Alibaba gains $50 billion value after AI progress fuels rally
Alibaba gains $50 billion value after AI progress fuels rally Winnie Hsu,Luz Ding,Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s stock leapt more than 19% after reporting a surge in revenue from AI, underscoring the steady headway it’s making against rivals in a post-DeepSeek Chinese development frenzy. China’s e-commerce leader posted a triple-digit percentage gain in AI-related product revenue as well as a better-than-anticipated 26% jump in sales from the cloud division—the business most closely tied to the artificial intelligence boom. That helped assuage investors nervous about the fallout from a worsening battle with Meituan and JD.com Inc. in internet commerce. Alibaba’s shares gained their most intraday since November 2022 in Hong Kong, boosting the company’s market value by more than $50 billion. Turnover in the stock marked a record high as of early afternoon. The rally helped energize the broader AI sphere: Ernie-developer Baidu Inc. gained as much as 5.8%, while T...