India AI Impact Summit 2026 OpenAI Google

Top executives from global AI giants will join several world leaders in New Delhi this week for a major artificial intelligence summit, at a time when India is trying to lure more investment in the industry.

Modi is also set to share the stage that day with French President Emmanuel Macron, who is visiting India as part of a broader bilateral trip.

India, which has yet to produce a globally dominant frontier AI model to rival those from the U.S. or China, is betting that its competitive edge lies in large-scale deployment rather than development of foundational models.

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Alibaba Qwen 3.5 AI model release

BEIJING, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Alibaba on Monday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model Qwen 3.5 designed to execute complex tasks independently, with big improvements in performance and cost that the Chinese tech giant claims beat major U.S. rival models on several benchmarks.

The release comes as Alibaba looks to attract more users to its Qwen chatbot app in China, a landscape currently dominated by rival tech giant ByteDance's Doubao and DeepSeek, which became the first Chinese AI firm to break through globally last year.

Alibaba said Qwen3.5 was 60% cheaper to use and eight times better at processing large workloads than its immediate predecessor, adding that the model also came with the ability to independently take actions across mobile and desktop apps, or what the company calls "visual agentic capabilities".

"Built for the agentic AI era, Qwen3.5 is designed to help developers and enterprises move faster and do more with the same compute, setting a new benchmark for capability per unit of inference cost," the company said in a statement.

The rollout of Qwen3.5 could help further recent gains Alibaba has made in the cutthroat competition of AI models in China. Earlier this month, the e-commerce giant's coupon giveaway campaign that encouraged consumers to purchase food and drink directly in the Qwen chatbot led to a seven-fold increase in active users, despite some glitches.

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AI Weekly February 17 2026 top news

✨ The Week’s News in Artificial Intelligence

AI Awareness: Updates That Matter ✨

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February 2026 AI news GPT-5.3 Claude Opus 4.6

The Big Model Drop That Broke the Internet

February 7 was insane. OpenAI and Anthropic both released major updates at basically the same time. Felt like watching two boxers step into the ring together.

What Actually Launched?

• OpenAI dropped GPT-5.3-Codex with this thing called Frontier that helps companies manage AI workers. Sounds sci-fi but it's real.
• Anthropic came back with Claude Opus 4.6 sporting a million-token context window. That's massive. Plus it got way better at coding.
• Chinese company Zhipu launched GLM-5 and immediately hit #1 on open-source benchmarks. They were so flooded with demand they hiked prices 30%. Their stock jumped 34%.

AI Breakthroughs February 2026: Models, Money & Market Shifts

February 2026 has been a turning point for AI. From GPT 5.3 Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 to China’s GLM 5 leading open source, real competition is heating up. Listen in this podcast as we break down what these AI breakthroughs actually mean for businesses and AI development companies.

What are the biggest AI releases this month?

OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 both dropped on February 7. China's Zhipu also launched GLM-5 which topped open-source benchmarks. All three focus heavily on coding.

How are Chinese companies competing?

They're dominating open-source. Qwen and DeepSeek models get more downloads than US models and cost way less. About 80% of startups now build on Chinese open-source models.

What is agentic AI?

Systems that handle multi-step tasks independently. With Model Context Protocol going mainstream, these agents connect to databases and tools seamlessly, moving from demos to actual production work.

What infrastructure problems does AI create?

Massive consumption of energy and water resources, noise pollution, and air quality problems from massive data centers. Companies are making more efficient chips to lower the environmental and economic costs.

How should businesses adopt AI in 2026?

New methods for retrieval include focusing attention on specialized tools for specific needs. Establish Governance Early, Establish Ownership, maintain budgets for AI-level expenditure of at least 10%, and there should be a demand for and a measurable ROI. Make a transition from pilots to production.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What are the biggest AI releases this month?

OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 both dropped on February 7. China's Zhipu also launched GLM-5 which topped open-source benchmarks. All three focus heavily on coding.

How are Chinese companies competing?

They're dominating open-source. Qwen and DeepSeek models get more downloads than US models and cost way less. About 80% of startups now build on Chinese open-source models.

What is agentic AI?

Systems that handle multi-step tasks independently. With Model Context Protocol going mainstream, these agents connect to databases and tools seamlessly, moving from demos to actual production work.

What infrastructure problems does AI create?

Massive consumption of energy and water resources, noise pollution, and air quality problems from massive data centers. Companies are making more efficient chips to lower the environmental and economic costs.

How should businesses adopt AI in 2026?

