BEIJING (EFE).— China has taken a step in the emerging field of spatial computing to put an artificial intelligence model developed by tech giant Alibaba into orbit in a way that reflects the Asian country’s push to take more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities beyond ground-based infrastructure.
Alibaba Cloud subsidiary Qwen-3 was loaded and operated in an orbital computing center operated by Chinese aerospace company Adaspace Technology to perform various inference tasks in November, Hong Kong’s “South China Morning Post” reported.
The complete process, starting from the sending of instructions from Earth to the result of the results, was completed in less than two minutes in agreement with the company’s management.
Model Qwen 3
The experiment has come to the forefront of a project called the Star-Compute Project, an initiative that envisions the progressive deployment of a constellation of up to 2,800 satellites with processing capacity designed to support artificial intelligence applications, including physical artificial intelligence, as well as model training and inference.
Released in April last year, Qwen-3 is part of Alibaba’s family of language models and is distributed openly.
The company claims that its ecosystem has become one of the mayors of the sector in the context of intense global competence for the development of large models of artificial intelligence.
The chip in orbit is being manufactured as China manages to diversify its technology infrastructures in a significant environment due to current restrictions on the export of advanced chips and the growing rivalry they have in areas considered strategic.
A new option
Even at an early stage, space computing appears to be a new frontier in this career, with potential civilian applications in Earth observation, communication or real-time data management.
Alibaba, which has signaled its growth in cloud and AI in recent years, has announced multimillion-dollar sales in these areas and expansion of data centers outside of China.
The analysis of Qwen-3 in space is being summed up as a series of initiatives designed to strengthen its position in the artificial intelligence market, although experts suggest that the commercial viability and practical potential of orbital computers has yet to be proven.
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