Space

Alibaba and Adaspace Deploy Qwen-3 AI in Orbit, Pushing Computing to New Heights

Chinese aerospace firm Adaspace Technology has deployed Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen-3 AI model in orbit, completing a full inference cycle from Earth and back in less than two minutes. This milestone in the U.S.-China space race demonstrates the practical potential of orbital data centers powered by solar energy and marks a major leap for the planned 2,800-satellite “Star-Compute Project.”

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