🐸 CHINA → PUERTO RICO → AMERICAS

Blok Easy Is Qwen's
Gateway to the Americas

Physical AI infrastructure, tax-advantaged entity formation, and a compliance liaison powered by Qwen — giving Alibaba Cloud a permanent, revenue-generating foothold across the Caribbean and LATAM, starting with Puerto Rico and extending to 650M+ people.

Legislative AI Summit · May 20, 2026 — decision window closing. We need Alibaba aligned by May 5 to confirm virtual appearance and co-branding.
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The Community is Already Here

Blok Easy is a Puerto Rican brand for tech, AI, and entrepreneurship events — monthly meetups, hands-on workshops, and founder circles that convene 100+ builders, operators, and policymakers through Luma. AI is our flagship focus and the wedge where Qwen plugs in directly; tech and entrepreneurship are the broader community we've already built.

100+

Monthly Attendees

Consistent turnout of technical founders, operators, policymakers, and students across our tech, AI, and entrepreneurship events.

12+

Events Delivered

Hands-on AI workshops, founder roundtables, and tech meetups — from agentic workflows to entrepreneurship panels.

Ecosystem Potential

Untapped LATAM market of 650M+ people. First-mover advantage for Qwen as the institutional AI standard.

Real Systems — Imagine What We Could Do With Qwen

These are live use cases we've already deployed. With Qwen's capabilities as the engine, we scale each one across the Caribbean and LATAM — making Blok Easy the Qwen showcase for the entire Americas.

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Intelligent Web Scraping

Agentic scrapers that navigate, extract, and structure data from any source — auto-adapting to layout changes and anti-bot measures.

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Deep Research

Multi-step research agents that synthesize information across sources, produce structured briefings, and maintain citation trails for compliance.

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Customer Service Agents

AI-powered support that handles multilingual queries (Spanish/English), resolves tickets autonomously, and escalates only when necessary.

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Act 60 Compliance Agent

Self-hosted Qwen3.5 agent that drafts regulatory filings, bilingual government correspondence, and monthly compliance reports for Act 60 export-service companies — data never leaves the building.

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E-Commerce Automation

Full WooCommerce orchestration — inventory management, dynamic pricing, order fulfillment, and Meta Graph API marketing loops.

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WordPress Agentic Dev

Self-maintaining WordPress sites — theme generation, content pipelines, and full-stack updates driven by agentic coding loops.

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Custom Translation Tools

Real-time bilingual (EN↔ES) translation layers built for government meetings, legislative sessions, and cross-border communications.

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Policy & Legislative AI

AI that reads, analyzes, and drafts legislative documents — helping government bodies move faster with data-driven insights.

The Revenue Funnel

Blok Easy becomes Qwen's revenue-generating distribution partner — not a token sink. Every workshop attendee enters a structured pipeline from free user to enterprise contract.

🎓 Free Workshop 🔬 Tinkering Wallet 💳 Paid API 🛠️ Services 🏢 Enterprise
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Free Workshops

100+ attendees/month

Monthly meetups with hands-on Qwen demos. Build brand awareness and community trust.

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Tinkering Wallets

40% of attendees

Token grants for builders to create their first Qwen project. Low friction, high engagement.

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Paid API

10% of wallet holders

Graduated to paid Qwen API usage. Individual developers and small-team prototypes moving from grant tokens to credit cards.

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Services

$3–10K per engagement

Custom dev, fine-tuning, and consulting for Qwen implementations — paid directly to Blok Easy, driving API usage on top.

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Enterprise + Act 60

2–5 per quarter • $15–50K ARR

Government bodies, PR enterprises, and Act 60 tenants running the Compliance Liaison. Long-term deployments with sticky API consumption.

6-Month Projection (bottoms-up): 100 workshop attendees × 40% wallet conversion × 10% paid = ~4 paid API devs @ $50/mo = $200 MRR
+ 3 Act 60 Compliance Liaison seats @ $1,500/mo = $4,500 MRR
+ 2 service engagements/quarter @ $5K = ~$3,300 MRR equivalent
+ 1 government / enterprise pilot @ $15K ARR = $1,250 MRR
≈ $9K MRR by Month 6, $25K+ MRR by Month 12 — with Act 60 seats and enterprise pilots as the load-bearing revenue, not workshop conversion.

Why Qwen Wins in the Americas

Data-backed reasons why Qwen is the right model for LATAM and the Caribbean — not OpenAI, not Anthropic, not Google.

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~10x Cost Advantage at the Frontier

ModelInput/MOutput/M
Qwen3-Max$1.20$6.00
Claude Sonnet 4.6$3.00$15.00
Claude Opus 4.7$15.00$75.00
GPT-5$2.50$15.00

Published API pricing per million tokens, April 2026. Sources: each provider's official pricing page.

