Alibaba Cloud Expands AI Models, Tools for Global Enterprise

HANGZHOU, China - Alibaba Cloud announced new artificial intelligence capabilities for international customers, including advanced language models and infrastructure upgrades through the company's Singapore-based data centers.

The cloud division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group introduced its proprietary large language models to global markets, including Qwen-Max, a large-scale Mixture of Expert models and specialized models for reasoning and visual analysis.

According to a company statement, Selina Yuan, President of International Business at Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said the upgrades would deliver "more secure and high-performance services" for businesses operating "in an AI-driven world. "

The firm's Platform for AI (PAI) has received technical enhancements to support larger AI models.

The company reports that its Elastic Algorithm Service achieved a 92% increase in concurrency and a 91% improvement in processing speed when running its Qwen2.5-72B model.

Alibaba Cloud also integrated AI capabilities into its database products, adding native AI inference to its PolarDB relational database and connecting its AnalyticDB data warehouse to its model development platform for retrieval-augmented generation applications.

Two new AI software services were introduced: AI Doc, which processes business documents and generates reports, and Smart Studio, a content creation platform that converts text to images and video.

The announcements follow Alibaba Group's February pledge to invest $53 billion over three years in cloud computing and AI infrastructure, which the company said exceeds its total AI and cloud spending over the past decade.

According to the company, Alibaba Cloud currently operates 87 availability zones across 29 regions globally.