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Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced that it has been named a pioneer in Gartner 2025 Magic Quadrant for Container Management and the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms. Alibaba Cloud believes these recognitions underscore Alibaba Cloud’s continued commitment to pioneering innovations that empowers global enterprises and drives digital transformation. Focus on delivering solutions  “We believe bein...

Bosch, a pioneering supplier of technology and services, and Alibaba Group, a global technology company focused on e-commerce and cloud computing, announced an expanded strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation through advanced cloud computing and AI technologies. The enhanced collaboration will focus on cloud-based enterprise operations, AI-driven business innovations, and e-commerce expansion. Alibaba’s advanced cloud infrastructure “Our partnership opens up exc...

Alibaba has unveiled Wan2.2-S2V (Speech-to-Video), its latest open-source model designed for digital human video creation. This innovative tool converts portrait photos into film-quality avatars capable of speaking, singing, and performing.  Part of Alibaba’s Wan2.2 video generation series, the new model can generate high-quality animated videos from a single image and an audio clip. Visual representations Wan2.2-S2V offers versatile character animation abilities, enabling the desi...

Where and how to store security camera footage usually depends on the scale of the video surveillance project, the way you are using to record the video and how long you want to keep the recordings. If there are only few IP cameras, say 2~3 IP cameras for example, and you don’t need to keep the recordings for the month, usually using SD card which is installed in the camera is enough. Video management software A VMS provides a unified platform to manage all cameras and record footage on...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been named a pioneer in The Forrester Wave: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025 report. The report assessed 11 vendors over six months, evaluating them across 21 criteria, including developer experience, partner ecosystem, API and event-driven integration, AI application development, and vision. Alibaba Cloud, with its Function Compute and Serverless App Engine product capabilities, achieved the highe...

Alibaba has released Wan2.2, the industry’s first open-source large video generation models incorporating the MoE (Mixture-of-Experts) architecture, that will significantly elevate the ability of creators and developers to produce cinematic-style videos with a single click. The Wan2.2 series features a text-to-video model, Wan2.2-T2V-A14B, an image-to-video model, Wan2.2-I2V-A14B, and Wan2.2-TI2V-5B, a hybrid model that supports both text-to-video and image-to-video generation tasks with...

At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2025, Alibaba Group showcased a series of AI-driven innovation, unveiling the next-generation intelligent automotive cockpits, transformative collaborations with global enterprises and its first AI-powered smart glasses. All powered by Alibaba’s advanced Qwen large language models (LLMs), these breakthroughs demonstrate how AI is moving beyond the lab and into real-world applications across automotive, facility management and consumer...

Alibaba has launched Qwen3-Coder, its most advanced agentic AI coding model to date. Designed for high-performance software development, Qwen3-Coder excels in agentic AI coding tasks, from generating new code and managing complex coding workflows to debugging across entire codebases. Built on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, this open-sourced model Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, which has a total of 480 billion parameters but activates 35 billion parameters per token, de...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announces it will invest over 60 million USD in the next fiscal year to empower its partner ecosystem and accelerate AI innovation. The investment will be strategically allocated to collaborative marketing campaigns, incentive rebate programs, and capability-building initiatives, fostering mutually beneficial growth between the cloud provider and its partners. The commitment is designed to help partners expand th...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced a suite of enhanced AI solutions at its European Summit in Paris, reinforcing its dedication to supporting the region’s businesses growth by capturing the emerging AI opportunities.  The expanded offerings, from AI-optimised tools to intelligent industrial solutions, demonstrate Alibaba Cloud’s long-term commitment to delivering cutting-edge cloud technologies that help European customer...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced it will launch its second data centre in South Korea by the end of June 2025 in response to the growing demand for cloud computing and AI services from local businesses. The investment – made three years after the establishment of Alibaba Cloud’s first data centre in South Korea in 2022 - demonstrates its continued commitment to investing in South Korea, fostering AI transformation among loca...

Alibaba Group and SAP SE announced a strategic partnership to jointly accelerate enterprise innovation and digital transformation through advanced cloud and AI technologies. The partnership combines SAP’s industry-pioneering enterprise software with Alibaba Cloud’s secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and cutting-edge AI capabilities. SAP’s enterprise cloud solutions Alibaba Cloud will be part of the latest SAP Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Certification Program, to fu...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been named a Pioneer in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) for the fifth year in a row. Evaluation criteria Gartner evaluates cloud DBMS vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, with criteria across 15 critical areas, including product or service, customer experience, market understanding, offering (product) strategy, and innov...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced the international debut of its innovative Alibaba Cloud Container Compute Service (ACS), designed to simplify and optimise workload deployment using container technology. ACS will be available for international customers starting from January 2025. ACS, which uses Kubernetes as its interface, offers a serverless container service that provides compute resources compliant with container standards. Optimi...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been recently named a pioneer in The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Platforms Q4 2024 report. Alibaba Cloud believes this designation recognises its depth of its cloud and AI offerings and strategy, its significant global presence, as well as the ability to provide its global customers with a wide range of products and services. This is the first time Alibaba Cloud has been recognised as a pioneer among o...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced the launch of its revamped AI-focused partner ecosystem plan, known as “Alibaba Cloud Partner Rainforest Plan” during the Alibaba Cloud Partner Summit 2024 through a series of new initiatives, including an AI partner accelerator program, an enhanced incentive program and a revitalised global strategy for service partners. The initiatives aim to foster the growth of global partners and acceler...

A new entry in the cyber-physical security marketplace making its first public introduction, MERON is demonstrating a groundbreaking new solution for Physical Identity and Access Management (PIAM) branded PIAM+ here at GSX 2024 in booth 1955. MERON is launched by industry veterans Sharad Shekar and Imran Rana with the mission to usher in the next generation of AI-driven PIAM and Security Incident Management that overcomes the longstanding shortfalls of legacy solutions.  Robust PIAM...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, and Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), has announced the launch of OBS Cloud 3.0 for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 (Paris 2024). A combination of cloud technologies powered by AI, OBS Cloud 3.0 makes the work of OBS and Media Rights-Holders (MRHs) easier and more efficient. For Paris 2024, OBS Cloud 3.0 will serve as the backbone infrastructure supporting several critical functions, fully utilising the benef...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has announced that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will deploy its data-driven sustainability solution – Energy Expert – to help measure and analyse the electricity consumption at the competition venues of the forthcoming Olympic Games Paris 2024 ('Paris 2024'). Cloud-based platform By migrating the intelligence related to the power consumption and demand of the competition venues to the clo...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, in partnership with Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), has tested its latest AI-enhanced multi-camera replay service at the Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai, China, occurring between May 16 to 19, 2024. This pivotal event determined the athletes participating in the forthcoming Olympic Games in Paris ("Paris 2024”). AI innovation The AI innovation from Alibaba Cloud is poised for deployment across va...