For startups and governments scaling AI in LATAM, the difference between $3/M input and $1.20/M is the difference between adoption and abandonment. Qwen3-Max is roughly 2.5x cheaper than Sonnet and 12x cheaper than Opus at the frontier, with Qwen-Plus and Qwen-Flash tiers going substantially lower for high-volume workloads.

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Bilingual + Multilingual DNA

Qwen3 supports 100+ languages natively — Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese out of the box.

Dedicated translation model (qwen-mt-plus) covers 92 languages. Real-time speech translation (qwen3-livetranslate-flash-realtime) handles 18 languages live.

No other AI provider has a dedicated live translation model at this price point.

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No Western Lock-in

LATAM governments are actively seeking technology sovereignty. Qwen offers a real alternative to US tech monopolies.

Hybrid architecture: Open-source Qwen3.5 runs locally for sensitive compliance and financial data. Cloud API handles workshops, demos, and public-facing tools. No other frontier model offers both.

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Alibaba Ecosystem

Not just a model — a complete infrastructure play. Cloud + Commerce (AliExpress/Alibaba.com) + Payments (Alipay).

Massive model portfolio: text, vision, audio, omni, code, translation, image gen, video gen, TTS, and ASR — all under one roof.

The Senator Move — May 20, 2026

On May 20, 2026, Blok Easy is hosting the "Legislative AI Summit" — an interview and technical demo with Hon. Senator Ada Álvarez Conde, a member of Puerto Rico's Senate AI Commission, at Piloto 151, Santurce. This is how we get the ball rolling — the first meaningful introduction of Qwen to a sitting PR policymaker.

It's one conversation, not a policy announcement. The point is to put Qwen in front of someone in the room when AI policy gets discussed — with a working bilingual demo and honest answers — so the next time a frontier model comes up, Qwen is already on the list. Armando uses Qwen daily for coding, research, and operations; the demo will reflect that, not marketing slides.

Hon. Senator Ada Álvarez Conde at the Legislative AI Summit

Our goal: Give Qwen a seat at the table in Puerto Rico's AI policy conversation by introducing it, in person, to Hon. Senator Ada Álvarez Conde — a member of the Senate AI Commission.

The Proposal

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Interview + technical demo with the Senator at Piloto 151

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Custom EN↔ES translation tool built for the session — real-time bilingual demo

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Qwen working through real policy & education questions live — honest answers, not a reel

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Co-branded "Alibaba × Blok Easy" conversation — an opening, not a policy announcement

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Goal: Qwen becomes a known name to PR's AI Commission — the door that future conversations walk through

🎥 Alibaba Virtual Appearance

We'd love to connect an Alibaba Cloud representative via video call during the event — giving them direct visibility into the legislative AI conversation and a live audience of policymakers, technologists, and media. Blok Easy handles all logistics and tech setup.

🤝 Sponsorship Opportunity

We're offering Alibaba the chance to fully sponsor this event — becoming the official AI partner of Puerto Rico's legislative AI initiative. This includes co-branding across all channels, speaking placement, and permanent association with the island's AI governance framework.

🎯 Summit Demo Preview — What We'll Show

  • Live EN↔ES Translation — Using Qwen's dedicated qwen3-livetranslate-flash-realtime model. 18 languages, real-time speech-to-speech. Already proven with Gemini — now porting to Qwen.
  • Policy Document Analysis — Feed a real PR legislative bill into Qwen, get instant summary, impact analysis, and plain-language translation for constituents.
  • Education Policy Q&A — Live audience asks Qwen questions about education policy in Spanish, gets bilingual answers in real-time.

Translation tool already proven with Gemini — Qwen migration in progress. Ships before the Summit.

Seed Capital for Market Share

1.2B
Tokens Across Qwen-Max / Qwen-Plus Over 6 Months (200M/month)

Power workshops, fuel developer wallets, demo at the Senate, and give Alibaba a permanent, visible presence in the Caribbean and LATAM. Blok Easy becomes Qwen's revenue-generating distribution partner — not a token sink.

600M

Lab & Platform Compute

Powers the Blok Easy Lab and our internal dev platform: workshop live demos, member onboarding flows, and the tooling we build to onboard and track every Qwen developer in the community.

300M

AI Tinkering Wallets

Distributed to 100+ workshop participants and Lab walk-ins. Remove API friction, let entrepreneurs build.

200M

Senator Event + Gov Demos

Live translation demo, policy AI, and legislative document analysis at the May 20 Summit.

