Alibaba Cloud accelerates global expansion: adds data centers in Malaysia and the Philippines, launches first AI global capability center
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On July 2, Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligent backbone platform of Alibaba Group, ushered in the 10th anniversary milestone of its operation and international headquarters in Singapore. To commemorate this important moment, Alibaba Cloud held a grand global summit in Singapore, and released a series of new strategies including the addition of a Southeast Asian data center, the establishment of a global AI capability center, the release of next-generation AI infrastructure and green AI research results, fully demonstrating its leading layout and vision in the global cloud computing and artificial intelligence track.
Global layout accelerates again: Southeast Asia welcomes a new data center
At the infrastructure level, Alibaba Cloud announced that its global cloud services have covered 29 regions and 90 availability zones. The latest news shows:
The third data center in Malaysia was officially launched on July 1, 2025;
The second data center in the Philippines will be opened in October 2025.
These two new deployments are designed to further meet the growing demand for cloud computing and AI computing power in Southeast Asia, and also consolidate Alibaba Cloud's position as a key infrastructure provider in the region. Previously, Alibaba Cloud has announced expansion plans in Thailand, South Korea, Mexico and other places to form a global service network covering Asia Pacific, the Middle East and the Americas.
AI Global Competence Center (AIGCC) officially launched: promoting enterprise intelligent upgrade
At this summit, Alibaba Cloud officially announced the launch of the first AI Global Competence Center (AIGCC) in Singapore, which is an important milestone in its AI strategy. The center has clear goals:
Support 5,000+ enterprises and 100,000 developers;
Build an AI innovation laboratory, provide multimodal data sets, AI development tokens, and customized support services;
Gather 1,000+ enterprises and start-ups to jointly build an AI agent model ecosystem covering ten major industries such as finance, medical care, manufacturing, and retail.
In addition, Alibaba Cloud will also cooperate with more than 120 universities around the world to train 100,000 AI professionals each year to build a strong talent pool for the global AI ecosystem.
The next generation of AI products and infrastructure is released
Alibaba Cloud also launched a number of advanced AI products and cloud service upgrades for international customers at this summit:
AI one-stop data flow platform DTS:
Automatically vectorize documents, images, audio and video data, and quickly build RAG applications;
Lower the threshold for LLM application development and accelerate AI implementation.
AI platform PAI is fully upgraded:
Introducing expert parallel technology EP that supports hybrid expert (MoE) architecture;
LLM models such as Qwen3-235B achieve TPS of 15K+ and latency of less than 50ms;
The new model weight service greatly improves the model deployment speed (cold start speed up by more than 90%).
A new generation of enterprise-level ECS instances is released:
Covering multiple international markets such as Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and Germany;
Computing efficiency is 20% higher than the previous generation, and HPC performance is 50% higher;
Supporting enterprise AI application scenarios with high throughput, low latency, and high security requirements.
International customer success stories: Customers in many places verify AI strength
Alibaba Cloud's cloud and AI technologies have been adopted by many international customers:
Indonesia's GoTo Group migrated its PB-level business intelligence platform to Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute;
GoTo Financial relies on PolarDB and Tair databases to process loan systems with more than 500 microservices;
Singapore VisionTech uses Alibaba Cloud and Qwen models to develop multilingual AI customer service robots, reducing infrastructure costs by 25%;
Japan's FLUX cooperates with Alibaba Cloud to launch Qwen customized AI applications for local companies;
Dubai's Al-Futtaim Group signs an MoU with Alibaba Cloud to promote the AI transformation of its business in 18 countries.
Conclusion: New decade, new journey
Starting from Singapore, leading the world. Alibaba Cloud's ten years of deep cultivation in Singapore has not only laid its Asia-Pacific digital cornerstone, but also achieved a leap in the core of its global intelligent strategy. With the comprehensive advancement of infrastructure, AI capabilities, and green and sustainable practices, Alibaba Cloud is accelerating towards the goal of becoming a global cloud intelligence ecosystem leader.
