Jan 20, 2016
Alibaba Teams With Nvidia in $1 Billion Bet on Cloud Computing
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI
The excitement keeps growing on Quantum. Now, the “MAGIC” will happen.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will work with Nvidia Corp. on cloud computing and artificial intelligence, and plans to enlist about 1,000 developers to work on its big-data platform during the next three years.
The arm of China’s biggest e-commerce operator, known as AliCloud, will boost investment in data analysis and machine learning, it said in a statement Wednesday. AliCloud is staking $1 billion on the belief that demand for processing and storage from governments and companies will boost growth during the next decade as its tries to compete with Amazon.com Inc. in computing services.
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