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Alibaba founder Jack Ma speaks about the significance of AI during his visit to Alibaba Cloud on Thursday. Credit: Handout

Jack Ma’s Alibaba Cloud visit comes as tech giant accelerates adoption of AI

Ma, who has stepped down from all his corporate roles, remains a key shareholder and spiritual leader of the business empire he created.

10 Apr 2025 - 6:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba Cloud AI model Animate Anyone 2 simplifies lifelike character animation

21 Feb 2025 - 10:00AM

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba Cloud rolls out expanded suite of AI models, tools in overseas push

21 Jan 2025 - 7:55PM

Artificial intelligence

Chinese start-up 01.AI founder Lee Kai-fu denies asset sale to Alibaba Cloud

01.AI denounced as ‘vicious slander’ talks that it was looking to sell its pre-training team and other assets owing to business difficulty.

7 Jan 2025 - 8:47PM

01.AI founder and chief executive Lee Kai-fu’s strong denial reflects the intense competition among start-ups and Big Tech companies in China’s nascent generative artificial intelligence sector. Photo: SCMP

Alibaba Cloud to live stream China’s most-watched event for first time

The TV show, which airs on January 28, has been a Lunar New Year’s Eve tradition for millions of Chinese families since 1983.

26 Dec 2024 - 4:30PM

Alibaba Cloud aims high in Southeast Asia with new AI partners

China’s leading cloud services provider is prioritising investments in its operations across Indonesia, Thailand and other markets.

3 Dec 2024 - 6:30PM

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China creates new AI advisory body, with Alibaba Cloud founder as chief expert

The AI Experts Committee is expected to promote China’s perspective on how the fast-growing technology should be governed.

22 Nov 2024 - 7:00AM

The creation of China’s AI Experts Committee was announced during the 2024 World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, eastern Zhejiang province. Photo: Xinhua

‘China’s Instagram’ completes largest data migration ever to Alibaba Cloud

The popular lifestyle social platform Xiaohongshu spent a full year moving 500 petabytes of data to China’s largest cloud provider.

7 Nov 2024 - 12:26PM

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba Cloud to kick off annual Apsara tech event with focus on AI

Alibaba’s cloud unit will kick off its annual tech event this week, bringing together large language model start-ups to discuss the future of artificial general intelligence.

19 Sep 2024 - 3:11PM

AI makes Alibaba Cloud company’s shining star in June quarter

While Taobao and Tmall missed estimates amid intensifying competition, the tech giant’s cloud growth stood out amid ‘robust demand’ for AI products.

18 Aug 2024 - 8:00AM

Demand for artificial intelligence services such as those powered by Alibaba’s Tongyi Qianwen is helping to shore up the company’s cloud business while e-commerce struggles with low consumer spending and competition. Photo: Shutterstock

Alibaba Cloud raises prices for domain name auctions amid AI compute price war

Auctions for previously owned domain names now start at 99 yuan, a 43 per cent increase over new prices announced just a year ago.

29 Jul 2024 - 5:00PM

Alibaba Cloud’s booth at Hong Kong FinTech Week on November 2, 2023. Photo: Bloomberg

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba Cloud touts endorsements from major clients in AI computing race

Alibaba Cloud and rivals are gunning for a market that is expected to expand faster this year, thanks partly to popularity of generative AI.

8 Jul 2024 - 11:17PM

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba Cloud’s ‘AI programmer’ gets mixed reactions from real programmers

Alibaba’s cloud unit has introduced its first ‘AI programmer’ powered by the company’s own large language model, as the tech giant explores monetisation.

23 Jun 2024 - 7:00AMvideocam

Alibaba Cloud cuts prices for international customers amid global AI race

Alibaba is cutting prices by as much as 59 per cent for international users of its compute, storage, network, database and big data products.

8 Apr 2024 - 7:30PMvideocam

Alibaba Cloud is cutting prices for international customers using servers in China as it seeks to compete with global tech giants amid surging AI-driven demand for compute services. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba Cloud service failure hits Taobao in second outage in a year

The 3.5-hour system breakdown also affected other Alibaba apps such as DingTalk, as well as the company’s cloud storage services.

