive the local logistics industry. 

For this issue of TechNave NewsBytes 2020, we have the realme 6i sold out, the Samsung Jet cordless vacuum cleaner and a chance to catch the latest MPL-MY/SG S5 playoffs. There’s also the Digi Yellow Heart, a free 120 day license for the Lenovo TGX Remote Workstation and Maxis Cloud, targeting SMEs and Enterprises. 

Also for SMEs and the enterprise are announcements for the Hitachi Vantara, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent. Spotify has some instructions on setting it up on a console and LG weighs in on Smart Appliances for a better Earth Day.

Surprisingly, popular eCommerce company Alibaba recently unveiled their designs for a foldable smartphone which can be folded over twice. This design is quite unique due to the fact that foldable smartphones from Huawei, Samsung and Motorola can only be folded once.

This time around for TechNave.com NewsBytes 2019, realme Malaysia and Samsung celebrate their respective anniversaries while Huawei announces their OAID for app developers. GrabPay collaborates with PayNet for DuitNow QR while Alibaba has a number of 11.11 goodies up fro grabs. There's also news from HP's Aruba, Boost, Wahed Invest and more so check it out here.

NewsBytes 2019 #21 - Samsung goes Platinum twice, Celcom + Google + MoE, Grab, TikTok, Alibaba and more

Well, it's certainly been an eventful week TechNavers, as this year's 9.9 online sale happened on Monday, it quickly got followed up by the Apple iPhone 11, new Apple iPad, Apple Watch Series 5 and Apple Arcade launch. Quite a lot of things got confirmed, even the controversial rear design but check them out above for more details.

However, for some, the news below are even more important, so here's TechNave NewsBytes 2019 #20 for the bits and bytes of Malaysia's tech world last week.