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


AiShi Technology and Alibaba Cloud signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement, and the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in the field of AI video generation, covering multiple aspects such as models, computing power, products, ecosystem, and business, to jointly promote technological development. Alibaba Cloud will provide infrastructure support for AiShi Technology to help its global expansion.
Alibaba Cloud BaiLian announced that starting from November 13, 2025, the core call fee for the Tongyi Qianwen 3-Max model will be halved, and the cache billing strategy has been optimized, significantly reducing the cost of enterprise AI applications. This move aims to lower the entry barrier for large model usage and accelerate digital transformation for small and medium enterprises.
Alibaba Cloud released the world's first native end-to-end all-modal AI model Qwen3-Omni and open-sourced it. The model supports multi-modal inputs such as text, images, audio, and video, and enables real-time streaming output with fast response. Through text pre-training and multi-modal mixed training, Qwen3-Omni possesses strong cross-modal capabilities and demonstrates advanced performance in multiple fields.
IDC predicts China's public cloud AI model calls will hit 536.7T tokens by H1 2025, with Volcano Engine leading at 49.2% market share, followed by Alibaba Cloud (27%) and Baidu AI Cloud (17%).....
On September 19, 2025, Alibaba Cloud announced the official open-sourcing of Tongyi Wanxiang's new action generation model Wan2.2-Animate. This model can drive photos of people, anime characters, and animals, and is widely applied in short video creation, dance template generation, and animation production. Users can download the model and code on GitHub, HuggingFace, and the Moda Community, or call the API through the Alibaba Cloud BaiLian platform or experience it directly on the Tongyi Wanxiang website. Wan2.2-Animate