Alibaba Cloud expands global footprint with new AI tools
· Source: itbrief.com.au
In short
Alibaba Cloud announced a global infrastructure expansion adding cloud regions in Türkiye, Finland and the Netherlands plus data centre capacity in Malaysia, Germany, the UAE, France and Hong Kong, alongside three new AI products: Smart Studio, Smart Fusion and Smart Video. The company also disclosed customer and partner deals across manufacturing, gaming, logistics, entertainment, software and digital commerce, including Indonesia's Lion Parcel using Qwen-VL-Plus to automate finance and document-processing workflows. Alibaba Cloud frames the push as a move from AI experimentation to production deployment and an "Agent-Native Cloud" architecture.
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Tags: logistics, supply chain, cloud computing, automation, document processing, multimodal