Meta’s Bringing AI Chatbot Subscriptions Starting at $7.99/Month
On May 28, word came out that Meta’s for the first time selling AI chatbot subscriptions directly to consumers—a move that could help offset some of its massive AI spending. The new subscription comes in two tiers. A company spokesperson said the basic tier, called Meta One Plus, goes for $7.99 a month and targets folks who frequently use Meta AI to generate images and videos or rely on it for complex reasoning. The spokesperson added that the higher tier, Meta One Premium, costs $19.99 a month, offering the same features as Meta One Plus but with higher usage limits.
Alibaba’s Voice Model Sweeps Multiple Domestic Firsts
On May 28, on the global AI evaluation platform Artificial Analysis’s Speech Arena, Alibaba’s voice AI model Fun-Realtime-TTS-Preview scored an Elo rating of 1190, landing fifth globally and first in China. Across the three tracks—ASR (speech-to-text), Chat (end-to-end speech understanding and conversation), and TTS (text-to-speech)—Alibaba’s voice model took the national top spot.
Meta Reportedly Plans New Unit to Customize AI Services for Enterprises
According to reports, an internal memo shows Meta is planning to spin up a new division dedicated to customizing AI services for enterprise customers. The new team, to be named Enterprise Solutions, will consist of product managers and engineers. The unit is said to focus on helping business customers smoothly integrate Meta’s AI tools, while building reusable guides and tools along the way so the work can scale up over time.
Snowflake & AWS Deepen Partnership with $6 Billion Commitment to Accelerate Enterprise Agentic AI
On May 27 local time, AI data cloud company Snowflake announced a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), aimed at speeding up enterprise adoption of agentic AI and helping global customers build and deploy AI faster and more securely. As part of this expanded partnership, Snowflake committed $6 billion to AWS for infrastructure—its largest investment ever, reflecting the surging demand for running AI and data workloads on AWS.
UBTECH and Muxi Co-Found New Company, Possibly Targeting Embodied AI Edge Chips
On May 28, public records show that Xixuan Chuangzhi Technology (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. has been established with a registered capital of 100 million yuan. The company was jointly founded by Muxi, UBTECH, Fenglong and other listed firms, with Muxi and UBTECH each holding 35.01% and Fenglong holding 4.7%. Journalists learned from core channels that this joint venture may focus on R&D for embodied AI edge chips. (Reporter: Liang Baoxin)
Moxin AI Closes Nearly ¥1 Billion Series C Round, Next-Gen Chip SparsePrime® Coming This Year
On May 28, Moxin AI announced it has completed a Series C financing round of nearly 1 billion yuan. The round brought together industry and market-driven investors including Shenzhen Capital Group, Rock Mountain Technology, Greater Bay Area Homeland, Lead Capital, Yunsheng Capital, along with returning investors Triwise Capital, Chuangxiang Investment, and Shengjing Jiacheng. Meanwhile, the company revealed that its next-generation computing card SparsePrime® will launch within the year.
Meituan Launches AI Retail Solution “Morning Glory Claw” for Instant Retailers
On May 27, Meituan released the industry’s first full-stack AI solution, “Morning Glory Claw,” serving instant retail merchants, brands, and the entire supply chain. The solution lets merchants quickly craft analysis and operations strategies fine-tuned down to individual stores and product categories, and dynamically adjust those strategies in real time based on store-level data and conditions.
MiniMax: Global Developer Customers Surpass 1 Million, ARR Grows 100% in 60 Days
On May 28, MiniMax shared its latest business data: the company now serves over 1 million enterprise and developer customers globally—up 5x from six months ago—and has roughly 300 million users worldwide. Over the past two months, its annualized recurring revenue (ARR) jumped more than 100%.
According to previously disclosed information from the March earnings call, the company’s ARR had already exceeded $150 million by February 2026.
Alibaba Qoder Launches Cloud Agents, Cutting Agent Launch Time from 1 Month to 1 Day
Alibaba Qoder has released Cloud Agents, a fully managed AI agent operation platform that delivers end-to-end agent capabilities including the agent base, model services, and runtime environment. Enterprises can call it directly via API, slashing the agent launch time from one month down to just one day.
