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China FAW Group has upgraded its enterprise AI agent OpenMind to 2.0 and made the automotive large language model it developed on Alibaba Cloud's Qwen base available on the Bailian platform for industry-wide use. The company says OpenMind 2.0, built around its Enterprise Operating Intelligence approach, is deployed in strategic management, technology development, product creation, order delivery, and customer operations.

China FAW reports that its bill-of-materials (BOM) agent cut change-order processing time by more than 60% and supports automated compilation for over 90% of BOMs, while an investment decision agent saved over RMB 10 million ($1.4 million) in the first half of 2026. The automaker defines the business objects, rules, and ontology; Qwen supplies the model base, and Bailian hosts the calls.

At the Yunqi Conference, Alibaba laid out a roadmap for Qwen4 and Qwen5, with Qwen4 due soon and later Qwen4.5 and Qwen5 planned to scale toward 5T–10T parameters. The company also described Qwen3.8-Max autonomously completing a chip network-on-chip design with area down 42% and power down 59.5%, and SGLang deployed on a new T-Head Semiconductor GPU in 56 hours, improving throughput by 96%.

Multimodal releases included Qwen-Image-3.1, Qwen-Audio-3.1, the music model HappyShrimp 1.1, and world model HappyOyster 2.0 Preview. Alibaba said a next-generation video model will debut in November and move toward 'Agent Video'; it is also working with universities and industry partners on a world-model benchmark and arena.

At the Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Cloud announced a full-stack upgrade of its data and AI infrastructure aimed at the agent era, covering model production, deployment, and self-optimization. The release includes full-modal data processing in MaxCompute and EMR that cuts embodied AI data processing time by 40% and can turn petabyte-scale raw data into LeRobot or RLDS training sets, plus PAI-DLC 3.0 with Xfuse auto-tuning for 2.4x faster end-to-end multimodal training. New agent-facing services include OpenLake/Agentic Lake, ADA, PAI-InferX, PAI-RLS, Flink Streaming Agent, and PAI-CrystalLLM.

Alibaba Cloud CTO Li Feifei framed the stack around Model, Context, and Harness, while Noematrix chief scientist Lü Jun discussed embodied AI data quality and iteration cycles.

At the Apsara Conference 2026 in Hangzhou, Alibaba Cloud AI strategic partners Fujian Xingyifu Payment Technology Co., Ltd. and Huilaidian launched the Modou Cloud AI Application Ecosystem, spanning business intelligence apps, enterprise solutions, and foundational ecosystem applications.

Its financial-scenario product, the Luban Super AI Agent, uses an 'OpenClaw+Hermes' dual-engine architecture and connects to WeChat, WeCom, and DingTalk along with an Agent Payment trusted payment hub. The companies say Luban has served hundreds of thousands of merchants, with daily token calls above 35 billion and an AI merchant review system logging 120 million review-item calls across more than 5 million merchants. They also showed the Moke Studio video generation and publishing platform and the modorouter unified model access service.