Alibaba Cloud's Zhang Yong: Demand for AI Cloud Services is Very Strong, Incremental Opportunities are Just Starting to Unfold

The translated data: Alibaba Group's latest quarterly results reveal that the growth in Alibaba Cloud's revenue is primarily driven by products related to storage, networking, and AI computing. Zhang Yong, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group, stated that the new era of artificial intelligence development has led to a high demand for AI cloud services in model training and inference scenarios. He believes that the advancement of AI technology will usher in a new age. Alibaba Cloud will continue to invest in IaaS, PaaS, and MaaS, forming core technologies and products that lead the market, and serving the training and inference needs of various large-scale model startups and industries.

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Alibaba Cloud's Zhang Yong: Demand for AI Cloud Services is Very Strong, Incremental Opportunities are Just Starting to Unfold

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