U.S. tech giants are facing a reckoning from the East.Even as Nvidia pledged today to invest a staggering $100 billion into its own customer OpenAI's data centers — a move that raised eyebrows across tech and business spheres — Chinese search giant Alibaba's Qwen team of AI researchers debuted what may be its most impressive model yet: Qwen3-Omni, an open source large language model (LLM) that the company bills as the first "natively end-to-end omni-modal AI unifying text, image, audio & video i...