Tongyi Qianwen APP Smashes 100 Million MAU: Alibaba's AI Assistant Becomes the Fastest-Growing Consumer AI Product in History
As of January 2026, Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen mobile app has officially surpassed 100 million monthly active users (MAU), according to internal data leaked and confirmed by industry trackers. Launched in April 2023 and supercharged by the Qwen3 series rollout in 2025, Qianwen achieved this milestone in under 3 years — outpacing ChatGPT's global ramp-up, DeepSeek's explosive 2025 surge, and even ByteDance's Doubao. With free access to Qwen3-Max, unlimited Deep Think sessions for pro users, and seamless integration into Taobao, DingTalk, and Alipay, Qianwen has become the default AI companion for hundreds of millions in China and rapidly expanding SEA markets.
Moore Threads Releases SimuMax 1.1: Open-Source Distributed Training Platform Evolves into All-in-One Powerhouse with Visual Config & Intelligent Parallel Strategy Search
On January 8, 2026, Moore Threads officially launched SimuMax 1.1 — a major upgrade to its open-source distributed training toolkit. The new version transforms SimuMax from a pure simulation engine into a complete end-to-end distributed training platform, introducing visual configuration interface, intelligent parallel strategy auto-search, dynamic resource-aware scheduling, and seamless integration with MTTorch and MTTensor. Early internal benchmarks show up to 42% improvement in training throughput and 35% reduction in configuration time for large-scale LLM training on MTT GPU clusters, making high-efficiency distributed training finally accessible to the open-source community.
