ISTANBUL Chinese tech firm Alibaba launched a new open-source model that gives robots a "brain," the South China Morning Post said Wednesday. RynnBrain, an embodied foundation model based on Alibaba’s Qwen3-VL, was designed to perceive, reason and act in physical environments rather than purely digital settings. Alibaba said it can perform more advanced capabilities, including "performing physically aware reasoning and executing complex real-world tasks," instead of just passive observation. It