13 Nov 2023 - 9:51PMvideocam

The Alibaba Cloud booth at the Hong Kong FinTech Week on November 2. Photo: Bloomberg

Alibaba Cloud open sources some of its AI chatbot technology

The Chinese company plans to make two of its large language models, Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat, freely available for commercial and research uses.

4 Aug 2023 - 12:16AMvideocam

Exclusive | Alibaba Cloud’s founder looking forward to supporting Paris Olympics 2024

Wang says the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will give Alibaba a unique platform to showcase its cloud-based technologies to the world.

25 Jun 2023 - 3:03PM

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Hong Kong economy

Alibaba Cloud founder points to skies for Hong Kong moonshot project to lure talent

Tech mogul suggests concept of ‘city brains’ – using technology to sustainably power a metropolis and digitalise it.

20 Jun 2023 - 8:13PM

The city is poised to become a global astronomy research hub using its work with China’s first space-based telescope. Photo: Handout

Alibaba Cloud wins deal with coal giant in bid to woo state-owned firms

The new partnership with Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry Group is aimed at digitising the energy industry in western China, Alibaba says.

9 Jun 2023 - 6:00PM

Hong Kong economy

Alibaba Cloud founder tells Hong Kong computer power can save natural resources

Alibaba Cloud founder Wang Jian tells Hong Kong to ‘think outside the box’ and embrace uncertainty to unleash tech potential.

3 Jun 2023 - 4:17PM

Alibaba Cloud to cut 7 per cent of staff ahead of planned IPO

Alibaba’s cloud division is downsizing as it prepares to go public amid economic headwinds that pushed revenue down 2 per cent in the first quarter.

25 May 2023 - 9:20AMvideocam

Alibaba Cloud is cutting 7 per cent of its staff amid a tough economic environment as it prepares for an IPO. Photo: Shutterstock

Alibaba Cloud offers discounts of up to 40 pc for international clients

Alibaba Cloud is offering discounts to overseas clients and increased technical support as it continues overseas push.

16 May 2023 - 12:10AMvideocam

Alibaba Cloud is pressing ahead with overseas expansion. Photo: Shutterstock

Alibaba Cloud founder Wang Jian returns, sources say

Wang is widely seen as the man who laid the technological foundations to facilitate Alibaba’s emergence as an e-commerce giant.

15 May 2023 - 6:44PMvideocam

Alibaba Cloud seeks bigger edge in home market as US threatens sanction

Alibaba has high hopes for the cloud unit, which remains a market leader in China while grappling with slowing growth last year.

28 Apr 2023 - 7:00AMvideocam

Cloud computing spending to get a boost in Asia this year, Alibaba Cloud finds

More than four-fifths of cloud services users in Asia plan to increase spending this year and plan a full cloud migration in two years, an Alibaba survey showed.

7 Mar 2023 - 12:45PM

More than four-fifths of Asian cloud service users expect to increase spending on cloud computing this year, according to an Alibaba Cloud survey. Photo: Shutterstock

Alibaba Cloud to work with Shell China on green, low carbon digital solutions

The two companies are becoming long-term strategic partners with the help of Shell’s advantage in energy transformation and Alibaba Cloud’s advantages in cloud computing.

23 Feb 2023 - 10:54PM

Alibaba Cloud to collaborate with Shell China. Photo: Shutterstock

Alibaba Cloud finds recent system breakdown ‘longest major-scale failure’

The incident on December 18 resulted in a lengthy service outage in Hong Kong and Macau that stretched for more than 24 hours at some customer sites.

26 Dec 2022 - 9:12PM

Alibaba Cloud’s recent outage shows firms must plan ahead for online disruptions

The Alibaba subsidiary’s lengthy system failure in Hong Kong, with disruptions at some user sites stretching to more than 24 hours, shows that cloud services providers cannot guarantee zero incidents.

20 Dec 2022 - 9:44PM

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