Alibaba woos international AI users with new Qwen upgrades

Alibaba Cloud is broadening its international artificial intelligence offerings with enhanced tools as the company seeks to grow its global customer base, reports Bloomberg,

Per the report, the cloud division’s expansion includes new platform-as-a-service options and advanced proprietary large language models, such as Qwen-Max and the QwQ-Plus reasoning model, which shares similarities with DeepSeek. The company is delivering these services through its Singapore availability zones, signalling its intent to attract AI users and developers globally.

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