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Alibaba AI expert Huang Fei speaks at the SCMP China Conference 2025 at JW Marriott in Admiralty on July 8, 2025. Photo: Eugene Lee
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Alibaba expert envisions AI agents transforming daily life in 5 years

Hong Kong poised for bigger role in the AI landscape thanks to capital and research capabilities, Huang Fei says at Post’s China Conference.

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Alibaba AI model-based agentic framework tops global ranking

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Alibaba leads US$14 million funding round in Chinese AI agent start-up

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Alibaba Cloud expands AI footprint with data centres in Malaysia, Philippines

Southeast Asia is a key market for China’s Big Tech firms and a battleground for US-China AI rivalry.

A smartphone displays the logo of Alibaba Cloud in this arranged photograph. Photo: Shutterstock Images
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Alibaba Cloud to bring AI capabilities to global data centres this year

The company operates more than two dozen data centres worldwide, including two in the US and one in London.

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Alibaba Cloud expands in South Korea with second data centre

The company’s AI service clients in South Korea include Naver-backed messaging app Snow and AI solutions provider Univa.

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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.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma speaks about the significance of AI during his visit to Alibaba Cloud on Thursday. Credit: Handout
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Alibaba Cloud AI model Animate Anyone 2 simplifies lifelike character animation

China appears to have upped the ante in this field of generative AI, which is poised to disrupt the entertainment and advertising industries.

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

The company’s latest move aligns with its broader strategy to ramp up overseas investments in key markets around the world.

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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.

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
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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.

A screenshot from the Spring Festival TV gala in 2023. Photo: CCTV
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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.

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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.

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‘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.

Visitors line up near the booth for Xiaohongshu at the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai on November 6. Photo: Reuters
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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.

The logo of Alibaba is illuminated outside its office building in Beijing, China, August 9, 2021. Photo: Reuters
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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.

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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.

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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.

Alibaba Cloud has launched two new ads. Photo: Bloomberg
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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Alibaba Cloud said it would open-source two of its large language models. Photo: Reuters
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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.

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.

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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.

A new partnership with Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry Group is aimed at digitising the energy industry in western China, Alibaba Cloud says. Photo: Shutterstock
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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.

Youngsters from Mu Kuang English School get the chance to examine a Diamond DA42, twin-engined propeller plane, which is on an intercontinental trip to help publicise the “2050” initiative launched by Alibaba Cloud founder Wang Jian. Photo: Dickson Lee
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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.

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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.

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