The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor
THE SO WHAT
The architect of Alibaba’s Qwen models spinning out Pragmatik Labs with Shanghai government backing is a clear bet on next-gen agents that span digital and physical domains. Expect tighter coupling between city-level infrastructure and agentic AI — if you operate in China, assume local ecosystems will have strong public-sector gravity.
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