100M

Translation + Research

EN↔ES real-time translation and multi-step research agents for government and enterprise.

🏗️ Blok Easy Lab — Powered by Qwen

A permanent AI coworking space and lab at Bohiques, Hato Rey. Walk-in access for builders, free Qwen API tokens, and Act 60 guidance for export service companies. Full details below →

⏱️ Decision Timeline

The Legislative AI Summit on May 20 is a fixed date. To make it co-branded with Alibaba, we need decisions in this window:

By May 5, 2026
Alibaba green-lights participation (tier choice + virtual appearance confirmation)
By May 12, 2026
Token allocation live so the translation demo ships on Qwen before the Summit
May 20, 2026
Legislative AI Summit — interview & bilingual live Qwen demo with Senator Álvarez Conde at Piloto 151
July 2026
Qwen Hackathon + first Act 60 Compliance Liaison customers live

Partnership Tiers

Choose the level that matches your ambition.

🥉 Launchpad
400M
Token Partner
Testing the waters
  • 400M tokens over 6 months
  • Qwen branding at all Blok Easy workshops
  • Quarterly impact report
  • Access to Blok Easy Lab for Alibaba collateral
🥈 Catalyst
800M
Event + Tokens
Visible market entry
  • 800M tokens over 6 months
  • Senator Summit co-sponsorship + speaking slot
  • Monthly impact reports
  • Co-branded "Alibaba × Blok Easy" workshop series
  • Blok Easy Lab branded "Powered by Qwen"

What Alibaba Cloud Gets Back

Qwen tokens cost Alibaba near-zero at the margin — the real question is what the allocation buys. Here is the concrete return for a 1.2B-token Gateway partnership, across the first 12 months.

🏛️ Policy-Maker Access

1 Senator

An interview and technical demo with Senator Ada Álvarez Conde, a member of Puerto Rico's Senate AI Commission. The goal: get Qwen on the radar of the island's AI policy conversation — starting with one senator who's in the room when these decisions get made.

📈 API Consumption Ramp

~3B tokens/yr

By Month 12: 200+ active developers + 10+ Act 60 tenants + enterprise pilots drive ~3B tokens/year of organic paid usage on top of the grant — converting grant spend into recurring revenue.

🌎 LATAM Market Entry

650M reach

Puerto Rico is the bilingual, USD-denominated, US-territory beachhead for the full Caribbean and LATAM. One lab, one community, one senator — the template replicates to Santo Domingo, Medellín, Mexico City.

🏭 Hardware + Cloud Pull-Through

$$ hardware

Self-hosted Qwen3.5 compliance agents for Act 60 tenants = local GPU infrastructure sales opportunity for Alibaba Cloud. Public workloads migrate to Alibaba Cloud API. Two revenue streams per seat.

🗣️ Spanish-Language Data Moat

ES/EN corpus

Every workshop, every government demo, every compliance interaction generates bilingual Qwen usage data — feedback Alibaba cannot generate from APAC. Useful for Qwen's next multilingual training cycle.

📣 Brand Impressions

100K+ yr1

100+ attendees/month × 12 months + Senate Summit press coverage + Act 60 company footprint = conservative 100K+ Qwen-branded impressions in Year 1 across PR and diaspora media.

💰 Token Grant → Return Summary

The Gateway-tier grant of 1.2B tokens represents roughly $5K–$10K in retail API value (at Qwen-Plus/Max blended output-heavy pricing) but a marginal inference cost near-zero to Alibaba Cloud. Blok Easy is not asking for a customer discount — we're asking for a market-development line item that buys a legislative demo, 200+ developers, and an Americas beachhead at one of the lowest cost-per-outcome ratios on the table.

CategoryAlibaba InvestmentYear-1 Return
Qwen Tokens (1.2B)~$0 marginal costGovernment demo + 200+ devs
Event Sponsorship (optional)$3–5K / monthFull co-branding + Senate speaking slot
Virtual Appearance at Summit1 executive hourDirect audience: Senator, media, policymakers
Lab Operating Support (optional)$3–5K / month"Qwen Innovation Lab" naming + Americas HQ

Blok Easy Lab — Powered by Qwen

More than a lab — a permanent AI coworking space where developers, founders, and companies come to build, learn, and grow. Located in the heart of Puerto Rico's business district.

The Space

A hacker-vibe coworking space at Bohiques, Hato Rey — steps from Tren Urbano, universities, and the financial district. Open daily with walk-in access for anyone building with AI. Low overhead, high energy, real output.

Developers get free Qwen API access through Tinkering Wallets. Companies get hands-on guidance adopting AI into their workflows. And everyone gets plugged into the fastest-growing AI community in the Caribbean.

