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Alibaba targets South America AI market with Brazil data centres launch

Alibaba Group has opened two data centres in Brazil, marking its first entry into the South American market, and will offer secure cloud infrastructure and agentic AI services to local companies. Alibaba said Brazilian businesses, startups, developers and public agencies can access its cloud services directly on local infrastructure designed for low latency, resilience and data governance. The company is also expanding partnerships with local technology firms.

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Hands-on with Alibaba\'s Qwen3.8-27B: strong performance but thinks too much

Alibaba has open-sourced Qwen3.8-27B, a multimodal AI model sized to run locally on higher-spec MacBook Pros or Mac Studios. Simon Willison, who developed Datasette and co-developed Django, published a hands-on review. He said the model’s performance is impressive but criticised its default “xhigh” deep-thinking setting for taking too long on simple tasks. He cited a 21-minute image-generation response and noted slower speeds even on high-end hardware.

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Small AI models near large-model performance as Dokpamo second evaluation nears

Small AI models that can be installed on PCs are evolving rapidly, raising attention over whether they can rival large models that run on high-capacity computers. Tech companies are releasing local-run models aimed at cost and privacy needs. The government is set to disclose second-round results for its independent AI foundation model project and narrow four teams to three. The article also lists recent moves by Korean and global companies on AI models, tools, pricing and partnerships.