New methods for retrieval include focusing attention on specialized tools for specific needs. Establish Governance Early, Establish Ownership, maintain budgets for AI-level expenditure of at least 10%, and there should be a demand for and a measurable ROI. Make a transition from pilots to production.

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Anthropic Bengaluru office India partnerships February 2026

Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India

India is the second-largest market for Claude.ai, home to a developer community doing some of the most technically intense AI work we see anywhere. Nearly half of Claude usage in India comprises computer and mathematical tasks: building applications, modernizing systems, and shipping production software.

Today, as we officially open our Bengaluru office, we're announcing partnerships across enterprise, education, and agriculture that deepen our commitment to India across a range of sectors.

"India represents one of the world's most promising opportunities to bring the benefits of responsible AI to vastly more people and enterprises," said Irina Ghose, Managing Director of India, Anthropic. "Already, it's home to extraordinary technical talent, digital infrastructure at scale, and a proven track record of using technology to improve people's lives. That's exactly the foundation you need to make sure this technology reaches the people who can benefit from it most."

Building language capabilities for a billion speakers

More than a billion people in India speak one of over a dozen officially recognized languages, but AI models continue to perform better in English than they do in other languages. Six months ago, we launched a company-wide effort to narrow this gap by curating higher-quality, more representative training data in 10 of the most widely spoken languages throughout India: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, and Urdu. This resulted in improvements to our models, and we continue to work on enhancing their fluency.

Now, Anthropic is working with Karya and the Collective Intelligence Project to build evaluations testing performance on locally relevant tasks across domains like agriculture and law, in partnership with domain experts from leading Indian nonprofits, including Digital Green and Adalat AI. This work will inform how we improve future models for speakers of Indic languages and for use cases important to India and the businesses that use Claude. We intend to make the evaluations publicly available for others to use.

Partnering with enterprises, digital natives, and startups

Our run-rate revenue in India has doubled since we announced our expansion in October 2025, and the range of organizations building on Claude reflects how broadly that growth is distributed—from large enterprises to digital-native companies to startups shipping their first products.

To support this growing customer base, our India team will offer applied AI expertise to enterprise customers, digital natives, and startups, helping them design, build, and scale Claude-powered solutions tailored to their business needs.

Air India is using Claude Code to help developers ship custom software faster and at lower cost, as part of a broader push to use agentic AI across its operations. CRED achieved 2x faster feature delivery and 10% better test coverage with Claude Code. And Cognizant is deploying Claude to 350,000 employees globally to modernize legacy systems, accelerate software development, and support AI adoption among its enterprise clients.

Among India's startups, the story is similar. At Razorpay, AI is integrated into risk systems, decision-making processes, and operations across the company. Rocket uses Claude to let non-technical teams across enterprises build production-ready apps and websites in minutes and hours rather than weeks. At Enterpret, Claude powers its AI assistant, the engineering team builds with Claude Code daily, and the startup has shipped an MCP integration that brings customer insights directly into Claude. And Emergent, an AI-powered platform that lets anyone build software by describing what they want in plain language, reached $25 million in annual recurring revenue and two million users in under five months, built entirely with Claude.

Reaching students in low-income communities

Educational and instructional tasks make up 12% of Claude.ai use in India. Pratham, one of India's largest education nonprofits, chose Anthropic as its first strategic AI lab partner because of our shared focus on safety and educational rigor. Their Anytime Testing Machine, powered by Claude, is currently being piloted with 1,500 students across 20 schools, with plans to expand to 100 schools by the end of 2026. Adapted earlier this year for over 5,000 learners in Pratham's Second Chance program, which supports women who have dropped out of formal schooling, the Anytime Testing Machine aims to create flexible, credible pathways for learning and certification by helping students practice for exams.

Anthropic is collaborating with Central Square Foundation to use EdTech and AI more effectively to educate children from underserved communities. As part of this collaboration, Anthropic will provide technical expertise, mentorship, and API credits to organizations developing AI-enabled tools—including personalized tutors, teacher coaching solutions, and assessment-driven instruction—with the goal of reaching more primary school students across India.

Incorporating AI into the public sector

India has a track record of building interoperable digital public infrastructure that improves people's lives. Anthropic is partnering with the EkStep Foundation to explore how AI can build on these efforts and deliver population-scale impact in the domains that matter most to India. Agriculture is one example. It makes up nearly a sixth of the Indian economy and employs nearly half of the labor force. Using the OpenAgriNet effort, we are working towards deployments of Claude that expand access to expert knowledge in this critical sector.

We're also demonstrating how Claude Code and Cowork can have an impact within nonprofits themselves—including Noora Health, which delivers accessible health coaching to millions of families, and Intelehealth, which connects patients in remote communities to quality medical care.