The Lab also serves as a launchpad for attracting non-AI sponsors — co-working partners, hardware vendors, and local businesses — creating a self-sustaining ecosystem that extends well beyond Alibaba's initial investment.

💰 Monthly Operating Costs

📍 Rent + Utilities (incl. Internet) $1,000
📣 Social Media Marketing $500
🧑‍💼 Part-Time Lab Ambassador $1,500–2,000
🔧 Equipment + Supplies ~$500
Total Monthly $3,500–4,000
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Qwen APIs Live

Walk in, get a Tinkering Wallet, start building with Qwen immediately. Zero friction.

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AI Coworking

Desks, WiFi, and community for indie developers, startups, and remote workers building with AI.

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Workshops On-Site

Weekly hands-on sessions — agentic workflows, Qwen APIs, prompt engineering, deployment patterns.

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Act 60 On-Ramp

Physical address, permits, and Qwen-powered compliance — everything companies need to establish an export entity.

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Sponsor-Ready

Space for co-working partners, hardware vendors, and local businesses to co-sponsor and brand.

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Act 60 — 4% Export Service Tax Advantage

Think of it like Hainan or Shenzhen's SEZ — but for the Americas. In the US mainland, companies pay 21% corporate tax. Under Puerto Rico's Act 60, companies that export services (software, AI consulting, digital products) pay only 4%. Thousands of US tech companies are actively relocating. Every single one needs: a physical address, local compliance filings, bilingual regulatory correspondence, and ongoing monitoring. The Blok Easy Lab provides the infrastructure — and Qwen powers the compliance automation.

🤖 Qwen Compliance Liaison — Self-Hosted, Data-Sovereign

Every company that sets up at the Lab gets a self-hosted Qwen compliance agent running on local GPU infrastructure — handling regulatory document prep, bilingual government correspondence, tax filing automation, and operational compliance monitoring. Because Act 60 compliance involves sensitive financial and tax data, nothing leaves the building. Qwen's open-source models (Qwen3.5 series) make this possible — no other frontier AI provider offers self-hostable models at this capability level.

🏢 Company joins Lab 📍 Gets PR address + permits 🤖 Qwen agent deployed 📋 Compliance automated 💰 4% tax rate active
🔄 Sticky Adoption Each company needs Qwen running continuously for compliance — they can't churn without losing their liaison agent.
📈 Revenue Multiplier One Lab seat = continuous Qwen API consumption. Each company brings its own clients, data, and token usage.
🏗️ Hardware + Cloud Revenue Self-hosted compliance runs on local GPUs — an Alibaba Cloud hardware sales opportunity. Companies scale into cloud API for non-sensitive workloads (workshops, research, translation).
🔒 Unique Moat No other AI provider has a physical infrastructure + compliance AI pipeline in Puerto Rico. Alibaba owns this lane.

🔐 Data Governance — Clean Answers to the Hard Questions

  • Sensitive data stays on-premise. Act 60 compliance workloads (tax filings, PII, financial records) run on self-hosted Qwen3.5 open-source models on local GPU infrastructure at the Blok Easy Lab. Nothing leaves the building by default.
  • Cloud API only for non-sensitive workloads. Workshops, demos, translation of public documents, and developer tinkering use Alibaba Cloud API. No PII, no regulated data, no legally privileged communications.
  • Jurisdiction clarity. Puerto Rico is a US jurisdiction. Tenants of the Lab sign data processing agreements that route cloud API traffic through Alibaba Cloud's designated regions with logging transparency for US-originated data.
  • No cross-border PII flow. By architectural default, no personally identifiable information crosses borders. Explicit opt-in required per tenant, reviewed by licensed counsel.
  • Legal partnership. Tax and regulatory advisory provided by licensed PR CPAs and attorneys. Qwen handles document automation and drafting only — not legal advice.

90-Day Roadmap

Clear milestones. Measurable KPIs. No ambiguity.

Phase 1 — April 20–May 20

🚀 Launch & Summit Prep

  • Token allocation goes live
  • Translation tool ported from Gemini to Qwen
  • Workshop series launches (Qwen-powered)
  • 50 Tinkering Wallets distributed
  • Blok Easy Lab opens at Bohiques, Hato Rey
  • May 20: Legislative AI Summit with Senator Ada Álvarez Conde
KPI: 50 Wallets · Lab Open · Summit Delivered
Phase 2 — May 20–June 20

🏛️ Convert Momentum

  • Summit media tour + diaspora press
  • 100+ new Qwen users onboarded from Summit spillover
  • First paid API conversions
  • Qwen Compliance Liaison pilot with 3 Act 60 companies
  • Enterprise pilot scoping with PR government body
KPI: 100 Users · 3 Act 60 Pilots · 1 Gov Pilot Scoped
Phase 3 — June 20–July 20

