Alibaba Cloud
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Alibaba Cloud is Alibaba's cloud computing arm, which since September 2023 — when Wu Yongming took over as CEO of the cloud business after Alibaba's "1+6+N" restructuring — has pursued a strategy summed up as "AI-driven, public cloud first," positioning itself as the computing infrastructure provider for the new era of intelligence . Per an interview with CTO Zhou Jingren, its AI stack runs from large-scale GPU clusters at the compute layer up through model-as-a-service tooling and the ModelScope community, topped by its own open-source Qwen (Tongyi) model series — which by September 2024 had been downloaded over 40 million times and spawned more than 50,000 derivative models, second globally only to Meta's LLaMA . Its AI ambitions also extend to investment: Alibaba has backed all five of China's leading foundation-model unicorns — Moonshot AI, MiniMax, Zhipu AI, Baichuan, and 01.AI — a framing some observers called a "proxy war" with ByteDance . Beyond AI, it cultivates the startup ecosystem through programs like the Alibaba Cloud Entrepreneur Program, launched in Hangzhou in October 2023 with Source Code Capital among its inaugural partners, offering startups up to 1 million RMB in cloud credits .
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