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Updated June 15, 2026Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) is the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group and the largest cloud provider in Asia Pacific. Founded in 2009, it serves millions of customers across more than 200 countries and regions, offering a comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure, data intelligence, and AI services.
Alibaba Cloud's AI portfolio centers on the Qwen (Tongyi Qianwen) family of large language models, which rank among the most capable open-weight models globally. Qwen models are available in sizes from 0.5B to 72B+ parameters, with specialized variants for coding (Qwen-Coder), math (Qwen-Math), and vision (Qwen-VL). The company also offers Model Studio for fine-tuning, PAI (Platform for AI) for ML operations, and a broad set of pre-built AI services for NLP, computer vision, and speech.
As the infrastructure backbone for Alibaba's e-commerce, logistics, and fintech operations, Alibaba Cloud brings massive-scale AI deployment experience. Its aggressive open-sourcing of Qwen models has made it one of the most important contributors to the open-weight AI ecosystem alongside Meta and Mistral.
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Alibaba's Qwen3.5 model family chat interface. Flagship 397B-A17B with Gated DeltaNet+MoE, 262K-1M context. 100+ languages. 9B model matches GPT-OSS-120B on GPQA Diamond.
Alibaba Tongyi Lab's suite of three foundation models for embodied AI — Qwen-RobotNav for navigation, Qwen-RobotManip for object manipulation, and Qwen-RobotWorld for physics-aware world prediction. Together they form a software stack that lets robots move through spaces, handle objects, and reason about the physical world, launched into pilot testing with Alibaba Cloud enterprise customers in June 2026.