🏆 Scale

  • July 2026: Qwen Hackathon — 50+ teams
  • All participants use Qwen API with tokens
  • Enterprise pilot with PR government body live
  • 10+ Act 60 companies using Qwen Compliance Liaison
  • 200+ active Qwen developers
  • LATAM expansion scoping (Santo Domingo, Medellín)
KPI: 50 Teams · 10 Act 60 Tenants · 200 Devs

Risks We're Already De-Risking

The smart question isn't "will anything go wrong?" — it's "what are you doing about it before it does?" Here is our working list and how each risk is being addressed.

⚠️ Solo-Founder Risk

Prior review flagged "one-person operation" as critical.

Addressed: Two co-owners — Armando (technical & strategic) + Yari (creative, community & experience). Part-time Lab Ambassador hired in Month 1.

⚠️ Unproven Qwen Integration

Our translation tool was built on Gemini.

Addressed: Qwen port in active development. Ships before May 12 so the Summit demo runs on Qwen, not Gemini. Armando is a daily Qwen power user.

⚠️ Legal Exposure (Act 60)

Compliance automation touches regulated workflows.

Addressed: Partnership with licensed PR CPAs & attorneys. Qwen drafts documents only — never gives legal advice. Disclaimers shipped with every output.

⚠️ Data Sovereignty

Sensitive PR company data can't flow freely cross-border.

Addressed: Sensitive workloads on self-hosted Qwen3.5 on-premise. Cloud API only for non-sensitive / public workloads. No cross-border PII by default.

⚠️ Traction Verification

"100+ monthly attendees" needs proof.

Addressed: Luma event history, photos, and attendee testimonials available on request. Next event is linked live above — audit in real time.

⚠️ Co-Marketing Overreach

Announcing "official partnership" too early damages both brands.

Addressed: No Alibaba branding, logo use, or "official partner" claims are published without your written approval. We lead with our own brand until mutual trust is earned.

The Team Behind Blok Easy

Two complementary founders building the institutional, technical, and cultural bridge that gives Qwen a permanent foothold across the Caribbean and LATAM.

Armando Pio — Co-Founder of Blok Easy
Armando Pio
Co-Owner, Punto Pio · Co-Founder, Blok Easy — Technical & Strategic Lead

Armando leads technology and strategy at Blok Easy. A serial entrepreneur, he built Puerto Rico's most efficient agricultural supply chain by deploying AI-driven route optimization, inventory forecasting, and automated marketing — proving that AI can transform even the most traditional industries.

That hands-on experience inspired Blok Easy: if AI can revolutionize supply chain logistics, imagine what it can do for every business in the Americas. Armando is a daily Qwen power user for coding, research, and operations, and is the technical lead for the Senator Summit and Compliance Liaison. Direct line: qwen@mando.works.

📦 AI Supply Chain Pioneer 🧠 Qwen Power User 💻 Full-Stack AI Builder 🏡 Co-Owner, Punto Pio 🌎 Americas Gateway 🏗️ Serial Entrepreneur
Yari — Co-Owner of Punto Pio, Co-Founder of Blok Easy
Yari
Co-Owner, Punto Pio · Co-Founder, Blok Easy — Creative & Community Lead

Yari is co-owner of Punto Pio alongside Armando and the creative force behind Blok Easy's voice, aesthetic, and event experience. Where Armando owns the technical and strategic layer, Yari owns the human one — the art direction, the feel of the room, and the sense of belonging that keeps 100+ builders, founders, and policymakers coming back.

Her focus is making every workshop, summit, and meetup feel like a place you actually want to be — not another corporate AI event. That means deliberate design choices across space, lighting, music, visuals, and hospitality so that every attendee, from a first-time student to a sitting Senator, feels welcomed. For the Legislative AI Summit on May 20, Yari is the one making sure the room, the brand, and the bilingual experience land as powerfully as the technology itself.

🎨 Art & Creative Direction 🎤 Event Experience Design 🤝 Hospitality & Belonging 📣 Brand & Storytelling 🏡 Co-Owner, Punto Pio 🇵🇷 De aquí pa'l mundo

Come See Us in Person

Proof beats slides. Our next Blok Easy event is live on Luma — drop in, meet the community, and see how we run a room. If you're at Alibaba and reading this, consider this your standing invite.

The Americas Gateway is Open

Blok Easy is ready. The community is ready. Qwen is the model.
Together, we make Alibaba the AI standard of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, and all of LATAM.


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