Huawei launches new AI-powered network products and Alibaba's AI leader departs

Huawei has launched a series of new products and solutions for telecom operators, all centered on artificial intelligence. The company introduced a new 'green' website powered by AI, a proposal for a fully optical network built around AI, a next-generation wide area network (NG WAN), and new optical networking products, all aimed at helping carriers grow in what Huawei calls the 'AI era'.

In a separate development, a key AI researcher at Alibaba has left the company. The departing executive was the head of the Qwen project, Alibaba's family of large language models, and had previously warned about a performance gap with models from OpenAI.