India has 50 million pending court cases, and routine updates often take months to reach litigants. Accessing case information typically requires repeated court visits or intermediaries to navigate paper files and legal jargon. Anthropic is supporting Adalat AI to improve access to judicial services with a national WhatsApp helpline, launching today. Using Claude, it provides instant case updates as well as translation, document summarization, and interactive querying of legal documents in native Indian languages.

Driving adoption through open-source standards

Anthropic created the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a universal open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems, and recently donated it to the Linux Foundation.

The Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), with the support of nonprofit Bharat Digital, recently launched the first official Indian government MCP server, enabling users of AI systems to access and query authoritative national statistics in an open and interoperable manner. In the private sector, Swiggy uses the MCP to allow people to order groceries and make dining reservations directly through Claude.

Growing Anthropic's presence in India

These partnerships will grow in the coming months and years through our expanded presence in India. Our new Bengaluru office—Anthropic's second in Asia after Tokyo—has officially opened. Led by Managing Director of India Irina Ghose, an enterprise and startup technology leader, the office will focus on hiring local talent across a wide array of roles.

For information about career opportunities at our Bengaluru office, visit our careers page.

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OpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex release February 2026

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AI companies funding 2026 February

Here are all the U.S.-based AI startups that have raised $100 million or more thus far:

February

• Simile , which builds AI to mimic human decisions, raised a $100 million Series A round led by Index Ventures. The round was announced on February 12 and included Hanabi Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and multiple angel investors.
• Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G funding round that valued the AI research lab at $380 billion on February 12. More than 30 investors participated in the round including Founders Fund, Coatue, and Nvidia, among many others.
• Media generation platform Runway raised a $315 million Series E round that valued the company at $5.3 billion. This funding was led by General Atlantic and was announced on February 10. Nvidia, Fidelity, and Felicis also invested, among others.
• Goodfire , an AI research lab, announced a $150 million Series B round on February 5. B Capital led the round with participation from Juniper Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Menlo Ventures. The round valued the company at $1.25 billion.
• AI research company Fundamental announced a $255 million Series A round on February 5. This round valued the company at $1.4 billion. Investors in the round included Oak HC/FT, Salesforce Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, and QP Ventures, among others.
• Voice AI company ElevenLabs raised a $500 million Series D round that was announced on February 4. The round was led by Sequoia and valued the company at $11 billion.

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China AI competition US monopoly February 2026

[发布者：CNBC，发布日期：2026年2月（相对时间）]

China's tech shock is threatening to shake up U.S. dominance in the market, with one analyst warning of a tech shock that is just getting started.

Rory Green, TS Lombard's chief China economist and head of Asia research, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Monday that America's "perceived monopoly" on tech and AI has been broken by China.

"I think the China tech shock is just getting started. It's not just AI, DeepSeek, and electric vehicles. China is moving up the value chain very rapidly... It's the first time in history that an emerging market economy is at the forefront of science and technology," Green said in a conversation with CNBC's Steve Sedgewick and Ben Boulos.

China is pairing dominant-market level tech with emerging-market production costs, backed by its massive supply chain, Green said. He added that with Xi Jinping being like a "tech bro" that is chucking money into these sectors, it makes for a powerful mix that is really rapidly accelerating the China tech story.

TS Lombard's Green explained that a "China tech sphere" could easily form, as the world's second-largest economy's low-cost tech offerings may be more attractive to developing economies.

"China is a top trade partner for most of the world, particularly in emerging and frontier economies. What happens if that repeats on tech?" Green said.

Developing economies that don't have a national security issue with China have a choice between "low-cost China tech, Huawei, 5G batteries, solar panels, AI, probably some cheap RMB financing," or "high-cost American and European alternative," he said.

"For these economies, I think the choice is fairly simple, and you could see easily a world where maybe most of the world's population is running on a Chinese tech stack in five to 10 years time," he added.

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ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Disney copyright February 16 2026

Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance accusing the Chinese firm of using Disney characters to train and power Seedance 2.0 without permission, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters late on Sunday.

Disney said ByteDance had pre-packaged Seedance with a pirated library of copyrighted characters from franchises including Star Wars and Marvel, portraying them as if they were public-domain clip art, the person said.

The letter alleged Seedance was reproducing, distributing and creating derivative works featuring Spider-Man, Darth Vader, and other characters, the person added.

"We are taking steps to strengthen current safeguards as we work to prevent the unauthorized use of intellectual property and likeness by users," ByteDance said in its statement.

It did not elaborate on the measures it was taking.

