{"id":207144,"date":"2025-02-24T10:13:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/alibaba-to-spend-more-than-52-billion-in-ai-cloud-over-next-three-years"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:13:51","slug":"alibaba-to-spend-more-than-52-billion-in-ai-cloud-over-next-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/alibaba-to-spend-more-than-52-billion-in-ai-cloud-over-next-three-years","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba To Spend More Than $52 Billion In AI, Cloud Over Next Three Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3;\" src=\"https:\/\/remunerationlabs.substack.com\/embed\/podcast\/alibaba-to-spend-more-than-52-billion-eb8?autoplay=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Major Chinese tech companies have been ramping up efforts to spur AI business growth.<\/p>\n<p>Alibaba Group plans to invest more than $52 billion on AI and cloud infrastructure over the next three years, in a bid to seize more opportunities in the artificial-intelligence era.<\/p>\n<p>The spending of at least 380 billion yuan, equivalent to $52.41 billion, will surpass the company\u2019s AI and cloud computing investment over the past decade, Alibaba said in a post Monday on its news site. Alibaba first mentioned the plan last week when the company reported its results but didn\u2019t provide a specific figure.<\/p>\n<p>The technology giant co-founded by Jack Ma delivered better-than-expected results for three months ended December, with revenue growth accelerating to its fastest pace since late 2023, supported by improvements in its e-commerce and cloud businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Major Chinese tech companies, from Alibaba to Baidu, have been ramping up efforts to spur AI business growth as advancements by homegrown upstart DeepSeek have gained global attention. Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai earlier this month said its AI technology would be integrated into Apple\u2019s iPhones for the Chinese market, a move that analysts expect to burnish the Hangzhou-based company\u2019s brand image and benefit its long-term growth.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Alibaba introduced the Qwen2.5 Max, the latest version of its AI model, which it said was competitive with global leaders, including DeepSeek-V3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/alibaba-to-spend-more-than-52-billion-in-ai-cloud-over-next-three-years\">Continue reading \u201cAlibaba To Spend More Than Billion In AI, Cloud Over Next Three Years\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major Chinese tech companies have been ramping up efforts to spur AI business growth. Alibaba Group plans to invest more than $52 billion on AI and cloud infrastructure over the next three years, in a bid to seize more opportunities in the artificial-intelligence era. The spending of at least 380 billion yuan, equivalent to $52.41 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}