Alibaba Group Holding has slashed charges for its biggest artificial intelligence model by as much as half, triggering speculation of another price war in China's highly competitive AI market. Qwen3-Max, the first trillion-parameter model from Alibaba Cloud, was one of the company's most expensive models on its release in September, with tiered pricing that charged a minimum of US$0.861 per million input tokens and US$3.441 per million output tokens for application programming interface (API) users. Alibab ...