Disney has taken similar actions against Character.AI, demanding that the startup immediately stop the unauthorised use of its copyrighted characters.

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Seedance 2.0 AI video generator features February 2026

As of February 2026, Seedance 2.0 is available (only for use with a Chinese Douyin user ID) on Android, iOS or in a web browser by the Chinese name 小云雀 (Xiaoyunque) at Jianying.com, the website for ByteDance's video editor 剪映 (Jianying), branded outside China as CapCut.

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Zhipu AI GLM-5 model February 2026 launch

Just ahead of the Lunar New Year, the Chinese artificial intelligence sector has sent shockwaves through the global tech industry with the launch of Zhipu AI's GLM-5, a new large language model (LLM) that is already being hailed as a generational leap in capability. Released on February 11, 2026, by Zhupai—also known as z.ai and formerly Zhipu AI—GLM-5 is not only setting new benchmarks for open-source models but is also positioning China as a serious contender in the worldwide race for AI supremacy.

Live on OpenRouter as of February 11, 2026, it’s available at approximately $0.80 per million input tokens and $2.56 per million output tokens—about six times cheaper than proprietary competitors like Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6. This disruptive pricing, combined with an open-source MIT License, makes GLM-5 especially attractive for enterprises seeking to avoid vendor lock-in and maintain control over their data.

The market has certainly taken notice. Following the launch, Zhipu’s shares soared by as much as 34% on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange—a testament to investor confidence in the company’s vision and execution. Zhipu also seized the moment by raising the price of its GLM Coding Plan by 30%, capitalizing on surging demand. This coding plan is positioned as China’s answer to Anthropic’s Claude Code, which remains unavailable in the country.

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GPT-5.3-Codex Spark OpenAI February 2026 release

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OpenClaw Steinberger OpenAI February 2026

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI, and the open-source bot is becoming a foundation, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Sunday.

"Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents," Altman said in a post on X, adding "OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support."

OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot or Moltbot, is what fans describe as an assistant that can stay on top of emails, deal with insurers, check in for flights and perform myriad other tasks.

OpenClaw has had a viral rise since it was first introduced in November, receiving more than 100,000 stars on code repository GitHub and drawing 2 million visitors in a single week, according to a blog post by Steinberger.

OpenClaw's growing popularity has attracted scrutiny, with China's industry ministry warning the open-source AI agent could pose significant security risks when improperly configured and expose users to cyberattacks and data breaches.

"It's always been important to me that OpenClaw stays open source and given the freedom to flourish. Ultimately, I felt OpenAI was the best place to continue pushing on my vision and expand its reach," Steinberger posted in a blog on Sunday.

Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Chris Reese

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BharatGen 17B multilingual AI model February 16 2026

发布日期：2026年2月12日 3:39 PM IST

BharatGen to launch 17B-parameter multilingual AI model at AI Impact Summit

The model is being developed under the BharatGen consortium, which operates out of the Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Bombay and is supported by the Department of Science and Technology. The programme is part of the wider IndiaAI Mission, which is funding compute infrastructure, data platforms and model development for public-sector and national-scale AI projects.

BharatGen Param2: What it is

Param2 is described as a 17-billion-parameter "mixture of experts" model built to work across 22 Indian languages. According to the release, it has been trained on Indian-language data and is intended to be used across text, speech and vision tasks, rather than only as a text-based language model.

BharatGen said the model will be demonstrated at the summit through sector-focused applications developed with government and industry partners. These include use cases in governance, healthcare, education, cultural digitisation and financial services. Examples cited include a government-facing system for urban development and revenue departments, healthcare applications for doctor–patient interaction, and tools for digitising and accessing archival and cultural documents.

BhartGen also said the underlying models are being developed to support reasoning, maths and code-related tasks, and are being trained using infrastructure made available under the IndiaAI Mission, along with data drawn from what it calls the Bharat Data Sagar repository.

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China AI models Qwen 3.5 February 17 2026

Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5

E-commerce giant Alibaba released its latest AI model, Qwen3.5, hours before the Lunar New Year starts on 16 February. The model understands text, images, and videos across 200 languages, the company says.

The new model can deploy AI agents up to five times faster than previous models and its competitors, including the latest models of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, the company said. Their agents can fill out forms, navigate websites, and complete multi-step workflows.

Early tests show Qwen 3.5 can generate functional 3D games, browsers, websites, and analyse medical imagery. The model is also up to 60 percent cheaper than its predecessor model, Qwen2.5, the company said.

In 2025, Alibaba committed 380 billion yuan (€50.6 billion) to cloud computing and AI in the next three years, one of the company’s largest tech investments to date.

