Due to the US-China AI rivalry, Alibaba is expected to prohibit employees from using Claude Code in office environments. It is due to the high backdoor security risks involved with Claude. Instead, they are being forced to use Qoder.
Ernie Assistant just crossed 200M monthly active users with integrations across search, booking apps, maps, health services, and more. Meanwhile, Alibaba and ByteDance are also scaling their models fast. Could Western bots realistically catch up in global usage?
