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Alibaba's Qwen-3: First AI in Space, Advances Satellite Network

1/28/2026

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Alibaba Group's Qwen-3 became the first general-purpose AI to operate in space, deployed by Adaspace Technology.
Qwen-3 completed multiple inference tasks in under two minutes.
The effort is part of the Star-Compute Project to establish a 2,800-satellite AI network.
Moonshot AI launched its K2.5 model capable of processing text, images, and videos, and raised $500 million ahead of DeepSeek's release.

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Alibaba Group's Qwen-3 became the first general-purpose AI to operate in space, deployed by Adaspace Technology.
Qwen-3 completed multiple inference tasks in under two minutes.
The effort is part of the Star-Compute Project to establish a 2,800-satellite AI network.
Moonshot AI launched its K2.5 model capable of processing text, images, and videos, and raised $500 million ahead of DeepSeek's release.