Alibaba's Quark AI Surpasses ByteDance's Doubao With 150 Million Monthly Users

Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holdings BABA restructured artificial intelligence (AI) assistant app Quark topped ByteDance’s Doubao to become China’s most popular AI app in March.

Quark clocked close to 150 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide, followed by ByteDance’s Doubao and DeepSeek, which had almost 100 million and around 77 million users, respectively, SCMP reported Monday, citing Aicpb.com.

Alibaba stock is trading higher on Monday.

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Alibaba previously said that Quark had 200 million users. U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz’s March report ranked Quark as the sixth-most popular AI app globally by MAU, just behind Baidu Inc’s BIDU AI Search and trailing OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s AI-enhanced Edge browser.

In March, Alibaba restructured Quark, powered by the company’s Qwen reasoning models. The app features a simple search box.

Alibaba said it could help with academic research, document drafting, image generation, and more.

Alibaba’s cloud unit is expanding its platform-as-a-service options and enhancing its overseas lineup with its latest proprietary large language models, including Qwen-Max and the DeepSeek-like QwQ-Plus reasoning model.

Alibaba and its peers launched successive affordable business intelligence tools for developers that cost just $1 per year for individuals since the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek triggered a price war with its claims of offering affordable AI models that could beat the likes of OpenAI.

Reportedly, DeepSeek tapped Tsinghua University researchers to develop a technique to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) that combines generative reward modeling (GRM) and self-principled critique tuning.

Alibaba Cloud is China’s largest cloud service provider, with over one-third of the market.

The stock has lost 8% in value in the last seven days, coinciding with President Trump’s tariffs on its trading partners, including China.

Price Action: BABA stock is up 5.43% at $113.58 at the last check on Monday.

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