On September 18, Alibaba rose 3.4% in regular trading, trading at $112.215/share, with turnover of $183 million. The stock gained momentum following a cluster of AI-related catalysts and a favorable analyst action.
On the product front, Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omni-modal model supporting text, image, audio, and video inputs with a 1M-token context window and up to one hour of continuous audio-video input. The model is available for free on the Qoder platform through October. Separately, JPMorgan issued a research note assigning Alibaba US and HK stock target prices of $210 and HK$205 respectively, with an Overweight rating, citing strong cloud computing demand and projecting September-quarter cloud revenue growth of up to 53%.
In addition, Alibaba's DAMO Academy, in collaboration with Zhejiang University, published its DAMO RADAR universal medical imaging AI model in Science, capable of identifying over 146 conditions from abdominal CT scans — the first expert-level general-purpose medical imaging AI globally, now open-sourced. Morgan Stanley also highlighted Alibaba as a key beneficiary in China's projected 300-billion-yuan consumer AI monetization opportunity.
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