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Google Gemini 3 Deep Think February 12 2026 science reasoning

Elevating reasoning with mathematical and algorithmic rigor

The updated Deep Think mode continues to push the frontiers of intelligence, reaching new heights across the most rigorous academic benchmarks, including:

• Setting a new standard (48.4%, without tools) on Humanity's Last Exam, a benchmark designed to test the limits of modern frontier models
• Achieving an unprecedented 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2, verified by the ARC Prize Foundation
• Attaining a staggering Elo of 3455 on Codeforces, a benchmark consisting of competitive programming challenges
• Reaching gold-medal level performance on the International Math Olympiad 2025

Navigating complex scientific domains

Beyond mathematics and competitive coding, Gemini 3 Deep Think now also excels across broad scientific domains such as chemistry and physics. Our updated Deep Think mode demonstrates gold medal-level results on the written sections of the 2025 International Physics Olympiad and Chemistry Olympiad. It also demonstrates proficiency in advanced theoretical physics, achieving a score of 50.5% on CMT-Benchmark.

Accelerating real-world engineering

In addition to its state-of-the-art performance, Deep Think is built to drive practical applications, enabling researchers to interpret complex data, and engineers to model physical systems through code. Most importantly, we are working to bring Deep Think to researchers and practitioners where they need it most — beginning with surfaces such as the Gemini API.

With the updated Deep Think, you can turn a sketch into a 3D-printable reality. Deep Think analyzes the drawing, models the complex shape and generates a file to create the physical object with 3D printing.

Available to Google AI Ultra Subscribers and the Gemini API via our Early Access Program

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AI memory chips crisis prices February 17 2026

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A growing procession of tech industry leaders, including Elon Musk and Tim Cook, are warning about a global crisis in the making: A shortage of memory chips is beginning to hammer profits, derail corporate plans and inflate price tags on everything from laptops and smartphones to automobiles and data centers — and the crunch is only going to get worse.

Since the start of 2026, Tesla Inc., Apple Inc. and a dozen other major corporations have signaled that the shortage of DRAM, or dynamic random access memory — the fundamental building block of almost all technology — will constrain production. Cook warned it will compress iPhone margins. Micron Technology Inc. called the bottleneck "unprecedented." Musk got to the intractable nature of the problem when he declared Tesla is going to have to build its own memory fabrication plant.

"The resulting price spikes are starting to look a bit like the Weimar Republic's hyperinflation. The cost of one type of DRAM soared 75% from December to January, accelerating price hikes throughout the holiday quarter."

"The disruption is threatening the profitability of entire product lines and upending long-term plans."

Yang Yuanqing, the CEO of Lenovo Group Ltd., said in an interview after earnings Thursday as he explained the crunch will last at least through the rest of the year. "This structural imbalance between supply and demand is not simply a short-term fluctuation."

"Mark Li, a Bernstein analyst who tracks the semiconductor industry, warns that memory chip prices are going 'parabolic'."

"GF Securities estimates that there is a 4% gap between the supplies and demands for DRAM and 3% for NAND, but those figures do not yet factor in low inventories in some industries so the actual imbalance is likely bigger."

"DRAM shortages are set to persist across the electronics, telecom, and automotive industries throughout the year," Counterpoint analyst MS Hwang said. "We are already seeing signs of panic buying within the auto sector, while smartphone manufacturers are pivoting toward more cost-effective chip alternatives to mitigate the impact."

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US stocks AI disruption Nvidia Microsoft February 17 2026

Wall Street's main indexes dropped in a choppy trading session on Tuesday after a long weekend, with tech heavyweights leading declines as investor concerns over AI-led upheavals across the sector persisted.

Most U.S. technology stocks were lower on the day, with Nvidia (NVDA.O) losing 1.6% and Microsoft (MSFT.O) down 1.3%.

Worries that artificial intelligence could disrupt business models had sparked a selloff in software firms, brokerages and trucking companies the previous week, causing Wall Street's three main indexes to log their steepest weekly decline since mid-November.

Potential risks from Chinese AI players also added to the uncertainty. On Monday, Alibaba unveiled a new AI model, Qwen 3.5, designed to independently execute complex tasks.

Intel (INTC.O) lost 2.2% and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) was down 5.2% on Tuesday. The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index (.SOX) fell 2.3%.

"The Alibaba AI product is one of the variables weighing on markets today and that's a part of a much larger dynamic that's at play here," said Stash Graham, managing director and CIO at Graham Capital Wealth Management.

"You are seeing a rebalance... for the markets to take a breather off such a strong year last year; it's natural."

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