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Alibaba (BABA 1.41%) is back -- and it's not just about e-commerce anymore. With a powerful new AI model and billions left in buybacks, this forgotten tech giant may be gearing up for a major rally.

Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot released late Friday night its Kimi K2 model as a low-cost, open source large language model, with a focus on coding capabilities. Moonshot claimed Kimi K2 surpassed Claude Opus 4 on two benchmarks, and had better overall performance than OpenAI's coding-focused GPT-4.1 model, according to several industry metrics.

Alibaba stock is fundamentally mispriced due to macro fears surrounding the U.S.-China relationship. Some negative sentiment is warranted, but amid prolonged detente, we can logically expect a positive sentiment inflection for Chinese equities. A 50% upside over the next 12 months does not seem unreasonable to me even amid base-case China-U.S. managed strategic competition rather than full friendship.

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Investing in Chinese stocks is challenging due to the mix of good (fundamentals), bad (headwinds such as tariffs), and ugly (data gap). I hold a bearish bias on the Chinese market, rating the triple bear ETF YANG as HOLD. YANG can be used as a hedging tool to navigate current uncertainties. YINN/YANG dual-play is a "blackbox" approach to lower volatility. Option-writing on both ETFs may generate income in a safer way.

BABA's AI transformation, cloud leadership create superior investment potential over JD's capital-heavy approach. Hold BABA for long-term upside in China's digital evolution.

Over the past 12 months, Alibaba's (BABA 2.69%) stock rose nearly 50% as the company impressed investors with its stabilizing growth and artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. But even after that rally, the Chinese e-commerce and cloud leader's stock price remains 65% below its all-time high from October 2020.

Hong Kong SAR--(Newsfile Corp. - July 10, 2025) - As China continues to streamline its visa, transportation, payment and departure tax refund policies, interest in "China Travel" is soaring. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, foreign inbound tourists reached 7,367,400 in the first quarter of 2025, a 39.2% increase year-on-year.

BABA ramps up global cloud investments with new data centers and aims to power AI growth across Southeast Asia and beyond.