Alibaba Group Holding is stepping up its efforts in China’s heated race for embodied intelligence models, launching a new open-source model that gives robots a “brain”. RynnBrain, an embodied foundation model based on Alibaba’s Qwen3-VL, marks the company’s latest efforts to deepen its footprint in the area of embodied intelligence – AI systems designed to perceive, reason and act in physical environments rather than purely digital settings. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. The model’s...