Alice Walton, the youngest child of Walmart founder Sam Walton, donated $250 million to fund the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, which offers a four-year, degree-granting medical program.

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, and Ethiopian Investment Holdings will invest $660 million to build a petroleum-products pipeline to link the Horn of Africa nation to Djibouti’s coast.

Alibaba is now playing the full stack game. At Apsara on Sept 22 the company confirmed Qwen 4 is in training and said Qwen 4.5 and Qwen 5 will scale to 5T to 10T parameters, up from 2.4T on today's Qwen3.8-Max. Existing Zhenwu chips already serve more than 650 customers, and Alibaba claims V900 clusters can scale to 500,000 cards. New cloud regions are coming to Türkiye, Finland and the Netherlands plus more capacity in Malaysia, Germany, the UAE, France and Hong Kong. Keep in mind every performance number is Alibaba's own claim, the 3x figure is measured against its own M890.

Alibaba's 😵 Minimax H3 Fun ControlNet Union (V2.0) Supports -Canny edge,Depth,Monocular ,HED edge detection, MLSD, PoseDW, ScribbleFree-hand / sketch lines, LayoutBounding-box layout, Grayscale (luminance) video 👇

Alibaba has open-sourced Logics-Parsing-V3, a 0.8B VLM for structured long-document parsing. Instead of resetting at every page, it carries a compact structural state forward as it reads — preserving context across pages without putting the entire document into one context window. This lets it recover document hierarchy, merge content split across pages, and link visual elements to related text in a single end-to-end model. It also handles complex layouts, scientific formulas, and chemical notation. On MPDocBench-Parse, it scores 85.26, ranking #1# — 4.46 points ahead of PaddleOCR-VL-1.5

Alibaba is accelerating its data center expansion in Europe and the Middle East, propelling its 20-gigawatt global infrastructure buildout during China’s escalating competition in AI chips and models with the US

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, has hired the engineers that built his Lagos refinery to work on the new crude processing plant in Kenya that he is set to start constructing this month